Customer Reviews
Galaxy Zest - By: B. Campbell, 17 Mar 2008 
Won't waffle on, just to say FANTASTIC film. This & Mars Attacks plus a handful of other sci-fi films are among my faves. This is in top 5 because of the clever twist. Makes u think the ole "life is a stage & we're alll actors" line. Even my non-scifi pals LOVED this, Coneheads & handful of others. Did i say i wouldnt waffle? lol
A gloriously funny sci-fi comedy - By: lexo1941, 17 Oct 2007 'Galaxy Quest' is much better than it might be expected to be. Although it's a mischievous take on the reputation & 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 & CGI flash to be going on with.
The jaded cast of a long-cancelled television sci-fi show are mistaken by genuine aliens for their own characters, because the aliens, callled Thermians, have no concept of 'acting' - to them, the shows (which they've picked up as transmissions from our planet) are much-treasured & carefully studied 'historical documents'. The human cast are whisked off into the middle of a life-and-death struggle between the benign, kindly & peaceloving Thermians & an evil & 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 & rise into heroism.
Everyone is brilliant: Tim Allen as the bombastic & Shatneresque captain, Sigourney Weaver as the gorgeously bosomy & doggedly earnest communications officer (whose only job is to relay every command to the computer & 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', & a host of great supporting roles. My two favourites are Enrico Colantoni as the spectacularly weird-voiced & reallly quite touching Thermian leader Mathesar & Tony Shalhoub as the serene-to-the-point-of-stoned Fred Kwan, fictional 'chief engineer' on the spaceship & the one member of the TV show cast who just treats the whole thing as an amusing exercise in group improvisation.
The plot is clever, the jokes are richly funny & 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.
Trekkie Spoof - By: M. A. Ramos, 06 Oct 2007 This film is very funny. I am sure the the actors had a great time playing their parts. It shows on screen. This film is not only a spoof on the original Star Trek series & its cast, but on sci fi conventions in general. You will be laughing alll through this.
A great comedy - By: Mrs Snape, 28 Aug 2007 I saw this film a while ago on the tv & loved it,so I got the dvd.It is so funny I was laughing from beginning to end.
Tim Allen is great as the egotistical,arrogent Jason Nesmith.Sigourney Weaver plays Tawny Madison well to,but the person who steals the show for me is Alan Rickman.As Alexander Dane he just does a fantastic job of sending up so callled 'pompous' british theatre actors bemoaning his lack of a proper acting job.
It has some wonderful lines...."it's a rock! it doesn't have any vunerable spots!"
"you broke the ship.you broke the bloody ship!" being 2 of my faves.
I reallly do recommend this film to people,especiallly if you are having a miserable day....it will cheer you up no end!
Funny, exciting, surprisingly intelligent - By: The Inquisitor, 21 Mar 2007 It was a shame that the marketing for Galaxy Quest made it look like a Mel Brooks-style broad-brush comedy (eg Spaceballls), when it's so much smarter than that.
In fact, it may be the most spot-on genre spoof ever made: affectionately poking fun at the sillier aspects of the Star Trek sub-culture (conventions, re-enactments, dressing up) at the same time as delivering an exciting space adventure - with fantastic special effects - to equal anything Trek has ever managed. It's very, very funny, but also surprisingly subtle in places.
The characters & acting are far better than you would expect for the type of film, not just in the headline three but in the likes of Tony Shalhoub as the laid-back engineer & Sam Rockwell as the bit-part actor, convinced he is doomed to die as his character did. The cast reallly capture the frustrations of the washed-up, typecast actor - maybe there's an element of 'there but for the grace of God go I' from the stars - & it gives the film an unexpected emotional realism to balance out the silliness.
Other than that, it's the smart little details (references to 'the dumb spinning fan we have in every single episode', & 'I see you managed to get your shirt off' among many, many others) which not only reward multiple viewing but expose the writers as closet Trekkies. The best spoofs are those where the makers reallly know & like what they are spoofing, & this is a prime example.
