2/10
Jesse as an alien
15 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Writer and director Damian Lee also did Ski School, which I assume preps you for making science fiction action movies starring two of Arnold's pals, Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Sven-Ole Thorsen. Plus, best of all - no, actually best doesn't apply here - Jim Belushi shows up.

Abraxas (Ventura) and Secundus (Thorsen) are Space Cops called Finders who live for thousands of years and use an Answer Box to scan and communicate in the field. It's also a weapon, as if a subject doesn't contain the Anti-Life Equation, they are disintegrated.

If you just read that and got angry that Jack Kirby's concepts were ripped off for this movie, good news. For me, at least. Because I thought I was going crazy.

Secundus goes bad, because he wants to live forever and needs to figure out that Anti-Life Equation to do so. His plan? Knock up the first woman he finds by rubbing his hand over her belly. That woman is Sonia Murray (Marjorie Bransfield, who was married to Belushi at the time, so that explains that) and she has a baby named Tommy in seconds. But Tommy is going to grow up to be the Culminator and solve that equation. Abraxas is supposed to kill the child and the mother, but he's too nice and let's her live. Her parents get mad that she had a baby and toss her out into the streets, except that you know, she somehow got pregnant and had the child in the very same day.

Five years later, Tommy is a mute child with superpowers. Well, his one power is the ability to make bullies piss their pants. So I guess that's a power. And his principal at school is Jim Belushi, who brings back his role of Rick Latimer because we all demanded that. You know, I give Jim a lot of guff and the dude voted for Obama and has a pop-up cannabis shop, so maybe he's not as bad as I've been led to believe.
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