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Title: Galaxina [HD DVD] (2008)
Format: HD DVD
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Starring: Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten, and Lionel Mark Smith
Director: William Sachs
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 88 minutes
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Review of Galaxina [HD DVD]

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Comments for Galaxina [HD DVD]

• Posted on 2009-09-30
  Galaxina
  
  I purchased the 25th anniversary edition of this film, Included is an insert written by Stephen Norquist, [...] As a fan myself, I found it a beautifully touching tribute to her beauty. Galaxina has been one of my favorite movies for so long, I feel incredibly lucky, no, priveliged to own a copy.
  
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• Posted on 2009-03-20
  Yawn
  
  Dorothy Stratten plays a robot who overcomes her own programming to return the love of a human crewman on her starship. Her character is lifeless, boring, stiff, and has bad posture. I kept waiting for her to do something exciting and sexy. Bad puns substituted for interesting writing. I felt no attraction to the robot at all. I was more inclined to boink a microwave oven than fall in love with her.
  
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• Posted on 2009-01-04
  Too Wide
  
  I was looking forward to getting a better version of this movie, but it is 2.35:1. Even zooming on my 16x9 lcd tv you get black on the top and bottom. The only way to get it full screen is to zoom the dvd player too. This of course takes down on the resolution. And I am fortunate to have one of few remaining players that zooms "just a little". When will these people make dvd's in 1.85 or 1.77? 2.35:1 should only be an extra option on a disk. NOT the ONLY ratio. I wonder if it is even actualy un-edited. The 1.33:1 dvd was edited down and just zoomed to the extreme. No panning at all. The vhs seemed to actualy be "panned" and was un-edited.
  
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• Posted on 2008-09-19
  A complete failure of a science fiction spoof, but it can grow on you if you aren't careful
  
  Galaxina may well be the dumbest, most boring science fiction film ever made. I was revving up to launch a full-scale assault of a review before the infinitely long opening credits ended - but now two things are holding me back. First of all - and heaven only knows why - this thing started to grow on me toward the end. This is the kind of film you can look back on and laugh about, even though virtually all of the movie's spoofs and jokes fall flat as a fritter while you're watching it. Second of all - and more importantly - the tragic death of Dorothy Stratten looms large over Galaxina. This beautiful young woman, who really wasn't all that bad an actress, never lived to see its release - or her twentieth birthday. Hers is not the only tragic story among Playboy centerfolds (Stafford was Miss August 1979 and 1980s' Playmate of the Year), but it is the most tragic. She was brutally murdered by her estranged husband, who then cowardly committed suicide.
  
  It's obvious that 1980's Galaxina was designed as a spoof of Star Wars, Star Trek, Alien, 2001, and other contemporary science fiction films (and westerns, as well). As such, it really doesn't work. The jokes come hard and fast and often, but only a couple of them brought even the trace of a laugh to my lips. The first half of the film is also exceedingly boring. Most of the extremely eclectic crew members of the intergalactic police cruiser Infinity are just annoying - and Galaxina (Dorothy Stratten) herself is just eye candy. As a robot - an exceedingly human-like robot - she silently controls the ship and spends most of her time just sitting in a chair fiddling with some of the gizmos inside her wrist (and, I must mention, completely clothed - albeit in a form-fitting spacesuit. I'm actually glad that this film features no nudity; it would have been all too easy to stick the Playmate of the Year into a film and put her naked body on display, but it's always a really tawdry thing to do - and it's not something I would want hanging over the memory of her tragic death at such a young age.) Fortunately, Captain Cornelius Butt (Avery Schreiber) livens things up a little, and the rock-eating alien prisoner down in the brig makes good use of his limited screen time to steal the show more than once.
  
  The guys have already spent seven years on their current mission and are anxious to return home. Unfortunately, Headquarters offers them an offer they can't refuse - it's up to them to travel to a distant planet and retrieve the Blue Star (DOO WAH - yes, they stupidly play music and make every one look around, like the Clampetts hearing the doorbell, every time those two words are said). That's a 27-year trip there and back. Sgt. Thor (Stephen Macht) had already developed romantic feelings for Galaxina (even though she's a robot and he can't even touch her without getting a serious electrical shock), but that whole unfeeling, silent robot thing seemed to be a pretty big impediment. While Thor and the guys are sleeping away the next 27 years, though, Galaxina has a lot of time to think - and to reprogram herself.
  
  Somebody spent a lot of time designing all manner of silly-looking aliens, but special kudos go to whoever came up with the idea of including a band of outlaw descendants worshipping their god "Harley David Son." Sadly, though, nothing in this film is as funny as it was supposed to be. Still, I find myself liking this film more and more as I think about it (but I couldn't possibly tell you why).
  
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• Posted on 2008-09-06
  Long searched for
  
  After years of searching finally found this marvellous b-film.
  Unfortunately still not been able to see it, as it turns out HD-DVD's won't play on my DVD-player :-(
  
  
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