Alien Resurrection Review - Off The Shelf Reviews 

The best part of this movie was Sigourney Weaver’s epic basketball ball shot...which was real!!!

At around minute three you can see just how pissed Gary is getting at Iain trying to defend this movie, he physically can’t contain his disgust 😂😂

The problem is, the Aliens DON'T SPIT ACID! This is something Alien Resurrection introduced that had never been done before. In Alien 3, the dogburster spit SOMETHING at one of the prisoners that caused him to fall into the that huge fan, but it wasn't clear it was acid. It makes no sense for the Aliens to spit acid.

This movie will always have a fond place in my heart. Not because of the movie, but because of the memory. I first watched this movie up in my bedroom. It was a winters night, i was huddled in my blanket, had my little selection box and on my little box tv beside my orange glow of my lava lamp was Aliens Resurrection. Film always takes me back to that menory. So i will always hold a fond place for Alien Resurrection in my heart 😍😍 Scott 🤓🤓

The movie should have been how Ripley is struggling with her humanity being a clone and having the xenomorphs DNA in her. Not a stupid slasher in space.

The hybrid looks like Frank Langellas Skeletor

Aliens roar in this like a Tyrannosaurus?

This movie failed where New Nightmare was able to succeed. This was a Wes Craven parody of the Alien series.

For me the death of the baby hybrid was honestly a heart retching moment. I dunno exactly why but it really impacted me. If you notice cloned Ripley looks at it and actually tears up and I think a tear comes down. I dunno, just... that scene really left a lasting image on me.

I always assumed that the reason the alien Queen is already pregnant is because Ripley was at the earliest stages of pregnancy from Charles Dance's character in Alien 3? But I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere? Also the newborn is the most disturbing thing and I love the horror of its design, it really did save the movie. Its death is so memorable.

The newborn freaked me out I couldn't take my eyes off it . It was the set pieces that saved this film . the story was a joke but it was relentless.

"Oh my god, that poor deformed clone of myself, i must end their pain." >Burns Clone 7 Ripley alive, one of the single most painful ways to kill someone...

That newborn alien looks like Greasy Strangler.

P.S. the idea of using the chest burster to kill the guy is also stupid for another reason. How did the guy know that would happen? He's never seen it before and had no reason to believe that the baby Xeno would have enough birthing power to punch through a dudes skull bone... twice.

I read that alien 5 was going to suggest that Ripley dreams alien 3 and 4. And she goes to the alien home planet for the final fight

For me this movie belongs with jason x and deep blue sea, a guilty pleasure.

At least this can't be the worst alien film anymore lol

I watched Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection for the first time in 2019 as a 31 year old. I have never really been into Sci-Fi to be honest, but I have the blu-ray box-set and figured I should at least watch Alien. I became an instant fan of the Alien films right from the get go. I was simply blown away by the first one, and I haven't had that reaction to a movie since early teens, not that strong at least. I usually have a problem with sequels, in that I don't like them in general and that probably hurt the second one for me. I did love Newt though, and constantly thought throughout the film "Newt is cute". But I didn't have the same feeling I usually have after watching a sequel, I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. It was for certain above average, but in the end it was too action packed for my taste, it simply felt like an action film. I had some apprehensions towards Alien 3 because I knew some about the problems in production and that. But after watching half of the Off The Shelf Reviews' video on it, I had to pause it and watch the 3rd one and I wasn't disappointed, I really liked that film and it had a perfect ending (theatrical). It was with this ending, the perfect ending to the trilogy I was more than hesitant of watching the 4th film in the series and although I don't really regret seeing it, I kinda wished I hadn't. For me it is a trilogy and that's the way I am going to re-watch them as. I was adamant that if OTSR praised the "special edition" to high heaven I might re-watch Resurrection, but after this review it won't be seen again by me at least.

This film gets so much hate - but face it, it's a guilty pleasure.

This was an entry into the series that I happily ignored after the first time I'd seen it. I've probably seen it again since, but it's not one that I ever feel compelled to watch. Admittedly, it does have it's moments and the core idea the cloning is quite an interesting topic to explore. Unfortunately, the final product leaves something to be desired. It's a film I would recommend that _Alien_ fans see at least once, but to everyone else the recommendation stops at _Aliens._ There's films that you "should see" and unfortunately, this isn't one of them.

