Galaxy Quest (DVD)

Galaxy Quest is a Sci-Fi adventure spoof about the stars of a cult TV show and stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman and Justin Long. The TV show, called Galaxy Quest, is a 1980's Sci-Fi show in the vein of "Star Trek" and has the same enthusiastic fans. The show has been canceled for 18 years but Jason Nesmith, Gwen DeMarco and Alexander Dane and the rest of the crew still earn their way attending conventions and opening discount stores. During one convention, where they're at each others throats as usual, a race of aliens known as Thermians arrive and ask for their help. Nesmith laughs them off until he gets taken up into their ...  Read the complete review

Never give up, never surrender? Sigourney Weaver ...Tim Allen...Alan Rickman...boldly going where no one fears to tread...truly scrumptious, the funniest space comedy of all time...well, better than Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, anyway (but that wasn't exactly hard, now was it?) Let's not play it down, however, cos Galaxy Quest is just a brilliant, brilliant movie and one of the most enjoyable films of the last five years or so, quite simply wonderful. It's got really good press wherever I've read about it and lives up to all the hype for once. The film centres around a sub Star Trek type cult TV show which has inspired the same ...  Read the complete review

When this movie was first released in 1999, I honestly thought to myself after seeing the trailer that it looked like a load of rubbish. Would it be yet another spoof movie, that although seemingly having a great cast, would amount to very little and be short on laughter. Strike one against Lizzii for being as wrong as a wrong person could have been! THE CAST AND CHARACTERS: Tim Allen plays Jason Nesmith, the egotistical actor who was shot to fame playing Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, in the TV sci-fi series Galaxy Quest. Fighting the alien bad guys with his trusty crew, Nesmith is the man women faint over and the hero men want to be. The show was ...  Read the complete review

Over the Easter weekend, we were at a sci-fi convention listening to actors talking on the stage, actors we recognise as our idols, our heroes. One of these told us about this movie he had watched – about a group of actors in a cult sci-fi TV series, who are at a convention. Hmm. Rather surreal. The event was a Dr. Who convention, the man recommending the film was Colin Baker, the sixth incarnation of the Doctor. So we booked to watch Galaxy Quest on Front Row – me, my fiancé and three of our children aged 10, 9 and 8 years old. It’s a PG and contains only comic violence, although the more squeamish children might find it scary. The ...  Read the complete review

Star Wars has SpaceBalls and now Star Trek has Galaxy Quest. Hmmm. Not a very good trade. When I was told about this film I was promised 'side-splitting humour' in a laugh-a-minute sci-fi extravaganza. D'oh! What I watched was a mildly funny send up of Star Trek. More 'eheh' laughs than 'haha'. The storyline is actually quite good with some entertaining sidequests, like getting a new fuel supply thing for the ship, and it could have been a very funny film if it were handled properly. Just a shame that it wasn't then. The special effects are up to what is expected in this day and age of Jar Jar Binks, and the alien characters are ...  Read the complete review