If you loved Mi amigo el extraterrestre, try El gendarme y los extraterrestres
Un puente entre una película que ya has visto y una que casi nadie ha cruzado. Esto es lo que comparten, y lo que la segunda hace que la primera no hace.
Lo que comparten
Both films are directed by Jean Girault, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Mi amigo el extraterrestre, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What El gendarme y los extraterrestres is
Here we have a film that perhaps only France could produce. A bumbling police inspector must protect the residents of St. Tropez from humanoid aliens with a taste for petroleum. The aliens are detectable by the garbage-can sound they make when touched. It's a French farce, and it knows it.
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