Invasion of the Pod People

Invasion of the Pod People (2007): Good grief, this was described as an alternate riff on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, an excellent SiFi classic. I would describe it more as an inept rip off of that fine film. And while we are at it, I never saw any pods in this epic; only plants that looked like those oriental ginger roots that you can buy at the specialty market. These had been stuck in small pots for distribution to the masses. Apparently, after a meteor shower, these things from space somehow took over a few people and they started giving the plants to the gals at a modeling agency. In a slight divergence for the ‘Body Snatcher’ movie where you were taken over while you slept, these plants seem to grow at random and then once formed into your doppelganger, have to find and kill you, you don’t just pass away.
Our heroine notices that many of her co-workers at the agency seem to be having personality changes, the mean folk appear nice and the formerly friendly people have become a bit ratty. She receives one of those pots with a root in it from her boss and takes it home. She doesn’t like the looks of it so puts it in the garbage disposal to be rid of it, but wait; it starts screaming and flinging blood all over the sink. She gets the blood tested and finds out it matches her type. Dawn breaks at Marblehead that something is amiss at the agency. Well, it turns out that the alien presence is only trying to help the humans reduce stress and things like that and to make everyone happy and to act all the same. At least that’s the story the alien controlled people stick to for the whole movie. One minor side effect of being taken over by the alien presence appears to be conversion of the straight gals to les-beans which gave the director and excuse for a little lesbonianism to be shown on the screen. In the end the plant people (I refuse to call them pod people) take over which means no sequel. Hooray! The flick was unrated but would probably root up an R for: lack of pods, lack of actors, and lack of rational behavior by models (maybe this is normal?), screaming roots, dark roots, touched up roots, multiple orbulations, rampant lesbonianism, and for multiple model shootings.