When you take the time to watch a B-movie homage, you hope for something good, or rather, bad...and that's exactly what you get here, in all it's ridiculous glory.
Plot: the head of a major film studio, J.P.Shelldrake (Tony Legend Curtis) is in a pickle- due to a few outlandish purchases and a couple of ex-wives, seems he forgot to pay the tax-man and needs a tax write off. In steps a young film maker, Stevie Horowitz, with a rather rotten 1950's style b-movie entitled- Lobster Man form Mars. we now enjoy the entirety of this modern masterpiece, inter-cut with Tony Curtis's reactions. Seems the "men" of Mars are running low on oxygen and the only thing to do is to send a man sized lobster and a gorilla to Earth, nick their air and eat a few soft shelled folk along the way. Except, they never counted on a fella with a bad English accent, his bird and his uncle (Patrick Macnee), who, as luck would have it, turns out to be an expert in Mars men and the like.
Cue: flying Mars bats, helmeted Gorillas, ray guns and a pretty confusing appearance form a Private Investigator with a continual narration and trite, but funny lines.
Line of the film: "The name's Tommy Sledge PI, Pissed indefinitely".
Budget: $980,000
Gross: $?
Fun Fact: Tony Curtis only did the film because he had to make child support payments and the $100,000 they paid him was sorely needed.
