Alien Nation (DVD)

Awww how sweet. For once aliens have come to earth and are not trying zap, body snatch or in any other way wipe all traces of humanity from the face of the planet. In fact when an alien spacecraft crashlands in the Mojave desert they are welcomed into the community with open arms, setting up base in California. Of course, 'open arms' means they are treated in much the same way as any other ethnic minority which gives the liberal minded directors a rich resource from which to make their rather obvious and belaboured observations. The basic formula of the movie is pretty hackneyed and dull. Forget the aliens in it and you have a cop whose partner has been ...

What happens when an alien ship comes down to Earth and says hi, you got any room for us. Up comes all the bogotry that the coloured people must have got back in the sixties. Of course you get them working with the humans and one such human police detective gets lumbered with an alien and he doesn't much like them. So off they go and it becomes a more buddy buddy cop film as they start liking one another. Plenty of action and a relatively good storyline. ...

This was the pilot to the series by the same name. An alien ship transporting alien slaves crash-lands on earth. The have not way of leaving and end up settling into the community. In many ways they are humanoid, tow legs tow arms, but a cone shaped head and different physiology. They get drunk on sour milk, and when having children males and females carry the 'pod' at different times. They face the same problems that any other minority face, prejudice from society and the establishment. The film concentrates on one alien family quite a while after the landing where the father is a police officer, and his human partner n their fight to stop crime. ...