Starcrash

PG

Released Mar 9, 1979

1h 32m

Sci-Fi

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33%

9 Reviews

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36%

1,000+ Ratings

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A space explorer and his girlfriend try to protect Earth from devastation.

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Eddie Harrison

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... a wonderful mess on a par with Luigi Cozzi’s similarly bonkers The Humanoid, Starcrash is the ideal film to zone out and just go with it, whatever it is...

Rated: 3/5

Jan 23, 2024

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Andrew Todd

Birth.Movies.Death.

Heartless and sexless (despite Munro's bondage gear outfit), the drama and excitement has been sucked out of everything it's borrowed from Star Wars.

Sep 1, 2019

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R.L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

The single greatest sci-fi camp fest ever put on celluloid. This film boasts the perfect blend of goofy cheese and unhinged imagination.

Rated: 10/10

Oct 14, 2010

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Sean Axmaker

Parallax View

... both the most ridiculous and the most irresistible of all the Star Wars knock-offs of the late seventies and eighties.

Sep 14, 2010

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Matt Brunson

Creative Loafing

This isn't a bad movie like The Switch or Grown Ups, where even once is too much; this is the type to be savored again and again, like a patented Ed Wood mess-terpiece.

Rated: 1/4

Sep 13, 2010

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Mel Valentin

eFilmCritic.com

Rated: 1/5

Feb 18, 2006

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pontem l

Action-packed B sci-fi with bad acting bad dubbing bad effects but with lots of effort. A for effort.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/01/24

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David R

I'm guilty of enjoying Caroline Munro's beautiful image on film. Apart from that, this movie was a dismal waste of time. Surprising that Christopher Plummer was in this. No plot, no writing, no acting, rudimentary low-budget SFX. No explanations for any movements in the story. Spend your time elsewhere.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

09/24/23

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David W

Three of the stars are purely for the stunningly beautiful Caroline Munroe. They even made the strange choice and it's sooo obvious, to redub Ms Monroe with the unknown and uncredited Candy Clark (who's intonation often tonally and hilariously misses the context of the on screen proceedings) despite Caroline having a lovely voice and being one of the few members of the cast able to act. The skimpily clad Ms Munroe not withstanding it's otherwise just unintentionally hilarious and has so many low points it virtually starts to dig. Notably it features (if the word can really be used in this context) a robot with the most out of place voice you'll ever hear, the aforementioned Ms Munroe's terrible dubbing, totally not special special effects, a totally phoned in couldn't give a crap just give me the money performance from the usually superb Christopher Plumber, a heavily 'borrowed' plot (despite the writers apparent protestations to the contrary) and a committed but talentless turn from a young 'The Hoff'. It's about as camp as low budget sci-fi gets but it does qualify as so bad it's good and is strangely watchable in a car crash (not Starcrash) way. The special effects really are just so laughable and I mean that quite literally. This is an obvious turkey of a film but it tries so hard (with the exception of Mr Plummer and the director Lewis Coates) that it feels quite churlish to dismiss it as just a bad Star Was knock off. Yet its so derivative (like Star Wars envisioned by Ed Wood) and badly done. And why the hell did meistro John Barry get involved in this? I can only assume that Plummer and Barry owed someone (probably Corman) a sizeable favour. All that said its well worth watching for a laugh in both it's original incarnation and then the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version which adds to the inherent hilarity. You can't really enjoy this level of poor sober but after a few (lots of) beers you'll most likely very much enjoy it but just probably not for the reasons they intended. Nb, I wonder if an edit with Caroline Munroe's voice still intact exists? If so, I like to see that.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/10/23

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Dirt M

If you like grainy film, goofy lasers, space babes, model spacecrafts hanging from string, and admiring a time in filmmaking that, for some reason, seems so hard to recreate. This one's for you

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/20/23

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christopher c. m

The story is more than the normal cash in but a down right knock off. Akton has a discount light saber from a ring. Which makes me wonder if Mel Brooks was a fan of the movie? The ultimate weapon so lame, the evil villain even ditches before the end of the movie and attacks with a hand shaped space ship. It has piss poor effects, even for a Roger Corman movie and the dialog was just bad But even though it's bad it can be enjoyable bad at places. But with some annoying characters makes not quite so bad it's good. But not horrible either. Not the worst knockbuster I ever saw but hardly the best or even good. It's just meh.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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michael a

What do you get when you cross Barbarella, Flash Gordon and Star Wars? A hot mess, with Christopher Plummer!?

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Luigi Cozzi

Director

Marjoe Gortner

Akton

Caroline Munro

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Christopher Plummer

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Synopsis

A space explorer and his girlfriend try to protect Earth from devastation.

Director: Luigi Cozzi
Screenwriter: Luigi Cozzi, Nat Wachsberger
Production Co: Nat and Patrick Wachsberger Productions
Rating: PG
Genre: Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 9, 1979, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 10, 2018
Runtime: 1h 32m
Sound Mix: Surround

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