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Alien Addiction
New Zealand 2018
produced by Shae Sterling for Zonic TV
directed by Shae Sterling
starring Jimi Jackson, Thomas Sainsbury, JoJo Waaka, Harry Summerfield, Veronica Edwards, Ayham Ghalayini, Tane Huata, Tukairangi Maxwell, Steven Samuel Johnston, Mel Price, Phoebe Loloma Trezevant-Miller, Matai Rangi Smith, Troy Kingi, Alvin Changamire, Abee Geu, Ronin Rangi, Wairangi Te Hiko, Reyam Zaia Kelsall, Mike Osbourne, Katrine Bo, Aman Gulia, Shaylin Neethling, Steven Samuel Johnston, Abe Mora
written by Shae Sterling, additional material by Melanie Price, Ricky Silvester, music by Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, alien head concept by Lawrence Puck, UFO design by Grant Reynolds
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Riko (Jimi Jackson), a country bumpkin with nothing on his mind but
having a good time, gets rather fed up with his aunt (Veronica Edwards) he
lives with for warning him about an alien invasion pretty much all the
time, even when he's in bed with a girl - but one day, while he's under
the shower, he suddenly gets the feeling he's being watched ... and when
he turns around, it's two blue-faced aliens (Steven Samuel Johnston, Mel
Price). Of course Riko totally freaks out, and when he quiets down and
wants to show them to others, they're gone. But he notices a pipe leading
from Riko's basement straight into the woods that wasn't there the night
before, so he follows it ... and stumbles upon a UFO. He enters the thing
and finds the two blue-faced aliens - and after a bit more freaking out,
they start to talk, thanks to the aliens' universal translator. Riko finds
out that the aliens are only travelling around the universe to have a good
time, and they've found the perfect drug to do that on earth - and it just
turns out to be human shit ... yup, as in feces. So the three of them
decide to hit the town for some serious partying, and get some feces on
the side - and the night goes surprisingly smoothly, with the worst thing
that happens being Riko landing in bad with overweight food vendor Jacinta
(JoJo Waaka), someone who he wouldn't give a second look if not drunk and
stoned out of his mind. The problem is, the aliens enjoy her shit the
most, and now persuade him to go on a date with her, where he tries to get
out of having sex by giving her laxatives. Now all of this would be
nothing but fun and games if it wasn't for alienist Peter (Thomas
Sainsbury) and his sidekick Saleem (Ayham Ghalayini) who are pretty much
the only ones who have actually witnessed the aliens landing on earth and
now try to track them down, and after much to and fro that also involves
them confusing Riko and Jacinta for aliens, they actually manage to
capture the actual aliens and want to make a fortune by exhibiting them.
It's now up to Riko and his best friend Rabbit (Harry Summerfield) to save
them - and to bad they haven't got the first idea how to do that ... Now
there's one thing that Alien Addiction is definitely not, and
that's subtle - rather the contrary, the comedy here is rather on the
blunt side, over-flowing with toilet humour, so that might not be to
everybody's liking. But one has to hand it to the movie that despite all
the feces jokes, the film refrains from just trying to gross out its
audience for a quick laugh, and instead actually shows much more heart
that one would expect from a comedy about aliens smoking actual shit. It
of course helps here that Jimi Jackson gives a very relatable performance
here that goes over-the-top only occasionally, and of course, the slightly
grotesque old school alien designs and the design on the UFO will strike a
chord with vintage sci-fi fans like myself. Of course, if you're looking
for actual depth, look somewhere else, but if you're up for a party movie,
than this might just be your thing.
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