I've been a STARFLEET (int'l club) member around 20 yrs, and every fan I know loves, loves Galaxy Quest. I can't help feeling it's our opinion that counts. nevergiveupneversurrender
Galaxy Quest is an absolute masterpiece. I don't know if I would say that it's underrated since the most of the audience it was aimed at, nerds and in particular Trekkie's, absolutely adore it. In fact it rates higher than several actual Star Trek movies in comparison in various polls.
The ratings sure did follow quality. I have seen each of the Star Trek movies once the better ones twice. I mist have watched Galaxy Quest 20 times. Tony Shalob and Allan Rickman still crack me up. After all these veiwings I still catch things I missed before.
I saw this movie in the theater with my husband at a time when I was feeling really down. Galaxy Quest was exactly what I needed - good, clean, genuinely funny comedy. The line I often find myself saying? "Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It may be stupid, but I'm going to do it, okay?"
Ironically, with the advent of ChatGPT and LLMs, learning how to best pose questions to an AI (aka "Prompt Engineering") is one of the most realistic jobs on the ship.
To me, the greatest joke in the movie is when Sarris attacks the bridge, shooting everyone BUT Guy who stands there screaming in the midst of all the killing and is never harmed.
I think the most moving line in the movie was when Dane(Rickman) recited that line he hated, to make the dying Quillek happy. The look of amazement on his face was great.
I had never even heard of 'Galaxy Quest' until about a year ago and now I can't live without it (I've watched it 3 times now and I'm sure I will watch it again) It is an absolutely brilliant homage to the whole sci-fi tv and film industry. Shame on the marketing department of whatever studio released it because this movie should have been an absolute box office smash.
I actually saw it in the theater and absolutely hated it. It wasn't until maybe 5 years ago when I bought the DVD for my kids that I began to really love it and it has become one of my favorite go-to's. I've seen it so many times I ruined my original dvd and had to buy a new copy.
Wellll, in another case of art imitating, well, other art, remember that the show it was based on was cancelled after only 2 seasons, then resurrected with the help of a fan campaign, then cancelled again. Galaxy Quest is now, like the show that inspired it, considered a classic of its genre. Never give up. Never surrender.
Having grown up with Star Trek and knowing the drama that came with those shows I personally think Galaxy Quest is one of the best science fiction movies ever made . It is also one of the best Star Trek movies ever . It gave none trek fans a look at the drama that happened off screen. It's just sad that never got a chance to make a second movie before Alan Rickman passed away .
Alan Rickman had done quite a lot of work up to this point, but in essence he was hitting a new high in popularity. That made his passing even worse... to just consider the amazing work that he'd have given to audiences in future productions. I daresay he'd have become quite a legend. Just as De Niro and Pacino have their unique speech patterns and mannerisms that are instantly recognizable, so too did Rickman.
You did miss an important aspect of Guy. He thought he was a red-shirt, meaning he would be the first person to get killed on a mission and this high-risk bothered him. At the end they made him the Security Officer and he was greatly relieved to be one of the permanent crew in a 'safe' role. However, the irony is that in the ST Next Generation they made Lieutenant Yar their Security officer and after a few episodes, they killed her anyway. So becoming the Security Officer was not so safe after all!
I work in IT so we're a bunch of geeks. We have a process that has ODATA. I mentioned that it sounded like something LT Yar would have said. My coworker hit the floor laughing and was speechless for a while When he came up for air, he said "I don't know what's funnier, the joke or the fact that I know exactly what you're talking about!"
@@gunstarhero8028 Yeah, Crosby had basically told the writers that she wanted out as quickly as possible and so they got rid of her as quickly as they could lol.
He was a favorite ever since the first Die Hard movie. If you like his acting, check "What Hath God Wrought?" Its the story of a young brilliant black man (Mos Def) and an aging white Doctor (Alan Rickman) and how together, they performed the first infant heart surgery.
The best teacher is really a facilitator, one who makes it possible for the pupil to discover the answer in one big "AHA!" moment. Just delivering both question and answer is problematic at best.
@@phildavenport4150 I concur, 100%. The teachers I remember most fondly were those who guided me so that I actually "felt" the journey to the point I needed in order to grow academically. They were happy for me to discover the actual joy of thinking and problem solving.
