the audience applauded

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The best thing about this movie is that it's the first time I have seen Caroline Munro in a leading role.She usually plays the pretty lady who needs a man to save her but this time she kicks butt.Unfortunately everything else about this movie is stupid.The stars are being pursued by the space police(one of them has the worst green face make-up job ever and the other is a robot) for reasons that are never explained.So the police catch them and they are sentenced to a life of hard labor on different planets.Caroline immediately escapes and sees a strange ship land so she boards it.It turns out to be the police but they were coming to get her anyway because her sentence has been withdrawn because they need her help. At this point the police completely change.They go from mean and evil to friendly and campy. Pretty lame. David Hasselhoff was terrible as usual and weirdly, the guy who played the robot was named Judd Hamilton and the guy who did his voice was named Hamilton Camp.That's the coolest thing about this flick. It's not a good movie but I have seen worse. I gave it two extra stars for Caroline.

"Starcrash" has Christopher Plummer in it for about 15 minutes of screen time, so I simply can't give it 1 star. He has a 2 minute wrap-up speech at the end where he tries valiantly to summon enough dignity and conviction to redeem the 80+ minutes of nonsense that preceded it But that feat is beyond even his abilities. Let me put it this way: I saw this movie once, 20 years ago. And as we watched the opening episode 4 of the relaunched MST3K show, and announced that the movie would be "Starcrash", I instinctively reacted with a level of dismay that amazed (and amused) my wife. And I've seen "Manos", "Red Zone Cuba", "Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies ?!!", and "Monster A- Go- Go" without raising an eyebrow."Starcrash" appears to have been written and produced by precocious 12 year olds who really liked "Star Wars", but didn't understand a thing about writing screenplays. Or narrative logic. Or cause-and- effect. Or how human beings talk. Worst example of this is the character of "Aktor" (who I think is Marjoe Gortner); about halfway through the movie, the character starts pulling out various Force powers and light sabers and precognition abilities every few minutes with absolutely no setup or justification, as if he were an Italian "Ultraman". And then he dies from a cut to the arm for no good reason (he won't let his teammates treat him because it was "fore- destined"). Carol Monroe, who is front and center for 90% of the movie...well she looks smashing in her thigh high boots and dominatrix bikini, but has all the emotional range of a sack of cement. Some of this may be the dubbing, because she sounds utterly American here, but I've read that she's actually British. So maybe not all her fault...but this is strictly a one-note performance. The sets and costumes and props and spaceships are a random hodgepodge of goofy colors and textures, and outer space appears to be lit by Christmas tree lights. In short, this makes Roger Corman's output look good. It's easily one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen, and I've seen dozens.Half a star added because it's obviously not meant to be taken seriously.

I saw this movie in a cinema in 1980. It was the second feature showing with Galaxina, a sci-fi farce starring Avery Schrieber (have those words ever been written before? "starring Avery Schreiber") and Playboy Playmate of the Century Dorothy Stratten as a sex robot. There weren't many people left in the theater to begin with. There were fewer when Galaxina finished and fewer still when StarCrash started. I'm positive that the entire audience numbered no more then a dozen, all teen-aged boys. Who else would have gone to see Galaxina and stayed for more film abuse?StarCrash was terrible and it was late at night. I was just drifting off to sleep when the audience turned against the movie. In yet another scene in which Stella Star was in peril and her scant clothing was strategically torn, a voice in seats rang out: "When is someone gonna bang her?" Instantly this switched from being one the worst movies I had ever seen to one of the best cinema experiences of my life. With the ice broken by that first comment, the audience shouted back at the movie for the balance of the film. I don't know if this random, self-selected group was particularly talented or if we were inspired by the visions on the screen, but I never heard such funny lines. About a third of the audience input was earthy comments about Caroline Munro, another third were derisive remarks about Marjoe Gortner previous career as a faith healer, and the rest ridiculed the broken plot, the Star Wars ripoffs, the costumes and make-up, and the performances of the other actors who either chewed the scenery or were stilted beyond belief.Make no mistake. This is a terrible movie. Badly written, badly performed, badly edited, and just plain bad. But I will always have fond memories of seeing it at the Rolling Hills Theater in Torrance, California that night in 1980 and the ten or eleven other young men who shared that experience.

The galaxy is involved in a civil war. On one side are the forces of the "Emperor" (Christopher Plummer) and the other side is in the grip of the evil "Count Zarth Arn" (Joe Spinell) who happens to possess a new weapon of awesome destructive power. Not knowing where it is, the Emperor sends a spaceship on a secret mission to locate it so that it can be destroyed by his forces. On board this spaceship is the Emperor's son, "Simon" (David Hasselhoff). Unfortunately, while exploring a certain sector of space the spaceship is destroyed. Just prior to that, however, three small vessels manage to escape. Meanwhile, a pair of smugglers named "Akton" (Marjoe Gortner) and "Stella Star" (Caroline Munro) are being chased by the Imperial police. While being pursued they stumble upon one of the small vessels but are caught while looking it over. They are then sentenced to hard labor in prison. However, needing a good captain and navigator the Emperor releases them from prison and gives them a secret mission: Find and destroy the planet hiding the secret weapon and rescue the Emperor's son. All things considered that's not a bad plot for a science-fiction movie. Regrettably, neither the director (Luigi Cozzi), the writers nor any of the actors were able to make it work. Not only was the script extremely bad but the acting was some of the worst I have ever seen. Now, don't get me wrong—Caroline Munro looked great in her skimpy leather costume. But other than that nobody really stood out. Quite the contrary. In short, considering some of the decent actors featured in this movie I imagine some of them regret signing up for such a bad film. It wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but it was pretty bad all the same.