"Call the Man in the Little Green Van" ("Aliens in the Attic")
After doing this for nine years now, I’ve come to realize when a movie title practically hands you an idea how to spoof it, you can safely bet the film itself is going to tank in the box office. And boy, did this one flop! There was no hype leading up to it, very little reviews when it came out, and it went straight to the dollar theaters within a week.
Which raises a moral issue with us here at the Plightsite. Because this movie was so awful, is it inhumane of us to grace it with a homage so that years from now people are going to look at this picture and say “Oh yeah, they did make a movie, didn’t they?” and “I can’t believe Vice President Ashley Tisdale starred in this” and “Why is Ray Romano’s TV mom doing kung-fu?”. What gives us the right to keep any knowledge and record this movie was even made? Shouldn’t we, as peace-seeking members of the human race, do our best to forget our shameful past and pretend none of it ever happened?
No, I say. For as painful as it may be, we can only hope by keeping this movie in our collective memory that it may prevent future filmmakers from repeating the same mistakes. The best we can do is stay strong and prevail. - Jake