I always felt that the character "Fred Kwan" was a very funny poke at how "Scotty" on the Enterprise was always freaking out - "I can't push it any faster, Jim!!!", with some visual affects showing sparks or steam or something going wrong in the back ground. Fred Kwan was the character that most consistently made me laugh out loud. He did have a very stoner vibe, but it was that totally mellow line delivery, while in the background all hell is breaking loose, that really did it for me. The contrast is just so delicious.
@@notanumber1311 : No - are you? 🤔 Or is that a quote from the movie? I haven't watched the movie in years and I can't remember. I sounds like something people would want to ask him...
I think it would be a good idea to have a sequel wherein the Thermians have discovered a few million of their people kept on a prison planet, and they need help rescuing them.
@@TheFiddle101 They can pay tribute to Alan Rickman the way Ghostbusters did it for Harold Ramis. He dies, of course, in the sequel but highlight his importance when he was alive. Draw inspiration to when Spock died and perhaps attempt to resurrect him but they fail because the reality is he died. Just a thought.
@@jayd2655 Yes, it could work, of course. I certainly would want to see what they do but I thought the rest of the cast, in interviews, were rather disheartened to have lost Alan Rickman. Oh well, we'll have to wait and see.
The Thermians returned to Earth, of course. Where they chose to remain. Some worked with nations, governments, corporations, universities. To teach humanity, to learn from humanity. But most of them worked tirelessly to find those poor lost people on Gilligan's Island.
You missed the fact the thermions Home was on the other side of a wormhole And not local. Time dilation would provide the time needed for them to develop all the tech.
Significant time dilation would require reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Is the other endpoint of the wormhole constantly accelerating away from us or constantly moving away from us at a relativistic speed? Theoretical effects like "time slippage" or "time travel" seem more plausible within a wormhole.
@@pwnmeisterage Another possibility is that the Thermians actually received the broadcast (say) a hundred thousand years in the future moving through normal, flat spacetime... but the wormhole happens to be connecting two regions of spacetime that are that time apart (so every time they go through the wormhole, they also travel those a hundred thousand years backward or forward). Which would be consistent with (some metrics technically permissible by) general relativity, although obviously since the Thermians also have FTL, there's something about GR that doesn't apply anyway in their universe, and it would present some issues for causality (though again, so does any other kind of FTL). There's lots of standard loopholes to deal with that.
@@robneff7084 Not to mention follow absolutely arbitrary ideas, like using a "beryllium sphere" as the power source; just imagine those Thermian engineers and scientists pondering "how the hell did they manage to make a power source out of a rocky beryllium sphere? What is it really made from in the first place?". And then the crew finds ready-made beryllium spheres in some alien mine... what is that about? Is that a remnant of a Thermian production facility? Did they outsource production? :D And up to eleven with Omega-13. What does it do? We have no idea. But we designed and built it. So, what does it do? We still have no idea. Those are some serious mad scientists at work there :D
I was brought up on Star Trek and fell in love with this movie. I could appreciate that anyone much younger would not enjoy it so much because they would miss all the meta - references but I was stunned when my Father, who is in his 80's and likes SF and Star Trek, didn't ''get'' this film or see the humour. It just goes to show you never can tell.
Until watching this, I also didn’t catch that. I just thought his constant eating was because he is hypoglycemia. One of my nurse co-workers had this and always had to eat something or pass out from very low blood sugar readings.
I am a little upset with myself too, that I didnt notice the snacking. I just asumed he was a mellow fellow. That's what I get from taking a few decades off from partaking. Like you said, now I see it in the eyes and everything about him. Movie is funny as hell and one I can rewatch often.
I have a friend that used to do all the sci Fi conventions. His list of celebrities in his phone book are impressive. At one convention he was sitting next to shatner at the autograph table. Shatner was in an I'll mood as it was during the time he was trying to break away from his Kirk role. Seeing his mood my friend leaned over and whispered to Shatner " Cheer up , you were the Capt of a starship and a hero to these people", you could have been the guy who got cornholed in Deliverance "! .After hearing this Shatner let out a laugh and smiled. He kept the smile the rest of the day. I guess he realized my friend was right
Yeah Imagine you're Ned Beatty innocently shopping in a Piggly Wiggly sniffing a cantalope and being cat called with Sueweeeeee Sueweeee from the next aisle over , pumping gas , riding an elevator....,out walking your beagle. Being Kirk is probably a better deal in the long run, .
