It’s cool :lol: you can definitely see its years weighting on it, but if that doesn’t bother you… keeping in mind that in some ways it looks older that its actual years. In spirit and characters-behaviour I mean. The effects are okay.
The funny part is that it is so relatable to every hardcore fan :lol:
The cast of a famous old tv scifi show called Galaxy Quest attend various conventions or appearances as their only jobs, basically, although they are all pretty tired of it, especially Alex who also always have to wear his alien makeup. Jason always look enthusiastic, thinking himself like a big hero or something, and enjoying being the big star because he was the captain on the show, until he hears some kids talk about what a failure he is and that nobody can stand him anymore (with good reason, if you ask me).
It happens that he is approached by some aliens that asks for his help and he agrees, thinking it’s just another weird job, so he boards their ship and tells them to fire on Sarris, the big bad guy they want help against. He thinks it’s all fake but it isn’t, and he realises when they send him home shooting him out of the ship and straight to his house. He runs to tell the others, and of course they don’t believe him and leave, but then start thinking that maybe he’s taking a job without them so they go back and say they want to go with them (back to the aliens ship to help them with Sarris who is very far from dead). As soon as they are transported on the ship they realise it’s true and are freaked out. This alien race somehow got access to Earth tv and have been thinking that all those tvshows were real life, they call Galaxy Quest their ‘historical documents’, and have based their entire society on the values of their tvshows, and their ship and everything else is an exact copy of those in the show. Jason is exited, but as the commander he’s used to tell others what to do, problem of course is the others don’t know how to do those things for real.
Then Sarris shoots at them, they try to escape under Jason’s orders, but they cross a space minefield breaking the ship even more, and have to stop at another planet to replace the big sphere that makes their engines work. There are a lot of small identical creatures, Gwen thinks they’re cute until they turn nasty and eat one of their own who was injured. They manage to get the sphere but when they escape Jason is left behind, so Fred has to digitalize him, basically beam him on board. It went rather splatter when they tried on a beast there, but it worked for him, after all it was designed for them… Their next confrontation with Sarris is not nice, he boards the ship and tortures Mathesar, but Jason really has no idea what the Omega 13 device Sarris wants does, and eventually tells him why he doesn’t know, showing to him that the historical documents are only a tv show, and forces Jason to explain it to Mathesar, sort of breaking his heart saying things like ‘we pretended’, and ‘fake’, and ‘lie’.
Sarris now wants to kill everyone on the ship (who are the only ones left of their race), so they separate and work to help them and defeat Sarris. Jason calls a kid he met at a convention, Brandon, who is in possession of a transmitter the aliens gave to Jason and they exchanged it by mistake. Brandon and his friends know everything about the ship and how it works and guide Jason and Gwen through it to stop the autodestruction or something, while the others save the good aliens (all but one, the poor Quellek dies in Alex’s arms, who of course tells him the line he so hates because Quellek is dying and he worships him like a hero and a father-figure. They manage to save the good ones and defeat the bad ones, even destroying their ship, but then Sarris deceives them appearing as Fred and shooting them all, so Jason decides to activate the Omega 13 device (of course he did, after talking about it for the whole movie it had to happen). Nobody knew exactly what it does, and some people think that it might destroy all matter everywhere, but Brandon told him that they actually think that it might rewind time, 1 seconds seem not much but timed right it could be just enough to put things right, and now times really does rewind and Jason who pushed the activate-button is the only one who remembers, and as soon as Fred steps on the bridge he attacks him. After everything’s done, they go back to Earth using a part of the ship (sort of like the disk-section only it’s not disk-shaped) and Tommy brings them right back. Brandon uses fireworks to show them where to land and they arrive ‘inside’ the convention. Luckily in these kind of shows the hero never hurt anybody, so nobody’s hurt even though the ship brought walls down. All the fans who had been waiting for three days applaude and cheer. Sarris comes out from the ship but Jason rolls down and shoots him (Kirk, is that you? :lol: )
The fans cheer louder and the group all together thanks them. At the end we see that there is a new series of Galaxy Guest after 18 years, with two additions: Guy, who played a crewmember without a surname is now security chief, part of the main cast, and also the alien girl who got together with Fred and came to Earth with him. Fred likes her a lot, even knowing that her true form is rather octopus-like.
Gwen was like: all I do is show my bra and repeat what the computer says. :lol: Unfortunately she gets together with Jason at the end, because the hero must get the girl right? :-/
Alex was Dr Lazarus, and he must always wear his character’s makeup and he complains that he started out with Shakespeare.
This is the cast:
Alan Rickman - Alexander
Tim Allen - Jason
Sigourney Weaver - Gwen
Tony Shalhoub - Fred
Sam Rockwell - Guy
Daryl Mitchell - Tommy
Robin Sachs - Sarris
Missi Pyle - Laliari
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