VinnieRattolle "Voyage of the Rock Aliens" is certainly an oddity. Conceived as a spoof of various genres of b-movies, Curb Records got involved and turned it into a vehicle for many of their musicians. A production team was assembled that included people who'd worked on films such as "Dr. Strangelove," "A Hard Days Night," "Star Wars," "Deadly Blessing," "Staying Alive," and "Swamp Thing," amongst others. Not a shabby crew. The result is a completely off-the-wall low budget movie populated with actors who weren't really actors and featuring beautiful visuals, an offbeat production design, catchy songs... and a completely random music video with Jermaine Jackson that was synthetically (and confusingly) inserted into the film as an afterthought.The story concerns a group of aliens who come to Earth and find themselves strangers in the even stranger land of Speelburgh, which is filled with greasers, kooky cops, psycho serial killers, and a slimy sea monster. It's there that one of the aliens (Tom Nolan) falls in love with an aspiring singer (Pia Zadora). But will these starcrossed lovers sing and dance their way across the universe? Or will her jealous greaser boyfriend (Craig Sheffer) stand in their way?!There's something so endearingly tacky about the whole thing that it's downright charming in the way so many similar cult movies are ("Rocky Horror," "Beach Party," "Xanadu," "The Apple," "Earth Girls Are Easy," etc). The characters are quirky and unique (Spyder Mittleman and Patrick Byrnes are both particularly noteworthy for their campy performances), the songs and dances are as '80s as it gets, there's more seemingly random WTF moments than you can shake a stick at, and it seemed like everyone was having a lot of fun screwing around and devouring the scenery.The problem is the film is not very well known. It barely saw any theatrical distribution in the USA before being unceremoniously dumped on video five years later, and I can't find any evidence that it ever played on cable (though it did in Canada). In Europe it had a slightly more substantial release since Pia Zadora's music was popular.If any American DVD distributors are reading, this one's crying out for a widescreen special edition release. And if any theatre managers are reading, midnight screenings would be sublime!

jamie_likeskylie Pia Zadora is my new favourite 80's leading lady. This film is atrocious. The acting is bad, every joke falls flat, and the aliens are annoying beyond belief! I like the songs a lot. Bizzarely many of them are badly re-recorded versions of Pia's own songs. This is most obvious in 'A Little Bit Of Heaven' which she sings here with the alien commander Absid. Fans of trashy 80's movies will love it! It's even worse than Xanadu and Grease 2! Pia's outfits rock too! I'd give the plot 1/10, the acting 1/10, the feel-good factor is at least a 7/10, and the soundtrack is a 10/10 or 1/10 depending on your taste in music. Watch out for Pia's all singing, all dancing performance in the ladies room! Hilarity awaits you.... Buy, buy, buy!

ubik-11 Let's see... If I were to assemble the ingredients necessary to make a really bad movie - I mean so bad it lowers your IQ to watch - I would list (1) made in the '80s, (2) bad science fiction, (3) failed comedy, (4) lame rock musical, and, uh, oh yeah, (5) stars Pia Zadora. Add all ingredients together in a large (flying) saucer, stir vigorously, and voila! you have "Voyage of the Rock Aliens". That's not "rock" like rocks on the ground; that might've been worth watching. No, this is "rock" like rock 'n' roll. And I mean BAD rock 'n' roll. Did you expect any other kind?There are so many kinds of "bad" when it comes to bad movies, and this certainly isn't the worst movie I've seen. (From what I hear, it's not Pia's worst, either.*) Except for a few moments of unintentional humor this is certainly one of the hardest films to watch that I've come across. It appears to be little more than a Pia Zadora vehicle, and that vehicle is on a collision course with a tree. No, make that a rock. A rock alien, that is.There's a music video sequence that Pia does with Jermaine Jackson near the start of the film that has nothing to do with the plot. It's about some sort of '80s biker-gang-war thing. Man, I'm sooo glad the '80s are dead and buried. Let's make that ingredient (6), shall we? Unrelated music video sequence with the least-popular Jackson. The events in the video are never referred to again, nor do we see Jermaine Jackson again. (There's an "up" side to it after all!)I guess the Devo-like aliens' scenes are the easiest to watch. I mean "easiest" as in "least painful". They almost steal the show when they're on. My niece loves STUVWXYZ (pronounced "Stoovix") the best. He's the dumb one. Well, actually they're ALL dumb. STUVWXYZ is the dumbest. Can you guess how the other aliens' names are spelled?I think the producers were going for a "Grease"-in-space feel, or maybe a "West Side Story"-in-space feel. Hmm... maybe it's a little of both. The turf war between Frankie & the Pack and the aliens is decided by a battle of the bands in the little town of (ugh) Speelburgh. You'll have to watch to find out who wins!-----* Those who know say "Lonely Lady" is her worst. If you expected me to say "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", well, that one's odd enough to be tolerable once in a while.

maxsterlings This may be the most cheesy movie ever.But it always makes me happy. It shows the 80s in fun and light hearted style.if this movie had came out in 83 or 84 it would have been a hit.