I do think this movie is totally underrated. Just looking at the cast would make most people want to see it. Sigourney Weaver has a couple of hysterical lines, one in the chompers, and when Alan Richman has to repeat the cheesy "By Grabthar's hammer,..." line was on the floor. And even the "the plucky comic relief guy", named Guy, played by very talented Sam Rockwell, was great.
One very cool thing is that someone persuaded Jonathan Frakes to see it, and he absolutely loved it. He then called Patrick Stewart and talked him into seeing it. Stewart loved it, too.
I had the pleasure of meeting Nimoy and Shatner with my 7-year-old son at a convention. I had both of their books with me and we both stood in line to meet them and get the books signed. When we got to them in the line, both of them asked me about my son and I told them his name and they both talked to him like a small adult. He asked them if they were the stars of the convention and Bill Shatner said he was and Leonard Nimoy also agreed that Bill was too. They were both very funny and gracious to both of us. When I passed over their books to sign, Bill signed Nimoy's book and Nimoy signed Shatner's book. It was surreal and funny at the same time. Our son is now 26 years old, working as a Computer Engineer in Seattle and his most prized possessions are those two books that he shows to everyone when they visit his home. He still remembers the convention and how nice Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk were to him. I am crushed that Bill didn't go to the funeral but often there are commitments that you can't get out of.
And in the good old quality dubs of that time, those jokes got translated too. In Czech, it was "They don't seem very wise" "Nah, they look green to me", playing on the similarity between moudrý (wise) and modrý (blue). Green meaning inexperienced in both Czech and English is just a cherry on top :D
So many elements in this masterpiece to admire! The contrast between the actors' residences. Nesbit's reaction in the toilet stall. "I KNEW it was real!"
Too lovely to question. Some things are just joyous, just for being. Loved the actors in this more than ever, just for the fact that they did it and made it so heartwarming.
This film is a masterpiece in every respect and is highly underrated mostly by those who have not seen it and/or who don't like this genre, "serious" or parody to begin with. More's the pity. However, most underrated of all is the cast who are brilliant throughout. In particular, Enrico Colantoni as Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians, Patrick Breen as Quellek, a Thermian who forms a bond with Alexander Dane and Missi Pyle as Laliari, a Thermian and love interest for Fred are fabulous, particularly Enrico. As far a far real-world consequences of the crash landing of an alien spacecraft, etc., etc. go; hey, this is a sci-fi movie and an parody at that. What kind of realism would you impose on it before you broke its spirit? This is the best Star Trek film of all.
Yeah, Galaxy Quest had plot holes but so did the Star Trek franchise. Seeing Galaxy Quest somehow made me understand Star Trek in a different light and its fans who I had begun to wonder about after a friend paid money just to take pictures of the cast. A good review, thanks.
“Never give up, never surrender!” I have lived my life with these historic words! This should be in the little books that they give recruits in military training.
Right up there with "To Infinity and Beyond." I attended a technology fair in the year after Toy Story came out and they use that as the slogan for the conference.
Guy pulled a Colm Meaney. Miles O'Brien started out as random Helmsman, and did the rounds in the early seasons as random crewmates. This continued until someone saw the potential in his personality and made him transporter Chief O'Brien. Officially making him a Mainstay on TNG. Then someone got the bright idea to make him the "Everyman" on DS9, promoting into warrant officer and making him a bona fide Legend.
@@Robert08010 I wouldn't really call him a "star" but he had become a fairly recognizable one-off actor on several television shows in the late-70s and 80s. I could be wrong, but I always thought he played the same character the entire series, but like Geordie, was moved from helmsman to another position
@@RemyJackson I could be wrong too. I don't know him from anything pre-star trek but I was under the impression he was somewhat well known. I agree he didn't play any other characters while on star trek, but like a lot of them, they don't always get a name in the first scene they are in. There's an interview clip with the guy who played Lt. Kyle on the original series. In it he recounts being upset the first time he saw his name in a script because the didn't realize they had finally given his character a name and he was wonder who is this Lt. Kyle who's getting all his lines.
