Customer Reviews:
Space Babe and the Frat Boys.......2006-11-10
Teasy, cheesy and a wee bit sleazy. If you enjoy scifi spoof movies like Space Balls and Ice Pirates you might want to give this a watching. But also realize there is good reason it is amongst the cheapies.
The eye candy interest is Dorothy Stratten as Galaxina, a robot that is designed to look like a woman and "has feelings". A sexy woman at that. Just the sort of appliance you want serving on a Police Starship manned by low class bachelors. But don't get pulled in by the "R" rating and "Playboy Playmate" tags. Other than her poorly fitting white spandex outfit, her parts are mildly sensual at best. Things do head towards sleazy in the space bordello scenes which she isn't in, but again, not very much.
Low quality? Cheesy? Cheap gags? A script that is mostly short setups and one liners? Definitely! What could be better for light mindless entertainment. The kind of movie many of us would make if we had a sexy centerfold who insisted on staying dressed and no budget...
Low Space Camp...That Works.......2006-10-01
Yeah, the dialogue ain't classic, the effects,sets, and costumes are beyond cheesy. That said, after a couple of Earth Colas this sci-fi comic confection grows on you. I didn't feel restless or bored and though the gags are hit-or-miss enough worked to give "Galaxina" the thumbs up. It also helps that the film has a game and engaging cast. As for Dorothy R. Stratten, the former Playmate of the Year who was murdered by her husband prior to the film's release, she is drop dead gorgeous as Galaxina. Granted, there aren't enough opportunities to fluorish when you're playing a white spandex clad robot but there is a little in Stratten's performance that suggest that she could have had a career in film. There's something a little touching in Stratten's scenes where she longs to be human so that she can pursue a relationship with the film's perfunctory lead, Stephen Macht. In a nutshell this film may aim low but I found it eminently more enjoyable than some of the latter day pretentious CGI flicks.
Watch out Cherry 2000!.......2006-08-27
Galaxina was a silly sci-fi B movie made in 1980, starring James David Hinton, Stephen Macht, the funny Avery Shreiber and the lovely (and soon to be murdered Playboy Playmate of the Year) Dorothy Stratten. Dorothy Stratten is nice to look at and some of the lines Avery Shreiber drops are funny AND sometimes make sense in the world the story is set in but the rest of the characters are not worth talking about.
Written and directed by William Sachs the story is about the crew of a police cruiser who, after a very long and boring patrol in deep space, are given another mission. A dangerous mission to Altar One, to get the Blue Star. The problem is the planet is 27 years away from their current position and they're have to spend the whole time in suspended animation because they're ship is old and can't go faster than light. This movie would have made a great one for the guys at MST3K.
Why? The special effects are cheap, the settings are cheaper and the aliens look silly. For example, the crew's spaceship, when launching away from Kitty's landing pad, uses the Heat Ray sound from War of the Worlds when turning on the engines. A town on an alien planet is just a Western set with color lens on the camera. Most of the aliens are people with rubber masks or half naked women with painted skin or a little of both. They make fun of Star Trek, Alien, Star Wars and the whole thing makes Dark Star look like Shakespeare. In other words it is a hoot if you're on drugs. But otherwise very weird and very, very cheap.
There are problems with the disc. The DVD version looks too dark and sometimes the film seems to be squeezed into the screen, like the transfer from video was messed up. The extras, like the star bios and slide show go by too quickly (and let's face facts - nobody in this movie was ever really a well known star). The Easter Egg is easy to find and boring to boot. In other words, if you already have a good copy on VHS there is no reason to get the disc. Go get Silent Running if you want cheap and GOOD sci-fi.
So Horrible, It's Wonderful!!.......2006-08-21
An outer space film starring Avery Schreiber as Captain Cornelius Butt, "Galaxina" is highly underrated as movie schlock goes. It's so INCREDIBLY bad that it's irresistable. Although it WAS created to spoof Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, and such, it unfortunately is SO badly written that only lots of heavy drinking will relieve the pain it induces. Be ready. This film makes "Spaceballs," which was one of Mel Brooks' weaker spoofs, look like pure genius.
