11-year-old Luis makes friends with three loveable little aliens, who crash their UFO into his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school - and an exciting adventure follows.
Practical Effects
Weirdly tactile alien puppetry in a CG world.
Writing
Aliens obsessed with home shopping = accidentally brilliant satire.
Director
Wolfgang Lauenstein
Callum Maloney
Luis Sonntag (voice)
Dermot Magennis
Armin Sonntag / Wabo (voice)
Ian Coppinger
Mog (voice)
Paul Tylak
Nag / Mr. Winter / Ice Cream Man / Bill (voice)
Lucy Carolan
Jennifer (voice)
Eoin Daly
Marlon (voice)
Aileen Mythen
Mrs. Winter / Valentina / Ms. Diekendaker (voice)
Susie Power
Sarah (voice)
Núria Blanco
Additional Characters (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Lauenstein brothers are Oscar-winning stop-motion animators (Balance, 1989); this was their first feature, which explains the tactile alien designs fighting against the bland CG.
The home shopping obsession specifically parodies HSN/QVC culture—already dying in 2018, now feels like a time capsule of pre-streaming commercial absurdity.
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