{{Short description|1996 television film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Alien Avengers 1996.jpg | caption = Home video cover art | genre = {{Plainlist| * Comedy * Sci-Fi }} | director = Lev L. Spiro | executive_producer = Roger Corman | producer = {{Plainlist| * Michael Amato * Frances Doel * Darin Spillman }} | writer = {{Plainlist| * Michael MacDonald * Michael McDonald (as Michael James McDonald) }} | narrator = | starring = George Wendt | music = Tyler Bates | cinematography = Christopher Baffa | location = | editor = Daniel H. Holland | company = {{Plainlist| * Concorde-New Horizons * Showtime Networks }} | network = | released = {{Start date|1996|08|03}} | runtime = 81 min. | country = United States | language = English | budget = }} '''''Alien Avengers''''' is a 1996 American television film directed by Lev L. Spiro and starring George Wendt. It was part of the ''Roger Corman Presents'' series.<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Gray, Tim |title=My First Time In Variety, August 15, 1996, Alien Avengers |magazine=Variety Magazine |date=May 5, 2015 |volume=327 |issue=14 |page=90 |issn=0042-2738}}</ref> It was also known as '''''Welcome to Planet Earth'''''. The film led to a sequel, ''Alien Avengers II'', the following year.
==Plot== Joseph Collins, an ex-con, (Christopher Brown) inherits an abandoned and dilapidated boarding house from his deceased mother, and before he even gets a chance to clean the place, Charlie (Wendt), Rhonda (Reed) and their teenage daughter, Daphne (Sakelaris), who are really aliens hiding their true identities, arrive for a vacation. Charlie forks over a bundle of cash, and the alien family settles in. The family's idea of a good time is going out on the town and killing criminals and thugs they encounter on the streets, and bringing the body parts back to the boarding house to snack on.
==Cast== *George Wendt *Shanna Reed *Anthony Anderson *Anastasia Sakelaris *Christopher M. Brown – Joseph Collins
==Reception== Tony Scott wrote in ''Variety Magazine'' that the film "depends too much on pre-adolescent gags, and the humor's obvious, the lingo crude, the situations mostly lame, the script bogs down among the excesses, and the windups a letdown."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Tony |title=Roger Corman Presents Alien Avengers |url=https://variety.com/1996/film/reviews/roger-corman-presents-alien-avengers-1200446386/ |website=Variety Magazine |date=15 August 1996}}</ref>
==''Alien Avengers II''== {{Infobox television | genre = {{Plainlist| * Comedy * Sci-Fi }} | director = David Payne | executive_producer = Roger Corman | producer = {{Plainlist| * Darin Spillman * Marta M. Mobley }} | writer = Michael McDonald (as Michael James McDonald) | starring = {{Plainlist| * George Wendt * Julie Brown }} | music = Tyler Bates | cinematography = Mike Mickens | location = {{Plainlist| * Melody Ranch – 24715 Oak Creek Avenue, Newhall, California * Santa Clarita, California }} | editor = JJ Jackson | company = {{Plainlist| * Concorde Pictures * Showtime Networks * Transpacific Corp. }} | released = {{Start date|1997|10|25}} | runtime = 89 min. | country = United States | language = English }}
===Plot=== Aliens become sheriffs of a small town.
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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0115503}} *{{IMDb title|0118581|Alien Avengers II}} *[https://letterboxd.com/film/alien-avengers/ ''Alien Avengers''] at Letterbox DVD *[https://letterboxd.com/film/alien-avengers-ii/ ''Alien Avengers II''] at Letterbox DVD *[https://web.archive.org/web/20210415001740/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/457089/alien-avengers-ii ''Alien Avengers II''] at TCMDB
Category:1996 television films Category:1996 films Category:1996 English-language films Category:Films produced by Roger Corman Category:American science fiction television films Category:Films directed by Lev L. Spiro Category:1996 American films Category:English-language science fiction films
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