Movie You Might Have Missed: Project ALF (1996)

I am a big movie movie buff, and while I watch all the major and notable minor relases, I find myself more digging in to the past in order to find interesting movies that I've missed or watched so long ago that it is time to do it again.

While we have come a long way technologically, so that we can finally bring previosly unfilmable movies to the big screen, they are more miss than hit. They tend to be bigger than life and crowded with characters and events. The good example is the upcoming third Avengers movie which broke in two movies from the sheer amount of characters. I expect the first one being just a list of characters alphabetically and the second one to be just an overcrowded mess.

That being said, while I wait for Marvel fans to form a lynch mob and rain their wrath upon me I will try to share with you some of the movies I found. First one of those movies is Project ALF from 1996.

Some say that the movie is long awaited conclusion to the show, while others claim that it's a series finale that was planned all along. The movie starts where the show stopped and we find ALF in the Edmonds Air Force Base running a casino and mocking the scientists who study him. This time we are without the Tanners, and while it would be nice to see them all together, they would only be a fan service in this kind of movie.

The movie open with his inteview tapes witch are a rollercoster of pure ALFness. Paul Fusco, the creator and actor of ALF, is back again doing what he does best, delivering one-liners like he never stoped. While this is a TV production from the pre-Netflix era, the low budget is obvious. It does feature some known actors like Martin Sheen as xenophobic Colonel Gilbert Milfoil, Ed Begley, Jr. As dr. Warner, William O'Leary as Capt. Rick Mullican and Miguel Ferrer as Dexter Moyers, their acting is just plain silly but fits the movie great. After all, there are no Oscars for TV movies. Another notable name is Mark Snow on the soundtrack duty.

This isn't a movie masterpiece, but it's fun and charming. I watched movies that I would grade 5-6/10 that I enjoyed watching and movies that are 8/10 that were not so fun to watch. Example would be Michelangelo Antonioni The Night (1961) which I do recognise as a brilliant film but didn't quite enjoy watching it. That is why I won't be giving numerical grades. But I do recommend this movie for those hangover Sundays or those days when you just need some laughs.