This is the first film I ever saw in the cinema. It's on D+. Dare I revisit a film that frankly I can remember nothing about?

I mean, that's very much in that Glitterball/ET spot isn't it? That's a good spot.

3m in the cat has landed. Right in there, no messing around (on a farm run by an elderly shotgun welding farmer, obv)

The military are right on it. And are removing the ship with a civilian helicopter for reasons of... well I'm assuming *budget*.

HANG ON

Experts have been assembled for advice. Military have not used the word eggheads yet, but you know it's coming.

The cat has of course secretly infiltrated the meeting because 1. It's super intelligent & 2. Soft furnishings

Roddy McDowall has arrived. He's "a renegade mind" apparently. Also pictured, General Stilton because of course that's what he'd be called.

Obv, he's thrown out of the meeting for his crazy ideas. But the cat knows he's a genius. And probably has further soft furnishings. So they do some maths.

Maths interrupted by an awkward interaction with a female colleague who... oh you know (intercut with cat looking increasingly annoyed, because space cats are still cats y'see).

The cat can communicate by telekinesis apparently. Which is excellent news for both plot exposition & budget.

(space cat only minutes after it revealed it can use telekinesis to communicate, used that power to make a sexual remark about an earth cat. One for the 1978 dads)

(power can also be used to almost freeze extras who are reduced to wobbling nervously on the spot)

Anyway, using the cat's powers there's some flying human ship repairs. The print transfer is so good you can see the wires.

Rumbled by military shenanigans, they make their escape by the cat levitating a motorcycle over a fence.

(SPOILER: a big part of the plot is dependent on space cats ability to use it's powers to fix sports betting)

Space cat has recruited a further human to join his plan with the old "make the beer jump back into the can" trick.

Unfortunately due to a series of misunderstandings space cat is now unconscious. On a soft furnishing.

(space cat was revived by the smell of a passing sandwich. No, really)

Anyway more shenanigans later, space cat is doing some intensive science type stuff that requires intense staring at spot on a table.

(OK, a cat from space I'll accept. But a cat that's now apparently decided to put his newly adopted human friends before his own mission. That's stretching things lads)

Space cat flying a decrepit biplane via its mind upside down with Roddy McDowall hanging from it? Y'see that I'll buy.

Being pursued by a super villian plus henchmen plus kidnapped goodie in a subplot that became the main plot at.... Oh I don't know. This is now at Nolan levels of complexity.

But the result is what looks like an in camera stunt of the sort that Landis might have rejected as being a touch dangerous. And you know Landis and helicopters.

And we end - I kid you not - with space cat being sworn in as a US citizen and levitating the presiding judge during the ceremony.

In conclusion. It's batshit brilliant. Two thumbs, way way up.

(APOLOGY: I'm sorry for confusing Ken Berry & Roddy McDowall throughout the film. For the latter, replace the former. What an error)