- Bizarro Episode: A straight-up Alien Invasion and a Flying Saucer in a comedy series that was otherwise rooted in a normal world (Science Fiction was a genre that was pretty much untouched by French cinema back then, besides).
- Critic-Proof: Critics loathed the film, but that didn't prevent it from being the biggest success of 1979 in French cinemas, even beating Superman: The Movie, which was released there the same week. Superman won the opening box office duel, but Le Gendarme et les Extra-terrestres had significantly better legs, owing to Louis de Funès' neverending popularity.
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- Believe it or not, The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials was once the most successful French film ever released in Germany (West Germany at the time), with 5,6 millions cinema admissions. It was bested there in 2011 only, by Intouchables with 9,2 million.
- The movie also bested Superman in USSR, with 35,3 million admissions.
- Retroactive Recognition: A 20 year old Lambert Wilson as one of the aliens.
- Sequelitis: Very much the nadir of the film series along with its follow-up Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes. Though Louis de Funès was still as funny as ever considering its success.
- Special Effects Failure: The effects of the Flying Saucer in the sky are passable by night due to being obscured, but by day they stick out like a sore thumb.
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