3:37 SHE CAN SWIM LONGER; SHE DOESN'T NEED TO BREATHE! She could've gone out the ship, done a little space walk, noone else could've done it so who cares how she got around? And why didn't she go to open yet another door so they don't have to swim through water? BECAUSE SHE CAN'T REVEAL HERSELF AS AN ANDROID! She only reveals herself TO RIPLEY in "let's keep it between us freaks" confession.

seeing clone 7 reawakened number 8's humanity

This film is very dark and disturbing, even more so than Alien 3, and the score doesn't help much, it actually keeps you in a state of despair, it's almost nauseating?

The one good idea of the movie was to advance the timeline hundreds of years away from Ripley - the bad idea was to get Ripley back... If they make a proper Alien-Reboot/whatever - go further into the future. Don't use Ripley, don't use Weyland Yutani, get instead the military etc. And set it all on an Alien Planet with wird, intimidating, unexplainable architecture and geometry. Go wild here with the sets, and have the Alien's be scary again...somehow...

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Ive never been able to make sense of the Ripley clone having a Queen inside her. How the frick does that work??? Okay, cloning Ripley i can believe, but how does her clone have a Queen chestburster growing in her? If someone shoots me in the face and i die and then someone clones me, does that mean my clone will have a bullet lodged in his skull? If i eat a cheesburger and then get cloned, will the clone have a cheesburger in his stomach? It just doesnt make sense to me. Nothing in this movie really makes sense to me, it honestly just feels like a parody. At least its better than Prometheus and Alien Covenant, tho

The art direction is good, but that's about all that this movie has going for it. And Michael Wincott, he's always good.

Regarding Pervis's chestburster scene, they got one thing right in my opinion, the fact he began to bleed from the mouth, if your insides are being shredded, especially from the chest cavity that should happen. I hate this film but elements of it are great.

This is a comic book with comic book characters. Watched with that in mind, I enjoy this film.

It still blows my mind that ANYONE thought that Jean Pierre Jeunet, (a fantastically creative director - with the great post-apoc black comedy *Delicatessen* (1991) and the completely to-this-day unique *City of Lost Children* (1995) was IN ANY WAY a suitable directorial fit _for a fuckin Alien sequel!?_ WHO?? WHO'S FRIGGIN IDEA WAS THAT??

No mention of the Captain playing follow the gun? The guy is carrying three or four guns already and he's just like yeah, more guns, let's keep walking. Good thing he didn't make it to the underwater scene, else he would have drowned from the weight of all the guns

The Human / Alien hybrid is the worst idea since Olaf the Hairy ordered 200 battle helmets with the horns on the inside ( Blackadder ) .

There actually had a sequel of Alien Resurrection in novel form, it'S no longer canon, but Aliens: Original Sin is a direct sequel

HOLD ON!!! I always interpreted the scene with Ripley and the Alien as a sex scene.

brad dorf in deadwood is outstanding

The Pilot: I'll give you my authorisation codes, it's "EA TM E" (EAT ME) 😅😅😅😅😅

This was so f*cking terrible and I loved it, a total guilty pleasure- it also gave us one of the best alien game tie-ins on the PlayStation.

the hybrids death at the end would be unlikely. Apparently the vacuum of space is similar to the pull of the average vacuum cleaner

Cool review, as always but... one thing guys - in extended cut, Christi tells Vincent (soldier-boy) about granades he uses - that is what explains multiple explosion in a trap scene ;)

40:59 Insights like that are why I like Gary. That's the sort of thing I think about in films.

The first 3/4 of Alien resurrection was awesome but when the alien human hybrid showed up the movie went down

Great review! I was old enough at that point to watch an Alien movie on the big screen, so Resurrection has always had soft spot in my heart despite all it had going against it.

he may have abandoned the scripts but he did write all the jokes.

Watching this review is the closest I've gotten to watching this movie a second time since I saw it in the theater 20 years ago. I've owned it twice as part of two different box sets (dvd and blu-ray) and both copies probably still have the plastic on them. What epic garbage. That being said, the under water scene was great.

I'm sorry but I LOVE this movie, it's different from all the other Alien movies, but it's a great movie in it's own right. ALL THE CAST WERE BRILLIANT! Character development was BRILLIANT! And notice how it's better then Covenant, and Prometheus , and it has nothing to do with the budget(actually much smaller), or Sigourney, they had Noomi and couldn't make a proper film. No story telling, no character development, just a bunch of mumbo jubo and a lot of expensive visuals that lead nowhere.

I freaking adore this movie so much! This was honestly the first Aliens movie I saw while I was in my early teens and I still hold this one close to my heart as being a super awesome fun popcorn movie.

I always enjoy your reviews

They had some ideas to cary on with the clone in something called the Ellen Ripley chronicles. I would have loved to have seen that.