@@Robert08010 I think we are both right. The time-travel element of the TNG finale likely ret-conned any appearance he had prior to being officially named to being O'Brien. Since he only appeared in 2 episodes in the first season (the second of which certainly seemed to be a different character as he appeared to be a security officer) then didn't get named until Season 2. He was in the first episode, which was revisited in the finale with Meaney appearing as O'Brien, officially establishing his character from the pilot episode as the same character.
@@RemyJackson Good call. I had not considered "All Good Things" a favorite episode of mine btw. What is your opinion on Geordie? Had they planed to promote him into another role right from the start or do you think Argyle was just not likable enough so they decided to replace him? I always thought they intended to show this crew having promotions and evolving like a living crew would. But that assumption was partly based on another promotion I found out later was not planned; Worf's promotion to security chief after Tasha's exodus from the series. I always based my assumption on both LeForge and Worfs promotion to new rolls, but then I found out later that Tasha's leaving wasn't planned by producers. So that kinda puts a hole in my theory. Back to Geordie; do you think they planned to promote him to chief engineer right from the start?
This was done as a love letter to SciFi. Where the love of the ideas, actions and philosophies are shown in a real world kind of sense. I love the part when he calls the teenagers and the teens get excited that it is "real" because in thier hearts it is and every person who grew up with SciFi felt that moment. Love it. Miss Alan RIP.
Fred gets his confidence from the obvious sparkle Laliari has for him. It's her smile that inspires him to take the plunge with the digital conveyor, after all.
4:09 There’s a huge subtlety to this racial casting, as notice when he’s addressed by his character he squints his eyes. In the prologue to the show he is shown with that same exaggerated squint. I think it’s brilliant commentary on that casting trope in Hollywood
I've always wondered: was the name "Thermians" derived rom "Theremin," the instrument used to make those weird, other-worldly sounds used in every early sci-fi movie?
I strongly suspect you're right. Which gives it a connection to "Forbidden Planet" another SF classic in the "Trek" mold. (David "Trouble with Tribbles" Gerrold has pointed out that Captains James T. Kirk and J.J. Adams would be equally at home on one another's ships - especially in their relationships with the ship's doctors and chief engineers.)
The theremin is a unique instrument. The band Wintergatan uses one in some of their music. I think they felt it was required; Wintergatan means Milky Way in English, so the space theme continues!✌😸 EDIT Wintergatan's front man is German.
Another bit of trivia - Theremin was named after its Soviet inventor. He also made a listening device planted in the U.S. embassy that was undiscovered for years, because it had no power supply, was only active when the Russians pointed a radio transmitter (at the right frequency) at it from outside the building.
I loved this movie. I’ve never listened to movie critics. Shaloab and Rockwell were fantastic and to have Alan Rickman come on to a film like this was a masterpiece move.
I've always heard that Shatner was invited to Takei's wedding but declined the invitation which caused massive butt hurt. Shatner has said that he didn't go because he didn't consider himself and George to be friends because they had very little interaction off set. That makes sense because of their age difference and being at very different stages of their lives. I understand this because I've been there. In my early thirties, I was working with a group of engineers who were all in their mid twenties. They were all single and would head out to have fun after work. I was married with children so I headed home to be with my family. Different stages of life.
@@88michaelandersen Interesting attitude for an actor who is famous for being famous. Looking at IMDB, it looks like, other than Star Trek, he's done voice acting and episodic TV work.
@@88michaelandersen Yes, Takei IS irrational. His behavior on Twitter these days proves that. However, for Shatner I think he took the criticism of himself seriously and became a better person for it. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it seems to me. Meanwhile Takei is still holding a grudge.
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 I think you're right. Takei just keeps saying crazier and more narcissistic things, but Shatner has started to mellow out a bit.
9:40 - Guy still lives with his mother! and while she's away. Who's going to feed Zuul!? 10:47 - That really is a good scene, in a film full of good scenes, that one showed excellent character story ark, emotion, growth. From I won't say that stupid line one more time w/ utter contempt to sincerely meaning it, showing resolve in his vengeance! Cool!
