bojanmilo Please don't get me wrong - I love comedy in the Absurd, Slapstick, or even outright Silly categories, and can stomach a heaping bowlful of saucy schtick in a single sitting. I so love Nielsen in a comedy role, and so wanted Ezio Greggio to have a follow-up to his Silence of the Hams, but this movie was so contrived and unbearable that I could only power through what seemed to be a five-hour dignity slaughter by killing a bottle of whiskey with countless toasts to a Dracula, Dead and Loving It poster.My second star was piteously donated from my regard for Nielsen and Greggio, and my third mindlessly to the impressive budget that was dedicated to this eye-gouger. It really needed to have a Brooks, Zucker or Abrahams to help it through, but it didn't.I understand that Nielsen (God bless his soul) had been suffering a lull in his career at the time ...as he had gone slapstick, and was not attractive to the big hitter producers. This was a dreadful follow-up to Mr Magoo and wrongfully Accused, and his career had never really recovered. He was posthumously honoured by the Academy for his noteworthy career.I will probably scrub through this again just to see Nielsen and Greggio again, out of my best regards ...or perhaps not.

TheLittleSongbird Now I do like spoof movies, when they are funny and done right. There are some funny spoofs around, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and Loaded Weapon 1 for example, but the spoof genre has also had some excrement such as Disaster Movie and Epic Movie. 2001: A Space Travesty is not as bad as any of the worst of Friedberg and Seltzer. However, that is not saying much, 2001:A Space Travesty is still a terrible movie, being contrived, embarrassing and unfunny and it makes you think what possessed Leslie Nielson to take on this project.As I said in the review title, the irony in the word "travesty" is correct. To be honest, while hardly clever or original the title is the best asset of this movie, as well as the end credits which was the only time in the entire movie when I cracked a smile, you know immediately there is something wrong when that is the case. The production values are cheap, with the costumes more reminiscent of fancy dress, shoddy camera work, dismal special effects and wobbly sets. The soundtrack is poorly thought out, In the Navy by The Three Tenors especially felt as though it was shoe horned in.The story is predictable and almost a non-event, the pace didn't draw me in in any way and the direction was decidedly patchy. Also the characters are little more than stereotypes and caricatures and really bad ones at that with names that felt like poor Carry On lampoons. The acting is terrible, yes including from the talented Leslie Nielson. Nielson shows he can be funny as with Naked Gun and Airplane, which are comedy classics in my opinion, but he overacts and mugs shamelessly here which saddened me hugely. Everyone else either overplay, are bland or seem to be playing themselves. Worse is the humour, the film just isn't funny and is filled with the crude and vulgar kind of humour that doesn't come close to the inspired zaniness of the best of the spoof genre. The homages and references to sci-fis such as 2001:A Space Odyssey(one of my favourite films) are obvious and poorly thought out and the script is abysmal and didn't make me laugh one time.In conclusion, not the worst of the genre but a mess all the same. 2/10 Bethany Cox

adam-1009 I've seen the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" movies but even the worst science fiction crappy movies from 60's they made fun of weren't as bad as this one!!from the start I wasn't expecting much, even thought they've had Leslie Nielsen, but with each minute I was more and more depressed, bored and ashamed to waste my life with this kind of bull**itI'm not a impulsive man, but all the authors of "2001: A Space Travesty" should be taken to the prison for what they have done - for the first time in my life I wished god would take away my sight so I didn't have to watch the movie until the end!!!!!!!!

storytym Ewww! I saw this on a plane and was thunderstruck over how awful it was. The writing was virtually joke-free, and the direction incompetent. Even the sight gags--which are the easiest part of comedy to pull off, were lame and uninspired. Leslie Nielsen has really embarrassed himself here. In his successful Zucker Brothers spoofs, he's a master at playing ridiculous scenes completely straight, and thereby making the funny stuff work. Here he acts desperate. He mugs just to inject some life into the dreariness of it all, and, as other reviewers have mentioned, embarrasses himself mightily. If you want to see him in a movie devoid of intentional laughs, check out the original POSEIDON ADVENTURE. At least that flick has some inadvertent giggles.