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Summary: A Keeper
Review: This is one of those movies where you can watch over and over again. It's funny and tries not to take itself too seriously. The casting is perfect. The best part is watching the characters' attitudes change during the film. Definitely one to buy.
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Summary: Get it! It's a great buy!
Review: For anyone who has liked Star Trek or laughed at people who do, this is a must-have. GalaxyQuest is a very well-written spoof of Star Trek and goes over every detail, from actors working the convention block to "I am not Spock." Grab it. Rent it. It's simply that good!
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Summary: galaxy quest #1
Review: i think the movie should be a big hiti like the movie a lot i rented a copy from a video store a month a go it is funny
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Summary: A Funny Funny Movie!
Review: There is not much to say about Galaxy Quest. All you really need to know is that it is a FUNNY FUNNY movie. It is a spoof of the whole Star Trek mythology and it works. So I will keep this review short and sweet. If you want to watch a funny movie get Galaxy Quest!
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Summary: Great Parody and Tim A. to boot!
Review: Firstly - if you are a Trekker and you haven't seen it get it, don't hire it get because you'll be watching this one over and over. As a long standing Trekker (no conferences but every ep. of every show on tape) there are lots of gags and humor that will hit home and not offend.
Secondly - if you're not a Trekker but you are a Tim Allen fan then get it. Not only is the humor classic and timeless you'll be actually impressed with Tim consistent character and the quality of the actual storyline. Yes it has a storyline - and for a parody of many different Sci-Fi series the story line is internally consistent and actually pretty good.
As for the rest of the cast Sigourney Weaver gets to play a completely different SciFi role as a blonde "something" I'm not exactly sure what her role was but she was great in it. Alan Rickman does a great wounded (mentally) actor in his twilight, Daryl Mitchell (ex. Veronica's Closet) get to show he can do something else and host of other people get to be some very funny aliens.
By the way, you will need to watch it at least twice so that you can get all the lines you missed the first time around.
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Summary: Entertaining and funny, but little beneath the surface.
Review: With a movie like Galaxy Quest, you're probably expecting a light-hearted spoof of low budget TV science-fiction series, with maybe a few Hollywood quips thrown in, but probably not much else. Galaxy Quest delivers. The performances are all good, if mostly undistinguished, and the script is mostly funny, if never hilarious. The DVD has some nice extras, but they strike the same note as the rest of the movie: Good, but not great. If you're a fan of Star Trek, Battlestar: Galactica, or other series of that ilk, though, you definitely shouldn't miss Galaxy Quest.
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Summary: fun, goodnatured parody
Review: `Galaxy Quest,' a good-natured bit of sci-fi parody, plays upon a universal fantasy most of us have nurtured since childhood: what would happen if all those action/adventure fantasy games we spent hours acting out in the backyard suddenly became reality? What if we were called upon to actually perform the feats of heroic derring-do - battling evil enemies, securing last-minute rescues, saving entire galaxies - which comprised many of the idle waking hours of our "misspent" youth? In `Galaxy Quest,' a group of actors gets this chance. The stars of an early-80's pseudo-Star Trek adventure series, these performers are reduced to spending their time making appearances at well-attended retrospectives, replete with fans who dress in costumes, recite whole lines of memorized dialogue and demonstrate a decidedly unhealthy inability to differentiate between the world of reality and the world of the `Galaxy Quest' series. The film pokes gentle and affectionate fun at this strange subculture of obsessed fans that seems to attach itself inexplicably to these examples of mind-numbing mass media creations - yet these fans get the final laugh. For suddenly, some benign, terminally cheerful, genuine aliens, initially indistinguishable from the earthbound fans of the show, kidnap the actors, believing them to be the genuine articles and just the heroes they need to defeat their evil enemy, the malevolent Sarris. Before we know it, the stunned actors, after an initial state of understandable hesitation and insecurity, discover the inner strength and knowledge to emerge as bona-fide heroes for the occasion. `Galaxy Quest,' handed a clever premise, manages to generate a sufficient number of genuine laughs to compensate for the occasionally wearying effect of redundancy that invariably accompanies comedies based on a one-joke formula. The cast - Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell - seems to be having an enormous amount of silly fun, as their characters all assume the roles they have been playing so long on TV, even though logically, no one actor should be the natural commander more than any other. This sense of formalized logic manifesting itself in the decidedly illogical context of this story provides much of the giddy fun of the film. The special effects are spectacular and the set design pays clever homage to all the `Star Wars/Star Trek' productions that have come before it. Yes, the film is loopy and, as with most comedies, the jokes that work don't come fast and frequently enough to fill in all the dull passages that, unfortunately, seem to be inevitable in this genre. Still, for a bit of mindless fun and a few hearty chuckles, `Galaxy Quest' is worth donning your World Federation uniform and strapping yourself in for. It turns out to be a pretty enjoyable ride.
