Project ALF
Project: ALF (also known as Project: ALF, Part 2) is a TV movie directed by Dick Lowry. It is the sequel to the final episode, "Consider Me Gone" (1990), of the ALF TV series. It was broadcast in the U.S. by ABC and in Canada on CHCH on February 17, 1996. The film was released on DVD in 2005.
None of the series regulars were featured. The only actors to appear in both the TV series and movie are Paul Fusco, the voice and puppeteer of ALF, and Beverly Archer, who played Mrs. Byrd in the former and Dr. Carnage in the latter. Project ALF was poorly received when it aired in 1996, namely because of the absence of the Tanners, weak characters and failure to give a proper conclusion to the series.
Plot
The film begins where the original television series finishes, with Gordon Shumway—otherwise known as ALF, short for Alien Life Form—being captured by the US Air Force's Alien Task Force while attempting to depart Earth. ALF is kept under lock and key at Edmonds Air Force Base under the xenophobic orders of Colonel Milfoil (Martin Sheen), although he manages to charm his airman jailers and convert his cell into a bachelor pad. Acting on his own initiative, Milfoil plans on killing his prisoner under the guise of a beauty treatment, for which he has left a paper trail implicating his aide de camp, Lieutenant Reese (Scott Michael Campbell), setting him up as a scapegoat. They talk about ALF's relationship with the Tanner family, and the Tanners' move to Iceland.
