Folks, if you want the very latest in groundbreaking, chance-taking, movie making joy, you’re not going to go to the theatre. You’re going to go to the video store or somewhere similar. And today, I’m going to be filling you in on one of the biggest little movies that hasn’t even managed to come out yet. That’s right–you’re getting a really, really, REALLY advance sneak peek at Interplanetary, the second feature-length film from the guys out at Crewless Productions.
In case you’re not already familiar with these guys–and you should be, believe me–they were the bunch behind Hide And Creep, perhaps the first and only movie to feature a video store clerk as a romantic male lead. Interplanetary brings that special blend of comedy, suspense, action and sheer low-budget antics to a new frontier this time, science fiction.
In Interplanetary, the Interplanetary Corporation has set up a base on the surface of Mars, for reasons that can only be described as poorly explained. But this really isn’t the point, as the crew of the Interplanetary Corporation live and work on Mars, and are convinced that they’re the only ones on the planet…at least, until someone takes a rocket launcher to Mars Base Two. Now the folks at Interplanetary are neck-deep in mysteries like:
1. Who’s shooting at us?
2. What’s that alien monstrosity that keeps killing us off?
3. Does any of this have anything to do with the fossil we found?
4. Did you get that memo I sent you about the TPS reports?
Before you start thinking that ’s from the wrong movie, you’re right, but not as right as you think. See, the more I watched Interplanetary, the more I was convinced that it was a weird cross between Total Recall and Office Space. The Interplanetary Corporation contains a very large and very rigid bureaucracy, and the corporate hierarchy is so ingrained in its workers–at least its middle managers, who are in charge of the base–that they consult company policy manuals for instructions on how to react to hostage situations. Even when they’re the ones being taken hostage.
This mix is incredibly hard to maintain even under normal circumstances, but doubly hard considering that Interplanetary will actually take itself seriously the whole time. Yes, there are plenty of killer jokes in here–a short-range spacecraft is dubbed the Hesperus–and there are also more than a few good doses of suspense and action too. There’s a little bit of something for just about everybody in Interplanetary, and that’s going to make this a movie superior to a lot of its kind.
There will even be a slew of surprises to be had here–the ending must be seen to be believed–and they’ll be inserted at random throughout the proceedings just to keep things even more interesting.
For those of you who think that science fiction can only be good with A-list stars and an A-list budget, I’m profoundly honored to offer up Interplanetary, a move that will prove you wrong by every measure possible. In fact, if you’re any kind of science fiction fan at all, this will just prove to be entirely too good to miss.
Hey everybody–but especially everybody out on the West Coast of the United States–I just got word direct from Chance Shirley, the guy who directed that Interplanetary movie we broke here a while back.