Stargate: Continuum (2008) (V)

Director:

Martin Wood

Writers:

Brad Wright (developer) &
Jonathan Glassner (developer) ...

Release Date:

29 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

History may never repeat itself again

Plot:

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history. |

Cast

Ben Browder	...	Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell
Michael Shanks	...	Dr. Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping	...	Colonel Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge	...	Teal'c
Claudia Black	...	Vala Mal Doran / Qetesh
Beau Bridges	...	Major General Hank Landry
Richard Dean Anderson	...	Major General Jack O'Neill
Cliff Simon	...	Ba'al
Jacqueline Samuda	...	Nirrti
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steve Bacic	...	Camulus
Darcy Cadman	...	Russian Officer
Vince Crestejo	...	Yu-huang Shang Ti
Colin Cunningham	...	Major Paul Davis
Don S. Davis	...	George S. Hammond
William Devane	...	Henry Hayes
Ron Halder	...	Cronus
David Ingram	...	Air Force Major
Derek Peakman	...	Tok'ra Elder
Tracy Trueman	...	Heather
Jay Williams	...	Ra
Kirsten Williamson	...	Officer
Peter Williams	...	Apophis

Also Known As:

Continuum (USA) (short title)
Stargate Continuum: The Movie (USA) (promotional title)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station, Arctic

Company:

Acme Shark

Trivia:

The film is dedicated to the memory of Paul McCann, 32, and Anthony Huntrod, 20, of the HMS Tireless, who died in an accident during the filming of the arctic scenes of ‘Stargate: Continuum’.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Daniel Jackson looks at a book written by his double, the summary on the back cover is two identical paragraphs, aside from the very first sentence.

Quotes:

Henry Hayes: So what's coming next?
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Death, slavery. More slavery, more death.
Henry Hayes: Look if you want to say 'I told you so' go a head and get it off your chest. But then you can do one of two things; you can help, or you can leave.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Okay, bye!
[starts to walk to the door]
Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell: Jackson!
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Right! I forgot to say, I told you so!
Henry Hayes: Now are you going to help or not?

Movie Connections:

Follows "Stargate SG-1" (1997)

Box Office Worthy and in True Stargate Spirit

The general attitude going into this movie is half-skeptical, half-excited: on the one hand, direct-to-DVD rarely bodes well and Ark of Truth, while not bad on the whole, could have been a lot better; on the other hand, it's a new SG movie, it's got Jack, Goa'uld instead of Ori, whohoo! The verdict? Two words, people.

It's Good!

Continuum redeems the whole "SG1 movies" idea. True, Ark of Truth wasn't such a hard act to follow, but this goes above and beyond the "better than the first film" label. It's a true SG1 story, like we used to get'em in the first seasons. Plenty of adventure (they can't seem to get a break throughout the whole film), interspersed with the small moments we loved throughout the series: the one-liners (yes, Jack's got some lines, but most come from Mitchell), the technobabble (Sam still doesn't get to finish a phrase w/o being interrupted), the hard choices. And a taste of the good old Goa'uld arrogance we all know and love, to boot.

The characters each get their spotlight moment. Mitchell shines throughout, indeed this seemed to be a movie made to show he well and truly belongs to SG1 outside the Ori arc, as well. Daniel gets his moments, as well as Sam, and we get to see both of them interact with Jack once again! On the Goa'uld front, we are treated to a whole parade of former system lords, pretty much anyone you can think of. Baal, of course, is his usual charming evil self. And we get a great new villain in the person of Quetesh, who personifies the perfect Goa'uld queen: subservient, double-faced, deadly. Almost wish she'd been there for the first seasons of the show!

The quality is very good, most scenes would have done very well on a big screen. Effects, great, but then that's nothing new. In short, this movie delivers what it promised: an epic SG1 adventure and a great character show. I'd originally given it 8 stars, but by comparison to Ark of Truth, it gets an extra one. Totally worth the money, can't wait to own the DVD.