I am going to be the first to admit this, but I am giving this film like two more stars than it really deserves only because I find Kathy Ireland super hot; she is especially so in this particular film. This film is also special in another way...it basically introduced me to what is now my favorite show, MST3K. It is also a bizarre film that combines elements from Journey to the Center of the Earth, Alice In Wonderland and The Road Warrior and Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. That being said, it does not blend them correctly and it does not blend them well. It is also way to lighthearted of a film, trying to rely on humor that mostly falls flat, rather than say some extreme action, gore and perhaps a bit of skin. The film ends up being just to weak in every aspect and the only thing you have to see is a very attractive Kathy Ireland, which is nice, but not enough to support the weight of the film.The story has a girl that has a very annoying squeaky voice getting dumped by her boyfriend because she is not adventurous enough for him. Why they felt the need for Kathy to speak like this is beyond me, her voice is a bit like the one used by her character in the film, but has a more sexy quality to it as it is lower. It kind of sounds like Kathy was sucking helium before each line. Anyway, apparently her mother is dead and her dead is an explorer or something. He goes missing and is presumed dead, she travels to somewhere and she ends up falling into a hole and ends up in Atlantis...where they apparently drink Fosters cause there be lots of Australians there. She meets one guy who is seemingly the other star, but then some random dude becomes the girl's love interest. Lots of basement and boiler room shots found within as they try to mimic an underground city. Kathy's character gets chased, drugged and interrogated; however, she doesn't get nude at all and she very rarely wears anything nice and skimpy which makes one sad.As I mentioned above, this film was my first introduction to MST3K. I basically had a thing for Kathy back in the day and I saw here and stopped flipping the channel. Then I noticed the silhouettes, and noticed only one appeared to be human. I also found what they were saying about this film to be very funny. I ended up finishing the episode, but it would be a couple of more years before I could watch the show again as it was a free preview of comedy central, which we still did not get after the free preview was over. I had to wait till the show made it to the Sci Fi channel before I could really fall in love with the show.So, while this movie is pretty bad, it has some fond memories for me. It had a very attractive Kathy Ireland in like her only starring role, and it introduced me to MST3K. Granted, it was also just an unsuccessful mix of a bunch of films, it made the lead character hot, but very annoying sounding and its attempts at humor failed miserably. It would have been better had they not made the film so tame, as when making a low budget film you need something to distract the viewer from the fact it is a cheap film, but the film gets some props from me for the reasons listed above.

I have set myself the task of seeing all the films on IMDBs bottom 100 as a kind of pet project and I was positively surprised when I got to number 97 (starting at #100). Alien from L.A is not so much a bad film as a mediocre one. It is like one of those B-movie adventure films with a lot of clichés, low budget special effects, cheesy dialog and poorly choreographed action scenes. I you don't take them seriously, and try to see the humor in them instead, those films can actually be entertaining, if a bit pointless. I found myself wanting to like this one but struggling. The crazy underground world full of strange visuals, where our protagonist - a geeky girl with an annoyingly squeaky voice - goes on lots of pointless little adventures is a bit too much for me. Alien from L.A. gets a 4 out of 10 for effort but falls a bit short of actually being lovable.

This movie is a bizarre fantasy tale, that I'm sure doesn't appeal to anyone over 10, but is too strange for children. The plot is stupid, and the acting is some of the worst I've ever seen.25-year old Kathy Ireland plays a teenage girl who acts like a 9-year old. She seems to have gotten her character's voice by listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Her high pitched, screechy baby voice gets annoying the second she starts talking. All of the other acting is bad, but really Kathy Ireland is by far the worst. The plot is also terrible and is kind of a mix between Alice in Wonderland and Mad Max. Wanda Saknussemm (Ireland) gets a letter saying her father, who left her a long time ago, fell down a bottomless pit in Africa, and when she goes to find him, she falls into an underground world full of strange Australian accented people. It's one of the corniest movie you'll ever see, with terrible lines throughout. It's annoying the effects this movie uses for character development. Kathy Ireland is a nerd who won't do anything or go anywhere. She flies to Africa....wow, what development! She drops her glasses and then doesn't need them. Why does dropping one's glasses represent them not becoming a nerd. It should represent her descent into blindness. It's just stupid. The only positive I can think is there are semi-good special effects and camera work, and the musical score sounds OK.Overall this a ridiculous family fantasy that will only appeal to those who expect nothing from a movie.My rating: 1/2 out of ****. 84 mins. PG for violence.

Because they all just watch there MST3K with their artificial friends who make (mostly) not that funny and obvious comments about movies. And that's the only way these people watch them and then they comment and down-vote them on the IMDb based just on that, they don't even try to watch the film on it's own.I watched this film on it's own, I didn't read the reviews first, I didn't have some people telling what to laugh at, I just got the DVD (bought for the flip side Morons From Outer Space, an old fave) and watched it.Of cause I knew kind of what I was in for when it's a Golan Globus, Albert Pyun film, but usually they can be quite entertaining.The film is a non too stressing on the brain Alice down the Rabbit-hole story done so many times, and kind of similar in basic structure (but completely different in content) to Warlords of Atlantis, another entertaining B-Movie.The voice, was annoying, but then that's the idea, which they even poke at with a few lines in the movie.The hero character had one of the worst over-the top voices/accents in English language film history, but you grow to accept it and enjoy it.It's not a good film, but it's not a really bad film, it's just a bit of an average B-Movie DTV kind of film, nothing too new nothing too outstanding, and probably would be enjoyed more by a younger age bracket (say 7-14 year olds) than I. It's a bit of light-hearted Fantasy.Will I see it again, probably not maybe about 10 years ago I would have.Don't be so harsh on a movie because a couple of puppets told you too, this film isn't taking itself seriously and it's certainly no Troll 2 or Space Mutiny.