A successful pastiche of numerous science fiction films, executed with an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek flair that compensates for its absence in originality.
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06/06/07
Night of the Comet (1984)
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 15
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: When a comet hits Earth, nearly everyone is outside to witness the spectacle and celebrate its arrival. Unfortunately, the comet possesses deadly rays that turn all the onlookers to dust. However, teenager Regina and her Valley Girl... [More]
Starring: Robert Beltran, Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Sharon Farrell
Director: Thom Eberhardt
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Top Critic A terrifically witty, refreshingly unpretentious science-fiction film with the least likely and most likable heroines in memory.
06/06/07
his endearingly hokey low-budget B-movie comes with a high nostalgia factor from the Reagan era
03/13/07
Suspecting that all this plus the cheerleaders might fail to excite, the film-makers also pack in twenty songs.
01/26/06
A glorious B-movie that requires a certain amount of appreciation of the genre if you're really going to enjoy it.
05/24/03
A good-natured, end-of- the-world B-movie, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt, a new film maker whose sense of humor augments rather than upstages the mechanics of the melodrama.
05/20/03
Top Critic Campy end of the world movie. Funny in places, but I'd rather see a serious "comet" movie.
03/18/03
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