Wonderfully offbeat film!

Don't Believe the Hype

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's a great mix of star trek with occasional Macfarlane comedy. Good story lines. The cretics don't know what there talking about. Good stuff

I don't write many reviews and would usually reserve a score of 10 out of 10 for something really special. Maybe this show is not deserving of that score, but for me, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and perhaps I am making a point that Star Trek should return to this and away from the ridiculous Discovery that was recently released. Obviously it is a comedy, so far more humour than a traditional Star Trek episode, but it truly reminded me of the good old days. I hope this show continues to run and grow in its fan base....it deserves it. The characters are excellent, overly confident captain, ex-wife first officer, Synthetic Life form Science Officer, Klingon type crew member, great helmsmen that seem to compliment each other.....and a slime guy. It is well written and funny in the right places. I can't recommend it any higher!!!

Being a true blue Trekkie, I avoided this series like the plague. I had erroneously thought it was just another desecration of the once beautiful Star Trek series.The Star Trek reboot movies - pure garbage. "D********" - pure garbage.Our modern culture has destroyed the social-justice sensitive gem called Star Trek, and transformed it into "he who has the biggest phasors and the most torpedoes shall win"; and that is all that matters.I had wrongly assumed that anything Seth McFarlane had touched would just be more slapstick humor like "Family Guy"; which I love by the way...I couldn't have been more wrong."The Orville" is a true gem, and in many ways is a tribute to much of what made the Star Trek franchise truly great. The quality of many of the episodes was on part with "NG"; every bit as thoughtful and worthy... while yes.. lighter and quite entertaining from a humor perspective.The humor is a bit crude in the first few episodes, but then the show catches it's stride, and gets everything just right.My only complaint is that there are too many "anomalies" encountered and used as a plot device.. and that made me want to subtract a point or two..but In the end I couldn't do that.. I have faith that in season two there will be less of that, and more character development, just like happened with "NG".I consider "The Orville" as must watch TV, if you loved Star Trek, pre-destruction of the franchise, especially if you want something less dark and superbly humorous.

.....................Then episode 3 happened, with it's veiled attacks on the male gender,heterosexuality and putting those wonderful females on a pedestal whilst the men are portrayed as clueless dumb idiots (Yet again). It seems to me there is an agenda being forced onto the unsuspecting audience and judging by the reviews all over IMDB people are slowly waking up to this anti male, anti heterosexual feminisation bile that's being rammed down our throats. The show isn't funny, the plots just preach political correctness and the acting is just awful.There are better shows out there, Seth Macfarlane I thought you were better than this.