Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

johngorilv What I'd really like to see is a "behind the scenes DVD extra" of the creative process conversation that apparently went something like:"Hey, let's cast of the top bikini models in the world like Kathy Ireland as the female lead, then dress her in REALLY baggy clothes for almost the entire movie.""Sounds great, and we can make it even better by having Kathy use a squeaky, annoying voice and give her messed up hair and big, ugly glasses.""Okay, go for it and see if you can wrap it up with hokey dialog and high-school film project production values. Also see if you can somehow cut in a couple of scenes of young boys wrestling in a pit even if it has nothing to do with the story.""Great, this one should be a real winner. I can't wait for the awards to roll in."As a bonus hopefully they could also include some reaction shots from the film's investors when they saw the resulting movie.

Aaron1375 I am going to be the first to admit this, but I am giving this film like two more stars than it really deserves only because I find Kathy Ireland super hot; she is especially so in this particular film. This film is also special in another way...it basically introduced me to what is now my favorite show, MST3K. It is also a bizarre film that combines elements from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Alice In Wonderland and The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. That being said, it does not blend them correctly and it does not blend them well. It is also way to lighthearted of a film, trying to rely on humor that mostly falls flat, rather than say some extreme action, gore and perhaps a bit of skin. The film ends up being just to weak in every aspect and the only thing you have to see is a very attractive Kathy Ireland, which is nice, but not enough to support the weight of the film.The story has a girl that has a very annoying squeaky voice getting dumped by her boyfriend because she is not adventurous enough for him. Why they felt the need for Kathy to speak like this is beyond me, her voice is a bit like the one used by her character in the film, but has a more sexy quality to it as it is lower. It kind of sounds like Kathy was sucking helium before each line. Anyway, apparently her mother is dead and her dead is an explorer or something. He goes missing and is presumed dead, she travels to somewhere and she ends up falling into a hole and ends up in Atlantis...where they apparently drink Fosters cause there be lots of Australians there. She meets one guy who is seemingly the other star, but then some random dude becomes the girl's love interest. Lots of basement and boiler room shots found within as they try to mimic an underground city. Kathy's character gets chased, drugged and interrogated; however, she doesn't get nude at all and she very rarely wears anything nice and skimpy which makes one sad.As I mentioned above, this film was my first introduction to MST3K. I basically had a thing for Kathy back in the day and I saw here and stopped flipping the channel. Then I noticed the silhouettes, and noticed only one appeared to be human. I also found what they were saying about this film to be very funny. I ended up finishing the episode, but it would be a couple of more years before I could watch the show again as it was a free preview of comedy central, which we still did not get after the free preview was over. I had to wait till the show made it to the Sci Fi channel before I could really fall in love with the show.So, while this movie is pretty bad, it has some fond memories for me. It had a very attractive Kathy Ireland in like her only starring role, and it introduced me to MST3K. Granted, it was also just an unsuccessful mix of a bunch of films, it made the lead character hot, but very annoying sounding and its attempts at humor failed miserably. It would have been better had they not made the film so tame, as when making a low budget film you need something to distract the viewer from the fact it is a cheap film, but the film gets some props from me for the reasons listed above.

Scott LeBrun Really, this routine, harmless, goofy comic fantasy may be instantly forgettable, but it's hard to completely resist - if for no other reason than to see its star in a bikini top. Supermodel Kathy Ireland stars as Wanda, a nerdy Valley Girl whose boyfriend dumps her for being a bore. Well, she's about to show him, as she receives word that her explorer father has "died" in Africa, and travels there herself to learn that in fact dear old dad fell down a deep hole and ended up at the center of the Earth and in the lost city of Atlantis. In this instance, the people of Atlantis are extra-terrestrials who ended up in the planet core long ago, and who regard any strangers to their domain as the aliens. Wanda hooks up with Gus (William R. Moses), a gruff miner, who reluctantly agrees to help her find her father. As directed by the prolific Albert Pyun, this benefits from its production design (here, Atlantis is a dimly lit and seedy environment populated by weirdo characters) and atmosphere. The problem is that it all feels too familiar, and it never really takes off as one might hope; it's stuck in a rather low gear throughout. Makeup design on the characters is amusing, but none of the individuals in this story are all that interesting. Ireland is adorable in the lead, but the squeaky voice which she affects for the role may drive some viewers insane. The supporting cast features a number of no-name performers, but there is some entertainment in seeing how a couple of them play more than one role. However, you will recognize Thom Mathews of "The Return of the Living Dead" and numerous other B movies in the supporting role of Charmin', an amiable young fighter, gorgeous Linda Kerridge who plays both Roris and Auntie Pearl, Don Michael Paul as fed up ex-boyfriend Robbie, and Deep Roy, who plays diminutive mobster Mambino. They all make this watchable enough, but the supposedly big finish is lacking in tension and quite underwhelming. Still, if you're patient and forgiving enough to see this through to the end, Pyun keeps the humour going through the end credits. The subsequent Cannon Group production "Journey to the Center of the Earth" features Ireland reprising the Wanda character in a cameo appearance. Five out of 10.

MorbidMorgan The fanciful tale of a young girl's descent into the underground world of Atlantis, ' Alien From L.A. ', Albert Pyun's homage to Jules Verne's ' Journey To The Center Of The Earth ', is a engaging piece of sci-fi whimsy that makes the most of it's minimal budget. Kathy Ireland as squeaky voiced teen Wanda makes a delightfully offbeat heroine, plummeted towards the centre of the earth whilst searching for her explorer-adventurer father in Africa, missing and presumed dead. The underground world of Atlantis that she stumbles upon is realized as a rather intriguing punk domain with many unusual quirks - non-welcoming to visitors of the surface world. Nowhere near as bad as it has been suggested, ' Alien From L.A. ' remains a fun adventure romp for non-too serious fans of the genre. Interestingly the characters and visuals of the movie were re-hashed to complete the latter half of Rusty Lemorande's own ' Journey To The Center Of The Earth ', released in the same year. Although ' Journey... ' actually pre-dates ' Alien... ' ( production having begun around 1986 ), it was apparently beseiged by financial problems and Pyun was later called in to make the movie his own. This has given people the false impression that ' Journey... ' is a sequel to ' Alien... ' when it is not.