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Galaxy Quest [DVD] [2000]
enlarge	Director: Dean Parisot Actors: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell Studio: Dreamworks Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £1.99 as of 23/11/2009 01:32 GMT details You Save: £14.00 (88%) New (17) Used (22) Collectible (2) from £0.86 Seller: media_moguls-uk Rating: 53 reviews Sales Rank: 1892 Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), German (Dubbed) Rating: Parental Guidance Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 97 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 UPC: 678149091397 EAN: 0678149091397 ASIN: B000056JQE Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1999 Release Date: March 26, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review You don't have to be a IStar Trek/I fan to enjoy IGalaxy Quest/I, but it certainly helps. A knowingly affectionate tribute to ITrek/I and any other science fiction TV series of the 1960s and beyond, this crowd-pleasing comedy offers in-jokes at warp speed, hitting the bull's-eye for anyone who knows that: (1) the starship captain always removes his shirt to display his manly physique; (2) any crew member not in the regular cast is dead meat; and (3) the heroes always stop the doomsday clock with one second to spare. So it is with Commander Taggart (Tim Allen) and the stalwart crew of the NSEA Protector, whose intergalactic exploits on TV have now been reduced to a dreary cycle of fan conventions and promotional appearances. That's when the Thermians arrive, begging to be saved from Sarris, the reptilian villain who threatens to destroy their home planet.pCan actors rise to the challenge and play their roles for real? The Thermians are counting on it, having studied the "historical documents" of the IGalaxy Quest/I TV show, and their hero worship (not to mention their taste for Monte Cristo sandwiches) is ultimately proven worthy, with the help of some Galaxy geeks on planet Earth. And while IGalaxy Quest/I serves up great special effects and impressive Stan Winston creatures, director Dean Parisot (Home Fries) is never condescending, lending warm acceptance to this gentle send-up of sci-fi TV and the phenomenon of fandom. Best of all is the splendid cast, including Sigourney Weaver as buxom blonde Gwen DeMarco; Alan Rickman as frustrated thespian Alexander Dane; Tony Shalhoub as dimwit Fred Kwan; Daryl Mitchell as former child-star Tommy Webber; and Enrico Colantoni as Thermian leader Mathesar, whose sing-song voice is a comedic coup de grâce. --IJeff Shannon, Amazon.com/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...11 Next » So good... August 8, 2004 Martin Turner (Marlcliff, Warwickshire, England) 15 out of 16 found this review helpful This is the only film I've ever paid for on pay-per-view. That's after I saw it in the cinema and before I bought it on DVD. If you've read the Amazon review above then you'll more or less know what it's about. It's something of a spoof on the reinvention of Star Trek which took place decades after the original show was cancelled. It's also an amazing film in its own right.pThis begins with the casting: Tim Allen comes with all the comedy credentials to make this film fly, but the inclusion of SF icon Sigourney Weaver makes it more of an A-movie than any of the films or series it spoofs. Then there's veteran thespian Alan Rickman, who could raise the level of any production. (Interestingly, one of Alan Rickman's early TV credits was as Brownlow in Smiley's People, which also featured a certain Patrick Stewart as Karla).pSigourney Weaver! Interestingly, Weaver went on record during the making of this film as saying 'I put on a blonde wig and didn't say an intelligent thing for six months'. pYou should have gathered that this is not the usual Spaceballs/ Airplane 3/ Men in White type of sci-fi spoof. Although it accurately satirises the conventions of Star Trek (as well as Star Trek conventions), it has its own first rate special effects and a plot that would stand up just as well if it was played as a straight, if rather quirky, SF adventure. pThis is a film that everyone could be proud of, including the people who were being satirised. Interestingly, Jeri Ryan (Seven-of-nine, Voyager) makes a point of including a couple of photos of her at the Galaxy Quest premiere on her fansite. pIs it worth buying? Well, it's more or less the most played and most borrowed DVD in my collection. This film is simply, so good ... Brilliant intelligent entertainment! November 4, 2006 Mr. M. Poole (Kent, UK) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful My family and I have watched this film at least half a dozen times so far and we now need to replace the worn out DVD! br / br /This is a cracking script, with biting and beautiful performances from everyone. The vain, egotistical lead actor, the dumb blonde, the bitter former classical