Fantastic Fest 2009

Kenny Starfighter: Galaxy Hero! Well, Galaxy Hero in training… for years… and years… Kenny could easily be described as the worst student to ever enter the halls of the Hero Academy. In a desperate attempt to escape the family business (a family of hairdressers, all with flowing, natural mullets), Kenny embarks on a high-speed chase through a black hole in the galaxy. The black hole spits him out near Earth where he crash lands into the home of Pontus, a 15-year-old Swedish boy who, coincidentally, had just found a mysterious, glowing crystal that gave him super-strength, perfect eyesight, and the end to his days of being bullied at school. While Pontus tries to unsuccessfully woo Miranda, the smartest, prettiest girl in school, Kenny enlists the help of the two teens to try to return to his home planet and finally graduate as a Galaxy Hero! Unfortunately, there has to be a bad guy to Kenny’s charmingly stupid, good guy persona. That man is Rutger Oversmart! The smartest man in the universe (who also happens to own a franchise of frozen ice pops)! Oversmart has been searching for the crystal to take its power for himself to become the all-powerful ruler of the galaxy, but once he discovers that a young boy from Earth has absorbed all the powers, he is determined to take him down. By hiring a team of galactic assassins cleverly named Earth, Wind and Fire, Oversmart wrecks havoc on Kenny, Pontus and Miranda in an ultimate quest for power! The prequel for the 1997 Swedish mini-series, Kenny Starfighter, KENNY BEGINS is a ridiculously silly science-fiction comedy that will have you confused and giggling for the entire film. Kenny, played by Swedish actor Johan Rheborg, has the charm and attitude of Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber, the mullet of MacGyver, and nonsensical catchphrases that will have you screaming “Ischlo Pischlo!” or “Wollie Bollie!” without any regard to what it means. A Swedish Spaceballs for the ages, KENNY BEGINS is definitely not to be missed for any fan of science-fiction, cheesy superhero movies, or really, humor in general. ISCHLO PISCHLO! (Caitlin Stevens)