History Film / AlienFromLA

%%* RummageSaleRejects: Everyone that lives in Atlantis.

* NerdGlasses: Wanda haz em. Losing them midway through the film doesn't hamper her in any way, and she never replaces them afterward. It isn't clear at all why she even has the things except because the film vainly tries to make Kathy Ireland look nebbishy and unattractive.

* KarmaHoudini: Bizarrely, hardly any of the villains get dealt with properly, with Kathy simply running back to the surface and leaving Atlantis to continue to suffer under them. (Though in the sequel movie, peaceful contact and trade between Atlantis and the surface is established).
** Besides "Patches" getting knocked cold with a bitchin left hook.

* CuteButCacophonic: Kathy Ireland is...Kathy Ireland. But her high-pitched and squeaky voice rends the eardrums. She even weaponizes it at one point by screaming to incapacitate a thug.

* PantyShot: Unfortunately for any peeping toms out there, Kathy is merely wearing some rather boring bloomers.

** Also, while lying drugged on a table, Wanda loses that annoying squeaky voice for a while and starts talking a bit seductively in Ireland's ''real'' voice.

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* DullSurprise: Kathy Ireland is the TropeNamer via the ''MST3K'' episode, the result of a game during one host segment in which Mike must guess what Kathy's character is emoting. All of the answers are this because of her questionable acting ability.

* HollywoodHomely: The movie actually has the gall to suggest that ''Kathy Friggen' Ireland'' isn't drop-dead gorgeous. Even gigantic glasses and a rather frumpy dress can't disguise the fact that...it's ''Kathy Ireland''.

%%* BeautifulAllAlong: Wanda, just pray that she never speaks.

%%* CuteButCacophonic: Kathy Ireland.

%%* DullSurprise: Kathy Ireland; TropeNamer

%%* {{Atlantis}}

* HollywoodNerd: Wanda. Need we repeat, she is played by Creator/KathyIreland. A frikkin' supermodel.

%%* DisappearedDad

%%* HollywoodNerd: Wanda

* NerdGlasses: Wanda
** Losing them doesn't hamper her in any way, and she doesn't replace them after escaping. It isn't clear at all why she even has the things except because the film vainly tries to make Kathy Ireland look nebbishy and unattractive.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: The ridiculous and inconsistent Australian accent employed by Gus.

%%* UnfortunateNames: Charmin.

* {{Atlantis}}
* BeautifulAllAlong: Wanda, just pray that she never speaks.
* CuteButCacophonic: Kathy Ireland.
* DisappearedDad
* DullSurprise: Kathy Ireland; TropeNamer
* EightiesHair
* HollywoodNerd: Wanda

* RummageSaleRejects: Everyone that lives in Atlantis.

* UnfortunateNames: Charmin.

* CaliforniaDoubling: This was filmed in South Africa (which explains the accents - South African accents and Australian accents are similar), although as some scenes are set in Africa it's a part-aversion.

* YouLookFamiliar: The actor who played Loki in this movie also played the obnoxious Watney Smith in [[Literature/{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]].

* ExecutiveMeddling: and how. See the quote from the (credited, but not actual) director.

* ShoutOut: Wanda's surname, Saknussemm, refers to the character Arne Saknussemm from the Jules Verne novel ''JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth''.

For the ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' version, please go to the [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E16AlienFromLA episode recap page]].

!!! Plot

** Wanda's boyfriend gets dumped by Wanda after he'd dumped her earlier in the film.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Wanda, but she still has an annoying voice.

* LampshadeHanging: Everyone in the film reacts to Wanda's/Kathy Ireland's voice.

* SheCleansUpNicely: Wanda but she still has an annoying voice.

** Losing them doesn't hamper her in any way, and she doesn't replace them after escaping. It isn't clear at all why she even has the things.

Wanda Saknussemm (Kathy Ireland) is a nerdy social misfit with large glasses and a squeaky voice who lives in Los Angeles and works at a diner. After being dumped by her boyfriend for "not having a sense of adventure", Wanda is informed via letter that her father, an archaeologist, has died. She flies to northern Africa and while going through her father's belongings, she finds his notes about Atlantis, apparently an alien ship that crashed millennia ago and sank into the center of the Earth. Wanda comes across a chamber beneath her father's apartment and accidentally sets off a chain of events that ultimately cause her to fall into a deep hole.

* PantyShot: Unfortunately, Kathy is merely wearing some rather boring bloomers.

An unharmed Wanda wakes up deep within the Earth to find Gus (William R. Moses), a miner whom she protects from being slain by two people. Gus, who has a very strong Australian accent, agrees to help Wanda find her father, who she believes is alive and trapped underground. Wanda soon discovers that both she and her father are believed to be spies planning an invasion of Atlantis. During her adventures, Wanda's appearance changes from nerdy to attractive (by removing her glasses and using a steam vent to clean her skin). People from the surface world are referred to as "aliens" by Atlanteans, and when Wanda is overheard talking about Malibu Beach by a low-life informant (Janie Du Plessis), she soon becomes a hunted woman and must dodge efforts at capture, both from the mysterious "Government House" and from thugs in the pay of the crime lord Mambino (DeepRoy). Much mention of Wanda's "big bones" are made during these sequences.

An unharmed Wanda wakes up deep within the Earth to find Gus (William R. Moses), a miner whom she protects from being slain by two people. Gus, who has a very strong Australian accent, agrees to help Wanda find her father, whom she believes is alive and trapped underground. Wanda soon discovers that both she and her father are believed to be spies planning an invasion of Atlantis. During her adventures, Wanda's appearance changes from nerdy to attractive (by removing her glasses and using a steam vent to clean her skin). People from the surface world are referred to as "aliens" by Atlanteans, and when Wanda is overheard talking about Malibu Beach by a low-life informant (Janie Du Plessis), she soon becomes a hunted woman and must dodge efforts at capture, both from the mysterious "Government House" and from thugs in the pay of the crime lord Mambino (DeepRoy). Much mention of Wanda's "big bones" are made during these sequences.

* YouLookFamiliar: The actor who played Loki in this movie also played the obnoxious Watney Smith in [[Literature/{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]]

This was a sequel to ''Alien From L.A.'', though not originally. According to the credited director (Rusty Lemorande): "Only the approximately first 8 minutes of the film were written or directed by me. The remainder of the film is actually the sequel to Alien In LA which was tacked on and renamed Journey to the Center of the Earth in order to fulfill contractual commitments by the production company to foreign distributors."

Kathy Ireland appears in a very brief cameo at the end, though Janie Du Plessis returns. The main plot involves a group of kids getting lost underground during a volcano eruption, wandering around for a long time doing nothing, and then some of them winding up in Atlantis.

** Besides "Patches" getting knocked cold with a bitchin left hook.

* YouLookFamiliar: The actor who played Loki in this movie also played the obnoxious Watney Smith in [[{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]]