Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Galaxy Quest (1999)

- fun but not great
- former cast of a classic science fiction tv series travel into space thanks to some technology provided by friendly aliens who believe them to actually be the characters they played on televsion; the crew travels through a black hole where they encounter some not-so-friendly aliens and are forced to become the characters they played on TV in order to save the day and make it home alive
- the name of the movie and the look of the old TV show are obvious references to Star Trek

- Sam Rockwell steals every scene he is in playing the guy who played Crew Man #6 on one episode of the classic TV show; his fear, that reality is going to mirror the TV show and that he will die, manifests itself on more than one occasion
- Tony Shaloub is great as the chief engineer who falls in love with one of the aliens and seems totally nonplussed by all the things they encounter in space
- It was great that they got Sigourney Weaver to be in this movie but they really didn't give her enough to do
- Enrico Colantoni was also great in his role as the leader of the friendly aliens who were completely guileless and helpless against the not-so-friendly aliens
- Tim Allen and Alan Rickman were good in their roles but nothing special

- definitely not required viewing for Star Trek fans; I think the movie tried to hit a few too many marks and suffered because of that; I thought about Space Balls (a Star Wars spoof) while I was watching this and think that at the end of the day or movie I prefer the way that one was set up and played; Galaxy Quest has its moments but it doesn't compare favorably to Space Balls
- what this movie could have used more of is characters like the ones that I mentioned above and less of Tim Allen who really didn't measure up to the better performances in this movie

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