35:00 Mark onward! You guys make so much sense, YES THIS MOVIE WOULD SUCK if it weren't for the previous 3! And I agree that baby is unsettling and that we are kind of familiar with the alien. I really did shit my pants when I saw that thing for the first time. And, I agree that it's really not "alien enough", but it's really scary.

The Director's Cut is actually the Theatrical one.

It's interesting that the USM Auriga looks very similar in design to the ships in Starship Troopers which came out in the same year.

The best thing that I could say about Resurrection is that it never took itself too seriously. It almost has a comic book quality to it. The Betty's crew were great. The Newborn was horrible, though. At least they removed the giant vagina in post production.

JE Freeman seemed like a nice man and he played a right bastard in this so that is good acting.

I always thought the newborn Alien was another Ripley variant. It makes sense considering how it reacts to the Alien queen and then to Ripley.

While I agree with most of this video's criticism, I do disagree with the music so much. At moments I thought that Dr. Evil would show up with his pinky finger on the corners of his mouth and starting with his evil laughter, because the music sounds almost identical to AUSTIN POWERS and its Dr. Evil theme. The script/novelization and even the comic book based on the script were way better and Joss Whedon's complains about what they did on the film is clear when one reads the novelization. He hated the design choices, the musical score, the lighting, the casting and the line delivery, where he clearly stated that though all of the actors said the actual lines on the film, they said them with the wrong emotions. I would had loved to have seen ALIEN RESURRECTION done like ALIEN COVENANT, and though I utterly HATE that film, it does look beautiful and had it AR been done as AC, it would had been so good.

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but where was it established that xenomorphs can spit acid?

You guys are awesome...love your vids

The release year says (1992), just wanted to let you guys know.

they don't spit acid

Do Aliens spit acid in 1 or 2? I thought it was just part 3 and that could be cuz it was a different alien. I thought it was cool that they ganged up on one of their own to escape.

Actually - think of the Betty crew as GOTG "ravagers" and the whole film looks a bit different...?

great vid guys!

The newborn gave me nightmares as a kid

This is my favorite 👽 movie for some reason, don't know maybe because the characters and the action.🤷

God, Sigourney Weaver is so beautiful in this movie. In the others as well but I watch them way more often than this one, so this wasn't so present in my head...

Ron pearlman makes any movie worth watching

In the underwater sequence answer actually really really funny the alien just got hit by a rocket launcher

Just commenting to support........................................................................don´t forget watching and reviewing Utopia. (Sorry have to keep taunting.)

What!..... 200 years has gone from Alien 3 and only clone number 8 ?

When Michael Wincott died, I knew this was going to be dire.

*Turn Up*

I don’t mind this film, since it’s a clone of Ripley I see it as sort of a side story. Somewhat of a bittersweet ending when Ripley sort of made it back home to earth. I thought it would have been interesting if Ripley was the one who let the Aliens out of there cages after discovering the other clones, and maybe her vauge memories of Newt and everything she has gone through because of people who want to capture and study the Alien.

R.I.P JE Freeman

The thing about Alein Resurrection is just don't. I stop at Alein 3 myself. This shit don't even exist as far as I'm concerned.

If you hate that film don´t watch the directors cut where Ripley lays eggs.

Alien (1979) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aliens (1986) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Alien vs. Predator (2004) ⭐⭐⭐ Alien3 (1992) ⭐⭐⭐ Alien Resurrection (1997) ⭐⭐⭐ Prometheus (2012) ⭐⭐ Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) ⭐⭐ Alien: Covenant (2017) 0/5 stars [I haven't even bothered to see it.]

the score sounds like the Dr. Evil theme (Austin Powers) at times ... lol

not sure why people dont treat this as a light hearted comedic aliens. because it is

How do the Aliens know they have acid for blood? If you weren't told, would you know what you had inside you unless you cut yourself? And even then you wouldn't know what it was. The spitting thing makes more sense. It would be an instinctual attack. Now, if there was a scene where they tried that, and then worked it out, turning to each other saying "Hey Yogi, that acid spit almost worked, you reckon Dave has some hardcore shit inside him?". "Why Boo-Boo, you know what, he probably does... hey Dave, wanna come over here for a second, nothing important". Then as they escape down the hole it's like a WB cartoon, as there's a pause, look at the camera as a fourth wall break with subtitles saying "I'm smarter than the average Xenomorph". Then the Alien drops down the hole. Edit in the du du du du dudud du music if needed.

There is also alien resurrection video game on play station

The sequel which deletes the abomination of Alien 3, Ripley finally has the happy ending she deserves, she destroys the bugs, has her little girl, crew and ship back and goes on to become the female Malcom Reynolds.

Would you please consider Saw series?

