MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Sam Panico Starcrash holds fond memories for me, because I saw it on a double bill with tomorrow's film, Battle Beyond the Stars, at the Spotlite 88 Drive-In Theater. I vividly remember my dad laughing through most of the movie, but really liking the part where the rockets were fired into the Count's ship and men jumped out of them. For the next several months, I thought more about these two films than Star Wars - we still had another year to go before The Empire Strikes Back as this was in the days before constant Star Wars-related media.

lemon_magic "Starcrash" has Christopher Plummer in it for about 15 minutes of screen time, so I simply can't give it 1 star. He has a 2 minute wrap-up speech at the end where he tries valiantly to summon enough dignity and conviction to redeem the 80+ minutes of nonsense that preceded it But that feat is beyond even his abilities. Let me put it this way: I saw this movie once, 20 years ago. And as we watched the opening episode 4 of the relaunched MST3K show, and announced that the movie would be "Starcrash", I instinctively reacted with a level of dismay that amazed (and amused) my wife. And I've seen "Manos", "Red Zone Cuba", "Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies ?!!", and "Monster A- Go- Go" without raising an eyebrow."Starcrash" appears to have been written and produced by precocious 12 year olds who really liked "Star Wars", but didn't understand a thing about writing screenplays. Or narrative logic. Or cause-and- effect. Or how human beings talk. Worst example of this is the character of "Aktor" (who I think is Marjoe Gortner); about halfway through the movie, the character starts pulling out various Force powers and light sabers and precognition abilities every few minutes with absolutely no setup or justification, as if he were an Italian "Ultraman". And then he dies from a cut to the arm for no good reason (he won't let his teammates treat him because it was "fore- destined"). Carol Monroe, who is front and center for 90% of the movie...well she looks smashing in her thigh high boots and dominatrix bikini, but has all the emotional range of a sack of cement. Some of this may be the dubbing, because she sounds utterly American here, but I've read that she's actually British. So maybe not all her fault...but this is strictly a one-note performance. The sets and costumes and props and spaceships are a random hodgepodge of goofy colors and textures, and outer space appears to be lit by Christmas tree lights. In short, this makes Roger Corman's output look good. It's easily one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen, and I've seen dozens.Half a star added because it's obviously not meant to be taken seriously.

boltar469 I was inspired to watch this by reading the various other reviews that describe this movie as so outrageously bad it provides a ROTFLMAO experience. Well, it does indeed live down to that assessment. I was tempted to abandon it early on for the sub original Flash Gordon effects, wooden acting (Christopher Plummer appeared to be asleep during all of his shots - HOW did they persuade him to appear?), amazingly stupid and poorly delivered dialog and grotesque scenery chewing by the villains - but I grimly hung in there till the very end.The leather bikini covered too much and got covered by other things during way too much screen time.All in all, a profoundly silly and grotesque little movie.

Aaron1375 Often times when there is a successful film in the United States it is copied in other countries. When Dawn of the Dead was released it spawned many copycats in Europe, mainly in Italy. These films ranged from cheesy fun to horrible endeavors that were still somewhat fun to watch. Alien spawned its fair share of copycats as well and so did Conan the Barbarian. With all you had some films that was pretty good copycats along with the bad. Unfortunately, Star Wars also spawned a lot of copycats and its copycat films were usually just dreadful and more often blatant rip-offs. The other films seemed to add their own flair to the film they were mimicking, while for reasons unknown the Star Wars rip-offs would use a lot of the same plot devices and sometimes they would even use actual footage from Star Wars! The most one of the Dawn of the Dead copycats did was the same music. This one does have a bit of its own things in it, but for the most part it is like watching a Star Wars made for someone with attention deficit disorder.The story starts out with two smugglers being pursued by some sort of space police. They evade them and find a mysterious ship that has been seemingly abandoned in the ghost ship graveyard. The female member of the crew goes out and takes aboard a man who is crazed and spouting about red monsters. The two members of the crew then get captured by the space police and are put on trial. The female has to make a jail break and gets captured again by a robot and alien space police, only they are planning on taking her to the emperor of the galaxy who wants the two smugglers to find out where another guy's planet is and his son. This all takes place in the first fifteen minutes of the film! I mean there is enough plot going on to cover over half the film! We have Amazon warriors, ice planets and a navigator who can repel lasers and seems more powerful than anyone always staying aboard the ship while the female member of the crew and the robot go explore and usually get captured and get messed up all while searching for the villain's main lair and the red monsters that are disappointing beyond belief! So, no, this one is bad. The only things it has going for it is that the acting is not atrocious and the female is really nice to look at especially when she is wearing a few nice and revealing costumes. Strangely, while this is a rip off of the first Star Wars, I cannot help but think George Lucas saw this film and used a few ideas put forth in it, into Empire and Jedi. The team goes to a frozen planet like Hoth in Empire, the girl is taken captive by savages like the Ewoks (though not as cute) and is about to be eaten by them, the floating city made me immediately think of Cloud City and one of the nice outfits looks a lot like the one Leia wore in Jedi. So who knows, as bad as this one was, maybe it gave Lucas a few good ideas? In the end though, this film was just a very fast paced film that seemingly was put together by a kid with attention deficit disorder and comes complete with a light saber and a mysterious navigator that kicked butt and made light shows come out of his hand.