The Wild Blue Yonder: A Science Fiction Fantasy, 2005

Spliced together from archive documentary footage of real space missions and deep sea Antarctic dives, Brad Dourif - playing an alien who travelled to Earth when his own planet, the Wild Blue Yonder, became uninhabitable - narrates this story about a NASA mission that makes the same journey in reverse. Although this movie is thought-provoking (it has a strong environmental theme), deeply satirical (a group of aliens travel millions of light years to a new planet and their first priority is building a shopping mall), and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny (the NASA crew have eye tests, Dourif deadpans that they have developed ways to read each other's minds) it is also unfortunately quite dull. Once you have seen a few minutes of astronauts floating around in their shuttle, then you've pretty much seen it all. These scenes are nice to look at, but after a while you find your mind beginning to wander. All in all, it's an interesting concept for a film. I liked the touches of humour, and it is only 85 minutes long, but I imagine a lot of people would be turned off by it's slow pace and low-budget feel of the non-stock footage.

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