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Summary: More Better Than "Star Trek!"
Review: This is a good movie including with a good cast: Tim Allen, Sigourvey Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub. This is good, only I saw Weaver half-naked. I give it **** (4 out of 5).
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Summary: Silly, Funny Fun
Review: Tim Allen is the has-been star of a Star Trek-type program whose cast now does trekkie shows, until real aliens beam them all up for a real space adventure. It's silly but very funny thanks to the clever script that doesn't take the characters too seriously (except for Alan Rickman's character who, luckily for us, takes himself way too seriously). Allen is spot-on as the Captain Kirk wannabe. It's laugh out loud funny!
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Summary: Destined to become a classic
Review: This film is nearly flawless. The casting and acting were superb, and the dialogue was exceptional. Many movies that try to blend comedy and science fiction come across as overly silly (Spaceballs) or just plain bad (Starship Troopers). This film has great comedic parody coupled with a strong plot and even some moving scenes. If you are a fan of science fiction or comedies, you can't go wrong with this DVD.
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Summary: TIm Allen In Space - Lookout!
Review: What a fun film. I enjoyed this enormously. Especially Sigirney Weaver doing comedy. She has some of the best lines.This directly takes a slap at the Sci Fi Genere and Sci FI conventions overall. (Not to mention the egos of certain famous Star Trek Celebrities - without using their names.) The DVD is fun and the best part is the Duel Language. The entire movie has been sub-tracked in the Alien Language. Like anyone could understand it, but just watching it is histerical! Tim Allen and all the cast are great and it is has wrap-around ending. Very cool. This is one for the whole family.
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Summary: Brought Together by Satire, of All Things
Review: I had almost as much fun reading the reviews of this great flick as I had watching it. I love it when we are in communion, which in fact is what being a FAN is all about: communing with others who share a common object of admiration. I communed with the other reviewers, we communed with the filmmakers (who are obviously respectful fans of the Trek), and for 120 minutes, the world was in harmony. The same thing happens when we go to the conventions, which we take seriously. The same thing happens when a Trek movie is released and we camp out overnight to see it. The irony is that it was all done through satire, which is often condescending, mean spirited, irreverent, and blind to the nature of true fandom. This film works because the satire causes us to reflect, not feel ashamed; the satire causes us to laugh gently at ourselves and our heroes, not gag. Finally, it is so adequately done that if the humor were removed, it could almost be a serious addition to the Trek. Finally, the most touching aspect of the film is the forging of relationships: not only the actors among themselves and the actors with the aliens, but the actors with THEIR roles and the actors with their fans. Notice that the captain is no longer bored, jaded with, or annoyed by the millions of fans who admire him. In short, the actors are no longer a part of the cynical outsiders who are condescending, mean spirited, irreverent, and blind to the nature of true fandom.
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Summary: Ultimate fun & joy
Review: Having seen this movie in theatre I knew I have to have it on DVD. But due stupid DVD encoding and even more stupid region locking which only prevents DVD technology from replacing VHS and which only lower profit of movie companies, I had to find out few fixes to my DVD and PC.
But it worth! Galaxy Quest is one of the finest SF parody I have ever seen and it uses well known StarTrek like background where group of ex-STlike-TV-series is hired by group od aliens (Thermians) to protect the remnant of their race from evil attakers led by Sarris. You should have to have at least some knowledge about StarTrek (TOS and TNG) series and its common plots and schemes. Just compare the way how Tim Allen behave like William Shattner on the bridge (sitting at cpt's chair, gesturing before lift-off etc.)
I do not like to reveal any of many gags and funny events stuffed into this film, so I tell you instead that I like this movie as well as SHREK or MONSTER INC. So that should tell you something.
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Summary: Beam me up Scotty!
Review: Even if you're not a Star Trek fan, you'll love this hilarious film starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman as washed up actors from the long-cancelled sci fi TV show "Galaxy Quest". The premise provides for some really amusing gags as the film pokes fun at sci fi cliché's and trekkie obsession. And Tim Allen, whose character is reminiscent of Buzz Lightyear, is great with a good script to work with after being in countless rubbish movies (Does anyone remember The Santa Clause?). And Sigourney Weaver is suitably feisty as the ...female on board. But the really great standout performance is Enrico Colantoni, as one of the clueless aliens who thinks the team's TV show is real documentary footage of the group's adventures in space. The all of them get zapped up into outer space and uproarious mayhem ensues. It's just such fun, and with a great ensemble cast, Galaxy Quest is an outstanding comedy that stands to repeat viewings in order to uncover all the subtle gags and jokes. Effects maestro Stan Winston's alien creations are fantastic and David Newman's score adds a heroic feel to the film. The DVD is great too, with excellent sound, picture and good extras. Top-notch entertainment.
