Search - Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party on DVD

Brilliant, but for other reasons.

dutch blaine | NYC | 09/25/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have seen this film at several screenings. I was at the "crew only" screening at Show World last year and I have a bootleg vhs. I say that I think this film is oddly brilliant because I have started to see something deep in it. I know that this is like saying I saw something deep in "Meatballs". But I started to see the film like Cremaster 3. (most of you reading this won't understand the reference, but you should) The filmmakers took over a space much like the MOMA and recontextualised everything. They subvert the paridigms of everything they present. From the theme to the subject. They even subvert their own references to CLERKS! Then at the end, there is almost an homage to Mr. Barney's film. The filmmakers present their characters from the film in perfect pagentesque form by parading all of the characters once again during the Christmas dinner. I would be suprised of one or two of these filmmakers didn't go to art school. We know that MOBY is friends with BJORK. Was this a little reference to her significant other? I think so. This is a sneaky art film disguised as a comedy."

Makes my heart warm!

phonicoid | usa | 09/25/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"what a fun comedy!
i've watched it many many times and will watch it many many more.
hilarious spot-humor, great overall humor, wonderful musical numbers, great cameos, fun characters, etc. etc. etc.!
this dvd is so packed full of bonus stuff it's an amazing deal! there's a bunch of eastereggs and the like on it too, some of which have been posted by reviewers, and i think they're all going to get listed on http://www.aliensexparty.com/ at some point. i can't wait for that.
i think everyone should buy this amazing video disc!"

Rockyhorror meets Repo Man meets Duchamp meets Marx Bros

nigel cocktail | Bridgeport, CT USA | 06/21/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Paul Yates's ALIEN SEX PARTY is a comic frenzy, shot out of a canon and bouncing off the walls with sex, music, science fiction, and all combinations thereof. But behind the plastic bedroom toys and rapid-fire pop culture references, there shines the clear intelligence of Yates's vision, that sex is not crime (that, in fact, you can have sex with anything you want, as one musical number informs us) and that the Christmas
spirit can be found anywhere, even among "hornball" sex videos, dildos, and butt plugs.
The film takes place in an adult video store on Christmas Eve and features such characters as Joe, the befuddled owner, who is terrified of his own merchandise, and Adam, who spouts his indignation on all subjects from the
decline of the Star Wars series to accidentally having sex with his cousin. There are also dancing security guards, mad bombers, Star Trek nerds, and
the lesser-recognized porn nerds. MOBY/Yates juggle these elements with the skill of brilliant madmen, fearlessly throwing in musical numbers, pornstar cameos, and appearances by dildo-festooned executive producer
Moby, to create an almost dreamlike cacophony.
The heart and soul of the film, is Joe's niece Tina, a woman so unabashedly promiscuous and uninhibited that if audiences can be honest with themselves, she will be heralded as one of the most strongly feminist
characters of recent American film. nigel cocktail-vox pop"

A Christmas Classic

Jean Yates | United States | 07/01/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Alien Sex Party

Fun, Good Nature Christmas Movie

Entertaining, goofy, funny, caring and loving with a positive message.
The best version of Feliz Navidad/I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas EVER!
This is a must when you're tired of the insane Norman Rockwell like impressions of Christmas that never existed, this is not your typical White Christmas of past but even with aliens this is more real of what Christmas is!

This is what PAUL YATES has done with very limited funds.
Paul and his AFI Fellows will kill when supported by the movie industry and use of all the good equipment!

Congratulation AFI Graduate PAUL YATES Director and to all his AFI Fellows!!!
All the BEST
and of course
May the FORCE be with YOU
Uncle Jimmy"