‘By Grabthar's Hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!’
There aren’t too many films that work so completely that you couldn’t – if really pushed to do so – pick out the odd tiny fault. ‘Godfather II’? Bit long. ‘Rear Window’? Enough already with the windows! But ‘Trek’-spoof ‘Galaxy Quest’ is such an elegantly conceived and precision-tooled belter that it gets as close as a movie can to achieving all-round perfection. A big-hearted film that boasts some mighty action sequences and a perfectly drawn cast, it also displays the love and understanding for its original source material that’s necessary to sell any genre parody. Director Dean Parisot misfired next time with 2005 flop ‘Fun With Dick and Jane’ and has since been demoted to directing TV. A shame. ALD
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