Sometimes, some actors can be seen to be just “phoning it in”. I can’t think of any poor performances in this film.
Why is that? Was the cast “liking” the script? (I don’t know if they got overpaid…)
Rockwell is also worth seeing in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” the sort-of biopic about Chuck Barris of “The Gong Show,” and the gruesomely depressing “Snow Angels.”
One of my favorite movies of all time.
“Is there air? You don’t know!”
whaa-whoo whaa-whoo
. . . seems ok.
I’d agree with this. An amazing movie in all aspects.
Oh yeah, and the scene where Dr. Lazarus saves the day and they all say "Hooray, the Captain has saved us! (or something like that).
I swear I watched this 10 times before I realized Rainn Wilson was one of the Termites. It’s a perfect role for him.
no love for the Thermians? For me, Mathesar is the funniest.
“You have saved us!”
“Mum’s the word.”
“mum, mum, mum, mum…”
The scene with Nesmith at the swimming pool was a tad disturbing, given Shatner’s wife’s death.
But yes, a very good, funny movie. 
Did you recognize Enrico Colantoni, of Just Shoot Me and Veronica Mars, as the Thermian leader?
Alternate casting fantasies other than the actual cast of Star Trek?
On NPR Patrick Stewart said that he got a call from Michael Dorn to see this movie because there was a character based on him. Stewart said Rickman really echoed the times when Stewart would complain about having gone from Shakespeare and RADA to acting opposite a puddle of ooze. But he ended with “…and nobody laughed more than I.”
I liked that the evil enemy was written and played as a competant commander, even if had trouble taking “no” for an answer.
My whole family adores this movie and will quote it endlessly if someone starts it. However, I never realized Shaloub was supposed to be high, I just thought he was…mellow…and dumb.
My memory on this is vague, but I sure thought I saw something that made it clear that Shaloub was supposed to be stoned. Then seeing it on commercial TV and figuring that part was edited out was no surprise, but I’m just not sure.
The only thing I am sure of is that he’s supposed to be a stoner when the movie takes place.
IIRC, aside from him taking everything in stride and having constant munchies, it’s only that one of the characters derides him with a quick “Are you high?” – which, for PG-rated fig-leaf purposes, could of course be figurative instead of literal.
Sadly I missed that. My other favorite ChiCon memory: Buckaroo Banzai. A whole room full of fans shouting the answer to the question “Where are we going” with “PLANET TEN!” and “When?” with “REAL SOON!”
“Are you enjoying your Kep-mok blood ticks, Dr. Lazarus?”
I agree that this is a wonderful film - warm, funny, affectionate. It looks like the principal actors are having a great time making it, too.
Thank you. My grown kids twitted me because I argued with them about this. I never admitted that most of the time I"M like that, so I just assumed that’s the way he was.
That’s my favorite.
Second favorite is, “It always stops at ‘one’ on the show.”
“By Grabthar’s hammer, by the suns of Worvan, you shall be avenged”
Alexander Dane, to Quillek(sp?)as he lays dying from a gunshot. The actor says the line he hates the most, for the sake of the Thermian who admired him so.
I love how they show Alexander Dane in his apartment . . . still wearing the rubber head. Like he wouldn’t rip that thing off as soon as he wasn’t in public anymore.
And at the end, when his hair is sticking out of it. 
Oh, yeah. Makes me tear right up, too.
This bit always cracks me up!
My favorite part of the entire movie. Galaxy Quest is up there as one of my all-time favorites.