Zolar (2004)

The best Letterboxd reviewer, pd187, summed this one up: “nicki clyne (age 21, playing a lollipop-sucking raver teen) married allison mack & now runs the NXIVM cult – the only one who didnt go to prison.”

Imagine a world where everyone wears JNCO jeans and skateboards, a place where an aging stoner can raise Zolar (Jordan Hoffart, a pro skateboarder who now owns Black Plague Brewing), an alien who looks like a blue version of Capricon from Get Street Smart: A Kid’s Guide To Stranger Dangers. If you got that reference, you’re with friends.

A bunch of skater kids add him to their group, and yes, that’s Nicki Clyne playing Keiko, the girlboss of this. She slept with Keith Raniere for ten years and got a green card by marrying Allison Mack. Oh yeah, she was also on the new Battlestar Galactica. Jason Ellis was in this way before he tattooed his whole head. And I have no idea how they talked C. Thomas Howell into being in it, much less playing an evil alien.

Directed by Carl Goldstein and written by John Derevlany, this is all part of the grand awakening project, where we’ll all be fine with aliens coming here, because they can be rad and shred. But they won’t. They’ll eat us.

This was on Kids WB, and remember when there was a network with a singing frog? The WwwwwwwwwwwB!

You can watch this on Tubi.

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