Galaxina (1980)

Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the Blue Star. Subplots: The ship's female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as ... See full summary »

Director:

William Sachs

Writer:

William Sachs

Stars:

Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton

1 win.

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)

Storyline

Main Plot: Crew of interstellar police ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal, the Blue Star. Subplots: The ship's female android and a crew member fall in love. Alien is spoofed as as the captain gives birth to an alien who grows up on the ship thinking the captain is its mother.

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Plot Keywords:

alien | female android | stars | android | false color | 

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Taglines:

She's too good to be true...and too real to be otherwise.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Official Sites:

Crown International Pictures

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 June 1980 (USA)

Also Known As:

Galaxina, a Mulher do Ano 3000

Filming Locations:

Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Marimark Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The name of the correctional prison planet was "Altair One".

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Quotes

Sam Wo: Robot woman like clock: pretty face, pretty hands, pretty movement, but hard to regulate when she get out of order.

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Crazy Credits

During the credits, Capt. Cornelius Butt does a humorous log entry.

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Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Catalina Caper (1990)

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Soundtracks

Damsel in Distress
(uncredited)
Music by David Lindup
KPM Music Ltd

User Reviews

It has a subtle genius for failure.

A strange thing happened the day after I saw Galaxina, back when it was released. The movie is a spoof of sci-fi movies and is full of jokes, puns and sight gags; but I just sat there in the theater and never laughed once. Or, more accurately, I didn't feel the least tickle of amusement. It was more like a string of detached observations of, "Ah, that joke flopped badly." If it had been a live performance, there would have been those crushing dead silences every time the actors paused to allow reactions to their jokes.

The next night, at a party, I was trying describe just how bad the movie really was. This involved, in part, telling several of the jokes. Surprisingly, my listeners laughed at them. I could flatter myself and claim that I'm such a hot comic that I could get laughs even reading the obituaries out loud. But that ain't so. Let's just say that I gave the jokes a mildly competent delivery... and that's what Galaxina didn't do.

Now, a work of genius is indefinable. No matter how much you analyze it, you can never quite pin down why it is so exceptional, while another film - with all the same objective attributes - is merely competent. The same is true of transcendent badness. The world is full of bad movies, with the same objective failures in budget, acting, writing and directing. But Galaxina is loaded with subtle catastrophes. There are nuances that extract the worst possible effect from so many scenes. And I can't quite figure out how it was done. Without this quality Galaxina might actually have ended up acceptably incompetent, a fun cheapo film, and gotten the laughs I did from its jokes.