This is a fantastic movie. I'm a lifelong Trek fan and went to dozens of ST and scifi cons in the 80s and 90s. We saw ourselves in the fans. They nailed and spoofed US, and we loved it. It could so easily gone wrong but they did it all with love, understanding the fan's love of the show and the actor's relationship with the fans. And of course all the actors were fantastic, they GOT it. They knew what they were doing and that it was a loving spoof, not a insulting parody. They grew up with ST and while they might not have been fans, they understood it well enough. The writing was spot on, the special effects were so good you got sucked in easily. I can't say enough about how much fun this is. It is also about the last scifi movie I enjoyed, almost everything since has been utter crap.
As a veteran (and survivor) of countless dealers' rooms at countless cons, when the ship crashed into the convention center, my first thought was, now THAT's something I'd LOVE to do to a dealers' room!
Leonard Nimoy in 1976 did a stage play THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (originally written and presented in the late 1890s with permission of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- it, not the paperback stories, did things like coining the phrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson", and several other Holmes identifiers). He of course was Holmes and I saw it. It was the BEST stage play I have ever seen, with lots of humor in the neat tricks by Holmes as he went up against the evil Moriarity (played by a magnificent actor who made him so evil he could break mirrors; beautiful!). When I saw this play, Spock simply disappeared in my mind. Best Sherlock Holmes I ever saw.
0:45 The make-up effects in John Carpenter's THE THING were almost entirely done by Rob Bottin, with Stan Winston's company contributing only the first dog kennel transformation. Winston's work is always top-notch, of course, as it is in GALAXY QUEST.
I love Galaxy Quest. I've been a scifi fan since forever. Most recently I'm in love with Farscape. More than anything else Ive found camaraderie with the Scape fans and have met one of the cast. We all feel like a strange long distance family. Farscape gave me a reason to look forward when i was having serious depression and finding Scape helped me through. Your comments about a fandom being a good thing rings so true. I've met George Takei and Jonathan Frakes and both were amazing. George Takei is just a sweet guy! I love Galaxy Quest in that in highlights the con...a lot of fans can meet with other fans, whatever their genre is and not feel like an outcast. They can be themselves for awhile and just have fun in a world that tends to be dark. Galaxyquest has lasted because it is so good. As much as a sequel would be welcome I think where the movie ended is just perfect. The cast was great and the story good. The effects made it believeable and just a fun movie. (One fun note...apparently Alex has no life outside of his character as he doesn't take off the wig even in his daily life...a nod maybe towards how these actors often can never escape their character and are stigmatized by it. That could have been a line in the movie somewhere.) Plus, I often use the main line 'never give up. Never surrender in my life...i battle depression and it fits perfectly! So never give up and never surrender! ❤
Awesome point about the con and the fandom Christina. To be around people who "get it" and are safe and fun is an environment that absolutely banishes toxicity in every way, and hence depression and trauma get banned, for a while at least. Never Give Up Never Surrender.
All I can say is I wish I saw it in a packed theater!!! Instead, we play it on disc and love it every time. What a great one! A true master of sci-fi comedy.
Galaxy Quest is the movie I quote when asked what kind of movies I like. It is the cast which takes an essentially stupid story and turns it into a clever, funny movie.
I was lucky to see this a week or so before it was released as a fundraiser run by a group of Sci-Fi Fantasy clubs jointly called Multiverse (they also had 3 day events with the stars of various shows coming out - amazing!). We were asked to dress up in costume if possible so we filled an inner city cinema in Melbourne with folks dressed in Star Trek, Men in Black, Terminator, Star Wars, Dr Who, Red Dwarf... you name it. Of course when the opening scene of a crowd in costume hit the screen we all went wild!!!! It was a wonderful night and I remember the sadness I felt when the club Multiverse finally shut its doors in the early 2000s. By Grabthar's Hammer, Qa' pla!
One other thing to notice -- Rickman's character never takes off his forehead prosthetic, even when he's at home. That absurd quirk makes him the weirdest member of the cast.
Only adults? Tbh I never have seen this as a kid movie. It's still a cult classic favorite on my list, and I can't say I ever thought about showing it to kids... due to the jokes :P
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs depends on the context, and the environment at home, I would think, and how parents address such things: are they taboo, what's their purpose/use, and how to properly/respectfully "interact" with them?
