GALAXY QUEST PG-13
    Starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shaloub, Alan Rickman, Daryl Mitchell, Sam Rockwell, and Enrico Colantoni

Eric says: ******* 1/2 (7 1/2)
   Fun. That's what I had spending a couple of hours in a darkened room that smelled of artificial butter and old upholstery. That's all I really ever hope to gain from Hollywood's assembly line. Some movies, sadly, inexpicably fail. Just ask Matthew Broderick and his lizard friend. Well, Captain Peter Quincy Taggart and his crew succeeded. As a matter of fact, I was happily surprised with how much I enjoyed myself.
   An obvious spoof on, and homage to, the old Star Trek series and the conventions that still thrive today, the crew of a fictional fictional sci-fi show from the early 1980's is recruited by real aliens to lead their dying species out of certain annihilation at the hands of the obligatory bad guy aliens. A true sci-fi plot is woven comfortably with a comedy in a very pleasant way.
   Tim Allen is the Shatner, an aging divo (male diva) who still has the charisma to reel in fans of his old show. He is complimented by Alan Rickman as the Spock in the Klingon-esque head augmentation prosthetics. Rickman is dismayed that all of his classical "proper" acting has been forgotten, yet his silly catch-phrases still live on. Talk about feeling type-cast. Sigourney Weaver is Tawny Madison, the politically incorrect eye-candy role was virtually the sole purpose of her being on the show. Daryl Mitchell is the youngest member, the Sulu who tries valiently to steer the real thing.Tony Shalhoub is great as the Scotty who is so blissfully awed by the real space adventures he partakes in. His child-like looks of "wow" are rarely represented in fish-out-of-water movies. Last, and least, is Sam Rockwell, known throughout most of the movie only as Guy, the Fifth Beetle, the extra destined to die. You know, the member who always would wear the different colored uniform so that we'd know who we could say goodbye to.