"Battlestar Galactica" (1978), "Star Trek"( television series) and about fifteen others--I quit counting after half an hour (film is 107 minutes long).
The plot; The planet of Jelusia has been taken over and ruined by the evil Gavannas. The leader of what is left of Jelusians scatters eight magic seeds to the wind and tells his granddaughter that she must go where the seeds go; together she and the people the seeds choose to find them will save the planet. She then sails off into the night--on a motorized schooner.
Film relentlessly copies scenes and characters from Star Wars and any other film it can fit in. There is a supposed-to-be-cute little robot that is called Beba, instead of R2D2; a Bad copy of C3PO that's in one scene, then vanishes; the heroine wears a gown that looks like one Princess Leia rejected; a scene in a intergalactic bar where we meet the hero (Vic Morrow). The main villain even tries to copy the voice of Darth Vader (the attempt is a flop). There are often repeated shots of the underside of the evil battleship from Star Wars or maybe Battlestar Galactica. One of the characters actually says to the heroine "I'll get you, my pretty!" There is talk of "chicken runs" about racing.
The special effects are wildly inconsistent, varying from poverty row looking to impressive. The color scheme is brighter than in a Hammer horror film. Things go boom, explode, swords shoot lasers, with amusing regularity--anytime the good guys are in trouble, which is most of the time.
One character mutters "This is ridiculous". Perfect description of the film. I give it a 7/10 on a "So Bad It's Good" scale.
The plot; The planet of Jelusia has been taken over and ruined by the evil Gavannas. The leader of what is left of Jelusians scatters eight magic seeds to the wind and tells his granddaughter that she must go where the seeds go; together she and the people the seeds choose to find them will save the planet. She then sails off into the night--on a motorized schooner.
Film relentlessly copies scenes and characters from Star Wars and any other film it can fit in. There is a supposed-to-be-cute little robot that is called Beba, instead of R2D2; a Bad copy of C3PO that's in one scene, then vanishes; the heroine wears a gown that looks like one Princess Leia rejected; a scene in a intergalactic bar where we meet the hero (Vic Morrow). The main villain even tries to copy the voice of Darth Vader (the attempt is a flop). There are often repeated shots of the underside of the evil battleship from Star Wars or maybe Battlestar Galactica. One of the characters actually says to the heroine "I'll get you, my pretty!" There is talk of "chicken runs" about racing.
The special effects are wildly inconsistent, varying from poverty row looking to impressive. The color scheme is brighter than in a Hammer horror film. Things go boom, explode, swords shoot lasers, with amusing regularity--anytime the good guys are in trouble, which is most of the time.
One character mutters "This is ridiculous". Perfect description of the film. I give it a 7/10 on a "So Bad It's Good" scale.