My review was written in December 1981 after a Times Square screening:
"Spaced Out" is a hybrid film, the result of taking a 1979 British sci-fi sex comedy, "Outer Touch", and increasing the laugh quotient with Americanized low-humor commentary emanating from computer voices. Pic is a diverting trifle suited to the youth trade weaned on Benny Hill and Cheech & Chong gags.
Nominal plot concerns a trio of beautiful women from the planet circling Betelgeuse who take four Earthlings prisoner. Never having encountered men before, they test the males, with predictable sex comedy ensuing. The fourth prisoner, a prim and proper London girl, gradually succumbs to the advances of her fiance who is spurred on by the advice coming from a stoned jukebox-computerized psychiatrist.
Much of the film's humor comes from the cultural clash of stock British characters with the drug-culture and gay-oriented jokes penned by comedian Bob Saget and voiced over by him and Jeff Dehart. Norman J. Warren-helmed live action is cheap and silly, with hokey spaceship models, campy set design and costumes plus lots of pastel lighting effects. Cast is quite effective at this vulgar form of sex tease, with the British starlets (particularly the busty pinup Ava Cadell) easy on the eyes.
"Spaced Out" is a hybrid film, the result of taking a 1979 British sci-fi sex comedy, "Outer Touch", and increasing the laugh quotient with Americanized low-humor commentary emanating from computer voices. Pic is a diverting trifle suited to the youth trade weaned on Benny Hill and Cheech & Chong gags.
Nominal plot concerns a trio of beautiful women from the planet circling Betelgeuse who take four Earthlings prisoner. Never having encountered men before, they test the males, with predictable sex comedy ensuing. The fourth prisoner, a prim and proper London girl, gradually succumbs to the advances of her fiance who is spurred on by the advice coming from a stoned jukebox-computerized psychiatrist.
Much of the film's humor comes from the cultural clash of stock British characters with the drug-culture and gay-oriented jokes penned by comedian Bob Saget and voiced over by him and Jeff Dehart. Norman J. Warren-helmed live action is cheap and silly, with hokey spaceship models, campy set design and costumes plus lots of pastel lighting effects. Cast is quite effective at this vulgar form of sex tease, with the British starlets (particularly the busty pinup Ava Cadell) easy on the eyes.