As an adult, I know that Galaxy Quest is not about anything "Inter-Galactic" -- it is about travel through THIS galaxy. The term "Inter-Galactic is only used by dummies who don't know how big a galaxy actually is.
5:04 The mention that Fred's name is not really Kwan is not the only reference. The best reference is when the actor remembers he is suppose to be asian and briefly squints up his eyes during scenes. Like that is the essence of asian or something. That was a level of satire that still kills me in its blatant ridicule of whitewashing.
On your Thurmia Make-over point: You're forgetting that there is a worm hole at the edge of our solar system we haven't detected that places Thurmia only a few minutes away at sub-light speed. Remember when they exited the worm hole on their return trip they were about to enter earth's atmosphere and had to detach the command deck to prevent the entire ship from being destroyed.
It was my understanding that Nimoy and Shatner actually became friends years later, and while Shatner couldn't go to Nimoy's funeral because he was scheduled to do a charity function, I read that he went to visit the Nimoy family while they were sitting shiva (the Jewish period of mourning when the family receives people at their home; unlike a funeral, which is about the deceased, shiva is about comforting the people left behind).
I liked this movie because it comes full circle for me. I was too young for the original Star Trek. I mean I was not allowed to watch it because my mom didn't think I was old enough to see people die in space, and the re-runs didn't interest me when I was old enough. Then I was in high school when I saw Star Wars in the theatre in 1977 and most of my friends thought it was kind of campy, what with the puppets and robots and the shoot-em-up bang pew-pew and explosions. But, ya know, I thought Elvis was goofy back then, also. Now that I've seen all the star wars and trek TV and movies, I have an appreciation for the genre, even though reality must be suspended in order to enjoy, and Galaxy Quest puts it all in perspective.
Hey! -- Never give up! Never surrender! 😲It was a fun movie to watch.... I didn't /don't over analyze it too much and I don't think others should either. Just enjoy it! 🙂
This is one my dad would let my brother and I rent from Blockbuster or Hollywood Video pretty frequently ♥️ good times, and it's still great for being over 20 years old
Sorry, but the studio that owns the rights to Galaxy Quest would just claim it was all part of the stunt, pay for the damage, and people would believe it. Any government getting involved, would keep that cover story, and claim the tech.
Stan Winston was not the primary SFX artist on The Thing. That honor goes to Rob Bottin. Winston and Team were responsible for the “dog thing” transformation/attack scene in the kennels.
Considering one of the aliens is a cast member, I always read it as the real facts were not only accepted, and co-opted as publicity for the new show. A commentary on the TV industry.
I like to think the revival is because it was impossible to cover up and since it happened at a Galaxy Quest convention, the fan base was huge, and the cast was directly involved. To bad we'll never get a real life revival of Galaxy Quest. RIP Alan Rickman!
Radio waves don't travel at the speed of light???? You sure about that? I'm pretty sure all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum travel at 300,000 Km/s am I missing something? Am I about to get r/whooshed?
@@Gpz0 I thought for a second that there was some inside joke making fun of sci-fi movies that I didn't get. Which would make sense. In some movies people several light minutes or light hours away have a normal chat on the radio
One of Isaac Asimov’s early stories was about radio lag from Mars. The heroes mother suggested doing “what women do on the phone”, don’t stop talking, just come back to answer earlier questions, later.
One additional note regarding the ending and the return of the series; Guy is added to the main cast. It wouldn't be a happy ending without Guy joining the team!
This was lots of fun. I have this film on Blu-ray and it's so enjoyable with a ton of extras that include Sigourney Weaver doing rap. You, however, are like the ultra fan that wants to talk about the minutiae of a particular episode making this video even funnier. Kudos🎉🎉🎉🎉
This incredible movie WAS underrated but it has been gaining traction as time goes by. The writing is brilliant throughout and it manages to be serious/funny/poignant/heroic all at once and alternatingly as the film progresses. The cast is brilliant. The Thermians were just a little too cute for me but their plight and bravery ultimately offset and overshadow all.
I think when it was first released, there was a belief that the Star Trek fans would hate the film, and hate being made fun of. The reality is that the Trekkies are the biggest fans of Galaxy Quest. :)
Because it's the best Star Trek parody ever filmed, hands down. Way ahead of "Spock's Brain." (Which totally stank as an episode, but if one thinks of it as a parody, it's actually very funny. "What have you done with Spock's brain," uttered with a straight face. How is that not rip-roaring funny?)
