| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

The simple fact is that this movie kind of drove me nuts, and the only emotion it consistently brought out of me was an almost overwhelming desire for the darn thing to come to an end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2009

This lazy effort gets points only for truly loving -- perhaps to a fault -- the cheapo creature flicks of the 1950s.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 3, 2009

Alien Trespass, with a rating notice that mentions 'brief historical smoking,' is at least better than last year's official remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2009

It's comfy. It's kitschy. There are lovely enticements but also much that is simply put and beautifully, beguilingly silly.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2009

While there's a lot to admire, it all feels like an engaging though needless academic exercise.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 3, 2009

Sinks under the weight of its homage.

| Apr 3, 2009

How much you enjoy this strange picture depends on two things: Your appreciation of the genre that is being feted here, and the enthusiasm of the audience that you view it with.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2009

By the time the tedious proceedings reach their conclusion, one has long begun wishing for a little Mel Brooks-style comic anarchy.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2009

A charmingly sentimental but ultimately pointless homage to the sci-fi classics of yesteryear.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2009

While Alien Trespass stays true to the era and the genre, it forgets that its mission in this galaxy is not merely to pay tribute but to entertain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2009

Alien Trespass, which opens Friday on the heels of the witty Monsters vs. Aliens, feels like an also-ran.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2009

The shrewd script has two of the 1950's primary fixations: the couple who exemplify "togetherness" and the teenagers who could be juvenile delinquents.

| Original Score: B | Apr 2, 2009

Bewildered? You won't be alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2009

Those who fondly recall The Blob would seem to be the target crowd for a fastidious pastiche that attempts to coax laughs by maintaining a poker face.

| Apr 2, 2009

There's no shortage of either the originals or imitators, so why make Alien Trespass, a send-up of second-shelf '50s sci-fi so straight-faced, it could almost pass as the real thing?

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 2, 2009

Robert Patrick and Dan Lauria add gravitas as two small town cops, which says it all.

| Original Score: C | Apr 2, 2009

Alien Trespass could be the latest bulletin from Mystery Science Theatre 3000 except that we're the silhouetted heads and the filmmakers are sitting right there next to us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2009

At a certain point you find yourself thinking, why not watch the real It Came From Outer Space, instead of this mildly amusing replica?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2009