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| Alien Adventure | |
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| Directed by | Ben Stassen |
| Written by | Ben Stassen |
| Produced by | Charlotte Clay Huggins Caroline Van Iseghem |
| Starring | Bouli Lanners Pierre Lebecque |
| Narrated by | John Boyle |
| Cinematography | Ben Stassen |
| Edited by | Ed Escalante James Manke Todd Portugal |
| Music by | The Puzzlers Louis Vyncke |
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| Distributed by | nWave Pictures Ventura Distribution (DVD) |
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Running time | 37 minutes (Japan) 35 minutes (U.S.) |
| Countries | Belgium United States |
| Language | English |
Alien Adventure is ascience fiction/slapstick comedy3D film inIMAX format released in 1999 bynWave Pictures, written and directed byBen Stassen. The movie was ratedG (or the local equivalent) in most countries.[1] It was the first fully digital feature-length film produced for a large-screen format.
Anextraterrestrialhumanoid species, the Glegoliths, are wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet (which turns out to be Earth), the Glegolith leader Cyrillus sends two "manned" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation.
The scouts in the probes think they have arrived at a great city, but in fact they have arrived at a newamusement park that is not yet open to the public. They proceed to explore four amusement rides :[a]
At each ride the Glegolith scouts become variously excited, frightened, frozen or violently ill, but end up having a lot of fun. On seeing this, Cyrillus decides that the new planet "was too much fun" and would destroy the fabric of his society, and orders his scouts to withdraw. The alien visitors depart Earth without actually making contact with humans.
The exotic looking alien script seen in several places in this movie is actually the realGlagolitic alphabet. The name of the alien leader - Cyrillus - bears a resemblance toSaint Cyril, who invented the Glagolitic alphabet. Also, the language spoken by the aliens (which is never translated in the movie) is theWalloon language, a real dialect fromBelgium, where the movie was produced. It is completely unrelated to the Glegolithic script. On the approach of the manned probes to the surface, the coastline appears to be that of California. The outdoor shots of the theme park are from a real French theme park, "Parc Du Futuroscope".
Robert Koehler ofVariety called it "a sputtering vehicle for showcasing the Imax 3D format."[2]
It was released on DVD in the US slingshot Home Entertainment and the UK Escapi x.c.q DVD.