Great movie! Tony Shaloub's character was hilarious, lauuughed..! All of the actors were excellent. Brilliant writing obviously helps. It's very hard to describe this film, it's so unique & wonderful. Just see it, you'll understand.
Many years ago, late 80s, a group of us made a Star Trek parody. One guy worked for a video production company and they let us use the place for a weekend. The characters had names like Schlock, Boney, Captain Jerk, Lt. New Hairdo, etc. We actually had the bridge looking almost real, but for all the buttons we glued on skittles and sugar cubes. There was a computer monitor set into the bridge with an airport radar indicator constantly sweeping around. We had sight gags like, "You can't transport within the ship" and later you see an arm dangling from a bulkhead. Or we would film New Hairdo's shots with the close up camera, re-do her hair, then do all her lines again with the camera pulled back. When the editing combined the camera angles it looked like her hair style was changing constantly. It made me realize what a lot of work goes into production and that was just a little 10 minute clip.
And this give a nod to the Sequel. There are, other Themians being held captive. And the next movie should be there rescue, also, First contact and possibly they take Earth as a surrogate home. And/or another Planet, I'm just guessing. Also, Liam Neeson as Allan Rickman's Dr. Lazarus's Brother. Just a thought.
I don't get why actors that work together are supposed to be all close friends. I have coworkers I've worked with for years and would never expect to be invited to their wedding
Do you think "Galaxy Quest" is an underrated movie?
Hell yeah
Yes, always appreciated it especially the cast!. It's blockbuster compared to the #&%* we get today.
Oh, yes! Nerds are underrated in general
I've been a STARFLEET (int'l club) member around 20 yrs, and every fan I know loves, loves Galaxy Quest. I can't help feeling it's our opinion that counts. nevergiveupneversurrender
its the show that should be out there not the Orville..
Galaxy Quest is an absolute masterpiece. I don't know if I would say that it's underrated since the most of the audience it was aimed at, nerds and in particular Trekkie's, absolutely adore it. In fact it rates higher than several actual Star Trek movies in comparison in various polls.
The ratings sure did follow quality. I have seen each of the Star Trek movies once the better ones twice. I mist have watched Galaxy Quest 20 times. Tony Shalob and Allan Rickman still crack me up. After all these veiwings I still catch things I missed before.
I can't tell you how many times I have heard it said, this is one of the best Star Trek films ever made.
You have to admit Tim Allen has certain shatneresque attributes.
@@justindunlap1235 Absolutely. He played that to perfection.
Way better than all the Jar Jar Abrams movies.
I saw this movie in the theater with my husband at a time when I was feeling really down. Galaxy Quest was exactly what I needed - good, clean, genuinely funny comedy.
The line I often find myself saying? "Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It may be stupid, but I'm going to do it, okay?"
Ironically, with the advent of ChatGPT and LLMs, learning how to best pose questions to an AI (aka "Prompt Engineering") is one of the most realistic jobs on the ship.
Yes great line and Sigourney wanted to keep the wig but they refused!
"Quick, let's get out of here before something kills Guy"
Best line of the movie.
My favorite is, "OH! That's not right . . . "
I fell in love with Sam Rockwell in this film. He is sooo funny.
"did any of you guys ever watch the show?"
This line makes me laugh all the time! One of my all time favorite movies!
To me, the greatest joke in the movie is when Sarris attacks the bridge, shooting everyone BUT Guy who stands there screaming in the midst of all the killing and is never harmed.
One thing I learned was the ship had an NTE prefix on the number. That stood for "Not the Enterprise."
jesus well I just learned something new. That's amazing. So much detail in that movie
I think the most moving line in the movie was when Dane(Rickman) recited that line he hated, to make the dying Quillek happy. The look of amazement on his face was great.
I cried.
Truly Oscar worthy!
He also said the line with great reverence
And the very moment Dane realized what those words really meant. great scene.
