By David Farrier
The guy who directed Superbad has a new movie out called Paul - a comedy about an alien who lands on earth.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost star in the film, which tracks the friendship between two sci-fi fans and a real, live alien as they're chased across the desert by the FBI.
One of the FBI agents is played by the coolest woman in the history of sci-fi, Sigourney Weaver, while the other is Jason Bateman, the star of Arrested Development.
And while Bateman gets more screen time, when Sigourney appears she dominates - which makes sense for a movie full of references to her earlier Alien movies.
"I think aliens are something we all dream about and think about, so the films that involve them are relevant," Weaver says. "And it was nice to be in a movie where aliens' blood did not go fizz fizz fizz."
In saying that, she remembers her time on the four Alien movies with fondness - especially the first one, where she enjoyed working with Hans Giger, the man who actually created the creature she fought in deep space from 1979 to 1997.
Reviews of Paul have so far been positive, with most calling it heart-warming and hilarious.
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