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Director:

William Sachs

Writer:

William Sachs (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

6 June 1980 (USA) more

Tagline:

In the 31st Century Man finally created a machine... with feelings !

Plot:

Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the blue star.... more | add synopsis

Awards:

1 win more

User Comments:

How Not To Make A Supremely Bad Comedy more (23 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Stephen Macht ... Sgt. Thor
Avery Schreiber ... Capt. Cornelius Butt
J.D. Hinton ... Buzz (as James David Hinton)
Dorothy Stratten ... Galaxina (as Dorothy R. Stratten)
Lionel Mark Smith ... Maurice
Tad Horino ... Sam Wo
Ronald Knight ... Ordric
Percy Rodrigues ... Ordric's Voice (voice)
Herb Kaplowitz ... Rockeater / Kitty / Opera Singer (as Herbert Kaplowitz)

Aesop Aquarian ... Chopper (as Stephen Morrell)
Angelo Rossitto ... Monster from Egg
Nancy McCauley ... Elexia (as Nancy Macauley)
Fred D. Scott ... Commander Garrity
David A. Cox ... Mr. Spot
Peter Schrum ... Fat Daddy (as Pete Schrum)
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Additional Details

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:PG (Manitoba) | Canada:R (Nova Scotia) | UK:15 (2003) | Australia:M | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R | West Germany:12


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Many of the door sound effects on-board the ship are taken from "Star Trek" (1966). more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Star 80 (1983) more


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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
How Not To Make A Supremely Bad Comedy, 4 February 2002
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Author: Jan Six from Austin, Texas

The odd thing about Galaxina is not that it is supremely bad, although it is. The odd thing is that in spite of being supremely bad, it is not funny. Supremely bad movies have their own particular brand of unintended humor--the secret of their success, you might say. But Galaxina is quite uniquely different--it is MST3K's worst nightmare, a bad movie in which the intentional *and* the unintentional humor alike fall flat.

It is easy enough to figure out why the intentional jokes fail--and the reasons are quite varied. Sometimes it's a timing question; sometimes it's a good idea badly worked out (the human restaurant *could* have been hilarious, but it wasn't); sometimes it feels like there was some mixup in the cutting room, with the punchline ending up on the floor; and sometimes the jokes are just bad jokes. Bad movies get their laughs from such unintentional snafus. It's harder to figure out why Galaxina doesn't get any laughs on that count. Something is subtly wrong with the unintentional humor in this movie, just as something is wrong (not at all subtly) with the intentional humor. It is a supremely bad movie whose very badness is not the redeeming quality it usually is. It's absolutely unique in my experience.

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