That was an excellent one.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

You are the first people to see the lost Galaxy Quest feature length film, 102 minutes since it was originally aired in 1999! Huh? Yeah! Alright! And now for the moment you've all been waiting for, the intrepid crew of Galaxy Quest! Yeah! Yeah! Tim Allen! Huh? Yeah! Alright! Sigourney Weaver! Yeah! Yeah! Alan Rickman! Yeah! Sam Rockwell! Alright! Tony Shaulob! Yeah! Yeah! Daryl Mitchell! Huh? Enrico Colantoni! Yeah! Missi Pyle! Yeah! Alright! Justin Long! Yeah! Yeah! Galaxy Quest has a star-studded cast no matter where you look like a beautiful galaxy of stars! Yeah! Yeah! Huh? Alright!Alan Rickman is growing more and more manically depressed because of that stupid line, 'My grandpa's hunter, you shall be avenged!', and more and more hilarious. I'm really not sure what Sigourney Weaver's character does on the show but here are six paragraphs about her boobs and how they fit into her suit. Just kidding! I love Sigourney. She's so amazing. Here is one word about her boobs and how they fit into her suit, specially. This is a big movie for nerds and I'm a bigger nerd for Sigourney. I love Tim Allen, 'Never give up! Never surrender!', as much as he loves himself.Galaxy Quest is really funny but even moreso it's wonderfully delightful, and a really fantastic fun-for-the-family space adventure! I love Galaxy Quest. And you do too.

And the jokes still hold today as they did nearly 20 years ago. It's a travesty a Galaxy Quest 2 was never made before Rickman passed sadly, especially in a world where Grown Ups and Scary Movies keep getting sequels. But what sets this parody apart from so many other attempted films that parody other sources, is that instead of just following the source material, Galaxy Quest creates it's own story completely. As well, the casting is possibly the best for a large ensemble comedy film ever created. Each character seriously just works perfectly. It's hard to imagine anyone else in almost any of their roles. Hell, even the special effects still live up to today. And who knows, maybe we can still get our sequel in Alan's honor some day.

We live now in an age of extreme irony, where the jokes in a comedy like this one have to reference other films, TV shows and so on... 1999 gave us at least 3 Hollywood films that made this sort of self- reference device that actually (in this case literally) creates the film:Bowfinger has the most cinematic approach, because the story is about the creation of a film, and many of the jokes ARE the making of that film. It's a film as the making of another film.Mystery Men has the best sets, and the references have to do with the performances, a sort of an anti-superhero film where each goofy super-hero tackles his own typical performance, thus creating the joke and the comment on it.This one has actually the most clever approach in terms of writing, although it is the less successful for me in terms of comedy.The fun is that they reference Star Trek obviously, which a staple of pop culture, so the audiences can immediately relate. And than they create a little tale of stories creating each other:-everything is a performances, all actors play actores playing characters, and are actually pretty much all the time in character, starting from the very beginning, when they are at a fan convention, in character (the film ends the same way, thus framing the whole thing as a performance);-actors are allowed to spoof some part of their own public persona: so Weaver spoofs Ripley, Allen spoofs Buzz Lightyear, Alan Rickman his "shakespearean actor doing Hollywood stuff" (incidentally, i think this is his first Snape...)...-the most clever self-reference is how they handle the world of the aliens: the aliens come to earth to pick up our heroes because they caught their cheesy TV show on space and took it for real. Before they picked them up, they actually built their world and technology according to what the show on earth showed. So the reality of the aliens imitated the art of the earthlings who than go to the alien world first as actors performing a role, and eventually stop acting and become the roles they first performed. In between, a lot jokes about acting as lying are dropped, and actually the difference between the bad space guys and the good ones is that the bad guys understand the concept of lying. So in order to save the day, our heroes have to turn bad (lying...) acting into believable one. They have to "live" their roles, in other words, they have to stop lying.This is good stuff in a popcorn package. I'm guessing that things like Deadpool indicate that we are moving on, and that we already went too far in terms of mapping our stories completely (and exclusively) to the reference of themselves. But i think the age we are (maybe) closing now started somewhere in the 90's. IMO, if you want the best of it, you have to check "Tropic Thunder" or "Saneamento Básico" if you're not afraid to leave Hollywood and/or if you want to have clever writing AND a film that matters, all in one.

I didn't even know about this movie until a friend talked me and my family into seeing it. The title sounded like a low budget B-movie. It turned out that some of the funniest people in the business were in this. The premise is great. A group of actors are part of a "Star Trek" type show. They have gone their separate ways. They are tired of each other, and often not very friendly. Some have managed to earn a few bucks doing public appearances with nerdy people adoring them. This is certainly true of the real "Star Trek" cast. What happens is that some aliens who don't understand television believe that when watching "Galaxy Quest," they are seeing the real activities of real space explorers. The come and expect that these people will be able to do their will. Of course, there are the usual, "You are an idiot" moments, trying to explain what actors do. The charm comes from the great cast which finds themselves in over their heads, eventually having to submit to the will of these guys. Very funny movie.