Starfighters (1992) Poster

(1992)

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3/10
Masked Wrestlers fantasy and science
Gorbo6 May 2007
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A graceful prince of a far away planet is forced to abandon his reign in order to escape from the perfidious Nitron, "the vampire interplanetary" that means to conquer the universe. When damage forces the spaceship in which he is traveling to the Earth, a girl aboard his craft confronts two generous champions of freedom and autonomy, "Mysterious El" and "El Volador", who are Masked Wrestlers from Bolivia. They take great care that she is familiarized with the land habits of earthlings, including making love and drinking beer. The prince learns from his new friends all the secrets of a galaxy ring, which can destroy all evil as well as burn rocks. Fearing that they will be attacked by the enemy, the girl decides to hide herself behind the identity of the earth singer Larossa, who had died a year previous.

The plot is discovered by Nitron, he also learns that the galaxy ring has more power on the Earth. He recognizes that he can be assisted in his war by transmissions on TV, which turn people into zombies. Larossa risks being overwhelmed when she confronts two of Nitron's dead, but with the aid of the two Masked Wrestlers, they duel and come out victorious. The dead woman they fought was none other than Larossa, who had died a year previous. By now sure that nobody will be able to threaten the galaxy ring, they all decided to return to their own planet far away. "Mysterious El" and "El Volador", both admirers of the girl, watch the spaceship go away and then they begin to wrestle and some corny metal music signals the end.

The directors Arnaud and Lopezreal modernize the sci-fi classics, interlacing them with Mexican fantasy and Wrestling ethics, taking some ideas from the Americans, and also from horror (the Nitron, like every vampire that you respect, is made out to be a blood thirsty monster and can die when in contact with water). They also put a lot into the action but the characters are dull. The product that they manufacture is directed at young people, but it can also be appreciated also by those adults, who in the years 1950-1960, got very passionate with films of Bert I. Gordon, Tôhô, Corman, Hammer, El Santo, and their numerous imitators.
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5/10
Lucha awesomeness
BandSAboutMovies11 July 2020
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I really tried to go all three weeks of Mexican films without a lucha libre film, but man, when it's one this strange, I couldn't help myself.

Before Tyler Mane played Michael Meyers in two Rob Zombie films, he was known in Mexico as El Nitron. Here, he plays El Vampiro Interespacial, who is conquering the galaxy. A space prince tries to get away, which brings him, as always happens, to Earth.

Lucadores de las Estrellas has a simple premise but presents a movie perfect to run in the background of any party.

A girl from the spaceship comes to Earth and decides to take over the life of a deceased singer named Larossa. She's played by Gloria Mayo, who was also Adriana in Santo vs. the She-Wolves and also in the baffling Vampiro, Guerrero de la Noche.

Luckily, she finds El Mistioso and El Volador(who would one day become Super Parka and whose son Volador Jr. is a big star in CMLL today), who teach her all about drinking beer and wrestling. They end up having an empty arena match with Nitron, as well as another match filled with the lucha stars of 1992, such as Satanico, Pirata Morgan, MS-1, Blue Demon Jr., Ponzoña, Bestia Salvage, Janette, Martha Villalobos, Cynthia and more.

The evil minis that hang out with Nitron and sound like chickens are played by some major mini-luchas: Mascarita Sagrada, Aguilita Solitaria and Espectrito.

The idea for this film was a combination between Antonio Peña, who would soon leave to form AAA in the biggest Mexican wrestling news of perhaps all time, along with Ramón T. Cerro (who was also part of the team that made the Vampiro movie), Francisco Alonso Lutteroth (also known as Paco Alonso, perhaps the most powerful man in Mexican wrestling in the latter half of the 20th century) and Mayo.

This film is everything it should be: fights, a little romance, no small amount of comedy, masked men and aliens. All films should be this much fun.
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