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Starcrash (aka: The Adventures of Stella Star)

Posted by: Andrea
Date Submitted: Friday, September 29, 2000 at 05:02:23
Date Posted: Thursday, December 7, 2000 at 08:05:10

The Italian title of this mindless crap is something like "Star Crashes Beyond 3rd Dimension."

After ten minutes of it, I discovered it is a real, lovely, at-least-three-turkeys bad movie. Here's why:

(1) In the cast we got Nadia Cassini (a starlet that used to appear in totally mindless prime-time sunday shows on the major commercial Italian TV network) and young David Hasselhoff (before anyone knew who he was) as the main characters -- a non-actress and a wanna-be actor. The acting is really poor but fun in its brainless seriousness.

(2) Some scenes that focus on explosions: something like an explosion-shaped red and yellow cartoon that's superimposed on the film; UNDER it you continue to see the space ship that flies away, totally intact. Maybe they collected the special effects money through a charity?

(3) Two lines that make this worth viewing by themselves: Our heroes land on planet, and it's dusk. "On this planet, the temperature falls down suddenly thousands of degrees every night," says one of the guys in total seriousness. I almost fell down laughing. In another scene they're wandering into an out-of-order spaceship, and one of the characters says, while holding some rusty electrical device, "I've discovered the failure! This relay is broken!" What's that doing on a 25th century state-of-the-art spaceship?


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