Hick Trek - The Moovie

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Parody
Review: A must see for all Star Trek fans, Hick Trek: The Moovie is an inane venture that is destined to become a cult classic.

Follow the unlikely heroes as they pilot the R.S.S. bovine through an amazing plot unequaled by its inspiration.

For lovers of parody, this DVD is a must have!

Rating:
Summary: Almost...but NOT quite.
Review: Actually I'd rate this dud(e) 2-and-a-half stars. GALAXY QUEST is a high class, high production values satire on Star Trek and it works. The HICKSTERS aren't quite able to pull it off though the effort to try is clear. Unfortunately, the effort is a bit trying. The acting is appropriately awful without being distracting to this epic adventure of The Redneck Federations ace starship commanded by the less-than-stalwart Captain Jerk. Their mission...it could never last five weeks, never mind five years...is to rescue survivors of a border planet invaded by GIANT CATS. Hmmm. (Or purrr?) The Captain adroitly uses cat nip to distract and ultimately destroy the feline villains. But not before Mr. Schlock almost gives his life attempting to get THE WARP DRIVE back on line. But he doesn't and unfortunately the warp drive drives our Red neck heroes to safety and a final endearing scene in an on-ship Ice House where the entire crew beers itself into Final Frontier Obliviosity. Cool...but not cool enough. Many of the special effects are just cheesy enough to be good. The Transporter Room..."energized" by a vintage Wurlitzer juke box...s truly awesome. The battle between the Hickster's star ship...non-NCC constucted of a SKAOL chewing tobacco can, Two cigarettes (filters)and two Budweiser (Kings)beer cans...is epic and conveys the awe that the rest of the film decisively lacks. (The enemy ship is destroyed by firing...literally... a(Hot) Dog missile into flank of the Catship). There is some good (I guess) cheap Redneck humor and some decent (not really) take-off's on lesser crew members'idiocyncracies. (The Scotty-clone tries to dry-off the "sabotaged" green wood that he must use to fire-up the Franklin Stove that functions as the ship's warp drive.) "Remember...you owe me $50!" says the Spock-clone to "Scotty" as he heroically tries to finally get the hyper-drive "glowing". The best part of the movie is the music ("Honey, I love ya...But don't let my nachos get cold!) and the "stuff" that comprises the ship's low-tech accouterment. Admittedly the actors play their goofy roles straight without trying at any "ironic" aesthetic distance to prove they're cooler than the movie's material. John & Pete Shuermann are the honchos that almost make HICK TREK work. I don't think it quite does and I don't think it's either good or bad enough to become a cult classic. But the ATOZ' boys do show promise. A bit more money? A bit stonger writing? Better luck next time perhaps. This is a satire that tried to work like a nuclear bomb. Close is enough...if it is close enough. Unfortunately, I think the real Scotty's terrible warning came true: CAPTAIN IT'S GOING TO BLOW!...Hick Trek-The Moovie, kinda does......

Rating:
Summary: Good stuff
Review: As an official Trekkie and member of many Star Trek clubs and groups, all of my crew consider this to be one of the funniest parodies. Granted it is very cheap, that is the point. Star Wars fans beware, the F/X are terrrible. Again, that is the point. Whoever you are who made this, we love it in the SF chapter of the Star Trek Afficianado group! And we heard there is a sequel! Let us know if you need another $100 for the budget!

Rating:
Summary: A GREAT LITTLE TREK FILM !
Review: Let me sum up this "movie" - (...) It is borderline fraud to call this a movie. One of the reviews here mentioned the $100 budget... if they spent that much I'd be suprised. Anyone could film this in their garage with a bunch of their friends, which is exactly what this is. Bad story, bad acting, and bad visual effects and props... to recrate them all you'll need is some empty cardboard boxes and that (stuff)you'd find on a low budget flea market table. The only possitive thing I can say about this is that I didn't pay fot it (unfortunately I was duped into thinking it was a quality parady and put it on my wish list and got it as a gift).

Rating:
Summary: Why can't I give it zero stars?
Review: Let me sum up this "movie" - (...) It is borderline fraud to call this a movie. One of the reviews here mentioned the $100 budget... if they spent that much I'd be suprised. Anyone could film this in their garage with a bunch of their friends, which is exactly what this is. Bad story, bad acting, and bad visual effects and props... to recrate them all you'll need is some empty cardboard boxes and that (stuff)you'd find on a low budget flea market table. The only possitive thing I can say about this is that I didn't pay fot it (unfortunately I was duped into thinking it was a quality parady and put it on my wish list and got it as a gift).

Rating:
Summary: The Title Says it All.
Review: Rarely does a film this amazingly banal come along. This film is astoundingly (...), tragically insipid, ruthlessly stupid. I bought this film on the strength of a recommendation found here, and deeply repent having done so.

The complete lack of video quality is equalled only by an incredibly hackneyed dialog and plot, both of which plod laboriously into the universe of (...) doltism. What might have been a clever concept and amusing presentation instead turns out mindless, trite, dim-witted, pointless and inane.

I base my attitude toward any movie firstly on whether I was entertained. Seldom does a film completely fail to provide some entertainment value that I can derive from the experience. This film, however, leaves one feeling they have totally wasted time, and money, on this worthless (...)!

There are many things more entertaining than this film. A root canal, electroshock therapy, enduring a generous cavity search, or a bad case of gout would all provide far more entertainment value than found in Hick Trek.

I believe this film is so bad not even Troma wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

Compare every bad film you ever watched in your whole life, and witness something worse than any of them in Hick Trek. It is heart-breakingly awful. Appallingly unpleasant and totally terrible. Don't bother with this dreadful waste of celluloid.

Hick Trek should boldly go where no film has gone before...
to a landfill somewhere!

Rating:
Summary: A GREAT LITTLE TREK FILM !
Review: There are some people who just DON'T LIKE this movie... listen, it's CHEAP! You 'll not find Harrison Ford in it! But it IS one of the funniest parodies EVER made! Just because something cost almost nohting to make, doesn't make it a BAD movie. In fact, take a look at the DVD cover. IT A SPACE SHIP MADE OUT OF BEER CANS AND STUFF! What you see is what you get! I love it, and so will you. And check out the sequel too!