Review - Galaxy Quest
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It's the Cheese
One of the most fun things on earth is a cheesy movie! The best are bad scifi movies. You know the ones, the ones that try to be serious and end up just being stupid. The actors couldn't act, the writers couldn't write, the director couldn't direct, and the film slinks off into B-movie history to be riffed by frat boys trying to be like Mike and the 'Bots from MST3K. An unprecedented turn of events is when a movie tries to be cheesy. Sometimes you get the chain reaction effect, and the whole thing falls in on itself. But sometimes, rarely but sometimes, you get an interesting paradox: a good movie that tries to be bad. This is what Galaxy Quest is, truly; just a good movie trying to be bad. Good news is, it doesn't succeed. It remains the good movie it deserves to be, much to the dismay of moviewatchers everywhere. "This isn't supposed to be this funny!" we say. "I mean, come on, this is Galaxy Quest! GALAXY QUEST!!" But we are mistaken, my friends, for Galaxy Quest is a good movie. 'Tis the tale of Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), a big time actor whose role as commander of the Protector on the TV series Galaxy Quest brought him fame and fortune. The show was on for four years in the '80s before it was canned, but it still lives on in the hearts of the fans and in the mind of Nesmith. But that's not all...a group of actual aliens decend on earth, drowntrodden and needing assistance. They have seen the "historical documents" of Galaxy Quest and are convinced that Nesmith and his crew can help them. They have designed a ship in the manner of the Protector, and want the cast to pilot it. They get hornswaggled into agreeing, and are blasted off to the ship, where a hilarious adventure ensues. I could be mean and point out all the giant plot holes in this film. Like how long it would actually take for the show to reach the alien planet, or the physics involved in doing some of the things that they do, but it's all in good fun. Remember, this is supposed to be a cheesy movie. It's more fun if they don't get all the facts straight, right? My favorite part of this film was Alan Rickman. I thought he was great as Metatron in Dogma, but he really shines here as Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus. What that man can do for prosthetic makeup astounds me. Grade - B
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