YMMV / Laserblast

• Angst? What Angst?: Kathy quickly shakes-off her Attempted Rape, because it might ruin the party.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Carolyn, the woman that was the recipient of the wiener joke, has a random topless scene during the pool party, while offering food to Billy that comes out of nowhere and doesn't have anything to do with anything else in the movie.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The turtle-like aliens are among the rare bright spots in the film.
  • Eddie Deezen is always a pleasure to watch.
• Fetish Retardant: The sex scenes.
  Servo: "Urgh! Nature videos of big spiders going at it are more appealing."
• Hollywood Pudgy: You can tell it's The '70s when Franny, a girl who is maybe 5 pounds overweight, complains she's fat and homely, when she's nothing of the sort.
• Memetic Mutation: Nerf Blaster of Ultimate Destruction.
• Retroactive Recognition: This was the first acting role Eddie Deezen ever took.
• Special Effects Failure: Stop-motion animation (here used for the aliens) rarely ages well. The aliens look good by themselves, but when actually integrated with the live-action footage, they don't quite blend in and look as if they were simply plastered over the shot. Even then, the stop-motion is still the best SFX, if not part in general, of the entire movie! Something even critics agree on.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Dr. Mellon is one of, if not the only truly likable character in the film and is played by the great Roddy McDowall to boot, so of course he dies after a few scenes,
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Roddy McDowall takes his role as Dr. Mellon, turning in a quiet, but kindly performance.

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