Sadly Over-hyped

Best movie of this year hands down!

An absolute waste of money

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Despite being a rip off of Star Wars in parts, the animation was solid enough and the story moved along at a decent clip. The action was interesting (for the time) and the villain was suitably harsh. The whole spirit of heroes past thing was odd, but any movie with the balls to kill off a character by brutal strangulation at the start of the story is got to be given a look.

How did LucasFilm NOT sue over this? How? Okay so some bad Korean Animation characters do a ripoff of Star Wars, with the plucky hero with a mystical power involving swords, or something, and a wise-cracking pilot and a sexy princess who fortunately does not happen to be his sister, because, ick! We also have some sassy robots, but no Wookies, thankfully.Except nothing the characters do actually make sense. we find out that the people running the evil robots are in fact evil robots themselves. Some of the creature designs looked interesting, there are things you can do with animation that you can't do with practical effects. The downside was that the animation quality was somewhere above Star Trek the animated series and somewhere below Heavy Metal and nowhere in the same vicinity as Disney quality. Could have been a 5, but subtract 1 for ripoff and 1 for Robot Misogyny.

Star Wars: A New Hope forever changed sci-fi in 1977. It influenced countless films to come...and inspired dozens of rip-offs. Starchaser is arguably the most shameless copy this side of The Man Who Saved the World. It's staggering. They "borrow" Luke Skywalker, Han Salo, Princess Leia, CP-30 (twice!), Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, the Millennium Falcon, and light sabers! Even its score is remarkably similar. Its completely derivative, and is just as shallow as its predecessor.But...honestly? As far as rip-offs go...this is one of the better ones I've seen. The animation is pretty good (it was an early cartoon to use computer and traditional styles), it has enough action, and the acting isn't that bad. It also has quite a few ridiculous moments that separate it from George Lucas' vision. Just trust me, its pretty goofy.When I first watched it, I was angry, because I thought it was supposed to be legitimately good. The ending was especially cheesy. But looking back, as a good bad movie, its pretty fun. Its funny, appealing, and campy. Something that a group can riff on without being infuriated. Its not "good", but when you're in the right mood, you might have a blast.

I just saw this on an obscure movie channel. I agree with previous reviews that the animation is poor and it is an obvious rip-off of star wars. I felt like the plot had potential but never really matured. The movie had an extreme 80's cheese feel to it. Even with all the negatives, I found myself watching the entire movie. I needed to see what happened. The fact that this was originally supposed to be presented in 3D makes sense and explains why some of the animation seems strange. The whole idea of the hilt with no blade was interesting. The idea that a computer program was the start of everything gave the movie some promise but it just failed in the end.