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Summary: 3 stars! Come on! Be generous.
Review: I am surprised there are many 3-stars reviews with all these "ALMOST hilarios" and "falls short" passages. Galaxy Quest is evidently a quality film. It's mainstream in the most positive meaning of the word. And the mainstream kind of comedy entertainment needed that new addition as an argument against all that Farelli Brothers/Adam Sandler/early Jim Carey idiocy. There are no below-the-waist jokes in Galaxy Quest, all these over-the-hill actors, sci-fi fans and the endearing interplanetary misfits are the objects of loving parody. Even the green lobster monster is a cutie in his own menacing way. It echoes vaguely The Three Amigos - second-hand thespians facing the challenge of blazing a big bunch of baddies to hell and staying alive in the process. But it's better. Alan Rickman is very good as the tortured genius. How I adored him pinched by the more down-to-earth shipmates on a parking lot before the newly opened tech supermarket moaning that -" What a savings..." - debility! Tim Allen is great though I could not buy his total mood change upon hearing two teenage jerks' unappreciating remarks in a loo. As if these chirpings were the revelations on his current state, very unexpected and profound. Steve Buscemi has to copyright his image - the 6th crewmate Guy was his clone. I looked for Steve in the ending credits but got the other...Guy. Yes, I have to confess I felt a tinge of disappointment halfway through the film, when it was slackening a bit, losing momentum. The film's idea is so overwhelmingly promising it's virtually impossible to meet the expectations for the whole 100%. But the final scene erased my vague discontent completely. Two very important for us Earthlings notions are triumphantly confirmed by that glorious crash - there is always a hope of redemption no matter how far downhill you have already traveled and there is a myriad of worlds out there, friendly, menacing,all of them very exciting. So I am very enthusiastic in my appreciation of that mainstream effort - it's less likely to make a bunch than Adam Sandler's schlock but it's so human and intelligent it produces the warm-hearted chukles instead of guttural laugh convulsions that rock the seats when the waterboy traverse a screen. And true to my "vote with your dollar" principle I got the DVD for my collection.
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Summary: Fine spoof
Review: Many skits and comedians have tried to poke fun at the finest science fiction show ever made, but this is by far the best I have seen. It is easy to make fun of something bad, but not nearly as easy to make fun of something good, but this film was able to do that. Tim Allen was a fine choice for the Shatner role as an egomaniac actor caught up in himself. Alan Rickman plays a thespian who has been locked into an alien role and he cringes whenever he hears his famous line. There was a short story from the book Star Trek the new voyages called Visit to a weird planet revisited and it Shatner, Nimoy and De Kelly being beamed from the enterprise set to the real ship where they tried to play out their characters. This film is similar to that story and just as funny. It pokes fun at not just Star Trek fans, but all rabid fans and actors who are typecast and sometimes cannot escape a role. Star Trek fans will get more of the in jokes, but I think this film is funny enough that you do not have to be a fan to appreciate it.
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Summary: Funny, light sci-fi comedy
Review: I didn't have high expectations for Galaxy Quest, but really enjoyed it. This film stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Tony Shalhoub as actors from a `Star Trek' type show whose professional lives are reduced to lame store openings and nerdy conventions. Aliens (led by the hilarious Enrico Colantoni from TV's Just Shoot Me) need these heroes to save their planet, since they've watched these heroes from space. The aliens, however, believe that the show was real, (they refer to the show as the `historical documents') and now this ragged team of hack actors is in for a fight with some nasty space creatures. The special effects are terrific, Allen enjoys spoofing space movies and his Buzz Lightyear persona, and Weaver, usually a dramatic actress, lightens up well. Alan Rickman is also good as a Shakespearean-trained actor who is constantly complaining that he is only recognized in his alien garb. Galaxy Quest is a light comedy that is definitely worth seeing.
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