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The Australian outback has seldom looked so beautiful as it does in this pretentious excuse to cram environmental issues down our throats. Not that there's anything wrong with being green--far from it. It's just that the film's allegorical and pedantic style is off-putting, and film narrative doesn't easily support didactic storytelling without insulting the audience's intelligence. It seems that an alien known simply as "She" (Ullie Birve) has arrived on Earth, the armpit of the universe, due to some error on the part of her compadres. "She" ends up in the Australian outback where "She" meets &
The Australian outback has seldom looked so beautiful as it does in this pretentious excuse to cram environmental issues down our throats. Not that there's anything wrong with being green--far from it. It's just that the film's allegorical and pedantic style is off-putting, and film narrative doesn't easily support didactic storytelling without insulting the audience's intelligence. It seems that an alien known simply as "She" (Ullie Birve) has arrived on Earth, the armpit of the universe, due to some error on the part of her compadres. "She" ends up in the Australian outback where "She" meets "The Man" (Syd Brisbane), a gregarious every-Aussie and Earth's representative to superior aliens. If only there had been a vote. "She" has the ability to speed up and slow down time and then jaunt about the planet, and the two of them go mind-tripping around the globe as an excuse to show how awful we humans are, with our pollution and the plight of frogs. While their relationship flowers into something as beautiful as a friendship card, "The Man" (we learn from the narration) becomes the emissary of "She" and presumably saves the world. Once again, it takes these superior aliens to show us the way. Gag me with a billabong. --Jim Gay
Get ready for the cool, uniquely intriguing sci-fi story of a beautiful and sexy woman who's really from out of this world. "She" is an inhabitant of the planet Epsilon who's mistakenly transported to Earth ... and dropped into the middle of the Australian outback! There, she happens upon a man camping alone. By the time she convinces him that the intellectually inferior people of Earth are destroying their planet, the two have fallen in love. As this highly unconventional saga leads you in one surprising direction after another, the man ultimately takes what he's learned on a crusade to save his planet!
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Manufacturer: Miramax
Release date: 19 September 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0717951010568 UPC: 717951010568
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