2001: A Space Travesty

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2001: A Space Travesty
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Directed by	Allan A. Goldstein
Produced by	Martin Heldmann Werner Koenig
Written by	Francesco Lucente Alan Shearman
Starring	Leslie Nielsen
Music by	Claude Foisy
Cinematography	Sylvain Brault
Editing by	Gaétan Huot
Distributed by	Helkon Filmverleih GmbH
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	99 min.
Country	Canada Germany
Language	English
Budget	$26,000,000 (estimated)
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2001: A Space Travesty is a 2000 film starring actor Leslie Nielsen. It is a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is rated R due to its crude sexual humor and is 99 minutes long. The movie has been featured in IMDB's bottom 100 list. The movie also has a resemblance to the Pink Panther movies, with the Clouseau-like (but American) Detective Dix.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Marshall Dick Dix (Neilsen), a special detective, saves a fast food chain restaurant from a terrorist hostage situation, much to the displeasure of the police chief. He drives away, and back to the police station, where he meets his boss, who is with a police worker, Cassandra Menage (Ophelie Winter). She retells her experience of the cloning of the President of the United States of America, Bill Clinton, who remains unnamed throughout the film. Dix is sent to the cloning facility, a moon base called Vegan. On the way there, Dix causes mayhem on the way. He reaches Vegan, and is met by Lt. Bradford Shitzu (Pierre Edwards) at the security check. On the way to meet the main suspect in the cloning, Dr. Griffin Pratt (Peter Egan) Dix experiences strange happenings throughout the colony involving certain Aliens who live there. During a very strange incident involving an Alien about to explode, Dix meets Capt. Valentino DiPasquale (Ezzio Greggio), who Dix finds out he will share quarters with. Dix and Shitzu get to Dr. Pratts quarters, and talk to him. Shitzu leaves, and Pratt takes Dix on a tour of his cloning facility. While on the tour, he meets Dr. Uschi Künstler (Alexandra Kamp), who he takes the elevator with down to meet Ms. Menage. Dr. Künstler deserts the two, and they make their way to a party where the suspects may be. Pratt and Menage have dinner, while Dix has a bizarre escapade with Pratts toupe. He leaves the party, and goes to his quarters with Valentino. There, he shows him his huge array of duisguises. Dix gets a phone call from Ms. Menage that they are about to raid Pratts quarters. Dix destroys his Vegan model, and speads paint all over the place. Then Dix stumbles on the radio and it starts playing the cancan very loudly. Pratt comes back to his room, only to discover that Dix escaped. He goes to his apartment, and threatens him. Dix tells Menage, and soon enough, Menage gets abducted by Pratts goons. Pratt then pretends to help Dix find the President (Damian Mason) and rescue Ms. Menage, but then Pratt's goons trap them. Ms. Menage uses her martial arts skills, and the President, Dix, and Menage escape back to Earth. The President they rescued then is replaced with the president in the White House, and suddenly Dix finds out that he put the clone in to the White House. They find out that Dix's boss is also with Pratt, and Dix, the President, Menage, Valentino, Shitzu, and Künstler go to a concert by the Three Tenors. The presidents are involved in an onstage fight, and the whole concert is ruined by Shitzu's fumbling with the control panel. Künstler then double crosses Dix, and reveals she is actually an alien. After Menage kills her, the president is replaced, and Menage goes with Dix to a restaurant.