In recent years, sci-fi - from Star Wars to Doctor Who - has become increasingly popular amongst people, regardless of gender, age and background... and so comes along Galaxy Quest, a story of love, loss, discovery and danger: this Star-Trek parody takes a fresh - and much needed - new look at the genre of science fiction. A crew of five disheartened actors in dead-end jobs is launched head first into a journey which leaves them battling their way across the universe accompanied by a NSEA Protector space ship full of naive "Thermian" aliens, led by the worshipful Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni), using "appearance generators" to make themselves ...  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

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

Just when you thought that sci-fi films had nothing more to offer, Galaxy Quest comes along and proves you wrong in the funniest way possible. It begins in a normal Science Fiction convention (if that can be considered normal) based around the fictional Galaxy Quest space series. The actors are trying to make ends meet after the show was cancelled and are convincing themselves that they are still actors, despite being out of work and being 'cult' characters. But things change for the hasbeen sci-fi actors when some real aliens mistake their tv show for a news reel and are soon contacting Tim Allen's Commander Peter Quincy Taggart (not in ...  Read the complete review