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Hello. My name is Ryan and I'm an Gate-o-holic.
As you *may* have picked up on from previous reviews, I love everything Stargate based and this is no exception. (Surprise)
So, after nearly dying of a mini stroke when I noticed I'd missed the first showing of this on Sky One, you can only begin to imagine my delight when my bestest buddy messaged me to inform me that Sky has not one, but many channels, dedicated to ending my life in a television related illness. Thankfully, one of these such channels (Sky Two as they so academically named it) was showing the repeat tonight.
Yes, I could have just downloaded it since those god...er...fearing..ahem...Americans got it first, but that would be totally against everything that I stand for. That and I was busy with Atlantis...hmm...
So, down to the nitty gritty. The Ark Of Truth is a Made-for-TV-movie. It is based on a true story and is a tear jerker about a mother forced to make the audience fall asleep... Oh wait no sorry, that's every OTHER Made-For-TV-Movie!
This one, as much as it worried me with the MFTM title, was a little television shaped orgasm.
The point behind this movie is to conclude the amazingly successful SG-1 series which ended with a vague hope that the most evil dudes in the universe (The Ori) were dead...but the unfortunate fact that their army lived on and weren't all too aware of their masters demise still remained.
This (essentially) extended episode centres around a device that can thwart this powerful foe once and for all and, as always, the mass amounts of fun the team have when they 1. try to find it and 2. try to make it work.
The cast of SG-1 are back for the movie which makes it a tad confusing if you like continuity. Not that it's not fandabby having the gang back to kick some alien butt, but it's a little confusing for the avid gater (yes, we get confused) The movie is supposed to follow right on from the end of season 10...but being a movie it took a liiiiittle bit longer to get made so most gaters will have already seen the team go their separate ways for season 4 of the spin off show Atlantis.
Most people won't mind but it bugged me, generally since the SG-1 writers fit all the spin offs together seamlessly. They obviously planned to have the movie out a bit sooner. Oh well.
As for the plot, good stuff. Nothing groundbreaking, though they did throw in a few new bad guys for the team to deal with, one of which was the very crude alien robot thing that took the form of a really screwed up skeleton. I dubbed it the Termi-gater. It made me laugh ok.
There are a couple of gory bits in this (think brains on spikes) but its not a major feature of the film. The visual effects are, as usual top notch and make it that little bit more fun to watch.
I'd like to say I'll buy the DVD but being honest I most likely wont. It would not do well as a stand alone piece. You need your Stargate knowledge on hand to really know what's going on since its main audience is, after all, the gate-geeks. Since you would need the knowledge it would be kinda redundant owning this when I don't own the SG-1 series. THAT is what my lesbian friend is for.
Overall, a fantastic conclusion that will have any Stargate fanatic writhing with pleasure in their tightey whiteys.
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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