Better Late Then Never

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

I,m giving S.S. a 9 so I can dole out the tens for future projects by this Actor/director/singer etc. Very slick, episodic art film, great characters with a simple premise. Sam is a modern grind-house piece that hooks the viewer from the first GO-GO dance to the finale. This is the kind of film that will have novice film makers running crazy in the streets(or it should)with lines like "You got olive juice on my asking stick" and the longest secret handshake in cinematic history how can you go wrong. Whether staged or naturally charming, the latter I think, S.S.deserves the highest accolades for being tacky and fun in the best way.

I cannot give this film anything other than a 10. It is too unique and charming to be given anything lower. I like different films. I don't want to watch the same thing again and again and every so often an oddball unique talent comes out fully formed. The plot is about a galactic lounge singer and an old friend being reunited and recruited by some government go to various planets in search of a kidnapped girl. Describing the plot does nothing to describe the film at all. The film is a series of set pieces or vignettes with a musical number in each scene. The music is funny, well performed, memorable and the set pieces often humorously surreal although near the end there are some sweet scenes played to lullaby music.It's as if is a tight group of stage performers and friends have come together to make a simple charming film. You are not likely to see the likes of it again anytime soon. I prefer the American Astronaut another Cory Mcabee film, possibly because I saw it first, but more likely because the sci-fi elements are more unique. The sci-fi humour in Stingray Sam is similar to Douglas Adams dry, good natured, surrealist. The sci-fi in the American Astronaut is more 1920's Art Nouveau and I haven't seen it being done before or at least not so successfully.

I personally would list this movie in my 'worst ever movies' list. . its an awful attempt of a comedy. . i would rate the various components as: movie 1/10 story 0/10 acting 1/10 comedy 1/10 dialog's 0/10 believe me friends do not waste your time on this. . its not worth that. . anything else(just anything) would be a better time pass against this. the story is just the worst i have ever seen. . in the entire movie i just couldn't understand the need of making it as a black and white movie, or the need to divide it into 5 episodes. BASICALLY I DIDN'T FEEl THERE WAS ANY NEED TO EVEN MAKE THIS MOVIE. There's not a single character to empathize with.

This film plays with American culture. It is filled with singing cowboys, an old-time Hollywood serial framework, sci-fi adventures, glam rock, and throws in some social commentary.It would be for naught however, if the film did not have an interesting story and characters with whom one could empathize.The music was also interesting, enjoyable, and fun. The Billy Nayer Show provides the music. Wikipedia describes the band as "of questionable genre." I have to agree but it is in a very good way.It is an odd film, with some odd characters and odd music. And that is quite wonderful.