Alf - the film

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Movie
German title Alf - the film
Original title Project ALF
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
Rod
Director Dick Lowry
script Tom Patchett
Paul Fusco
production Tom Patchett
Wolf Farmer
music Mark Snow
camera Henry M. Lebo
cut William B. Stich
occupation

Alf - The film is an American television - comedy from 1996, based on the TV show Alf based (1986-1990).

action

Alf has been in captivity at Edmonds Air Force Base for years and has to put up with strange tests by the military. He was separated from the Tanners. The family was given the choice by Colonel Gilbert Milfoil of living at the South Pole ( Iceland in the original English ) or in the Sahara ( Mozambique in the original English ) and has decided on a future at the South Pole.

While Captain Dr. Rick Mullican and Major Dr. Melissa Hill are now demanding the release of Alf, Milfoil is anxious, especially because of his mother's traumatic experiences in childhood, to eliminate Alf in order to keep him away from humanity as a possible source of danger. So he instructs Second Lieutenant Harold Reese to get medicine to kill Alf.

But Mullican and Hill recognize this and kidnap Alf from the Air Force Base in order to save him. Alf is not very enthusiastic about it, because he had just made himself comfortable there, which is why the cheap motel room as a place of refuge really annoys him. So he digs out again himself and calls Murphy at Air Force Base to have money sent to him, and then goes to the Kitty Cat Lounge in the hope of being able to eat cats there. Instead, it's a strip club that Mullican has to get him out of. Believing that Milfoil and the police are after them, they go to Dexter Moyers, a former NASA employee .

Arrived at Moyers, Mullican is jealous of him, since Hill is absolutely taken with him. She is also enthusiastic about him when he proposes his solution to the whole problem: Alf has to go public. While Hill raves about him and Alf sees opportunities to earn money again, Mullican investigates the suspicion that something is wrong there. And something is wrong, too, because Moyers is planning to auction Alf publicly during a television show.

When Hill finds out, she is locked away. But Mullican escapes and comes up with the idea of ​​calling his colleague at the Air Force Base in the hope that Milfoil overhears the conversation. And since he has bugged it, he picks up Mullican and storms Moyers' transmission room with his troops just before the live broadcast of Alf's existence can be broadcast. It only turns out that, contrary to his original promise not to kill Alf, Milfoil is intent on doing so now. However, Mullican manages to film Milfoil confessing his intention to kill, so that he is later arrested while Alf is appointed ambassador of his species on earth.

criticism

"Detached from its everyday context, the title character loses most of its comic potential, so that the film only entertains acceptably in a few funny dialogue passages."

- Lexicon of international film

"Designed as a gag-rich anarcho-comedy, this unconventional alien adventure is a wonderfully disrespectful satire on the machinations of the military and scientists."

- Mediabiz.de

background

Season four of the series ended with a cliffhanger implying that ALF had been captured by the military. It was planned to continue the story in a fifth season of the series, but after the series was canceled due to the recent drop in ratings and a fifth season was not filmed, this film was instead made to continue the plot and bring it to a conclusion. However, since the actors of the series were no longer available with the exception of Paul Fusco (voice of ALF) and the roles were not replaced, the Tanner family and almost all other known characters from the series are missing, which is explained in the film, that ALF was separated from the Tanners and the Tanners were brought by the US military to the South Pole or, in the English original, to Iceland .

Beverly Archer is the only person besides Paul Fusco who also appeared on the series, but plays a different role here.

publication

The film premiered on February 17, 1996 on ABC . The television series was originally broadcast on rival NBC . After it came to cinemas in Germany on May 9, 1996, it was seen by 392,957 cinema viewers.

The film has been available on DVD since November 3rd, 1999 . When it was first broadcast in Germany on television, on June 21, 1998 on RTL at 8:15 p.m., the film ran on a competing channel, contrary to the broadcast of the television series on ZDF . The film had an audience rating of 3.19 million viewers and thus a market share of around twelve percent.

New feature film (second film)

In 2012 Sony Pictures announced that it had acquired the rights to the film character Alf and that it was planning to return the film character Alf to the big screen. However, this film has not yet been produced.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alf - the film. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1996 on insidekino.de , accessed on April 2, 2012
  3. ^ Alf - The film on tvshows.de , accessed on April 2, 2012
  4. ↑ Producer of the "Smurfs" is planning a new Alf film on derwesten.de , as of August 10, 2012 - 3:30 pm