Great Film overall

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I am sorry to say that I will never be able to properly, fairly review this. I haven't seen it, learned about it only recently, got hooked by the little image on the poster image (shown here) but then, after learning that it once sold for a pound, that is £1 only, albeit British Pound Sterling, it now sells for umpteen gazillion bucks in my native currency (which is useless, mind you) and since I downloaded the trailer this morning in search of some desperately needed clarification, I am way less than impressed with the prospect of "blue movie type acting" and "a cold, machinated performance" - like, where could the fun possibly be?It remains a Collector's Item. Dorothy Stratten, Playboy Playmate of the Year, murdered, STAR 80 and all that.Only, she should have been in a better plot. Not this obviously wrong-headed inane drivel with stupid male actors and useless animated- death robotic theme.I have six options. Super-expensive Anniversary DVD. Slightly less expensive Spanish-language only. Halfway as expensive Spanish set with cartoon cover, but English option, which I just don't trust. Or any of two huge box-sets with multitudes of even junkier movies. Or partial downloads, in eleven parts, I don't think all eleven will even be available.But I just saw the short review of the guy who summed it up masterfully by saying that there is no other reason to obtain it than for Dorothy, and even then, she has limited screen-time.So, what's the use?Pity. Great pity.Wasted opportunity. The girl is a cult icon now. By all accounts, she was a sweet thing definitely not remotely a cold android.I haven't seen it. I never will. So shoot me for talking in ignorance. But one look at the trailer... oooh the dregs of off-off-off Hollywood.

It's the year 3008. This is the story of the crew of the United Intergalactic Federation police cruiser 308 The Infinity. The crew is led by Capt. Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber) and Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht). The ship has a robot named Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten). They are ordered to faraway Altair-1 which will take 27 years to retrieve The Blue Star. Ah-Ha!!This is a campy sci-fi B-movie from writer/director William Sachs. It came out after the big explosion in sci-fi movies. However it would be a mistake to compare it to their better made brethren. This one borrows heavily from Star Trek, Star Wars, and Alien. It puts a light comedic spin on it. It's not an obvious spoof like a Jim Abrahams-David Zucker movie. If you nitpick, the sets are sparse and cheap. The effects are low grade. Dorothy Stratten is robotic. Sure she plays a robot, but people complain. I just love Avery Schreiber as the stupid captain. Stephen Macht is great. The jokes usually work for me. It does need to pick up the pace and insert more jokes. Generally, this is good camp.

Everything can be done right, even if the resources needed are not always available. I also can understand that not everything works out as planned but this seems like a stretch. There is potential here but there just isn't enough effort to really call it even a movie. It tries its hardest to be a parody but that can't even be performed thoroughly either. So what's the problem? Practically everything, I only found one thing that was KIND OF funny.To get right to the point, the main reason why anyone would want to go see this movie is because it focuses on a character portrayed by a playboy model. That is it. Unless there are hardcore fans of the other unknown actors, there's a good chance there is no other reason. Here's where the main problem is - the writing. William Sachs, who wrote and directed this film, displays that his ability to produce a quality story has a low probability. There is no story here. It is not until a third of the way into the movie will the audience actually here about some kind of an objective; which felt like an eternity.The story (if that's what one would call it) is about a goofy space police crew who travel through space on a real dumb journey. In charge of the crew are Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht) and Captain Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber), probably some of the worst character names ever made. And along with them is their, I guess pilot, Galaxina played by Dorothy Stratten. Weird thing is, the actual name "Galaxina" is a brand. Apparently every police squad is issued one. Hmmm...so doesn't that defeat the purpose of basing this movie off the main character? I thought the name was to represent a specific individual, not a company.Anything else beyond this point is just cheap effects, bad sound engineering, impossible logic, stolen music and a slew of other lame characters. The cheap effects belong to the silly lazer fights between people or space ships. The bad sound engineering belong to things like screeching tires being used for space ships making U-turns. Come on really? There's too much that belongs to impossible logic because there's way too much to go over. Can you believe this film doesn't even have a designated composer? That's because none of the music is original! If you watch this movie, any of the music being played already belongs to some other famous movie. Lastly, the lamest character in this movie is the villain. Just downright insulting. He sounds like a James Earl Jones' understudy that didn't make the cut.Now I know this movie is a sci-fi parody of sorts but nothing works. The small amount of slapstick that is injected does not leave a good impression and the acting isn't memorable either. Just because there's an actor mocking Spock called Mr. Spot, doesn't make it clever. Also having a bunch of space bikers worship a god named "Harlee David Son" is being extremely unoriginal. Even stranger is that there is an actual actor who plays a convincing robot and to be honest, I would have preferred seeing that actor portray Galaxina than Dorothy Stratten, who barely made herself look like a robot at all. This movie should only be seen if you want to waste time.Not only is this movie an insult to the sci-fi genre but it also creates a bad reputation for the parody genre. This is not even enjoyable on the worst level possible. Don't waste your time.

I don't remember when I first saw this movie --I'm sure it was late night HBO as a kid when I was not supposed to be watching. But it is one that just kind of grows on you. I own the DVD but just watched it On Demand through Comcast today and still saw something new.Is it a "B" Movie? Absolutely. And they make no real pretense it's not low budget. However, I think some of their covers were pretty clever. An industrial hallway becomes the main corridor of the ship. 70's furniture is futuristic (this was 1980.) And of course the planet they visit will have an Old West/Biker Movie theme. The Tavern in the town is "Aliens Only" and they only serve humans on the menu. What a menu, part of the fun is in the reading - it is both gross and clever at the same time.Watching this. I like to think Dorothy Stratten could have really done on to do more. While she is not the greatest and it's rather obvious she is a beginner, she showed potential. Avery Schreiber mostly steals the show -- especially the end credits.Dialog is either very clever or very stupid. The spoof commercials are worth a chuckle. To paraphrase one: "Do you have a substance abuse problem? Great! We have locations all over the galaxy to serve you." The majority of the soundtrack is classical music -- which works (and was no doubt cheap). If you have watched any other films of the early 80's that disco crap quickly becomes annoying.We had a lot of fun trying to place all the other shows and films, they shamelessly "borrowed" from. Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, 70's horror films, even the Batmobile makes an appearance.If nothing else, a drinking game for every time they say the BLUE STAR (A-HA!) is definitely in order.If you want to see serious scifi, this is not your film. If you want to take a bit of a mental break, enjoy the classical music, try to figure out where they stole material from, and see the very lovely Dorothy Stratten before she was murdered. This is a good movie.