When rating a movie the first thing I always do is check out what year it was made and released and then try to keep things in perspective of similar films of that general time period. (I.O.T.) Star Creatures is a comedy first and a sci-fi flick second which may be disappointing to some who don't believe the two genres should be mixed, which as a general rule includes myself. However, if you are a big Stooges fan, you will notice many gags and some dialog lifted straight out of Moe, Larry and Curly's playbook. This movie basically warns the viewer up front that it is not to be taken seriously so with that it mind most fans of the 50s-60s sci-fi era should be able to sit through the entire film.Again if your a Stooges/Marx Brothers fan you will be on an Easter egg hunt from start to finish. Some nice out of this world eye candy helps to get things past the slow parts. Be forewarned that the low budget cheap and cheesy costumes and a rather silly plot make the film best served with beer.2 stars would be generous. Enjoy!

Nope. I am not going to do it. I refuse to get into the spirit of this awful little movie, which revealed itself very quickly as an homage to The Three Stooges when one of the characters has a bit of trouble with a high pressure water hose. In Curly's capable hands such physical comedy passes beyond just being funny into some sort of sublime expression of how futile & stupid life can be, and that the best advice anyone can offer another is to save string. Here it's just funny and provided me with the film's sole laugh. The rest of it was puzzling. At two times I "gave up" and went on to do something else with the precious time our grand creator has granted me here on earth. Life is short. The girls in the movie are tall, however, and I dig tall chicks. It can be like making love to a suspension bridge, so I went back both times to see what the film could come up with them to do, other than to look great in their space leotards. Trust me when I say that could be a whole movie just right there, though sadly they were not granted enough screen time to carry the day & the movie sucks.I kept wondering whom it was allegedly made for, what audience was in mind while it was being constructed from script to final edit. Children *might* be entertained by it. Lovers of campy overtly corny movies will need their own hard copy so they can plan theme parties where screening it is the focus of the evening. Anyone else should just stick with "Plan 9" which was intended to be a serious movie made by a filmmaker who demonstrated far more finesse with the form than anyone here shy of the ladies' costume designer. At least they got that right.How to put it ... I love "bad" movies, but they have to end up being bad with the best of intentions to make something meaningful. When you go out of your way to purposefully make a bad movie you are treading on thin ice. What makes the film so curious is that it was made in 1962 when such filmmaking was regarded with a certain amount of seriousness. It's pre-Elvira, suggesting that the film's creators were actually sort of ahead of their time in creating the same kind of crap that Elvira helped make fashionable. Which I despise, rooting for the underdogs that actually made their little movies for a few thousand dollars in spite of universal indifference & critical ridicule. Going right for the jugular of critical ridicule is nothing short of cheating and this movie left me annoyed enough to come here and crab about it. Sorry. 2/10

Slapsticky sci-fi spoof regarding bumbling, inept Army Private yahoos and their shenanigans involving tall, long-legged femalien bombshells in tight, skimpy space outfits whose race plans to conquer Earth so they can colonize. A star vehicle for Robert Ball and Frankie Ray seems like a way for introducing them as a comedy team. Since I have no knowledge of them until watching this movie, they must've not succeeded. Dimestore f/x and sets are more appropriate here because it plays(strains?) strictly for laughs(..imagine 1920's special effects and costumes in the vein of the Flash Gordon serials). Not a lick of sincerity as this solely aims to please, with plenty of sex jokes(tame as tame can be). An ongoing joke has various characters discussing their Space Commander Conners Secret Decoder rings and rank, becoming rather laborious after repeated trips to the well. Wait until you get a load of the "vegimen"(creatures grown from plants by the femaliens)costumes. There are attempts by Ball and Ray to seek assistance to stop the femaliens(Gloria Victor and Dolores Reed, two towering beauties who have to bend down when they eventually experiment with kissing Earth men to understand such an unusual custom)from their superior officer and Native Americans(!)in the hopes to preventing the space ship from blasting off to the home planet to inform of Earth's easy habitability. How one approaches this comedy is a tolerance for the film's brand of comedy, the zany antics of Ball and Ray. A lot of the film is shot at and around Bronson Caves. In the spirit of Abbot & Costello and The Three Stooges, but not quite successful, despite the efforts of a cast doing their best with mediocre material.

This was one of those films that got a ton of play on the airwaves in the early 1970's, usually on the "4am Movie" or one time, on the 7:30 PM "Channel 6 Big Movie" and still another on Creature Double Feature.WHen local channels used to run movies as part of their local programming(mostly gone today in favor of infomercial time) It was of the time. A couple of low-rent Abbott and Costello wannabees(Frankie Ray and Robert Ball) are in a platoon of soldiers(half a dozen guys in Army Surplus remainders) who are sent on field maneuvers to look into some strange radiation, and wind up encountering extraterrestrials. They first go into Bronson Canyon to what would be later the famous Batcave on BATMAN, and encounter the remains of a dead "carrot monster". Later, in the cave they're chased by a living carrot creature-basically a guy in black suit and paper mache head, with sparkly things on it and ping-pong ball eyes. Two of them-complete geeks,Ray and Ball-are captured and wake up tied to tables and are being "examined" by space amazons-Dr Poona(nooo kidding!) and Professor Tanga who are stunningly beautiful and even moreso in their skimpy bikini "uniforms". We were too young at the time,to realize what later bondage and fetish scenarios this "examination" scene would more than suggest. Turns out that the two gals and their carrot monster, are stranded on earth with a ship that's well hidden and are trying to return to their world.The film was made as a total comedy with varying degrees of taste but remember this was of the time when Eric Von Zipper and his crew from Frankie and Annette's films, were the height of B-film, drive-in comedy.So it only seemed a natural to jump on the bandwagon for some quick bucks.For some reason I only thought I'd imagined seeing this film to start with. No, I really saw it. And when it was released on "restored" DVD I was assured in my memory. The comedy goes from mildly funny to just plain stupid, but whatever.The budget is non-existent, which, is a minor miracle when you think about it, that it even got made and we can talk about a "restored" version here and now-over 40 years later. The payoff is the girls who want to learn about "love" and "kissing" and, the upshot is the geeks-which all of us were- get the girls and love wins out. It's just goofy and silly and for the locations, has nostalgic significance.