Their arrival draws the attention of four sexually-frustrated humans in a nearby park: Oliver and Prudence (a mild-mannered professional and his highly-strung fiancée), Willy (a bumbling young shop assistant) and Cliff (a middle-aged man walking his dog).

Oliver and Cliff fail miserably, but Willy, searching for his magazines, beats Skipper's combat simulation by unknowingly evading her attacks, causing her to collapse with exhaustion.

After Loving Feeling (1968), Norman J. Warren had moved away from sex comedies and gone on to direct the horror films Satan's Slave (1976), Prey (1977) and Terror (1978).

[2] The film remained unavailable on any home video format until 2008, when the original UK cut (bearing the American title "Spaced Out") was released on DVD by Odeon Entertainment.

[2] At the time of the UK release in 1979, The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This slap-and-tickle, shoe-string parody of recent science fiction movies gratifyingly lacks any of the usual directorial knowingness.

The spacewomen are rather fetchingly clad in a mixture of frou-frou and black leather; and the cast – particularly the ingenuous Ava Cadell as the frequently oil-besmirched engineer – achieve a kind of capering charm.

"[6] Screen International described the film as "[a]n over-eager effort to be both sexy and farcical, which ventures just that bit too far into the women-hating/fearing world of the fetishist [...] The more amusing and imaginative ideas (like the petulance of the jukebox psychiatrist) get lost in the episodic frenzy of the whole.

"[1] When the re-edited film was released in the US in 1981, The New York Times wrote: "Aside from a nearly quotable joke about ''luudes and nudes', there's not much that can be printed from the film Spaced Out, a softcore pornographic space comedy  [...] The rock music – by an assortment of bands led by The Chance – is agreeable, the sex flippant and the dialogue, by Bob Saget, Jeff de Hart and Andrew Payne, fairly funny.

[7] Variety magazine called the action "cheap and silly, with hokey spaceship models, campy set design and costumes, plus lots of pastel lighting effects."

It noted that the UK version had been "hybridised" by adding "Americanised low-humour commentary" from the re-voiced computer and Wurlitzer, including "drug culture- and gay-oriented jokes".

[8] TV Guide calls it "[a]n amateurish British sex comedy [...] There are spoofs of Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey, as well as some teenage gutter humour, none of which amounts to anything remotely funny.