Please don't get me wrong - I love comedy in the Absurd, Slapstick, or even outright Silly categories, and can stomach a heaping bowlful of saucy schtick in a single sitting. I so love Nielsen in a comedy role, and so wanted Ezio Greggio to have a follow-up to his Silence of the Hams, but this movie was so contrived and unbearable that I could only power through what seemed to be a five-hour dignity slaughter by killing a bottle of whiskey with countless toasts to a Dracula, Dead and Loving It poster.My second star was piteously donated from my regard for Nielsen and Greggio, and my third mindlessly to the impressive budget that was dedicated to this eye-gouger. It really needed to have a Brooks, Zucker or Abrahams to help it through, but it didn't.I understand that Nielsen (God bless his soul) had been suffering a lull in his career at the time ...as he had gone slapstick, and was not attractive to the big hitter producers. This was a dreadful follow-up to Mr Magoo and wrongfully Accused, and his career had never really recovered. He was posthumously honoured by the Academy for his noteworthy career.I will probably scrub through this again just to see Nielsen and Greggio again, out of my best regards ...or perhaps not.

Time for another cliché to raise its ugly head and that is - Did I see the same movie ? I read a few of the comments on this page just before I sat down to watch 2001 A SPACE TRAVESTY and feared the worst . After spending an hour and a half of my life watching it I feel some people have overreacted to it . Okay it's certainly not a comedy masterwork but neither is it the cinematic atrocity some people are claimingCertainly the opening sequence is very tough going , so much so I can't help thinking the people pouring vitriolic hatred on the movie actually gave up on it at this point . To say the film could only get better at this point is to state the obvious but 2001 does indeed improve down to the fact that Leslie Neilson may be playing a character called Richard " Dick " Dix but is detective Frank Drebin in everything but name and the introductory sequence where Dick ends a hostage crisis in his own unintentional style is fairly amusing and leaves one hoping for more of the same similar to the style of THE NAKED GUN movies This sums up the problem with 2001 and that is that is it sustain the laughs and is very patchy . There's a long segment set on a moonbase and it really belongs in another film as the audience anticipates the sort of antics we'd expect from Frank Drebin . Instead of the sharp , witty , snappy one liners we more often than not get jokes that are stretched out beyond their natural length , most blatantly the three tenors having a Village People routine which gives the impression the writers aren't trying too hard In summary 2001 A SPACE TRAVESTY isn't a classic Leslie Neilson comedy but contained enough jokes to bring the occasional wry smile to my face . Everyone else on this page seems to hate it but if you genuinely think this is a bad movie starring Neilson I suggest you watch both REPOSSEED and DEAD AND LOVING IT which really were so bad as to be unwatchable

I have just had the displeasure of viewing what can only be described as an abysmal shambles.The film starts of as bad as it finishers, with you being drip fed drivel from beginning to end.It is so bad, it causes friendships to be cut and relationships to end. It ruins the careers of those in it and the lives of those that have seen it. It should have this warning on the box.I paid £3 for the film, and it was £3 over priced. You should be paid to watch it, not the other way around.The $45,000,000 budget would be better used in cash to wipe my rear end.The only reason you would want to buy this is to get the few seconds of pleasure that come from knowing you have taken a copy of the shelves to pop in the bin.DVD players should be encoded to prevent poor films such as this to even reach display monitors.If you have considered buying this feature, you should be ashamed and embarrassed of yourself for getting that far.I drank heavy for 3 days after seeing this film just to try and block the mental images and thoughts of every cast member making a fool out of me and them.I would like to make an official apology to my friends and family for letting you down and making you watch such garbage.Avoid like the plague.

Having watched this cheesy piece of pure nonsense made me want to comment on it: The best way to enjoy this movie is to remove your brain. If you don't do so, you'll either wish you'd have done it before or switch the film off after 15 minutes. The best one can expect from this movie are old, washed-out puns from the "Naked Gun" - everything else is just plain silly humour, tasteless "fart-jokes" and cheap boob-thrills. I wonder what makes any director or actor want to take part in something like this - what is the target-group for this kind of cinema? The homages to any science-fiction movie are so subtle, that no one would mention them or they are so embarrassing stupid, that you wouldn't mention them without being ashamed of remembering: Sad, sad 87 minutes for every Leslie Nielsen enthusiast. If I could, I would rate this movie with 0 stars, but unfortunately - as I found out - I have to give it at least one.