The film has an interesting cast to put it mildly, Marjoe Gortner, David Hasselhoff, a green faced Robert Tessier, Joe Spinell, Hamilton Camp as the robot side kick, Christopher Plummer as The Emperor of Space and Caroline Munro in very tight and tiny costumes.
The film lurches along from one stolen film set piece to another. There's the space battle from Star Wars, there's Taos from Jason and the Argonauts and there's Amazon space women on horses and cavemen just so the film doesn't get too ridiculous. The film also has a John Barry score, and it would be interesting to know how he got mixed up in this production.
Starcrash is actually a lot of fun to watch, the film has a real tacky energy to it. In some ways it's almost a commentary on the entire Star Wars series, since it unsubtly reenacts and comments on how ridiculous those films actually are.
94 minutes. Written by Luigi Cozzi, Nat Wachsberger, and R.A. Dillon.
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