This was the first film without the deceased Donald Pleasence, who had appeared in all of the previous Halloween films (except the third one).In fact, Karas"" musical instrument was a leading film character and advertised as such: "He""ll have you in a dither with his zither (a laptop string instrument).The starship was suddenly ambushed and attacked by a large bee-like swarm of small alien ships, led by Krall (Idris Elba).Wagstaff: Say, I""d walk a mile for a Calamel.Baravelli: You mean chocolate calamel.I like that too, but you no guess it.Hey, what-sa matter, you no understand English? You can""t come in here unless you say ""swordfish."" Now I""ll give you one more guess.Wagstaff: (to himself: Swordfish.Swordfish) I think I got it.Is it ""swordfish""?Baravelli: Hah! That""s-a it! You guess it!Wagstaff: Pretty good, eh?When Baravelli opens the door and congratulates him, Wagstaff sneaks in the door, shuts it, and asks for the password.John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire), a tall, slim dancer ("hoofer") is the center tap-dancer in a group of male dancers in the short opening piece in a theatre.