good back-story, and good acting

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Low budget "Barbarella" knock-off manages to be watchable, but is nowhere as funny as it thinks it is. Dorothy Stratten plays the sexy robot Galaxina on a ship of space intergalactic cops patrolling the universe. While the crew is asleep, Galaxina reprograms herself to be more human. Romantic entanglements ensure. Later their ship is sent to recover a mysterious crystal on a planet that resembles the old west, which is a goofily entertaining of genre mash-up. The film mostly wants to operate as a sci-fi spoof of "Star Trek," "Alien," any number of other films in the vein of Mel Brooks, but it's nowhere as clever as Brooks or a Zucker/Abrams/Zucker parody film. Also, the film suffers from being too overt of a sex comedy, which worked much better in "Barbarella," where director Roger Vadim kept the film sexy but also somewhat innocent, where in "Galaxina" it just feels leering and creepy. Despite it's many deficiencies, Stratten demonstrates real star power in a ridiculous film, much like Jane Fonda in "Barbarella," and as bad as this film is, it did make me wish Stratten had gotten to make more films.

Hey! For a film I thought I would totally hate, I didn't totally hate this one! It's too much like an early version of Futurama to be hated, what with the fake ads, crappy space driving, quirky crew, and....etc.What plot there is involves a small crew of galactic police men heading off to some distant planet to obtain the blue star, but to be honest plot has nothing to do with this. What you need to know is that Galaxina is a robot on board and she loves on of the crew, who loves her back. Problem is that Galaxina is like an Action Man down there so they got stuff to work through.Many, many bad jokes end up becoming something that just wears you down until you can't help but like it. Rip offs of Alien, Star Trek and Star Wars, but who cares. I probably liked this one better than Spaceballs to be honest. Reminds me more of the film Prime Time.

Dorothy Stratten (nee Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten) was a working-class girl from Vancouver, British Columbia who became a model and, at the age of nineteen, was chosen as the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979. She became Playmate of the Year the following year. Most Playmates tend to disappear from sight after their month in the spotlight, but Dorothy was widely regarded as being far more than just a pretty face. She was also regarded as a promising up-and-coming actress and had appeared in three films when, in August 1980, she was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider who was jealous of her relationship with the film director Peter Bogdanovich. (Snider committed suicide immediately after killing Dorothy). I have never seen Dorothy's first film, "Autumn Born, or her third, "They All Laughed", her only appearance in a major Hollywood studio production. I did, however, see "Galaxina", when it was recently shown on a British movie channel, and I was left wishing I hadn't. The less said about its plot the better. It's supposed to be a comedy set on board the Intergalactic Space Police cruiser "Infinity" in the year 3008, and what plot there is deals with the ship's journey to the distant planet Altair One to recover a priceless stolen gemstone called the Blue Star, with a subplot about the love affair which develops between the ship's second-in-command Sergeant Thor and a beautiful female robot named Galaxina. This might seem to be a doomed romance, but we are solemnly assured that by the thirty-first century science has been able to create machines which are capable of feeling emotions. Actually, although Galaxina is supposed to be a robot, she doesn't look like one at all. In fact, she looks just like Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 3008. Assuming, that is, that Playboy still be published that far-distant date. The film attempts to generate humour by parodying mainstream science fiction films and television programmes such as "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and the "Alien" series. Like some other spoof movies from this period, "Top Secret!" being another example, it uses a scattergun approach, not confining its parody to one sole genre. Besides sci-fi it also tries to send up Westerns and biker movies like "The Wild One" or "Easy Rider"; the inhabitants of Altair One are all members of biker gangs and worship a god known as "Harlee-David-Son". (I can't think what the origin of that particular name might be!)The problem with aiming at so many different targets is that you will end up missing all of them. As Mel Brooks demonstrated in "Blazing Saddles" and "Spaceballs" it is possible to satirise effectively both the Western and the space epic. It is probably not a good idea to attempt both in the same film. All the humour in Galaxina is leaden and pointless; simply calling a character with odd-shaped ears "Mr Spot" rather than "Mr Spock" does not amount to a witty comment on "Star Trek". The quality of the acting is just as bad as the quality of the script. If the advanced technology of 3008 has been able to endow robots not only with consciousness but also with emotions you would not guess so from Stratten's performance. Galaxina might look like a beautiful woman but acts like a soulless machine. To be fair to Stratten, her co- stars, if one can legitimately use the word "star" about actors so lacking in star quality, are even worse. Their performances might lead one to conclude that the greatest triumph of thirty-first century science has been not to endow robots with a personality but to remove all traces of personality from the human race.This was one of a number of low-budget science fiction films which were rushed out in the late seventies and early eighties to cash in on the sci-fi boom started by "Star Wars". Some of these, such as the British- made "Flash Gordon", are quite endearing, but some of them are every bit as bad as the worst of the "so bad they're funny" sci-fi films of the fifties such as the notorious "Plan 9 from Outer Space". "Galaxina" falls firmly into this latter category. Indeed, I would rate it as the worst post-1970 sci-fi film I have ever seen along with the equally dismal British "Inseminoid", also from 1980. The film is still remembered for the tragic fate of its leading lady. It does not deserve to be remembered for anything else. 1/10

I think due to the non-professional look of the movie, the whole time, I was convinced this was a student film, so thought it was great!Yes, it really bad on the surface, but it has its charm. As a student film maker, you might enjoy these kinds of bad movie, because you feel like you could one day produce something close to that piece of crap!I also liked the main actress in there, so I was sad to read about her after I finished watching the movie.So to summarize the value of this movie, the acting is not great, the low budget special effects, decors and costumes can be reproduced with items picked up at your local goodwill store (at least there's no fake looking CGI), the plot is something you really wouldn't care about... In short, it's really the perfect movie for film students to watch.