Galaxy Quest (DVD)

...the beginning scene when the Galaxy Quest actors are waiting impatiently backstage at the Sci Fi convention for Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) to show up. Their snappy dialogue and quirky character traits grab your attention right away and lead you through the rest of the movie. This is one of the rare movies that has a wonderful, upbeat, talented ensemble cast in which every character is equally enjoyable to watch, and no one uncomfortably upstages ...
...to the movie. Basically, Galaxy Quest is a very well made comedy spoof that doesn't try to be pretentious. And because it doesn't have -- and doesn't try to have -- any of that Hollywood Blockbuster feel, it comes off as an enjoyable, quality flick that Sci Fi fans and just casual moviegoers can watch alike. <> An impressive DVD worthy of the film! Sharp image, wonderful surround sound that takes full advantage of your speakers. There aren't ...

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...them in the adventures of Galaxy Quest! For four years under the command of Taggart the crew has bravely fought of foes and enemies, with gross and outrageous hairstyles to say the least. Then tragedy struck...the series was cancelled!! Twenty years later this outdated crew are still doing conventions, autograph signings and opening small electronic stores, without much interest from the general public. So as their distant fame fades away, the ...
...his little encounter with the galaxy above, Jason tries to covince Gwen, Alexander and the rest of the team that this really happened. Thinking that this is all a joke, the guys tag along, only to have egos bruised as they realise that this is true!! However one teensy, tiny little problem has presented itself. Somehow Mathesar and his people saw every single last episode of Galaxy Quest. Now taking in for a moment that these are aliens, Mathesar ...

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This is one of my all time favourite comedy films, not mentioning the fact that it also has a couple of my favourite actors, Tim Allen and Alan Rickman. It is a Science Fiction/ comedy family film released in 1999 and I think it's meant to be a bit of a spoof on 'Star Trek'. The plot is like a 'film within a film'. I'll keep this review as short, simple and detailed as possible for you. The gist is: *There are 7 actors that presented a series of ...
...adventures battling aliens and stuff, a bit like star trek. The mission in the episodes is to retrieve a special device called the 'Omega 13'. Because the series was never properly completed, no one knows what it does, but it's a powerful device. *The series only lasted a couple of seasons; the actors retired for 17 years and returned for a couple of special shows. *Some real aliens (called 'Thermians' - a peaceful race) see the show on their tv ...

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...am going to rave about. Galaxy Quest is one of the funniest films ever made and I love it to bits. If you are a fan of Science fiction in general, and Star Trek in particular, then you will love this movie. Even if you are not but just enjoy a good comedy then this is well worth a look as it works on many levels and will appeal to a wide audience. Barring the odd swear word it is a real family film. Galaxy Quest, as its title suggests, is a rip-off ...
...the long-cancelled cult SF-TV show, Galaxy Quest. The enraptured audience is watching the last episode of the show on a giant screen. It ends on a major cliff-hanger, with the crew in a seemingly helpless position. Then, the Commander utters the ominous phrase, "Activate the Omega-13". The appreciative crowd erupts, eager to meet their heroes who are about to be introduced on stage. But there is a delay, and we switch back-stage, where we see the ...

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...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 sort of Trekkie anoraks you get in real life, but in this case you go behind the scenes and see the petty ...
...bitch and moan about everything, but especially Tim Allen as the space ship's commander, Taggart, whom the fans love nearly as much as he does himself. The original series ran for four years before being pulled and just like William Shatner, the cast are still making a living out of leaping into their space duds 25 years later, well beam me up Scotty. The film opens at a fans' convention with a photo signing session, but then some real life aliens ...

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...idea with hilarious results is Galaxy Quest. Galaxy Quest was produced by Mark Johnson on behalf of DreamWorks Pictures. Directed by Dean Parisot who was also responsible for the quirky television comedy show Northern Exposure. I was one of the few that actually like this television series which was seen mainly through the eyes of a doctor tricked into living in Alaska to look after the people there. The local DJ, narrated but didn't really appear ...
...the stars of the Galaxy Quest television show. The show has been axed for 18 years and the actors are doing so badly that they are forced to don costumes and attend these conventions to make $15 a signature. They are a motley lot bickering about having to attend and mad that Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen - TV's Home Improvements) seems to get all the glory whilst they stand in the background. Well they are finally all introduced by Guy (Sam Rockwell). ...

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...from a TV series called Galaxy Quest have just about faded into nothing, instead of acting in a popular TV series they only find work by going to signing conventions or opening new buildings. When a group of aliens called Thermians enlist their help beliving that the TV series was in fact historical documents and feel the crew can help save their race from extinction they find themselves having to actually play their parts from the TV show for real. ...
...every way of looking at this film you just can't take it too seriously, there are just too many things that if thought about make no sense (there are with most movies but especially so here). For a start both races seem to only have 1 ship, everyone works out how to use controls they've only ever pretended to use before quickly and various other things mean that though the film is fun to watch you just can't think about it too much. --Humour-- Most ...

