The amazing thing is, as dorky and overstuffed as the plot tends to be—Alienoid is also often fast enough to keep pressing forward. What a rush; what a headache.

The movie is bursting at the seams, as if Choi... was drunk on pure filmmaking pleasure and threw every cinematic genre into a gigantic blender.

There’s a lot of moving parts, not all of them work as they should but figuring the sheer volume of what’s been thrown at the wall by Choi Dong-hoon’s script, some things are sure to stick.

The road is bumpy at times but it helps that Choi effortlessly maintains a light tone throughout and stacks a star-studded cast that anchors the story that, to say the least, romps around.