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Summary: Galaxy Quest - DTS
Review: Briefly, because the previous reviews cover it quite well, it's a good comedy. If you're looking for a good comedy to add to your collection, this would be it. It will span a number of years in your collection before someone asks...."Galaxy Quest...what's that?" All the characters come to life in Galaxy Quest in a genre that often leaves one thinking...that character isn't real. Everyone will have a favorite, but Guy's interaction with the regular crew of Galaxy Quest is worth the price of the DVD alone, not mentioning the performances turned in by the rest of the cast.
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Summary: Goofy satire of sci-fi genre is hysterically funny
Review: Galaxy Quest opened around Christmas 1999 against a lot of high profile movies. It never set any records, but it ran and ran and ran, eventually doing better than many of its competitors. It's easy to see why. It's mindless and daffy, yet also amiable and funny. It's the gentlest of satires. It does not aspire to greatness. It aspires to entertain, and that it does. The title refers to a fictional TV show about space travel and conquest, and it seems suspiciously like Star Trek. The movie opens with the has- been cast of the show, which ended twenty years ago, at a convention of fans. Most of the actors are there for the money and not for the geeky, obsessed fans. The exception is Jason Nesmith [Tim Allen], who played Commander Peter Taggart. Nesmith tries hard not to ruin the fans' fantasies. One group actually tells him they are there to enlist the crew in saving their planet, and he atiently plays along. Later, in the men's room, Nesmith overhears two kids talking about how sad and stupid the cast and the fans are. Crushed, he flees the convention and goes home, where he promptly consumes a great deal of whiskey. The next morning finds him passed out on his living room floor. Outside the sliding glass door, the same weird group that wanted him to help them is knocking on the glass. In a fog, he lets them in. One thing leads to another, and he discovers that they really ARE aliens. They think that the TV show is real, a historical record of real events. Apparently these aliens have no imaginations, and when they recorded the show's TV signal, the idea that the information might be false never crossed their minds. Oh, how earthling advertisers would love this crowd! It isn't long before Nesmith and the aliens have enlisted the rest of the stars - Lt. Tawny Madison [Sigourney Weaver], Dr. Lazurus [Alan Rickman], Tech. Sgt. Chen [Tony Shalhoub], and even an extra, Crew Member 6 [Sam Rockwell]. This group of very earthbound people suddenly finds itself in outer space aboard a craft that is based on their old TV show sets. What are they supposed to do? How can they work instruments that never really existed or combat monsters and aliens which are not actors in costumes? The answers they come up with help make this one of the funnier comedies in recent memory. Allen and Weaver are perfectly cast, for who would be better in this parody than the fumbling star of Home Improvement and the heroine of the Aliens movies? What could be funnier than to have Alan Rickman basically reprise his role as Col. Brandon in Sense and Sensibility, only this time in space? What could be more clever than to include an extra, who spends the entire movie knowing he's going to die in the next ten minutes because that's what happened on the TV show? And the aliens? They are hysterical to watch. Theier actual body shapes resemble giant squids, but they have the ability to transform into human-looking beings. Only problem is that they can't quite get the body movements down right, not to mention the voices. I think it must be hard to make a movie that's just plain fun, but Galaxy Quest succeeds nearly all the time. Frankly, I was never much of a Star Trek or a Star Wars fan. I appreciated their appeal but never got caught up in the fantasies. I enjoyed this movie immensely, even though most of the in jokes were lost on me. I can only imagine how appealing it must be to people who are more informed about the things it parodies than I am.
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Summary: This movie defines "Guilty Pleasure."
Review: Come on...it's hokey, it's just a bit cheesy, it stars Tim Allen. Why do I like this movie so much? Because it believes in itself and its ability to entertain. Because the cast and crew obviously had a blast making this thing. And because, yes, I'm a closet Trek fan, and this is a Trek movie in disguise. The movie doesn't take itself too seriously, but it does play within the confines of its story: it's a movie about the GalaxyQuest actors, not GalaxyQuest: The Motion Picture. There are no hokey, cheesy performances except in the play within the play--the GalaxyQuest TV series. When Taggart shouts out his signature line, "Never give up! Never surrender!" you can almost hear The Voice of Kirk. Life imitates "art" as the crew attempt to save the Thermians for real: Jason's shirt comes off as soon as he's left alone on the planet (ever notice how often the Trek Captains end up fighting evil all by themselves?), Gwen ends up repeating the computer and somehow tears open her uniform just enough to show her cleavage for the rest of the adventure, Alexander saves the Thermians from suffocation only to see credit go to Jason...nearly every event has a counterpart in their TV series. It's as though they played out the TV scripts so many times that the patterns infected the real world. I don't see any indication of a sequel to this one in the offing: with the parallel between real and fictional resolved at story's end, there's no real room for one. But it sure would be sweet to see the GalaxyQuest crew again.
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