I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Three hundred years in the future, Mars is colonized by humans and their leader Regulator Rogul (Hans-Michael Rehberg) plans to conquer Earth. Queen Königin Metapha (Anja Kling) is advised to send the gays Captain Kork (Christian Tramitz), the Vulcannette Brigitte Spuck (Michael Herbig) and the engineer Schrotty (Rick Kavanian) from the Surprise to the past in an experimental time machine to destroy the spaceship that human discovered in Area 51 in 2004 and avoid their technological knowledge in spacecrafts. She summons the trio and the taxi driver Rock Fertig Aus (Til Schweiger) brings them to the meeting but Rogul attacks Earth. In the havoc, Kork, Spuck, Rock and Metapha travel to the past but they are hunted down by the evil Lord Jean Maul (Rick Kavanian). Now the only hope for the human race depends on the success of their mission."(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1" has a promising storyline, with a parody to the cults "Star Trek" and "Star Wars". However this sci-fi comedy is not my type of humor and is indicated only for very specific audiences. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Espaçonave das Loucas" ("The Spacecraft of the Crazy Gays")

I watch plenty of movies. But I just can't get over Bullies movies. He has this sick sort of 70's slapstick comedy that has been played over and over again.Typically humour is best done by Anglo's. Though the French like "chits" are not bad. I talked to my wife about this and she said the difference is that the French make fun of each other. They don't pick on one without the other. In other words EVERYBODY gets a poke...Bully and his humour is not like that. It is insulting humour, and it treads thin because it is too focused without spreading it around.I speak English, French and German and have listened to the films in original language and try as hard as I might I can't deal with it.This is not to say some Germans can't be funny. There are some extremely funny comedians, just Bully is not one of them.

Well, Michael Herbig has become a really international German movie comedy star! He is known just by Manitoe's shoe movie in Czech Republic where I live. No wonder, because Vinnetou stories (Pierre Brice and Lex Barker) were very popular here at 60's - the original German western movies.But (T)Raumschiff Surprise has quite international qualities with the quoting the Star Wars, Start Trek, Matrix... but Herbig also stays the German by nature - greatly inspired by the story telling of the third part of German Spessart movie series "Glorious Times in the Spessart" where the heroes also travel to the past (through middle ages) to save the future.Even the more: Herbig went out to meet American's style. And he made it brilliantly in German style.

Yeah, so, I'm not German (though I do speak it)...The humour is not inherently German (i.e. there is some!), but it is funny. Very, very funny. Bully started with "Der Schuh des Manitu", and that was a poor German ape of Blazing Saddles... but this is different. For a start the special effects make you wonder how Star Wars I-III managed to spend their significantly larger budget. They're good. There's something almost British about the comedic understatement and dead-pan delivery. A knowledge of colloquial German is useful though.The "icon" of the movie, the gay trio of Kirk (Kork), Spock (Spuck) and the other one (it isn't clear which Star Trek character he's meant to be), is the weakest point of the flick, but fortunately it is a minor intrusion. There is plenty of wit, spoofing and entertainment besides. Til Schweiger is excellent - a German Bruce Willis, maybe? Perhaps, as an Auslander, I find this movie more endearing than I should, but I highly recommend it.Mopsgeschwindigkeit!