Too many fans seem to be blown away

The greatest movie ever made..!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

We've got multiple deaths of Ba'al, plenty of Goa'uld arrogance, plenty of fun and a little bit of drama. This movie is a near coppy of the ending of SG-1 (season 8, Moebius), thus the movie is somewhat unnecessary (we've already seen a comparable plot) but still quite funny and entertaining. The production values are OK.

It took me 9 years to understand this movie. Recently read a summary on Wikipedia that gave me a piece of information that wasn't in the movie. Mitchell had to stow away for 10 years in his grandfathers ship in order to blow up Baals troupe and save the gate. Then he reappeared with all the "dead" cast for the ceremony. Was I supposed to guess that part? Anyway I have watched it many times and finally made sense of it. Loved it either way.

The whole story behind such great differences in reviews and ratings is that Stargate:Universe greatly differs from you had in Stargate:SG1 and Stargate:Atlantis. SG1 and Atlantis were purely sf - of course, you can't like the characters without any depth, so from time to time you had jumps into their emotional stuff and all that slice-of-life idea. But that was just some minor, the core was about real s-f like: alien invasions,new planets exploration, searches for some scraps of alien tech. that is the only hope remaining... and all the sweet stuff that I could go on and on (huh...a black hole connected to Earth's gate).And what about Stargate:Universe? You get a science-fiction scenery (some ancients ship, depth of space, all the fancy equip) but that's just the scenery, story focuses on subjects like: when some chick will tell her ex-or-something that he is the father of her child...and what is he gonna do about it? ; or - what is Eli(or whatever his name was) going to do when he finds out that his mother has a HIV ...If You like slice-of-life and you could enjoy s-f scenery instead of apartment/office/restaurant than it's a good chance You will like the Stargate:Universe. For the pure-SF fans it's pointless, You just gonna rage later.Why do I think it's not really a s-f series? It's like you would give a scene to Saw when that Jigsaw-killer is dancing - is that a musical now or it's still gore-horror?

Some of the SG-1 Team accidentally go back in time and then try to warn Earth that Aliens will soon be invading. Of course, no one believes them.The Stargate TV series has been going on for years brought on by the Stargate movie starring James Spader and others. The series is every bit as good if not better than all the Star Trek TV shows and movies and the Spin-offs. Well, the Stargate series has come to an end mostly because Richard Dean Anderson who lives in California didn't want to keep making the trip to Vancouver where the series is shot. Most cast members have moved on to the Stargate Atlantis TV show. And, Richard Dean Anderson does make short appearances on that show. I mention all this because this Stargate series itself was one Class-Act, the cast was excellent, the stories got better and better, and one of the things I liked best about the series was the humor that Richard Dean Anderson insisted on from the very beginning.Someone not familiar with the TV series will still enjoy this movie and it may even prompt them to watch the DVDs from Season I. I envy those people. They are in for a real treat. Some show story-lines never left Earth, and others had us going thru the Stargate to distant planets where, in many cases, different life styles, ideas, and governments ruled the day. Nothing kinky though. Never. In this movie, we get to see characters that faded out of the series for one reason or another, and, oh, yes, sometimes they were brought back in those TV shows and those were really good times when we saw them again. And, it wasn't always about Aliens going to attack Earth.There is a classic show based on the repeating concept in the movie Ground Hog Day and one can watch that one over and over again. There were others like that too. Like the time the SG-1 Crew was forced to consult in a Hollywood movie Spoof about people fighting aliens. And, the time when an ordinary man had visions of the SG-1 team fighting for Earth and no one believed him, but this did cause concern among Stargate Command and SG-1, of course. And, the one about multiple SG-1 teams getting caught up in a time warp displacement and all trying to get back to their Earth and the way they interacted with each other was pure gold. I could go on and on.In this movie we see Ba'al (Simon) a System War Lord (considered a god) who is about to be rendered as a mere human for his crimes against the Universe, use a trick up his sleeve to change time and because of this some of the SG-1 Team are forced back in time and try to warn Earth about Aliens invading etc. Everything is good, the acting, dialogue, cinematography, the CGI and it was over too soon for me. I miss the TV series. I miss it all. Yes, watching people in a story go back in time and interact with those they knew in another time-line is really fascinating stuff. And, that is what you will see in here. Lucky you. Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No, well a couple Sh_ _ words were heard.