Home Fries (1998)
Directed by Dean Parisot
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.
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Director Dean Parisot (Home Fries), working from a sharp script by newcomer David Howard and Robert Gordon (Addicted to Love), understands the Trek ethos.
In these early scenes, director Dean Parisot ( "Home Fries" ) gets the atmosphere exactly right with a sea of paunchy, pimply, badly-costumed extras shouting out space-jargon inquisitions to the faded stars of the long-canceled show as if they really were their characters.
The perfect companion film to last summer's uproarious documentary Trekkies, this sophomore effort by Parisot (Home Fries) parodies not only Gene Roddenberry's beloved television empire, but also the series' rabid fan base -- and then tosses in a heaping helping of bug-eyed monsters, lithe alien babes, and more tongue-in-cheek homages than you can shake a facehugger at.
Directed by Dean Parisot ( Home Fries , Fun with Dick and Jane ) and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon, Galaxy Quest does a wonderful job sticking by its post-modern premise while balancing all the traditional requirements of a three-act Hollywood comedy.
Director Dean Parisot leaps forward in his second feature (his first was "Home Fries") by letting the jokes arise naturally and keeping an energetic pace.
In this satire of "Star Trek" and Trekkies, as in his nightmare family farce "Home Fries," he applies a deft hand to far-out material -- and proves that nothing can be more uproarious in comedy direction than casting a sane eye on lunatic shenanigans.
Newcomer screenwriters Vy Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan ("Home Fries") have fun refolding the superhero format to contain messages and ideas that raise as many questions as they address.
Vy Vincent Ngo, who wrote one episode of the TV series "The Hunger," based on the film "The Hunger" which this also shares plot points with, and Vince Gilligan ("Home Fries") were really onto something if they'd just stayed their original course but at some point they seem to have inserted their heads up their asses just like Hancock's signature threat (pretty amusing when finally carried out in prison).