actor ("How did I get here - I played Richard the Third, you know..."), the stoned out technician, the panic sticken extra who believes life will imitate art(he was killed before the commercial in one episode) and finally the wonderfully believable Thermians - scientific geniuses star-struck almost to silence in the presence of their heroes - a people with no concept of fiction or deception. br / br /The plot is clever, the script delivers laughs in a constant stream, and the performances are all spot on. br / br /This is a heart-warming and hysterical film. BUY IT NOW!! Altogether wonderful December 8, 2006 D. J. Eddyshaw 6 out of 6 found this review helpful I'd hardly heard of this movie and came across it very indirectly. It deserves to be much better known; it's streets ahead of the only intermittently funny Spaceballs type stuff. I guess you'd need to like SF movies to really go for it, and a nodding acquaintance with Star Trek would help. It's very funny and oddly large-hearted too; all the kitschy Star Trek platitudes turn out somehow to be true and valuable without the movie getting sentimental or kitschy itself. It's some trick. Characteristic is the line from Sigourney Weaver, something like: "I've only got one stupid job to do on the ship and by God I'm going to do it!". It _is_ stupid; but she really does mean to do it; and it turns out to matter that she does it, too. A gloriously funny sci-fi comedy October 17, 2007 lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful 'Galaxy Quest' is much better than it might be expected to be. Although it's a mischievous take on the reputation and backstage rivalries of the original series of 'Star Trek', it's also an exciting space opera in its own right, with plenty of high-energy beam-zapping, lobster-headed aliens and CGI flash to be going on with. br / br /The jaded cast of a long-cancelled television sci-fi show are mistaken by genuine aliens for their own characters, because the aliens, called Thermians, have no concept of 'acting' - to them, the shows (which they've picked up as transmissions from our planet) are much-treasured and carefully studied 'historical documents'. The human cast are whisked off into the middle of a life-and-death struggle between the benign, kindly and peaceloving Thermians and an evil and violent race bent on enslaving them. Somewhat startled to find that their fictional ship has been recreated in working detail by the Thermians, the cast are even more thrown to realise that they have to live their roles for real and rise into heroism. br / br /Everyone is brilliant: Tim Allen as the bombastic and Shatneresque captain, Sigourney Weaver as the gorgeously bosomy and doggedly earnest communications officer (whose only job is to relay every command to the computer and repeat back whatever it says - she knows it's stupid but she's going to do it anyway), Alan Rickman as the deeply disappointed Shakespearean actor reduced to wearing a stupid rubber wig as the alien scientist 'Dr. Lazarus', and a host of great supporting roles. My two favourites are Enrico Colantoni as the spectacularly weird-voiced and really quite touching Thermian leader Mathesar and Tony Shalhoub as the serene-to-the-point-of-stoned Fred Kwan, fictional 'chief engineer' on the spaceship and the one member of the TV show cast who just treats the whole thing as an amusing exercise in group improvisation. br / br /The plot is clever, the jokes are richly funny and the special effects do not let the side down. It's a blast. Old-school Star Trek fans will get a special kick out of it, but anyone will enjoy it. The Whole is Far Greater Than the Sum of its Parts January 29, 2009 James Uscroft (UK) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful For years, I was hesitant to even watch this film. After all, on paper it appeared to be little more than 'The Three Amigos in Space.' br / br /"Out of work actors, forced to rest upon their laurels are hired for what they think is a live re-enactment of their onscreen performance, only to discover that they've actually been placed in mortal danger." br / br /However, thanks largely to the spectacular performances of Alan Rickman, Tony Shaloub and 'The Guy in the Red Shirt,' it is so much more than this. And I'd even go so far as to recommend this film to anyone who truly despises sci-fi. br / br /Yes, it is definitely 'Light' entertainment without any grand vision or depth. But it also has some spectacular comedy which left me struggling to breathe. br / br /"Listen! I have ONE job on this ship! It's stupid! But I'm gonna' do it!" br / br /It's difficult for me to go any further without analysing the 'Spoofs' in detail. But I'd defy anyone not to laugh out loud, even if they've never seen a single episode of 'Star Trek.' br / Showing reviews 1-5 of 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...11 Next »

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