Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

1985 "He alone has the power"
6.4| 1h47m| en
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Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that only he can master. Escaping the planet, he runs into the rogue smuggler Dagg and a pair of helpful droids and the princess, who all team up to return to the Mine-World with a plan to defeat Zygon and free Orin's enslaved people.

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Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
JoeB131 How did LucasFilm NOT sue over this? How? Okay so some bad Korean Animation characters do a ripoff of Star Wars, with the plucky hero with a mystical power involving swords, or something, and a wise-cracking pilot and a sexy princess who fortunately does not happen to be his sister, because, ick! We also have some sassy robots, but no Wookies, thankfully.Except nothing the characters do actually make sense. we find out that the people running the evil robots are in fact evil robots themselves. Some of the creature designs looked interesting, there are things you can do with animation that you can't do with practical effects. The downside was that the animation quality was somewhere above Star Trek the animated series and somewhere below Heavy Metal and nowhere in the same vicinity as Disney quality. Could have been a 5, but subtract 1 for ripoff and 1 for Robot Misogyny.
lothos-370-690020 This was a shameless ripoff of star wars. From the young fish out of water kid welding a sword, with no blade, sent on an adventure by an old man, to the prissy camp ship AI. Even has a Han solo smuggler type and mask wearing bad guy. Everything about this tripe is either unoriginal or disturbing. The animation has robots wearing human skin, trying to tear the main character apart, way to appeal to kids dip shits. There are even pleasure bots and an ass probing scene. When not violating robots Han, I mean Dag, exchanges a few lines with a Jaba the hut type, complete with slave girls and paedophilia references. The star wars ripoffs continue till the end, but this film doesn't deserve any more of my time. In short don't bother, you've seen it done before and better, also less messed up.
Dmitry Zemskov This cartoon brought me back to childhood. Although earlier I never saw it. This is a tremendous atmosphere of cosmic stories of the eighties. Filled with buttons, spaceships and anthropoid robots. Not without influence of Star Wars. Jedi and the force is also present here. I am delighted as a child. 3D is simply a set of layers but it looks good on small screens like TVs revealing their full potential. But watching the projection of large size probably is not very good because too much parallax throughout the film. I want to believe that someone would reissue this cartoon now on BlueRay3D and I think that it will be claimed.
Lucien Lessard In the future, the humans has become slaves and the artificial intelligence has taken over parts of the galaxy. The slave known as Orin (Voiced by Joe Colligan) found an sword in the mines, which was deep buried in a subterranean Mine-World, which they are digging for crystals. Along with his girlfriend, they manage to escape from the mines but they were caught by robotic guards and their evil lord Zygon (Voiced by Anthony De Longis). When Zygon kills Orin's girlfriend, he manages to escape again, although Zygon thinks that he killed Orin, while he tried to escape. For the first time in Orin's life, he finds himself in the outside world and he becomes friends with an sleazy but well-intended crystal runner named Dagg (Voiced by Carmen Argenziano). Orin has an sword with mysterious powers and he needs to found out, what is the magical sword is good for. Now Orin has to free his people back in the mines to release them from their grim lives but he has to face Zygon again to free them.Directed by Steven Hahn made an entertaining, well executed animated film is something of a cross between "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" at times. The movie even reminds me of "Heavy Metal" sometimes. But the script by Jeffery Scott (Who is a long-time TV Writer) has some ambitious ideas and the premise is very clever, although it is surprisingly dark premise for an then PG release back in 1985. Although forgotten by now but this movie does have an small loyal cult following.DVD from MGM is presented in its original Widescreen aspect ratio of 2.35:1 format. Which the DVD is presented in an anamorphic format. DVD also has an good Dolby 2.0 Surround Sound. There's no special features on this underrated movie. The late Les Tremayne as Dagg's ship computer Arthur is the comic relief of the movie. Originally released in 3-D. Widescreen. (****/*****).