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"Bombed Out in Space with a Spaced Out Bomb!"

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Top Cast

  • Brian Narelle

    Brian Narelle

    Lt. Doolittle

  • Cal Kuniholm

    Cal Kuniholm

    Boiler

  • Dan O'Bannon

    Dan O'Bannon

    Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge

  • Dre Pahich

    Dre Pahich

    Talby

  • Adam Beckenbaugh

    Adam Beckenbaugh

    Bomb #20 (voice)

  • Nick Castle

    Nick Castle

    Alien

  • Joe Saunders

    Joe Saunders

    Commander Powell (voice)

  • Cookie Knapp

    Cookie Knapp

    Muttercomputer (voice)

  • Alan Sheretz

    Alan Sheretz

    Bomb #19 (voice)

Overview

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Rating

6.0 / 10
649 Reviews
1 Popular

2 Reviews

  • JJJ222cool
    JJJ222cool
    10 Jun 21, 2023

    Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Nov 10, 2024

    There was always a dearth of sci-fi movies on the television as I was growing up, and this one used to appear rather regularly - and rather disappointingly too. It's supposed to be funny, but somehow the humour is just too contrived to make for much to remember as a group of astronauts start their twenty-year mission into outer space tasked with destroying unstable planets. Over time, though, the crew start to question the morality of their quest and coupled with the antics of their pet (looks like a rubber space-hopper) they find themselves facing the ultimate, explosive, dilemma. In it's favour, it is quite short and it doesn't hang around, but the acting is all just bit bland and there's way, way, too much script with little else by way of action to pad out the thin story that aims for parody but falls well short. Maybe we'd all be this way after a couple of decades in deep space, but somehow I think I'd have reached for the airlock about ten years earlier. In many ways it reminded me of a sort of "Monty Python" does life amongst the stars only with some ropey, low-budget, visual effects and annoying characters about whom I really didn't care. It'd been a while since I'd seen it, and will probably be the same before I watch it again.

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