Galaxina

Yeah, the dialogue ain't classic, the effects,sets, and costumes are beyond cheesy. That said, after a couple of Earth Colas this sci-fi comic confection grows on you. I didn't feel restless or bored and though the gags are hit-or-miss enough worked to give "Galaxina" the thumbs up. It also helps that the film has a game and engaging cast. As for Dorothy R. Stratten, the former Playmate of the Year who was murdered by her husband prior to the film's release, she is drop dead gorgeous as Galaxina. Granted, there aren't enough opportunities to fluorish when you're playing a white spandex clad robot but there is a little in Stratten's performance that suggest that she could have had a career in film. There's something a little touching in Stratten's scenes where she longs to be human so that she can pursue a relationship with the film's perfunctory lead, Stephen Macht. In a nutshell this film may aim low but I found it eminently more enjoyable than some of the latter day pretentious CGI flicks.

I saw this movie at the drive in shortly after it came out in 1980. It's been 37 years since I last saw it. I was home sick this week and was looking for something science fictiony to watch and this popped up. I thought "why not?"Ummm....why not? I wish I could say that this movie was so bad that it was good, but I can't. It is truly an awful movie that I somehow made it through mostly to the end. I started browsing on my phone about the time of the Har Lee David Son worship scene came on. But my Internet browsing was related to the movie as I was researching Dorothy Stratton.The movie. If I never see another movie with Avery Scheiber in it, I will die happy. I know he died in around 2002 and I have to admit that I did a search for Mr. Scheiber to see what else he was in just so I could make a mental note NEVER to watch it. Yeah. He was that bad. His acting was amateurish at best and it appeared that he was winging it through most of his scenes trying ever so hard to be funny. With me, it completely failed.The guy that played Cowboy was supposed to be the dumb cute blond guy. He came close to pulling off his part of this mess.The two guys in maintenance...the first Spock ripoff with the ears and wings and the the proverb spewing oriental guy were actually mostly OK. Especially proverb guy. I kind of liked him. There was another Spock ripoff in the saloon scene. This guy had the uniform and cauliflower ears. Whatever.The two main characters in Thor and Galaxina could have possibly made the movie had it been a serious movie instead of a "comedy." And I think that is where the whole issue came in with me. Thor was pretty much portrayed as an idiot who seemed to have trouble counting past 40 (during the workout rowing scenes...waaaayyyy too long of a scene). But had this been a drama and with him in the role in a serious part, I think he could have helped make this thing a better movie. Because unlike the other actors, I actually wanted to like him.Now as far as the lovely Dorothy Stratton. She unfortunately got stuck in a serious role in a comedy with a bunch of not very funny guys. I know this was her first major role in a film and she was Playboy's PMOY in 1980 as well as a PMOM in 1979 but I was still surprised that she did not come off as sounding like a complete bimbo once she started talking. It would have been interesting to see where her career would have gone had that goon of a husband had not killed her. I always thought Stratton was one of the most gorgeous playmates to ever grace the pages of PB. Yes, I do remember when she was in it :)All in all, this could have been a better movie without Avery Scheiber in it and had it been set up as a more serious film.

Galaxina was a silly sci-fi B movie made in 1980, starring James David Hinton, Stephen Macht, the funny Avery Shreiber and the lovely (and soon to be murdered Playboy Playmate of the Year) Dorothy Stratten. Dorothy Stratten is nice to look at and some of the lines Avery Shreiber drops are funny AND sometimes make sense in the world the story is set in but the rest of the characters are not worth talking about. Written and directed by William Sachs the story is about the crew of a police cruiser who, after a very long and boring patrol in deep space, are given another mission. A dangerous mission to Altar One, to get the Blue Star. The problem is the planet is 27 years away from their current position and they're have to spend the whole time in suspended animation because they're ship is old and can't go faster than light. This movie would have made a great one for the guys at MST3K. Why? The special effects are cheap, the settings are cheaper and the aliens look silly. For example, the crew's spaceship, when launching away from Kitty's landing pad, uses the Heat Ray sound from War of the Worlds when turning on the engines. A town on an alien planet is just a Western set with color lens on the camera. Most of the aliens are people with rubber masks or half naked women with painted skin or a little of both. They make fun of Star Trek, Alien, Star Wars and the whole thing makes Dark Star look like Shakespeare. In other words it is a hoot if you're on drugs. But otherwise very weird and very, very cheap. There are problems with the disc. The DVD version looks too dark and sometimes the film seems to be squeezed into the screen, like the transfer from video was messed up. The extras, like the star bios and slide show go by too quickly (and let's face facts - nobody in this movie was ever really a well known star). The Easter Egg is easy to find and boring to boot. In other words, if you already have a good copy on VHS there is no reason to get the disc. Go get Silent Running if you want cheap and GOOD sci-fi.

Genuinely awful, and so much fun because of that! Seriously politically incorrect, but no worse than a stand up comedian routine, but if jokes from 40 years ago offend, this is not the goofy, 70's lifestyle influenced, scifi spoof for you. Lots of "in" jokes for people who've seen the original Star Wars, original Alien, and maybe even Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Never heard of this film until now. Pick it up because an actor from monster squad started in this film. Weird movie with silly plot with special effects from star wars original movie and old tv shows from the 1970s. No characters development with spaced out time. Sadly the actress passed away the same year it was released.

Not as much fun as you would think. Didn't really work for us as a comedy or as a so bad its good film. Most of the jokes fall flat, not sure if it's because they have dated or if they just weren't funny in the first place.

Good quick delivery, happy.

I did think it was a good film. But nothing that I expected it to be.

Galaxina ist ein unterhaltsamer, humoristischer Film aus dem Jahr 1980. Diese Science-Fiction Parodie stellt keine hohen Ansprüche, aber trotzdem ist es ein ziemlich gelungenes B-Movie. Es werden hier einige berühmte Science-Fiction Filme gut oder weniger gut parodiert. Die Hauptrolle spielt Dorothy Stratten, die leider kurz danach auf tragische Weise ihr Leben verlor.Alles in allem ein Film für Fans dieses Genres oder auch nur ein Filmchen zur Erinnerung. Auch ist die Qualität von Bild und Ton nicht gerade bestens.

Buena película pero mala edición.Creo que es lo peor edición que sacó Tema, imagen borrosa, audio castellano con ruído que se nota que lo sacaron del VHS, además de no escucharse claras las voces.En tema de extras, pues lo que vienen acostumbrados a darnos, un trailer, filmografías selectas del director y la ficha artística.Una pena que se dignen a editar esta peli y lo hagan tan cutre y eso que pone que es del 35 aniversario... me recuerda a las ediciones asquerosas sin licencia de Resen o Llamentol.