Review of Moontrap

Moontrap (1988)
5/10
Almost retro-campy but not really that good
7 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This was made in 1989 but seems like an early-50s movie:

  • 2 Astronauts find some alien stuff in damaged spaceship.


  • It's exactly 14000 years old.


  • They bring it back to earth. It becomes a robot. They kill it.


  • They go to the moon where it came from and


  • Find an alien base and a cryo alien woman 14K years old


  • Who thaws to look like us (and has incredible breasts),


  • And engages in sex exactly as humans do


  • Including touching and hugging after


All this would be hilarious if it were John Agar and some of his pals. The robots are better than stunt men in shrimp-creature suits. But the dialogue is weak.

As a kid I was amazed that so many aliens had humanoid form. I hadn't yet learned about "the production costs for a getup like that? Not in this budget. Make her a human girl and get her blouse off ..."

Koenig thinks out loud in a deadpan and sarcastic tone. This was great on the bridge when they were boldly going, but here he just seems like a bored and tired TV actor.

Some OK special effects. Worth a watch if you can FF and skip ahead.
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