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Synopsis

Arif ( Cem Yılmaz) lives by selling carpets and fake images of U.F.O. One day, he is abducted by aliens disguised as

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along with other humans. This abduction is carried out by planet G.O.R.A's security chief Logar Trihis as a grudge for the rape of an ancestor's colleague who visited Earth in 1789. On the spaceship, Arif comes across a hologram image of Garaval who tells Arif that he can sense the Force within him (a spoof reference to ''

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'') and instructs Arif to look for him. Upon landing on G.O.R.A, Arif continues to look for opportunities to escape but repeatedly fails. He builds up a friendship with inmates Faruk and Robot-216. Robot-216 is a close confidant of Princess Ceku who was demoted to prisons by an angry Logar. It is revealed that Logar plans to usurp the throne by marrying Princess Ceku despite her stubborn refusal. To carry out his plan, he sets a fireball towards G.O.R.A and asks for the Princess's hand as the reward on the condition that he will save G.O.R.A. The king has to agree as the alternative option of using sacred stone is hindered by the absence of the manual (the manual is stolen by Logar). But when Logar fails to fire-off his weapon, Arif comes to the rescue by performing the sacred stone ritual which resembles scene from ''

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'' film Arif saw. Logar is furious as it required Arif to kiss Ceku. So, he blackmails the king into agreeing Ceku's marriage with him. However, Ceku learns from her mother that her original father is in fact an earthling. She sets off to find him with Arif, Faruk and Robot-216. But along the way, Logar's men intercept and take Ceku back. At the same time, Arif meets Garavel who is an old acquaintance of Ceku's father, who is revealed to have been a

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pilot who was abducted in 1978. With his help, Arif gains power-ups and invades the castle to rescue Ceku. In a move spoofing ''

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'', Arif defeats Logar and exposes his sinister plans to everybody. Arif and Ceku, very much in love, return to Earth and lives off as a couple. The film ends with the couple happily driving on a highway.

Cast

* Cem Yılmaz – Arif Işık/Commander Logar Trihis *

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– Bob Marley Faruk * Özkan Uğur – Garavel * İdil Fırat – Mulu *

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Reception

Reviews

Todd Brown, writing for ''

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'', describes the film as, "a very funny, very

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inspired sci-fi comedy", with "some pitch perfect knocks on both ''

'' and ''

'' films in there" that "looked good...went on to become a huge hit in its native country", and "re-introduced Turkish genre film to international audiences as it rolled out on the festival circuit", proving that Turkey "was capable of producing big, glossy productions with the very best of them".

References

External links

* * {{Rotten Tomatoes, gora 2004 films Films set in Turkey 2000s Turkish-language films 2000s science fiction comedy films 2000s parody films Turkish science fiction comedy films Space adventure films Films scored by Ozan Çolakoğlu