brando647 With all of the borderline unwatchable Z-grade garbage I've subjected myself to in recent months, I've been tormented often with the question of "Who is this movie for, anyway?" Never has that question been as booming in my mind as it was when watching EXTRA TERRESTRIAL VISITORS. I can't remember the last time a movie was so tonally disjointed. This movie came hot on the tails of E.T. from the prior year and you can tell the filmmakers were hoping to capitalize on the success of that lovable little alien. It goes without saying, but they failed miserably. I'm not entirely sure anyone involved in EXTRA TERRESTRIAL VISITORS ever actually watched E.T.; I expect one of them saw the trailer and figured they knew enough to make their own. There are two seemingly separate movies happening here (until it all "comes together" in the final act), focused on a meteorite crash in a forest that brings with it a series of alien eggs. The first thread has to do with a little boy finding one of these eggs and bringing it home to raise with his other pets. The egg hatches and the little boy names the alien Trumpy; hijinks ensue. The second thread follows one of Trumpy's more murderous siblings and the havoc it reeks on a group of poachers and, eventually, a group of musicians who've come to the woods for a camping trip. When one of their friends is injured, they find shelter with the little boy and his family in their remote cabin. These two plot threads continue almost completely independently of each other until the end for the anticlimactic conclusion.Let's start with the fact that these aliens look ridiculous. Trumpy and his kin are a bizarre mixture of Greedo (from the cantina scene in STAR WARS) and ALF. They can't speak but they're apparently born with hyper intelligence because Trumpy understands little Tommy just fine. They've also got a vague set of powers that are never really defined. Every so often Trumpy's eyes will begin to glow awkwardly and then he'll bust out with telekinesis or mental projections, and it's always accompanied with the absolute worst flatulent synth music. Trumpy displays his powers through playful means, such as parading Tommy's clothes out of his closet or projecting images of wild African animals (with which Trumpy has no reason to be familiar) into Tommy's telescope. He also has the ability to kill with his glowing eyes, as we learn when he fries one of Tommy's toy robots. Nothing ever comes of that, or any of his powers, ever again. Trumpy also seems to understand that he's an alien and can point out which star system he comes from on a map. Again, how he knows any of this is never explained. Not that it matters anyway because he arrived via meteorite in egg form so he really has no means of leaving Earth anyway. Instead he hides in Tommy's closet and narrowly avoids discovery by Tommy's mom between such classic scenes as Trumpy snorting a line of Planters peanuts with his snout or Trumpy completing a jigsaw puzzle with his mind. Oh, the fun to be had. And real quick, on the subject of Tommy, I don't know who dubbed his voice but I swear I've heard it in other crap movies and I hate it. I hate it so much.While Trumpy is engaging in non-adventures with his new friend Tommy, his evil twin is wandering around the woods in a state of bloodlust. After slaughtering his way through a team of poachers (and dragging their bodies to a ranger station solely so other characters can stumble across them when looking for help later in the film), it turns its attention to the group of musicians who've taken shelter in Tommy's home. These are some of the most unlikeable characters ever put to screen. The lead singer, Rick (Ian Sera), is a major tool and it's baffling that his backup singers and engineer are bothering to spend time with him outside the studio to begin with. As far as I'm concerned, they're all interchangeable and I have no idea who is who when bodies start to drop. The portion of the movie dealing with these idiots is obviously meant to lean more toward horror, which makes it all the more confusing when we cut away from these people dying off to revisit Trumpy and his ability to snort a bowl of milk. I'm pretty sure one of these people also manage to drop an F-bomb into the dialogue when the "tension" reaches its boiling point so, again, who is this movie for anyway? The Trumpy stuff is definitely for kids. Tommy's innocence, Trumpy's goofy nature, the stupid hijinks…these are tropes for a kids' movie. But then spliced in right alongside it is this poorly made alien horror. Neither story thread functions well enough on its own to be interesting and, smashed together, it's almost painful to sit through. I've managed to do so twice now and each time I'm too mentally checked out by the end to remember how it all concludes. Skip it.

