Galaxy Quest (or in other words: �lets take the living piss out of everything surrounding the Star Trek mythos�, movie) tells the tale of the ex-cast of Galaxy Quest, an axed TV show, struggling with being typecast, trying to get work, and coping with modern day life. A cast who hate their star of the series, Jason Nesbitt (Allen), who is slightly full of himself (hmmn, this sounds familiar). Everything is normal until real aliens (�Thermians� by the way) mistake their TV broadcasts as real historical documents and base their lives around everything on the show. Now these aliens are in trouble, they are being wiped out by some other aliens (real nasty sods too!) and need the crew of the starship NSEA Protector to save them from extinction, so the has-been actors need to turn in the performance of their lives to save the day.
Sounds a bit childish? Maybe, but if you don�t enjoy this movie again and again, then there�s something wrong with you, sorry, but there is. This film just gets funnier every time you watch it! The acting is superb; Allen hams it up brilliantly as Commander Taggart (guess which Starship Captain he took as inspiration for his role!), Weaver looks half her age (and twice the cup size!) as the luscious Lt. Tawny Madison as the blond bimbo, who doesn�t seem to have a job to do on the ship, and Rickman, well, what can you say? No-one, and I mean no-one could play the part of a grumpy old sod of a British actor, longing for a respected theatre role better than him. The Thermians are just a delight to watch, and with witty dialogue and superb special effects, this is a great video night in. |
