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The future, Mars: The Interplanetary Corporation has set up Mars
Base 2 that's supposed to find the perfect location for Mars Base 3,
though nobody exactly knows why, and whatever happened to Mars Base 1 -
there are even rumours that Mars Base 2 is actually Mars Base 1, only the
"2" behind the name sounded cooler. Anyways, nobody on Mars Base
2 seems really prepared to do any real surveying, it's mostly just lower
management staff, with their boss Lisa (Melissa Bush) being an incompetent
wannabe PR agent. Sure, there are two scientists at the station, Wil
(Chuck Hartsell) and Ed (Nick Crawford), but they don't seem to have too
much clue about what they're doing, and when they by chance discover
Martian fossils, Wil wants to use that discovery for his own fame. Then Ed
is killed in an ambush, and even though there aren't supposed to be any
other people that could serve as ambushers on the whole planet, Wil
decides to cover up Ed's death just to keep the others from taking away
his discovery. Instead, he transmits a video of it directly to earth ... Things
get out of hands when an unknown attacker attacks Mars Base 2 and kills
one of the crewmembers (Amanda Myers), and Lisa's idea of dealing with the
situation is shutting another crewmember, Steve (Michael Shelton), out of
the base, even if that means certain doom - which forces the stations's
cook Jackson (Kyle Holman), who just happens to also be the security
officer, to lock Lisa and her ass-kissing second in command Kevin (Kevin
S.Van Hyning) into a cupboard before saving Steve, macho-style. It only
goes downhill from here: Wil's transmission about the Martian fossil has
reached teh news outlets on earth, and the whole thing soon turns into a
public relations disaster, forcing company big boss Lori (Lisa Mason) to
announce a personal visit to Mars. Wil in the meantime has had an
encounter with something on another trip that apparently slowly takes him
over from the inside, but he's still human enough to return to base
unsuspected, and once there, he starts killing people. Jackson and Steve
have taken a trip to the outside and have finally discovered Mars Base 1,
a genetic engineering lab that obviously tried to blend human with Martian
DNA. Something must have happened though, because it seems everyone is
dead now - everyone apparently but whoever kills Jackson. Steve then finds
out that Mars Base 1 had orders to kill everyone on Mars Base 2, orders
coming directly from Lori. Beth (Mia Frost) in the meantime has afforded
herself the luxury to think for herself, and she has taken a walk on the
Martian surface to figure out quite a few things, like where the cave is
where Wil found his fossil, and what happened to Ed, and she finds a
secret but heavily guarded company-owned escape pod. The shit hits the
fan when Wil turns into some kind of alien creature for good and starts to
kill and dismember people, pretty much all of them. Only Steve and Beth
are bright enough to offer any real assistance, but it seems bullets only
slow the thing down. Then Lori arrives, and the first thing she wants is
to have Steve and Beth killed ... but the creature doesn't take orders
from noone and kills Lori and company instead, giving Steve and Beth
enough time to make it to the escape pod (the guards of which have since
been killed) ... but do they have the ability to fly the escape pod?
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Hilarious science fiction comedy that is close in spirit to the classic
Dark Star, but in look and feel
it's much closer to any crappy 1980's space station monster movie (e.g. Creature)
meeting The Office - if you really need a comparison that
is. What I want to say with this though is that Interplanetary is
not so much a genre spoof with monsters doing funny things and lots of
fart jokes but derives much of its humour from the routines of a typical
workday on Mars, focuses in on characters instead of cheap jokes, and when
the monster attack finally does set in for real, the cast of characters is
already in an advanced state of disarray - which is funnier than it
sounds. Add to this a solid ensemble cast and great retro costumes, sets
and effects, and you got yourself one of the best sci-fi parodies in a
long time! Recommended!
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