lemon_magic "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.

marcusq22 Premise: Plucky outlaw Stella Star is conscripted by the galactic emperor to travel to the "haunted stars", and destroy a planet-sized doomsday weapon under the control of the eeeeevil Count Zarth Arn.Component Parts: Spaceships from old-skool Battlestar Galactica, Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon, Barbarella from her eponymous movie, and Luke Starkiller from a very early draft of Star Wars. Put 'em in a blender and hit "frappe" and you've got this movie.Highlights: plastic spaceships with visible model glue, Ray Harryhausen-esque stop-motion animation, a wise-cracking robot sidekick with Roscoe P. Coltrane accent, and David Hasselhoff: the lightsaber-wielding space prince.Bottom Line: Campy, guilty pleasure, 70's sci-fi. I lost track of all the times I exclaimed "Oh no they didn't!!!" (And yeah, they always did.) Pair it with 'Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone' for a cheesy sci-fi double feature.

johnfuen I won't take too much time describing how bad this movie was. I think most people have already done a better job than I could describing the awfulness of this film. Bad dialogue. Check. Bad acting. Check. Bad special effects. Check. Bad rip off of Star Wars. Oh hell yes. The only thing of minor interest in this movie was that a very young David Hasslehoff appeared in it. Also....since Star Wars had Alec Guinness, the producers of this movie had to make due with the poor man's Alec Guinness...Christopher Plummer.I won't call into question the taste of the few who actually liked this disaster. They probably enjoyed Ed Wood movies too. This movie is a prime candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3K

barniac68 This film has to be seen to be (dis-)believed. I watched a lot of these EuroSF as a child in the 70s & a teen in the 80s, but not with rose-tinted glasses: they were a hoot (& still are)! Sadly/fortunately (delete as you feel applicable), I was unable to catch Starcrash when it made the rounds of the cinemas, although I did watch several others (The Humanoid, etc.) & many more on video (the UK at the time had 3 TV channels that had midnight-ish closedowns at best, the Atari 2600 had just come out, & satellite TV wasn't even up & running yet). The main reason that B-movies did so well on video was due to the fact that the major studios were unwilling to release their products to a medium that could be pirated with relative ease (or so they said...) - as a result of this 'policy' I ended up watching Luigi Cozzi's Contamination long before I ever had a chance to see the film that Cozzi was ripping-off I MEAN, "inspired by": Alien. If you like watching SF films where the SFX should be prefaced by the words Not Very, where familiar faces (Christopher Plummer in the case of Starcrash) seem to turn up, do the lines & then take the money & run, then give this a try - but be warned: this film makes Battle Beyond The Stars look like Avatar in comparison.