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...than at him. Galaxy Quest is, then, our perfect date movie. There's no gore, no human nakedness and very little profanity (in fact, in the video version, there is some obvious dubbing to make it even cleaner) so parents can feel okay about youngsters and teens watching it. And it is FUNNY. Absolutely, laugh out loud, funny. One of Shakespeare's best plays, "A Midsummer's Night Dream," featured a play within a play - a chance for us to laugh at the ...
...craft. This is what makes Galaxy Quest so damned funny. The actors are not admired for their craft, but rather, idolized for the characters they played. Each actor realizes how absolutely silly their roles were, yet, convention stop after convention stop, there they are, pretending for their loyal fans, who are dressed like them, reciting lines the actors themselves are loath to repeat. There the fans are, questioning the technical realities of a ...

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...The TV series of Galaxy Quest was last broadcast two decades ago , and the main stars of the cast are reduced to attending conventions , signing autographs , and opening supermarket. This particularly grates on Rickman who would love to be an actOr with a capital ‘O’.. Allen plays a total prima donna who believes that he is everything, and this grates on the rest of the cast no end. The twist is that the transmissions have recorded by ...
...modelled their society and technology. They are coming towards the end of a long and bitter war, and in desperation turn to the crew of the NSEA Protector (USS Enterprise) in the final hope that Taggart and his crew can save them. The fact that Taggart is approached by the aliens the night after a particularly intense drinking spree doesn’t help. The fun of transplanting the actors into a “real” environment makes for some hilarious ...

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...their long-since cancelled television show Galaxy Quest. Little did they know that their viewers extended beyond our solar system and to a race of beings that are in need of help. These innocent aliens are at war with a nasty race who looks like a cross between an insect and a lobster. They come for help because they believe only Commander Peter Quincy Taggart (Nesmith’s television character) and his crew can save them. Whisked away from a ...
...Thankfully, this doesn’t happen in Galaxy Quest, partly because director Dean Parisot is willing to go more than ten seconds between gags. While this reduces the number of laughs, it substitutes quantity for quality. Most of the humour comes from the caricatures of familiar characters and Hollywood personalities. Tim Allen plays a William Shatner/ Captain Kirk character reasonably effectively, although the self-important Hollywood ‘personality’ ...

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...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 cancelled eighteen years previously, and the movie starts with Nesmith and his ‘crew’ at a Galaxy Quest convention, which they appear at in full costume and character. None of the actors appear to get along and all hate the front man who turns up late and treats them as though ...
...a complete replica of the Galaxy Quest ship, as the Thermians believe the show is in fact, fact! The Thermian leader, Mathesar, played by ‘Just Shoot Me’ star Enrico Colantoni, fully expects them to help defeat the Thermian enemy, lead by the genocidal General Sarris. Completely believing that Galaxy Quest is historical fact, the Thermians have put all their hopes on Nesmith and his fellow actors, trusting that as they have defeated ...

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...recommendation, we booked to watch Galaxy Quest on Front Row – me, my fiancé and three of our children aged 10, 9 and 8 years old. The film is rated PG and contains only comic cartton-type violence, although the more squeamish children might find it scary at times. It certainly makes you jump a bit! The film is very much a parody of Star Trek, but as Dr. Who fans, we still found many parallels. This film is a must for any sci-fi fan. Although ...
...back to the film – Galaxy Quest is a popular sci-fi series which has made stars of its actors. They attend conventions, signing photos for queues of fans and being asked detailed questions by some who seem to believe it is all real. To continue the illusion, the actors turn up in costume and are greeted by many fans in similar attire. But behind the scenes, the actors are not so close knit, with Jason (Tim Allen) – who plays the Galaxy ...

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...film more this year than Galaxy Quest. The premise is a great spoof and I'm surprised it wasn't thought up before this 1999 film. Tim Allen is Jason Nesmith. A washed up actor who played the commander of a space ship in a long since finished Sci Fi series. He earns his living, visiting Sci Fi conventions with the rest of his crew in the show. Alan Rickman played an alien and is still upset about being typecast as he's a classicly trained actor while ...
...have seen the show (called Galaxy Quest) and believe it to be historical documents. Nesmith jumps at the change to play captain for real and finds himself battling rock monsters and cute cuddly things with sharp teeth as the rest of the crew overcome their issues in a bid to save the Thermians and get back to Earth. As a plain comedy this is very funny. You don't need to know anything about Star Trek to enjoy it and laugh along. The film takes a ...

Ork1927 30.04.2001 · Read full review
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...in the trailer anyway. Galaxy Quest I am pleased to say is not one of these but is both amusing and entertaining; both as a dig at Trekkie conventions and as an enjoyable movie in its own right. The story follows the stars of a now cancelled Star Trekesque series who are clinging to their 15 minutes of fame (well... 4 years to be precise) by endless appearences at conventions. The captain Taggart (Tim Allen) is resented by his collegues and is an ...
...fact that her role in the series comprised of repeating instructions to and from the ships computer and displaying her cleavage, Dr Lazurus (Alan Rickman) continually reminds everyone that he was once an eminent Shakespear actor. The cast also included a child prodigy and the inevitable tech sergeant. The series is mistakenly taken as 'historical documents' by a group of gullible aliens who have replicated everything from the show and persuade the ...

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...the help of the heroic Galaxy Quest crew, not knowing that they are merely a group of typecast and now out of work actors (actually it sounds a little like the plot of "A Bug's Life" now I think about it). From then on in, the film chronicles the occasionally hapless attempts of the actors to live up to the Thermians’ expectations. The Region 2 DVD contains a rather cheesy American TV documentary cum advert for the film and a series of quite ...

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