PLEASE DO " FIRE IN THE SKY " & " COMMUNION '

still better then alien prequels, and both avp movies

Guys, I know I am very late to the party but... The grenade scene. This is one mistake many critics and movie watchers make. Just because you see _multiple_ explosions, that does _not_ mean these are _different_ explosions. In this scene we are shown two explosions, but from different perspectives, so even the last John Doe in the cinema is given the chance to understand/see why two grenades are enough to wipe all these pesty eggs out. It's a bit like the tiring argument that when you see a guy firing a handgun multiple times and then see the bullets flying around his target, he must have used more bullets than available in the magazine. This happens so often just because the critic counts the bullets fired on screen by the shooter AND the bullets flying around the targets (just because you hear the firing sound again in the other perspective, that doesn't mean that these are two different bullets/firing sounds). Of course there is a difference between a gun fired 20 times on-screen with said gun only being able to hold six bullets and an automatic pistol with a twelve bullet magazine seemingly fired fifteen times with three times having another angle than the shooting perspective. As for the underwater escape of Ms. Android, she obviously took a route not suitable for the humans. You know Iain, for a guy who waives off plotholes or missing links in Alien 3 by bringing up novels and fan-fiction, you really show some lack of fantasy here. ;o) Also, one thing a critic should never do in my eyes: if a movie's plot inconsistencies or contradictions or simply missing information are not or cannot be explained by the movie in question itself, then that's simply bad or at least lazy writing of the script (or bad excecution by the director) and thus should not be excused by bringing material from outside of the movie to the table. I get it, you guys love the franchise, as do I (even the two AvP ones), but that doesn't mean that explanations missing in the movie should be substituted with material alien to the movie, as the regular movie viewer simply doesn't do that. It's nice to mention it as a fan service or to bring up a new perspective for the viewer, but again, to excuse a movie's failings by it is a big no-no in my book. Just my irrelevant two cents. :oD

Been a while since I watched this review, Listened to the Alien Resurrection audiobook and damn does it make it better, Rippley's struggle with her shared DNA with the alien, her birth and growth, the extensions were so much better, instead we got this movie, I never hated this one but my god the book is a million times better, if they had just extended this movie a little and gave the story time to breathe we could have had a fantastic addition to the franchise.

“ IDENTITY “ Would Be A GreaT Movie Review

I'd like you two to do a review of COPYCAT from 1995. If you like Sigourney Weaver and serial killer thrillers - you will probably enjoy it. It stars Holly Hunter and has got J.E. Freeman in it too.

They had water instead of a furnace in a kinda tribute to Alien 3

To me this was better than the thrid one.

Ripley swims with the same grace as the xenomorph. If I didn’t know any better I’d say they were natural underwater beings

Still better than covenant

Alien: Haunted House in Space Aliens: Vietnam in Space Alien3: Religious Allegory in Space Alien Resurrection: Freakshow in Space As goofy as Resurrection is, it's lightyears better than the AvP movies, which are straight trash. I'm a pretty huge Alien fan, love some of the Dark Horse comics. I'm really glad they didn't go through with Alien 5, bc I hate it when films 'disregard' past films (except in the case of Highlander 2 - that piece of shit deserved to be disregarded). This film always made me think of that saying, 'When you fight monsters, beware you don't become one.' I think that was almost the theme of the film, in a way, and the clone-room scene is the lynchpin upon which it turns. Not the best film of the franchise, but I enjoy it for what it is - it came out when I was 16, still an Alien film superfan. I would've loved to have seen what it would've looked like if Whedon had directed it himself, but alas, we got the freakshow version instead.

16:30 that’s Bureaucracy For ya! Ever been in the military? Is Alien Resurrection a commentary on Vietnam?

What the hell happened to your audio here from 37:40-38:00??? Couldn't understand you guys at all.

When I watched the alien movies for the first time it was all 4 After each other over some days. And that decline in quality was to much for me to not hate it. But Ive gotten more lukewarm about Ressurection on its own over time.

Well it was the dog/ox alien who could spit the acid not the human aliens so it still makes sense? Oh yeah I forgot the alien at the ladders spitting .... my bad ... sigh I dont hate this film per se but inconsistencies makes it hard not to.

Captain was NOT a villain in The Doors.

I like watching this for the action

Somehow i like how wierd the scientists and the military are in this movie, they are moraly so degenerated, it almost makes this film a grotesque. Another thing i liked is that the android is the most empathic being. The crew around Ripley comes a long like in an adventure movie which makes it less authentic but i let that slip after Alien 3 Depression. The human-alien synthesis is literaly too slimy.