Examples of how bad it really is?
- The character "Mr. Spot" has ears that point downward and, just in case you didn't get the joke, wears a turtleneck shirt with an upside down Starfleet badge.
- The primary bad guy looks like something out of The Mikado instead of an evil space alien.
- Look for the Batmobile...on the Western set that is supposed to be one of the planets.
- Neither Galaxina, the robotic space babe (voluptuous Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered shortly after the film was released), nor her hunky love interest, Thor, have any funny lines. None. Those were all apparently "reserved" for Avery Schreiber (Captain Butt), although his are so bad that they probably should have been scrubbed, as well.
- Thor is repeatedly rebuffed, in his advances upon Galaxina, by her built-in electric shock force field. The maximum laughter potential here comes from a "No wonder I'm Thor" line the first time it happens. That's it, except they attempt different versions of that multiple times....and it's almost as much of a gutbuster in the film as my description here is.
I do suggest you see this, because it's too awful not to. Buy it? Well...only if you have the devoted taste for absurdly bad movies and TV shows that I do. Ohhh, the pain. The pain!!!!
undeniable foreshadowing.......2005-08-20
the whole movie was never ment to be remembered in any way,however,there is some 9/11 precursurs .the name of the wine,the shape of the space bordello,the face on the madame.Galaxina's first few utterances.ALLof this movie is creepy and wierd making me wonder at the sort of people who must have played a part in writing this disaster.
Average customer rating:
- Space Babe and the Frat Boys
- Low Space Camp...That Works
- Watch out Cherry 2000!
- So Horrible, It's Wonderful!!
- undeniable foreshadowing
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Customer Reviews:
Space Babe and the Frat Boys.......2006-11-10
Teasy, cheesy and a wee bit sleazy. If you enjoy scifi spoof movies like Space Balls and Ice Pirates you might want to give this a watching. But also realize there is good reason it is amongst the cheapies.
The eye candy interest is Dorothy Stratten as Galaxina, a robot that is designed to look like a woman and "has feelings". A sexy woman at that. Just the sort of appliance you want serving on a Police Starship manned by low class bachelors. But don't get pulled in by the "R" rating and "Playboy Playmate" tags. Other than her poorly fitting white spandex outfit, her parts are mildly sensual at best. Things do head towards sleazy in the space bordello scenes which she isn't in, but again, not very much.
Low quality? Cheesy? Cheap gags? A script that is mostly short setups and one liners? Definitely! What could be better for light mindless entertainment. The kind of movie many of us would make if we had a sexy centerfold who insisted on staying dressed and no budget...
Low Space Camp...That Works.......2006-10-01
Yeah, the dialogue ain't classic, the effects,sets, and costumes are beyond cheesy. That said, after a couple of Earth Colas this sci-fi comic confection grows on you. I didn't feel restless or bored and though the gags are hit-or-miss enough worked to give "Galaxina" the thumbs up. It also helps that the film has a game and engaging cast. As for Dorothy R. Stratten, the former Playmate of the Year who was murdered by her husband prior to the film's release, she is drop dead gorgeous as Galaxina. Granted, there aren't enough opportunities to fluorish when you're playing a white spandex clad robot but there is a little in Stratten's performance that suggest that she could have had a career in film. There's something a little touching in Stratten's scenes where she longs to be human so that she can pursue a relationship with the film's perfunctory lead, Stephen Macht. In a nutshell this film may aim low but I found it eminently more enjoyable than some of the latter day pretentious CGI flicks.
