The Creature Wasn't Nice starts in outer space where the U.S. spaceship Vertigo is on a mission to, well I don't know actually & we never find out. The ship & crew come across a previously unknown & undiscovered planet which Dr. Stark (Patrick Macnee) is very exited about, Captain Jamieson (Leslie Nielsen) organises an expedition to the surface which is there in no time whatsoever. The team find a small purple blob of jelly which Stark insists he takes back to the ship to study, they get back to the Vertigo & continue on their way. As Dr. Stark studies the blob of jelly he notices that it is growing at an amazing rate until the point where it has become a huge slimy one eyed alien creature that likes to eat people. Captain Jamieson, morale officer Annie McHugh (Cindy Williams), mechanic Rodzinski (Gerrit Graham) & trainee John (Bruce Kimmel) are now on the creatures menu & must figure a way out to destroy the lump of carnivorous jelly before it eats them all...Written, staring & directed by Bruce Kimmel who was also responsible for the songs in the film I thought The Creature Wasn't Nice wasn't anything special but it has a few things going for it that just about saved it from being a complete waste of time as far as I was concerned. The script takes a while to get going & it's not until the 50 minute mark that the alien is seen & takes center stage, the film is supposedly a comedy although most of the jokes & humour don't really work. I would describe the film as being a spoof of Alien (1979) with a touch of The Green Slime (1969) & The Blob (1958) thrown in there for good measure, personally I reckon it would have worked better & had been vastly more successful if it had taken itself a bit more seriously & tried to pay homage to the men in rubber monster suits films from the 40's, 50's & 60's like Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957) or It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) although that's just my opinion. Unfortunately for all it's good intentions The Creature Wasn't Nice just isn't a very good film, it's not funny, it's not clever & not that much actually happens in it. For me the film is saved by the alien jelly-baby itself & it's notorious rendition of 'I wanna eat your face' while dancing, it's certainly a memorable sight & is funny more in a funny peculiar way than a funny laugh out loud way if that makes sense.Director Kimmel was obviously working on a low budge & pads the latter stages of the film out with lots of dull shots of people walking down the same corridor in search of the creature, actually it's not meant to be the same corridor but it's so obvious that it is with just the identification number changed. The film is also horribly dated, apparently set in the future there is a shot of Leslie Nielsen playing Space Invaders from the early 80's & they still use cassette tapes for music, there isn't a CD or iPod in sight. The special effects aren't anything to write home about either although I loved the dodgy looking creature & thought it was a shame that he never ate anyone on screen.Technically the film is rough, the special effects are anything but & the production design is cheap throughout. I personally rather liked the monster but he does look very fake at times. The acting is pretty bad from everyone (maybe intentional? Boy they did a good job if it was), Cindy Williams as the lone female is sort of cute in an early 80's way. Nielsen & Mcnee are really slumming it here & must have needed rent money badly, all I can say is was it really worth it boys?The Creature Wasn't Nice has a few decent moments all involving the big crew eating purple jelly alien which amount to 10 or 15 minutes worth. Maybe I'm being a little generous here but I'll go with a 6 out of 10 stars (stars, spaceship & aliens? Get it? Forget it...) because of the alien & it song & dance routine, definitely an acquired taste. Overall though I'd say it deserves it's low IMDb score...

Leslie Nielsen and Patrick Macnee? How could they go so wrong? I've gone out of my way to watch really bad films, and in their own way they're often entertaining. This was painful.Nonexistent plot, spun out for 75 minutes. Little discernible attempt at humour - and believe me I'm the target audience for spoof space film references.There must be an amazing backstory to this film - good cast, but they clearly didn't want to be on that awful set in that forsaken community college. Perhaps this is in fact the funniest film ever - and the joke's on all the viewers who sit through it.

OK, while it shouldn't win awards and all that stuff, in this day and age I find myself reaching for this movie over and over. Yes, whenever there are parties at my house and I reach for this, people leave in droves. There is this one guy however that has seen it a bunch and loves it too! It's an acquired taste...like sardines on a hot day with a glass of skim milk...but an acquired taste nonetheless. It is campy and goofy, but that is exactly what I expected and I came out fine. There are some great facial expressions from the whole cast and some decent one-liners as well. Anyway, I checked out the 2001 A Space Traversty (or whatever it is) hoping it would be a funny Leslie movie and I liked this one (Naked Space..Spaceship....whatever) better. Granted, Leslie has a more "serious" role in this, but he makes himself look like an idiot more by doing so! It is a fun movie for me (just an opinion for myself!) and watch it EXPECTING a very low budget, dated, 80's cheap comedy. Where is "Creature's Not Nice II", Mr. Kimmel??

The WORST movie ever? Get real. Check out Manos the Hands of Fate. Better yet check out Savage Instinct by Troma Pictures. THEN you will have seen the face of truly awful.Yes The Creature Wasn't Nice is indeed painfully bad, much of the humor is flat and the plot hangs together like cottage cheese. But it also has redeeming features. The irreverent character Rodzinski is good for yucks, as is the insane Doctor Stark is over the top with his goofball lines. "What are they going to call it? The JOHN organism? It's MINE!" I agree parts of the movie are gallingly bad, but get past them, and there are moments of merit here and there. It ain't Shakespeare but there are times when it is just what I need.