FREAK FILMS: THE FIFTH ELEMENT

This month\'s \"Freak Films\" is Luc Besson’s (Leon AKA the Professional, La Femme Nikita) The Fifth Element, or \"Milla, why won’t you stop dating directors and love me?\" And without a doubt, it\'s one of the most fun sci-fi movies to come out in the last 10 years (that just so happens to truly capture the look of a Heavy Metal Magazine circa 1977-1981, melded with designer fashion from Jean-Paul Gaultier).

Largely ignored at the box office, The Fifth Element is always a great time, whether for the many quotable lines such as “Mul-ti-pass” and “Big bada-boom!” or for the stellar cast: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, and Luke Fucking Perry!!! The long and the short of it: every 400 years the \"Darkness\" comes to destroy the universe, and only four stones representing each of the elements, and a fifth element, can send it back to where it came from. Add in a cab driver, a priest, a Ross Perot-style evil business man, a red headed girl so hot she could melt your face off, and a DJ that screams like a girl (no, not Kirkbride), and you have the closest thing to a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-style farce as we’ve had yet. Supposedly, the original script for The Fifth Element was written by Besson when he was in high school, and yes, it shows-– adults just don’t have this much imagination. The different locations are amazing monuments to production designer Dan Weil’s imagination. Whether it’s the vacation planet of Fhloston Paradise, or the re-imagining of New York, ...Element one-ups Blade Runner, and shows Judge Dredd how Mega City One should have been done.

If you’ve never seen this flick, it’s time you sat back and remembered what it was like to be a kid again, or at the very least watch it so you can see Milla’s naked Jovoviches-- “Big bada-boom!” Freak Films – out!