Habitat (1997)

Very well executed

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

It's crazy to think that in 1997, the year of Titanic, Gattaca and the Fith Element, someone out there thought that this film was worth spending money on. Watching a VHS rip on Youtube now, you could be forgiven for thinking this was 10 years older still - and yet, even the Running Man makes more sense. Nonetheless, if you like your films amusingly bad, this will hit the spot. Every character is a two dimensional stereotype (the sadistic PE teacher is a perfect cliché creation), the story makes no sense except to serve the special effects, there is slime literally everywhere, a pseudo-scientific script is jazzed up with a few f-bombs (they draw the line at motherf---er though. This is a family film!), and - of course - boobs. I counted 6 female characters that get a speaking part (of whom: one does no more than complain about slime on the carpets, another only gets to say "but he's so hot!", and another, despite TWO men warning her not to manages to cause a catastrophic explosion), and three of them have exposed breasts. That's a 50-50 getting to at least say something out loud : objectification ratio. Dear oh dear.One great idea to come out of this though: use of pollen as a weapon. Autocratic regimes of the world, stop wasting your money on water cannons and tear gas - this is the future!

This is by far, without a doubt, unquestionably the best movie I have ever seen in my life! Do not listen to anything anyone else tells you, this movie is awesome and I have never been contradicted on this in person. Forget the fact that it is in the sci-fi section of movie stores (well, except that you have to go there to rent/buy it), this movie is a comedy. There is no way the writers of this movie could ever have intended it as anything but a comedy, the sets are outlandish, the special effects must have cost them a (small) handful of dollar bills, and the actors over-do everything to the point of hilarity. Not only is the premise of the movie entirely ridiculous even to the most outlandish of sci-fi writers, it makes statements contradictory to obvious, proven science and even contradicts itself in several scenes. If you haven't had a good laugh in a while and really need one, you are guaranteed to find it in this movie, as long as you don't take it seriously as a sci-fi movie.

I came across this movie one lazy afternoon on our local cable...I must admit I had to watch the whole thing I couldn't believe it could be so bad! I did like the sets though..because they had that wonderful quality of cardboard..

That is the one word that could decribe nearly everything about this movie. Gross acting, gross love scenes, gross plot, gross actors...Except for Balthazar Getty. Balthazar Getty is *definitely* not gross. Everything else was. So, if you don't like Balty, or weird, disturbing, scientist love making, then don't see this piece of cheese they call a movie. Get "Species" instead...