''Mutant Aliens'' is a 2001 adult animated science-fiction- comedy

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by American filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is a

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, featuring Plympton's own distinctive animation style and gratuitous sex and violence. ''Mutant Aliens'' has shown at a number of animation festivals, but has never had a wide theatrical release.

Plot

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Earl Jensen is stranded in space intentionally by the head of the Department of Space. Years later, he returns to Earth. To gain the people's trust, he tells a touching story of the time he has spent on a planet of mutant

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s. Most of the aliens in this story are oversized human body parts. It is later revealed that Jensen has really spent his time in space crossbreeding animals to create an army of mutants, in order to exact his revenge on the corrupt Department of Space head.

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* 2002 films 2000s American animated films 2000s English-language films American adult animated films American animated feature films American animated science fiction films American parody films American splatter films Animated films about extraterrestrial life Annecy Cristal for a Feature Film winners Films about astronauts Films directed by Bill Plympton {{2000s-US-film-stub