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Alien Adventure slapstick comedy 3-D film in IMAX format released in 1999 by nWave Pictures, written and directed by Ben Stassen. The movie was rated G (or the local equivalent) in most countries. It was the first fully digital feature length film produced for a large screen format. Like other giant screen 3-D movies of the era, the effects are breathtaking (indeed, may cause motion sickness in some viewers) but the plot is little more than a vehicle to showcase the technology.

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The movie begins with an extraterrestrial humanoid species wandering through space in search of a new world. Encountering an unknown planet which turns out to be Earth, their leader (Cyrillus) sends two "manned" probes to the surface to determine if it is suitable for colonisation.

The scouts in the probes think they have arrived at a great city, but in fact they have arrived at a new amusement park that is not yet open to the public. They proceed to explore four amusement rides:

At each ride the alien scouts become variously excited, frightened, frozen or violently ill, but end up having a lot of fun. On seeing this, Cyrillus decides that the new planet would threaten the moral fabric of his society, and orders his scouts to withdraw. The alien visitors depart Earth without actually making contact with humans.

seen in several places in this movie is actually the real Glagolitic alphabet. The name of the alien leader - Cyrillus - bears a resemblance to Saint Cyril, who invented the Glagolitic alphabet.The language spoken by the aliens (which is never translated in the movieAlien Adventure is the Walloon language, a real but rare dialect from Belgium, where the movie was produced. It is completely unrelated to the Glagolitic On the approach of the manned probes to the surface, the coastline appears to be that of California. However, the outdoor shots of the theme park are actually from a real French theme park, "Parc Du Futuroscope".

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