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Summary: Not as good without Cannibas... alas, I no longer indulge...
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Nothing will ever replace the first time I saw this around 1977 in a double feature with The Groove Tube, but this is still great fun, especially if you're familiar with the 1930's serials that inspired this spoof (and probably in no small measure the earlier "Star Wars" movies.) Those old Buster Crabbe Space Operas had terrific special effects for the time and budget, and after growing up watching them on New York's WPIX, it was great stoned fun to see them replicated in color with phallic spaceships on the big screen. Visually and in terms of plot, "Flesh Gordon" spoofs its source faithfully, and a familiarity with the original Flash Gordon serial is at least as crucial as a familiarity with Killer Weed. (Forget the 1980's remake with Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless and music by Queen!)
Make no mistake. This is adult entertainment, but it isn't "porn". Even the more explicit versions aren't good for masturbating.
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Summary: The original campy classic salute to bad movies
Review: Anyone who doesn't like this movie, doesn't get it.
The directing is flat, the acting just plain awful, the makeup worse. yet 30 years after it was released, Flesh Gordon is still the funniest, cheesiest spoof of genre films outside The Simpsons.
Where else are you going to find alien sex rays, rapist robots, matching eye and nipple patches, and a narcissistic Harryhausenesque demon who would be perfectly at home in a disco if he weren't green, 40 feet tall and covered with scales?
The surprisingly good art direction (on a shoestring budget) and Hanna-Barbara sound effects finish the package.
In short, unless you're some easily-offended christian republican in search of something to complain about, this is must-see material. And come to think about it, even if you are, you need to see it.
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Summary: Quite Possibly the Most Important film of the 20th Century !
Review: Astounding psychological cinema. By watching this film over and over I feel that I am really discovering myself. This film is life changing ; dont be fooled by the 1970's filming quality, the real value is in the message to all of humanity. Be Warned though, you will never be the same after watching this movie.
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Summary: Ribald Send-Off Is True Classic
Review: Buster Crabbe rolled over in his grave when this send-off of Flash Gordon came out. I should know, I saw it at least 10 times at the local theater. The acting is horrible, but it's supposed to be. I don't think anyone was thinking Oscar here. The effects are cheesy with the strings holding the infamous penile ship up there for all the world to see. The women and men are nekkid. And it is one of the funniest movies in cinema because 1) it doesn't take itself seriously; 2) it's played for pure camp; 3) it titilates unceasingly. If you're looking for low-brow fun, late-night-cable sex, and some hearty belly laughs, Flesh Gordon is the perfect film. Everyone has mentioned how poor a character Flesh is. True. But how can you be anything else when you're facing such characters as Penisauruses, Emperor Wang and his sex ray, or have a side-kick with the name Dr. Flexi Jerkoff? One thing to do while watching: count the various sub-titles Wang's minions spout when addressing him. One of the best: Your royal protruberance. I only wish there was a truly uncut version where the sex scenes were shown in their full glory. Some are highly original. Pure fun. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Amazing!!! My wife and I loved it so much, we are buying it
Review: Channel surfing last night got me a major boner, my wife and I laughing and an all around fun evening!
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Summary: Waste of money and time
Review: Cheap. Stupid. Hokey and not very erotic or interesting. A big waste of money! I saw the movie in a theater in an upscale neighborhood in the early 1970s when X-rated films were still shown in normal theaters. I thought it was one of the most erotic movies I'd seen. Hadn't seen that many to that point. So when I got a gift certificate to BN, I bought the DVD, among other things. It came and I was VERY disappointed. I guess I'd forgotten how bad it was. Extremely bad acting, even by X-movie standards. (Well, maybe not, but ...). Extremely bad 'effects' -- among the worst you'll ever seen anywhere. No beginning film-maker would be caught dead doing such silly models and animations nowadays. It might be a 'classic' in somebody's book. If so, it is a terrific argument for trashing and forgetting such 'classics' forever. Embarrassing. In a word. I barely could sit through it. Kept hoping it would get interesting. Didn't
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Summary: Silly, erotic, crazy, incredibly bad acting
Review: Even though the acting in this movie is so over the top it is laughable, this one is definately enjoyable. Watching the string hold up the space ship as it flies across the screen was a highlight for me. It does remind me of Caligula a bit with some of the erotic scenes. All in all, a fun spoof on sci-fi.
