People are voting emotionally.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Fearful that a scientist named "Durand Durand" (Milo O'Shea) might use his new positronic ray as a weapon against humanity, a space traveler named "Barbarella" (Jane Fonda) is sent to another part of the galaxy to locate him and use her incomparable talents to possibly dissuade him. However, before she is able to get there her spacecraft encounters a magnetic storm and crash lands on an unnamed planet where she is almost killed by a small group of children who inhabit that particular area. It's then that she is rescued by a man named "Mark Hand" (Ugo Tognazzi) whose profession consists in capturing these children and bringing them back to civilization. Grateful for his help, she then provides sexual favors to him before setting out for the city of Sogo where Durand Durand is rumored to live. Unfortunately, she subsequently encounters even more assorted problems along the way. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an unusual science-fiction movie which suffered greatly from its uneven nature. For starters, Jane Fonda was quite sensational both clothed and semi-nude. On the other hand, however, the dialogue and erratic plot could have used substantial improvement. That being said, while this was not a great film by any means, it was still worth a view and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.

In 1968, cinema history was graced by the birth of an indubitable Sci-Fi classic, Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, a visionary ground-breaker, while on the other end of genre's gamut, we also witnessed this French-Italian sexploitation adaptation of the racy French Sci-Fi comic strip. BARBARELLA, a French-Italian co-production, directed by Frenchman Roger Vadim and starring his then-wife Jane Fonda as the titular heroine, presented in an unspecified future, it is as outlandishly lavish of its setting, as goofily puerile of its bare-bones story. The opening gambit introduces Barbarella, an earth astronaut, strips herself from her space suit inside under the zero-gravity environment, against Seurat's famous pointillistic painting, a pastiche of high art and low pleasure to pander to audience's sensorium rams home immediately. Barbarella is sent to a galaxy far far away to look for an earthling named Durand Durand, an inventor of a deadly weapon which the President of Earth (Dauphin) thinks might fall into wrong hands. Her adventure consists of a nexus of chance encounters with various characters on the 16th planet of Tau Ceti, as a hapless and somewhat dimwit, but perennially spirited damsel-in-distress, saving from the assault of creepy dolls with razor-sharp teeth controlled by evil kids by the hirsute Catchman Mark Hand (Tognazzi), she consents to Mark's love-making proposal, not the pill- inducing high-tech consummation, but the old-fashioned way, which turns out to be quite toothsome, please, suspend your disbelief! Further on, she meets a blind angel Pygar (Law) who has lost the will to fly, Professor Ping (French mime icon, Marcel Marceau), an outcast living in a slipshod labyrinth, the leader of the resistance Dildano (Hemmings), the Great Tyrant and Black Queen of Sogo (Pallenberg), and her devilish concierge (O'Shea), Barbarella uses sex as a means to express her gratitude, Mark aside, she cannot keep her hands off the Adonis-like Pygar and through sex, she endows him the renewed strength of flying, and with Dildano, their coiffure-remodeling palm sex is so otherworldly steamy that it stuns an awkward bystander. The only savior she doesn't reciprocate in putting out is the one-eyed wench, the Great Tyrant in disguise, although lesbianism is explicitly hinted (the Tyrant keeps referring her as "Pretty Pretty") to tease out the male gaze. In the main, sex is Barbarella's strongest suit, in a crashingly bawdy episode, her unquenchable sexual drive can even render the infamous orgasm killing machine overload, in a way, sex becomes her lethal weapon eventually, which prefigures a forthcoming era of sex liberation. Mario Garbuglia's production design is as outré as one can imagine, along with Fonda's wardrobe showcase, while the film's rough-hewn special effect inevitably looks like a child's play, but together they confer a retro, varicolored splendor to today's spectators in the face of the props' overtly tacky tangibility. The plot is the film's underbelly, a rushed ending is atrociously wheeled out, but Fonda, in her most gratuitously sexed-up endeavor, delivers an open-faced seriousness and immediacy, she really cares to find out Durand Durand! However barmy it seems, at any rate, BARBARELLA doesn't shortchange its source material, a low-brow cartoon wallows in its high kitschy style with admirable candor, aka, the spirit of space camp!

This is going to be a simple review. The reason for it is that this movie aimed low, it was trying to be trash and it succeeded in maybe entertaining the kind of person who enjoys watching trash. The plot is that Barbarella is called for fan service... I mean an assignment by the President of Earth and current leader of the solar system that a scientist named Duran-Duran (That's how they pronounce it and yes that does make this movie hilarious whenever they say it) from creating a weapon, because in this future hippies and the counter-culture of the 60's is dominant across galaxies so she goes to a planet that doesn't have this and tries to find him. This movie is not for me, the entire movie is like a drug trip written on paper by someone who really hates war strung along by fan service of a 30 year old Jane Fonda. Oh and the fan service, if it's your thing to see women in extremely skimpy outfits of which she keeps changing them and doesn't put clothes on for 10 minutes, a character who for the first hour has sex every 20 minutes (including a WEIRD one where she joins hands with another person after taking pills until their hair flies everywhere... Did I mention this was like a drug trip?)... All this and more, if this is your thing then without judgement, you'll probably love this. The Visual effects are hokey but in all fairness I did like the creativity with some of the set design and this is probably the most 60's movie ever made, there is literally no other time period in which I can see this getting made. I know all I talked about is how drug-trippy this movie is and the fan service but, take that away - there isn't that much else to comment on. To sum up, this movie is trash - pure and simple. I didn't like it but I can see other people liking it so if trash is your thing then I'd recommend this.

I'm usually a fan of dated, camp science fiction movies but only when the camp is unintentional and not put on. Unfortunately with BARBARELLA, loads of effort has gone into making the film a camp comedy, one of those films you just know that the producers hope will be termed a "cult classic", and there's nothing I hate worse than a film which tries to be funny like that. This is the reason that BARBARELLA leaves me cold; it's a slow-paced, dated and extremely silly affair from beginning to end, more of a 60's fashion show than a real movie.I had been looking forward to watching this film for a while (Italian science fiction has always been an entertaining genre for me) but sadly the end result is a highly disappointing outing in '60s kitsch with little or no redeeming values for a modern audience. The best thing about the film are the imaginative and colourful sets, but these are countered by some appallingly dated special effects (the back projection in particular is awful) and a music score that really grates on the nerves with one or two dreadful songs.The plot is pushed so far into the background that it becomes non-existent, the film instead concentrating on the weird and wonderful characters that Barbarella (herself included) encounters on her journey. Most of the adventures are of the sexual variety, with Barbarella herself a highly sexual space creature - already in the opening credits we see her stripping naked from her spacesuit and then losing most of her clothes as the film gradually progresses along.Jane Fonda is plain annoying as Barbarella, although I'm positive that her style of acting was just what the doctor ordered, and her attempts at being sexy just do not work. Elsewhere, Euro-stalwart John Philip Law embarrasses himself as a blind angel - yes you heard me right. Meanwhile, we have French actors overacting, Milo O'Shea striving for the award for worst overacting as the baddie, and David Hemmings wasted as he stands around on the sidelines looking handsome. I had expected a lot more from director Roger Vadim than this silly, arty-farty look-at-me sci-fi comedy provides, and although I'm sure the film has an audience who enjoy this sort of thing, I know that I never can.