Alien Trespass (2009)

“Alien Trespass” is a tribute and gentle spoof of the 1950s alien invasion flicks that promised “us vs. them” fights, spaceships, ray guns, damsels in distress and square-jawed Anglo-Saxon heroes. This has nearly all of those ingredients, except a reason to exist. And it’s in color. Horrible color. The simple gist: A spacecraft crashes outside a Texas town, and the unseen alien pilot seizes the body of a local genius (Eric McCormick) as it diddles about trying to capture its prisoner, a slimy zucchini with one eye ball. I loved the cast and slight tweaks at ’50s culture: The brain and his wife (Jody Thompson) have a rockin’ sex life, but sleep in separate twin beds. But here’s the thing, this has been done before: “Independence Day” is a fantastic subversive comedy spoof of space invasion flicks, with the heroes being Jewish and African-American. I laughed from start to finish at “ID4,” and got mean looks. There’s nothing interesting here. This is a yawner. B-