Watch out Cherry 2000!.......2006-08-27
Galaxina was a silly sci-fi B movie made in 1980, starring James David Hinton, Stephen Macht, the funny Avery Shreiber and the lovely (and soon to be murdered Playboy Playmate of the Year) Dorothy Stratten. Dorothy Stratten is nice to look at and some of the lines Avery Shreiber drops are funny AND sometimes make sense in the world the story is set in but the rest of the characters are not worth talking about.
Written and directed by William Sachs the story is about the crew of a police cruiser who, after a very long and boring patrol in deep space, are given another mission. A dangerous mission to Altar One, to get the Blue Star. The problem is the planet is 27 years away from their current position and they're have to spend the whole time in suspended animation because they're ship is old and can't go faster than light. This movie would have made a great one for the guys at MST3K.
Why? The special effects are cheap, the settings are cheaper and the aliens look silly. For example, the crew's spaceship, when launching away from Kitty's landing pad, uses the Heat Ray sound from War of the Worlds when turning on the engines. A town on an alien planet is just a Western set with color lens on the camera. Most of the aliens are people with rubber masks or half naked women with painted skin or a little of both. They make fun of Star Trek, Alien, Star Wars and the whole thing makes Dark Star look like Shakespeare. In other words it is a hoot if you're on drugs. But otherwise very weird and very, very cheap.
There are problems with the disc. The DVD version looks too dark and sometimes the film seems to be squeezed into the screen, like the transfer from video was messed up. The extras, like the star bios and slide show go by too quickly (and let's face facts - nobody in this movie was ever really a well known star). The Easter Egg is easy to find and boring to boot. In other words, if you already have a good copy on VHS there is no reason to get the disc. Go get Silent Running if you want cheap and GOOD sci-fi.
So Horrible, It's Wonderful!!.......2006-08-21
An outer space film starring Avery Schreiber as Captain Cornelius Butt, "Galaxina" is highly underrated as movie schlock goes. It's so INCREDIBLY bad that it's irresistable. Although it WAS created to spoof Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, and such, it unfortunately is SO badly written that only lots of heavy drinking will relieve the pain it induces. Be ready. This film makes "Spaceballs," which was one of Mel Brooks' weaker spoofs, look like pure genius.
Examples of how bad it really is?
- The character "Mr. Spot" has ears that point downward and, just in case you didn't get the joke, wears a turtleneck shirt with an upside down Starfleet badge.
- The primary bad guy looks like something out of The Mikado instead of an evil space alien.
- Look for the Batmobile...on the Western set that is supposed to be one of the planets.
- Neither Galaxina, the robotic space babe (voluptuous Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered shortly after the film was released), nor her hunky love interest, Thor, have any funny lines. None. Those were all apparently "reserved" for Avery Schreiber (Captain Butt), although his are so bad that they probably should have been scrubbed, as well.
- Thor is repeatedly rebuffed, in his advances upon Galaxina, by her built-in electric shock force field. The maximum laughter potential here comes from a "No wonder I'm Thor" line the first time it happens. That's it, except they attempt different versions of that multiple times....and it's almost as much of a gutbuster in the film as my description here is.
I do suggest you see this, because it's too awful not to. Buy it? Well...only if you have the devoted taste for absurdly bad movies and TV shows that I do. Ohhh, the pain. The pain!!!!
undeniable foreshadowing.......2005-08-20
the whole movie was never ment to be remembered in any way,however,there is some 9/11 precursurs .the name of the wine,the shape of the space bordello,the face on the madame.Galaxina's first few utterances.ALLof this movie is creepy and wierd making me wonder at the sort of people who must have played a part in writing this disaster.
Customer Reviews:
the film that killed Avery Schriebers career.......2007-04-01
What a waste of time and HD-DVD.Perhaps one of the worst movies ever,and not in a good way.It ends so abruptly you might throw your neck out.Miss Stratton is lovely of course but the film is poorly lit and badly edited and her time on screen is limited.Not even a black midget and lame stoner jokes could save this tossed together junk.View at your own risk.Note;review based on dvd release.
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