Sci-fi is a genre with a long and proud history of being
enjoyed by losers stuck in their parents’ basements. As such, it has also
garnered a certain mockable reputation that, in recent years, has begun to
recede into just being another aspect of human life. For all the hate I have
for The Big Bang Theory, it is regrettably part of that assimilation process so
I have one thing to be thankful to it
for. While my brain tries to process me giving that piece of crap any credit, I
will conceit that all of this acceptance doesn’t change one simple fact: Sci-fi
is also incredibly goofy, even on a good day. As a result, riffing on films
within that spectrum is probably the easiest of any genre; hell, the entire
idea of riffing came about thanks to the kitschier titles of the 50’s and 60’s.
Now, making fun of silly science fiction is all well and good, but then we get
into feature-length spoof movies… and now the fear has set in. I say that
because the spoof movie died a rather loud and obnoxious death a while back thanks
to chuckleheads like Friedberg & Seltzer; people rarely make them anymore,
and the few we do see are outright garbage. So, will this micro-budgeted New
Zealand effort break the chain?
