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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

When a strange craft lands on our planet, the TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE emerge, immediately skeletonizing a poor dog for barking! At once, we know that, in space, teenagers are at least 25 years old. Also, they wear white clown gloves. They intend to use the Earth as grazing land for their Gargons (aka: giant lobsters). Derek (David Love) feels compassion for the earthlings, and rebels against his comrades. He goes rogue, and attempts to blend in w/ the humans. The scowling, terminally angry alien, Thor (Bryan Grant) is sent to find Derek. The rest is a chase, w/ Derek trying to stay ahead of Thor, who enjoys blasting everyone in his path w/ his skeletonizing gun! Thor's killing spree is the best part of the movie, offsetting the quaint, goofiness of it all. Characters like Betty and Gramps (Dawn Bender and Harvey B. Dunn) are particularly hilarious! Derek himself is as unlikely a hero as there could possibly be. Yet, it all works in some weird, nonsensical way. I always catch myself pulling for Derek, in spite of my cynical, blackened heart. Don't forget the Gargons. They're... um, amazing! ... P.S.- Ms. Bender has a wonderful, young Carolyn Jones thing going on...

So this film is seen as those 'so bad it's good' films eh? Well, it ain't that bad to start with, and is nicely paced and full of action, so I've got nothing to complain about. Except the acting, lobster monster and all the other stuff, but still.An alien called Derek (or Del for short), doesn't quite agree with mental case Thor torching a dog, or indeed his entire species' plan to populate the Earth with gigantic lobster monsters. His mates don't quite agree with these subversive actions and therefore the film turns into an early Terminator type film with Thor following Derek around a town, wasting loads of people with a ray gun that turns folk into skeletons. Thor's hilarious, because he loses his temper with people after about ten seconds and wastes them, which gets him nowhere trying to find Derek. Del on the other hand finds himself involved with Betty after about five minutes, as well as being mates with her Grandad, Grandad. All sorts of shenanigans ensue.This film is not boring at all. Once this film is done with Thor being rude and killing people, they turn to the Lobster monster and getting rid of that. Might be low budget, but it works for me, mang.

Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) ** (out of 4)Aliens land on Earth to find a new place to breed their deadly mutant creature but Derek (David Love) decides he doesn't want to hurt anyone. He heads off into town where he becomes friends with Betty (Dawn Bender) and soon the two are trying to fight off the evil Thor (Bryan Grant) who wants to kill Derek. TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE is certainly one of the dumbest movies ever made but I must admit that I get a laugh out of watching it ever so often. I think everything that can happen in a "so bad it's good" film in here including the bad acting, stupid story, awful special effects and of course the rather bland direction. However, some of these things are just so campy that I can't help but be entertained by some of them. This includes the rather bad performances with Love being way too laid back and boring to be able to carry the film. Bender isn't much better in her role but there's some laughs to be had and especially with her haircut, which I'm still trying to figure out what it is. The lovable Harvey B. Dunn plays Grandpa and you can't help but want to help him cross the road. The special effects are rather laughable with the silly ray guns but I must admit that I loved the skeletons that the victims turn into. Yes, they're obviously fake and they're quite silly but at the same time it's hard to think of another science fiction film from this era where the victims were so destroyed. This film could have been a lot more entertaining but sadly it runs way too long at 85-minutes with the final thirty really dragging. Another major problem is that the pacing is quite bad and there's way too much dialogue that just keeps the film going. Still, fans of bad cinema should find a few laughs to be had here

I've heard of some devilish and sinister schemes by aliens in various science fiction movies, but this one really takes the cake. It takes almost the whole film to see just what the Gargons are. But as it turns out they look like giant lobsters. And what the aliens want to do is use the whole planet as a giant lobster trap, to raise them because they are a delicacy on the home planet, but they get out of hand. So find a suitable home for them where they can be raised and then taken by the aliens for a tasty alien lobster thermidor.In Teenagers From Outer Space a scout ship is sent with a baby Gargon to see if it likes the earth climate. But a young crewman rebels because this appears to be a civilized planet and we shouldn't go around taking over civilized planets just to raise our favorite food. He leaves the ship and one of the other crew starts hunting him and killing a lot of earth people with a disintegrating ray gun that leaves only skeletons.It doesn't help that our hero also falls for an earth girl, a typical Eisenhower era teenager. I think you can see where this is all going.I've seen better acting in my grade school plays, the giant lobster creature is pretty funny and the film looks like it was shot with an old Bell&Howell home movie camera. Not to mention the kids are some of the oldest teens on record this side of Richard Jaeckel and Dick Jones.It's a real hoot.