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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Facets
Salesrank: 137350
Released: February 17, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
THEY CAME FROM OUTER SPACE and THEY'RE FABULOUS!
A sordid tale of government conspiracy, deviant behavior and alien choreography, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is in fact the 1953 sci-fi turkey "Killers from Space" shamelessly adulterated with all new dialog and absurd new inserted scenes.
Winner of the BEST FEATURE AWARD at the Boston Underground Film Festival, and THE AUDIENCE AWARD at the Swiss Fantasy Film Festival, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is the tale of the enlightenment of MAD SCIENTIST Dr. Doug Fartin (it's French).
After Fartin [a 22 year old Peter Graves] crash lands during his TOP SECRET EXPERIMENT to rid the Military of homosexuals, his shocking new behavior alerts the Military Brass to the horrible truth: Dr. Fartin has has been abducted and "turned" GAY by ALIENS! Can Fartin be "straightened" out before the GAY ALIENS convert the rest of the human race?
"What's Up Tiger Lily" meets its match in this hysterical, "fabulous" redubbed spoof.
Don't Ask Don't Tell Reviews:
hey, it makes "Killers from Space" watchable... 
2007-06-23 - DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL takes the 1954 schlocko classic "Killers from Space", throws out the soundtrack and in Mystery Science Theater tradition, fashions an entirely new story.
Let's face it, "Killers from Space" was hardly a cinema masterpiece, despite Peter Graves (aka Captain Oveur from "Airplane!") in the lead role. The new story concerns Dr. Fartin (it's French apparently) who is kidnapped by ping-pong ball bug-eyed aliens and turned gay. He tries to rail against his new sexual urges, only for the aliens to use him as a pawn in their masterplan to turn the entire male population into screaming queens...
Thanks to some gusset scenes and new characters (Nurse Bendover, Titler, Colonel Butz), the story is given a new comical edge, and the original characters are given some hilarious new identities. This won't be everyone's cup of java, but for cult cinema fans it's a real treat.
The DVD includes original trailers and publicity material for "Killers from Space", plus additional extras about DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).
A ZANY SPOOF 
2006-12-23 - "DON'T ASK DON'T TELL"
A Zany Spoof
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
Subtitled "They Came from Outer Space and They're Fabulous", "Don't Ask Don't Tell" (Click IV Entertainment) is one crazy movie. If any of you saw Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily" and liked it, then you will love this movie, Director/writer Doug Miles took the science fiction movie "Killers from Space" which starred Peter Graves and redubbed the soundtrack. Using low grade dubbing, really cheesy special effects and a horrible dance number, this is a non stop laugh fest. It is also the most idiotic and socially relevant film ever made.
The plot of the film has the Army planning to rid America of 30,000 homosexuals by bombing them while they are at a Barbra Streisand concert in Sodom, Texas (which is not far from Inbred, Texas). The reason the Army wants to do this is to make the world safe for morality.
Luckily for the gays, the plan gets messed up and the bomb lands in Inbred. At almost the same time the plane Enola Gay Basher crashes but only after gay aliens abduct and perform an operation on Dr. Doug Fartin which makes him use the word "fabulous in every sentence and go mad for musicals by Rogers and Hammerstein.
Back at Fellatio Alger Air Force Base, Army brass is deliberating over the meaning of all of this. Little do they know that the aliens and planning to convert the entire population of the earth to be homosexual by using a special ray.
The original movie, "Killers from Space" was really bad photographically and the actors were hammy so that movie lends itself to this adaptation beautifully. From what I can tell though, that movie wasn't gratuitous enough so the director splices scenes from other B movies and there are several scenes that are just really far out. And this entire mish mash is really funny but very sophomoric.
This crazy humor and "sassy schlock" is not for everyone--it is the kind of satire that is either loved or hated. It is toilet humor at its best and there are several lame jokes about Viagra, farting, right wingers, gays and sex change operations. In other words it is a low grade spoof on the George W. years. There is even a line about "W" referring to President Cheney.
Another attempt to get laughs is with the names of some of the characters: Nurse Bendover, Colonel Butz and Doug Fartin. The plot, as thin as it is, deals with the secret mission, "Operation Manhole".
The aliens have come from the planet Uranus (could it have been anywhere else?) and their plan to drop a radioactive queer beam so that the world will become gay is the main thrust of the film.
This is not a movie that you are likely to remember (if you even can find a copy) but it is a lot of fun to watch if you do not take it seriously in anyway. It is a satire and should be appreciated as no more than that.
Stupid, Offensive adn Smart
2005-12-13 - I just watched the DVD at a party at Syracuse University. It was brilliant.
I love the premise of Gay Aliens coming to earth to make everyone gay. The
jokes are non-stop. There's a fine line between stupid, offensive and smart
and this movie seems to cross them all. A great Chrismas gift for a guy who
laugh at farts.
best damn movie 
2004-03-14 - I saw the movie when it played in hoboken and i haven't laughed so hard since!!!
the crowd was allways laughing so you missed half of the jokes.
i can't wait to watch the dvd and get all the jokes that i missed in the theatre.
this is a movie to watch time and time again, there is allways something new to catch.
very funny stuff
2004-03-09 - I saw this movie at the Wisconsin Film Festival a few years ago. I split a gut it was so smart and so stupid. STUPID! Watching the DVD I realized I missed so many jokes the first time. The helium addict was hysterical and Titler is outrageous. It's definitely a movie to watch with a group that will need a designated driver at the end of the evening. Very funny stuff. But beware, it is too long and nobody will get all the pop culture references. I watched it with a MST3000 fan who didn't know who Barney Frank or Paul Ruddnick were. He didn't like it. It's a lot more SNL than MST. I hope they make another one.
