Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods - Final Cut (Video 2009)

Remastered, re-cut, re-imagined, remarkable! The thrilling pilot episode of television's longest-running sci-fi series.

Director:

Mario Azzopardi

Writers:

Brad Wright (developed for television by), Jonathan Glassner (developed for television by),

Stars:

Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Richard Dean Anderson	...	Colonel Jack O'Neill
Michael Shanks	...	Dr. Daniel Jackson
Amanda Tapping	...	Captain Samantha Carter
Christopher Judge	...	Teal'c
Don S. Davis	...	Major General George Hammond
Jay Acovone	...	Major Charles Kawalsky
Vaitiare Bandera	...	Sha're / Amaunet
Robert Wisden	...	Major Bert Samuels
Peter Williams	...	Apophis
Brent Stait	...	Major Louis Ferretti
Gary Jones	...	Sgt. Walter Harriman
Alexis Cruz	...	Skaara / Klorel
Rachel Hayward	...	Sgt. Carol Weterings
Rick Ravanello	...	Guard #2
J.B. Bivens	...	Guard #1

Storyline

An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.

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Genres:

Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 July 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

Stargate: Children of the Gods

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 92 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Last role of John 'Bear' Curtis.

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Goofs

When Colonel O'Neil returns to Abydos, to retrieve Dr. Jackson, the first Abydonian boy who jumps around a corner with a M4A1, has no magazine in the guns receiver, and when the camera changes to a front view of same boy there is a magazine in the gun.

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Connections

Edited from Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (1997)

User Reviews

couldn't get through it

I came to this as a Stargate innocent — I'd never watched an episode. I figured a reworked pilot of the series might be a good place to start, if I was ever going to dip into the franchise. But, after this film, I'm certainly not going to give Stargate another chance.

Couldn't get through it.

Stilted, trite, plodding, it just reeks of old-school sci-fi camp. The characters are paper thin pretty boys and girls, the acting so weak that you can see them trying to remember their lines and "make believe."

The plotting is nonsensical, lurching from one sound stage to the next with little rhyme or reason, hurling clichés at the audience faster than you can roll your eyes.

And, from what I understand from the other sprinkling of comments, this version was stripped of a little sexiness in the original that might have made it at least tolerable to sit through.

Sci-fi can be worse than this. But not much. Maybe when it was new, I could have stomached it. But after the anté for dramatic quality in TV sci-fi has been upped by series like BSG, not a chance — I'm spoiled now.