FairlyAnonymous Hopefully you got the joke on my summary up there. Either way this is one of those movies that is horribly bad, but it is so bad that MST3K makes it hilarious, and the movie is hilarious even without MST3K.This movie has nothing to do with the title. Actually the movie was going to be more of a horror movie, notice the original poster of the movie is more horrifying. But at the last minute E.T. came out so they tried to make the movie about a kid and his trumpet alien. Prepare to be amazed.OK the plot seems to be broken up into several movies which is really annoying (MST3K notes this) there is a plot with some poachers, then this leads to the plot with the kid, there are some teenagers, and there are some trees. Either way these poachers find a meteorite where they find eggs and decide to destroy them because naturally when you find something foreign you want to destroy it. Well one egg remains and this annoying kid finds it, so he takes it home. Apparently this kid is some sort of women because his voice is obviously dubbed. Also he seems to have a lot of pets and is some how smart... the movie tricks you into thinking she *cough* I mean he is smart. Then there are some teenagers and all of the girls are... yeah... I will avoid using any bad language here. The teenagers are going on this trip and they stumble across the mother alien who is killing some people in search of her last egg.Long story short Trumpy (the alien) is magical and has this insanely annoying scene where he pretends to be Mary Poppins. Trumpy's mom dies and the story ends with everyone being happy.This movie is very bad, but it is very funny on just how stupid it is. Though it is slightly gross in a sense. You know when you watch a movie that is so stupid that you feel a little sick? This movie gives me that feeling whenever you see Trumpy. So please watch this movie with MST3K if you can... if not you should still watch it.

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- - 1983, Pod People, A self-absorbed pet-loving only child finds a alien's egg nest hidden in the forest and adopts a embryo. The embryo hatches. All the while vacationing swingers get caught in the drama all around them occurring in the same forest vacation location where the boy lives. Some 'slap and tickle' sexual matters occur. Some forest poachers try to capture the alien at their own peril. One by one they are murdered by an alien looking for those humans who disturbed her nest. *Special Stars- Hugo Atral, William Anton, Ocsar Martin, Frank Branana.*Theme- With motherly love, anything can happen in the smoky mountains. *Based on- Folklore*Trivia/location/goofs- Spanish. Maybe better called "Tales of Trumphy", Film was made by French?Spanish production company. The overuse of smoke or 'diffusion' machines in all the forest scenes is spotty at best. It's diffusion overuse ruins this story. The weird alien menace was changed to a lovable alien to try and cash in on the 'E.T.' craze. Was this film is the basis for the Ridley Scott 'Alien' genre films? Not 'E.T.'*Emotion- This is an enjoyable stinker of a film featuring 'Trumphy'. Not only does this film have space aliens, but it is made in a foreign country and dubbed. Those many combinations gives you hours of corny fun.

lemon_magic While I don't agree with those reviewers who claim that "Pod People" is the worst movie of all time - these viewers have obviously never seen "Teenagers Battle The Thing" - it is, indeed, a very painful viewing experience. It's got brain-dead characters uttering highly contrived and unlikely dialog and acting with the finesse of sock puppets. (It's also got an English dub created with a tin ear and ESL voice actors reading their lines from cue cards for the first time). It's got fuzzy, washed out sepia tinted photography that resists any attempt by the viewers' eyes to pull pleasure and satisfaction out of the film stock. (It's possible I just saw a bad print of the movie, but even so.) It's got a highly derivative plot that is derivative in all the wrong ways - what's the point of ripping off E.T. if all you do with it is create a "spam in the cabin" type horror movie??It also gets off to a rousing start by subjecting us to a full length performance of the worst version of an 80's pop song ever heard by human ears. Seriously, as if the movie didn't have enough problems with pacing and atmosphere and dialog and characterization, it also alienates us by subjecting us to a supposed "studio session" where the pop star sings a would be song about driving a car with some of the most maladroit lyrics you will ever hear. (FYI, Mr. Pop Star, you don't want feel the wind in your EYES, you want feel it in your hair or your face. If you feel it in your EYES, you are effectively blinded and will soon crash your car.) The character comes off as an abrasive, self-important jerk, and his cronies and cohorts seem to have been drained of all intelligence, humor, self-awareness or even basic motor functions. I have to say that I liked the little boy. In spite of the high-pitched feminine voice they dubbed over his part, he seemed genuinely alive with the enthusiasm and magic of childhood, which is a miracle given the situations he was probably working in. The cast and crew probably loved him to death, and he was probably as the only person in the film who wasn't aware that he was sinking into a pile of suck. The kid's performance, even buried under a painfully affected dub, adds a star to the rating.Also of interest is a synthesizer-heavy soundtrack with very "New Age music" elements that both adds to and takes from the movie's watchability. It's got some nice hypnotic "drone" and "trance" elements, but there is far too much of it and it's mixed waaaay too loud at times. It adds another star to the ratings. Well, half a star, but it would have been a full star if the composer had cut it in about half and turned the volume dial down to "10". As far the rest...I'm pretty sure the director just pointed the camera at the actors and let them roll. It doesn't look like a film with very many second takes or screenplay rewrites, and the poor actors (who come off as European community theater players at best) are left to struggle with the script as best they can. And as I mentioned, the horrible English dub robs their performances of even the limited nuance and dignity they may have contributed to the film in the first place. Boy, what a *painful* film. I recommend saving it for times when you feel bad about yourself and your career and prospects. Watching "Pod People" for even a few minutes will put things in perspective: "I may have made some dumb mistakes", you can tell yourself, "but at least I never had anything to to with 'Pod People!'"