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Summary: Enjoyable Cult Movie Parody
Review: Everything from ROBINHOOD to KING KONG gets a whack from this early 1970s parody of the 1930s FLASH GORDON serial, which has a story line in keeping with the sexual revolution. A mysterious "sex" ray that turns otherwise normal people into sex maniacs is plaguing the earth--and is eventually traced to the planet Porno, ruled by evil Emperor Wang. And so our hero Flesh, his lady love Dale Ardor, and their scientific genius Dr. Jerkoff set out for planet Porno to defeat Wang... only to find themselves victims of his REALLY kinky ways! As film-making goes, the quality of this parody is often quite poor, the material itself is extremely uneven, and the performers merely so-so--but what the filmmakers lack in experience they more than make up for in imagination. Witness the attack of the dreaded Penisaurus! Behold Prince Precious' Reward! Beware the intiation of the underground lesbians! With everything from stop-motion animation monsters to some truly Freudian art design, cult-film fans and most others will probably find lots to enjoy--but FLESH GORDON is an acquired taste. Some will find that joke runs dry long before the film ends; others will consider it juvenile and distasteful. A WORD OF WARNING. Some reviewers note that the film received an X rating in the early 1970s when X ratings were much more freely given than they are today. That is true; after all, even MIDNIGHT COWBOY was rated X, if you can imagine it. Even so, there is considerable nudity and simulated sex in FLESH GORDON, and during one or two of the crowd scenes it seems obvious that at least one of the couples is well gone into X territory. While I wouldn't describe FLESH GORDON as pornography, it remains fairly raw stuff, and you may want to keep that in mind.
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Summary: Enjoyable Cult Movie Parody
Review: Everything from ROBINHOOD to KING KONG gets a whack from this early 1970s parody of the 1930s FLASH GORDON serial, which has a story line in keeping with the sexual revolution. A mysterious "sex" ray that turns otherwise normal people into sex maniacs is plaguing the earth--and is eventually traced to the planet Porno, ruled by evil Emperor Wang. And so our hero Flesh, his lady love Dale Ardor, and their scientific genius Dr. Jerkoff set out for planet Porno to defeat Wang... only to find themselves victims of his REALLY kinky ways! As film-making goes, the quality of this parody is often quite poor, the material itself is extremely uneven, and the performers merely so-so--but what the filmmakers lack in experience they more than make up for in imagination. Witness the attack of the dreaded Penisaurus! Behold Prince Precious' Reward! Beware the intiation of the underground lesbians! With everything from stop-motion animation monsters to some truly Freudian art design, cult-film fans and most others will probably find lots to enjoy--but FLESH GORDON is an acquired taste. Some will find that joke runs dry long before the film ends; others will consider it juvenile and distasteful. A WORD OF WARNING. Some reviewers note that the film received an X rating in the early 1970s when X ratings were much more freely given than they are today. That is true; after all, even MIDNIGHT COWBOY was rated X, if you can imagine it. Even so, there is considerable nudity and simulated sex in FLESH GORDON, and during one or two of the crowd scenes it seems obvious that at least one of the couples is well gone into X territory. While I wouldn't describe FLESH GORDON as pornography, it remains fairly raw stuff, and you may want to keep that in mind.
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Summary: OH MAN WHAT A FUNNY MOVIE
Review: Five Words: "Theres oxygen on this planet!" This Movie was great. I saw it a while back at my friends house and we laughed so incredibly hard. One of my favorite parts of the movie was the spaceship. not only was it shaped like a penis, but it was curved!
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