Go see this movie! I laughed from start to finish(and Sigourney Weaver looks hot with blonde hair).
I do like Tim Allen and Sigourney does look hot in the commercials, but I am still not sure if I will like it or not.
Tell more about it without spoiling it.
Jeffery
A glowing endorsement from someone who took his nick from a porn actor!
She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
It seems to be a spoof on other Sci-Fi shows.
Is it like the Naked Gun movies, Dumb and Dumber, Hot Shots? What would you compare it to?
Jeffery
I don’t want to give away too much, so http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789.
I like the nick, it’s funny…
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0177789
Sorry about that
I saw it last weekend. It’s a hoot and it’s been a long time since I laughed so loudly and so often.
The concept you know – a bunch of has-been actors from an old SF TV show suspiciously like STAR TREK are thought to be the real thing by an alien race, and asked to help defend them against the enemy. It does help if you know a lot about STAR TREK (there are parodies of specific shows) and the actors involved, but you can get a kick out of it if you are familiar with the various cliches they send up.
The concept isn’t new (the same plot was used in THE THREE AMIGOS), but the jokes make it a lot of fun. My favorite line (without giving anything away): “I knew it!” I especially liked “the crewman who was killed in episode 71.”
Go see it. You’ll have a lot of fun.
“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx
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I want to see this movie very badly. All I’ve seen are commercials, and it looks great. Someone please tell me, though…is that Alan Rickman I saw in the commercials, as an alien? If it is, I’ll go see the movie twice, even if it sucks. I love Alan Rickman.
Haven’t seen it but I’ve read some amazing reviews:
http://post.messages.yahoo.com/?action=m&tid=hv1800021959f0&sid=22198844&mid=1
gotta go see the movie, definitely.
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” - Oscar Wilde
Same as Chicano, haven’t seen it yet but really want to, based on the talk show clips, reviews, etc. It look likes a complete hoot.
Okay, I have a lowbrow passion for grade B science fiction movies and TV. But this looks like an affectionate, witty extrapolation of aliens replicating the cheesy TV set space ships in all earnestness and the has-been cast reacting to it.
Gimme a break. I’ll rent Rashamon again sometime later, okay?
Veb
We’ve already seen it twice-once with Ed’s family, then with mine. Funny,funny,funny, especially if you go with a Star Trek fan who can explain some of the jokes to you. Of course the best line is…
“That was a hell of a thing.”
i took the kids to see it, it really was a fun movie.
i can’t imagine anyone winning an oscar, but we all had a blast
I’m pink therefore I’m Spam
Yes, that was Alan Rickman. He was great. Hell, even Tim Allen was great, and I don’t like Tim Allen.
“By Grapthar’s hammer, this will be avenged!”
“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx
Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. www.sff.net/people/rothman
I’m another Galaxy Quest fan. But I’d only give it three stars instead of four because the plot held virtually no surprises. Didn’t you know ahead of time that the squabbling actors would learn to work together as a team? That their deception would be found out? That certain aliens would turn out to be different from what they appeared to be? And don’t you think it would’ve been better if they’d gotten into space and found out it was a LOT different from the show and would have to adapt? (In other words, the physics would’ve been real instead of fantastic.)
My favorite part: Alan Rickman’s character thinks Tom Allen’s character is nuts, but Rickman’s guy is still wearing his alien makeup at home!
Besides The Three Amigos, the film also reminded me of The Last Starfighter.
TRIVIA NOTE: In the 70’s, someone, I wish I could remember who, wrote a Star Trek short story entitled “Visit to a Strange Planet” (Probably thinking of Gore Vidal’s play Visit to a Small Planet.) wherein Kirk, Spock amd McCoy accidentally get transported to 1960’s Earth where everyone thinks they’re actors from a Sci-Fi TV show…
Years later, a sequel of sorts appeared, A Strange Planet Re-Visited, wherein William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley get accidentally transported to a parallel universe where everyone thinks they’re officers on the starship Enterprise…
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This movie was excellent!!! I give it 9 on a scale of 1 -10. On the way out I wanted to turn around and go back in and see it again. I don’t like Tim Allen much, but he was very good in his role, all the actors were good. If you don’t laugh out loud at some point in the movie, there is no hope for you.
This was a great movie. Don’t miss it.
Jab, I think it was written to be predictable. It was a spoof, after all. Just like Loaded Weapon and Hot Shots - I thought they were really predicatable too.
This movie was great. Really, really great. It was one of the few movies I’ve ever seen get applause from the audience at the end.
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“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
a very well made film…
really funny, lots of little things that are great and will really make you laugh
dialogue is classic too !
go see it if you like scifi, or love a good comedy, you wont be disappointed…
“it’s real!! i knew it!!!”
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while it is predictable, it was also done with much more care and attention to details than I would have expected. The aliens were great! All available thumbs up!
I am a redhead, you see, and I do not tempt. I insist. -Cristi
I got a few good laughs out of it, and I can’t stand Tim Allen. If you like Star Trek, you will like this movie.
What I thought was funny was how the characters had problems separating their reality from the plot of the TV show in which they had acted.
e.g. Guy, aka Crewman # 6 (Sam Rockwell) is persuaded he will die because the unnamed crew member is always the first to go. When they meet hostile aliens, Gwen (Sigourney Weaver) says “be quiet or else they’ll kill Guy!”