Last week, we profiled Superman IV which was improbably produced by low budget schlockmeisters Golan and Globus Productions. Perhaps Messers Golan and Globus had bitten off more than they could chew. Maybe they just weren't up to the challenge of a big budget superhero film. Left to their wheelhouse of low budget genre films, they probably did much better, right? Viewers of Alien from L.A know better.
It would be hard to mess this up; they had Kathy Ireland in her swimsuit issue prime. Sure, she had an annoying voice and could barely act, but surely Golan and Globus would give her a vehicle where she gets to wear a bikini as often as possible. The DVD box clearly shows how they must have gotten this right:
Yeah, mom, I'm going to see a movie about an alien like E.T.
Yet Golan & Globus couldn't even get this right. When we first see Ms. Ireland, she looks like this:
But Mr. Golan, I just woke up! That camera isn't on, is it?
Amazingly, they took the hottest supermodel at the time and made her frumpier than Urkel. They even keep putting more and more clothes on her the longer the film runs.
Acting is easy when you can read from the script!
Golan and Globus dare to expose shins!
Golan and Globus finally give the customers what they want- at the very end of the movie with just five minutes left.
Finally- the reason why this film was made.
Doubtless the young gentlemen who bought their tickets thinking they'd get to see Kathy Ireland battle aliens in L.A. while wearing a bikini were terribly disappointed. Granted, the script required that Ms. Ireland play a frumpy, helium voiced spazz, but if that was the case, why hire her? Golan & Globus obviously wanted to make a cheesy low budget film whose success would rest solely on Kathy's "shoulders", but they couldn't even do that right. You might not be surprised to learn that their movie making empire collapsed not long after the release of this film.
