We Are Not Alone review: The aliens are judging us in sci-fi comedy from Ghosts writers-Keith Watson-Entertainment – Metro

Ghosts/Horrible Histories duo Ben Willbond and Lawrence Rickard are the brains behind this sci-fi satire (Picture: Vishal Sharma)

Given that the end of the world has felt nigh pretty much on a weekly basis of late, it’s no surprise to find dystopian visions at the top of the TV agenda.

And what do we Brits do best in the face of adversity/alien invasion? Laugh, of course.

We Are Not Alone, the brainchild of Ghosts/Horrible Histories duo Ben Willbond and Lawrence Rickard, is a comedy film that looks at the parlous state of our modern human society through the oddly beady eyes of the blue-haired Gu’uns, a highly evolved extra-terrestrial race who arrive on Earth and are utterly baffled by the state we’ve got ourselves into. As you would be.

It’s a neat set-up that allows room for all kinds of subtle and not-so-subtle digs at everything from politicians to social media to climate change denial, its satirical agenda framed around a story about the battle between a human resistance group and the Gu’uns for control of the planet.

A battle where agendas fly all over the place like shooting stars.

Vicki Pepperdine as Trater and Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas play blue-haired aliens (Picture: Vishal Sharma)

Stewart (Declan Baxter, right) becomes the go-between humans and aliens (Picture: James Stack)

Caught in the middle of this is bashful everyman Stewart (Declan Baxter), who finds himself the go-between humans and aliens and soon comes to realise that there’s good and bad on both sides.

Can Stewart broker peace and save us all? You might find yourself suspending disbelief on that one.

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At 90 minutes the comedy and the story at times feels rather overstretched. But thanks to a raft of perky comic turns (Vicki Pepperdine and Joe Thomas have a prosthetic ball as Gu’uns) it’s easy to overlook the black holes in the plot.

And if you like your sci-fi leavened with a daft comic touch – think Red Dwarf or Third Rock From The Sun – then We Are Not Alone, its finger hovering on the zeitgeist button, puts a rocket up the gloomy headlines.

Airs tonight at 9pm on Dave

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