Product Description

An out-of-this-world comedy cast stars in this spaced-out futuristic family comedy. Welcome to Betaville, the world’s most exclusive summer camp, where the world’s leaders send their children. They are the sons and daughters of presidents and kings, with supervisors to care for them and an army to protect them. Meanwhile, in outer space, Planet Z is threatened by the evil forces of Planet 38. Planet Z’s president XM (Tim Kazurinsky) launches a secret plan to trick Planet 38 into attacking Earth instead. A peace-loving emissary from Planet Z recruits the children of Betaville to warn the President (John Astin) about XM’s secret plan.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156945 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-04-26
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not Even A Good Family Film
Saw this on VHS a few years ago and figured all the copies had been burned and the ashes spread to the four corners of the Earth. Imagine my surprise to see it appear on DVD now. Was somebody clamouring to see a movie starring John Astin, Lou Rawls and Judge Reinhold? I think not. The story involves some nonsense about a camp called betaville where leaders of the world send their children to be safe and sound...until two warring planets decide to get Earth mixed up in their squabble. An Emissary comes to Camp Betaville to warn the children and now President Sender (John Astin) and his scientists have to come up with a secret weapon to stop the alien invaders led by the "charismatic" Tim Kazurinsky. This looked like it might be a decent family film but it's totally unfunny and leaves kids...and parents, totally bored.

Breathtakingly Bad
It's easy to find something wrong in almost any film and I've seen plenty of people trash movies that I loved. So if you're a fan of Betaville I'm sorry, but this is stunning in it's awfulness. It will literally give you a headache. The "name" actors are very bad indeed and the young unknowns just bad-in-general. The plot is an absolute mess, the music at times wildly inappropriate. Full of looney ideas, (i.e. kids in an M5 Stuart tank that burn to death or blow up..I'm not sure which). In fact, the call of a loon is heard throughout. Planet Z, Planet 38, floating fish and all sorts of odd confusing stuff. It feels like you're only seeing about 30% of the script on film and you have to guess what the missing parts were. The "Making Of" short on the menu is even more disjointed. So many wonderful films will never make it to DVD and yet this steaming pile gets the full-on treatment. At your own risk!