FORMER Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, whose death grabbed world headlines this year, makes a posthumous appearance at Cannes in a science fiction comedy straight from the B movie tradition.

Illegal Aliens casts the silicone blonde as one of a Charlie’s Angels-style trio formed “when three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from the intergalactic forces of evil”.

The film is unlikely to win a prize such as the Palme d’Or awarded for top film in the Cannes competition.

The tone is set from the outset, when a cartoon spaceship shoots by with the inscription “My other ride is Uranus” on the back and the film is light years away from the highbrow fare on show further along the Croisette. Whether or not the producers can be accused of cashing in on Smith’s death, they certainly make no attempt to minimise her role.
Source: The Sun-Herald