Agreed. A tearful moment for me
I had never even heard of 'Galaxy Quest' until about a year ago and now I can't live without it (I've watched it 3 times now and I'm sure I will watch it again) It is an absolutely brilliant homage to the whole sci-fi tv and film industry. Shame on the marketing department of whatever studio released it because this movie should have been an absolute box office smash.
I actually saw it in the theater and absolutely hated it. It wasn't until maybe 5 years ago when I bought the DVD for my kids that I began to really love it and it has become one of my favorite go-to's. I've seen it so many times I ruined my original dvd and had to buy a new copy.
@@KG-VanityInKnickers You are definitely worthy!! Welcome, convert!!
@@KG-VanityInKnickers I saw it in the theater with my folks we are big Star Trek fans we were in stitches with all the callbacks and jokes.
Wellll, in another case of art imitating, well, other art, remember that the show it was based on was cancelled after only 2 seasons, then resurrected with the help of a fan campaign, then cancelled again. Galaxy Quest is now, like the show that inspired it, considered a classic of its genre. Never give up. Never surrender.
Definitely one of the best Star Trek-adjacent films ever produced.
Having grown up with Star Trek and knowing the drama that came with those shows I personally think Galaxy Quest is one of the best science fiction movies ever made . It is also one of the best Star Trek movies ever . It gave none trek fans a look at the drama that happened off screen. It's just sad that never got a chance to make a second movie before Alan Rickman passed away .
Alan Rickman had done quite a lot of work up to this point, but in essence he was hitting a new high in popularity. That made his passing even worse... to just consider the amazing work that he'd have given to audiences in future productions. I daresay he'd have become quite a legend. Just as De Niro and Pacino have their unique speech patterns and mannerisms that are instantly recognizable, so too did Rickman.
@@cytherians Wait ... what? He's not a legend?
You did miss an important aspect of Guy. He thought he was a red-shirt, meaning he would be the first person to get killed on a mission and this high-risk bothered him. At the end they made him the Security Officer and he was greatly relieved to be one of the permanent crew in a 'safe' role. However, the irony is that in the ST Next Generation they made Lieutenant Yar their Security officer and after a few episodes, they killed her anyway. So becoming the Security Officer was not so safe after all!
Yeah but Worf held the job through the rest of the show and into another show.
I work in IT so we're a bunch of geeks.
We have a process that has ODATA. I mentioned that it sounded like something LT Yar would have said.
My coworker hit the floor laughing and was speechless for a while
When he came up for air, he said "I don't know what's funnier, the joke or the fact that I know exactly what you're talking about!"
Yeah, but Guy didn't show his nighty bit on a photo mag at the same time like Denise Crosby did, and it was the 1980s...
That was only because Denise Crosby wanted to leave though
@@gunstarhero8028 Yeah, Crosby had basically told the writers that she wanted out as quickly as possible and so they got rid of her as quickly as they could lol.
R.I.P. Alan Rickman
Big loss for us all..
I miss him 😔
He was a favorite ever since the first Die Hard movie. If you like his acting, check "What Hath God Wrought?" Its the story of a young brilliant black man (Mos Def) and an aging white Doctor (Alan Rickman) and how together, they performed the first infant heart surgery.
@@Robert08010 Great movie. It may have slightly different titles in different countries. When I saw it, it was "Something the Lord Made."
He was such a great actor.
This is a great movie 🎥 makes me smile and it still holds up today
I think its Tim Allens greatest performance. It was the perfect role for him because it mirrored his real life so well.
How Fred uses the Socratic Method of asking questions when the Thermians come to him with an engineering problem is absolute comedy genius.
And as a teacher, let me assure you, it's highly realistic.
The best teacher is really a facilitator, one who makes it possible for the pupil to discover the answer in one big "AHA!" moment. Just delivering both question and answer is problematic at best.
@@phildavenport4150 I concur, 100%. The teachers I remember most fondly were those who guided me so that I actually "felt" the
journey to the point I needed in order to grow academically. They were happy for me to discover the actual joy of thinking and problem solving.
That's what made it so good, the SCI FI elements were taken seriously. What a masterpiece.
I always felt that the character "Fred Kwan" was a very funny poke at how "Scotty" on the Enterprise was always freaking out - "I can't push it any faster, Jim!!!", with some visual affects showing sparks or steam or something going wrong in the back ground. Fred Kwan was the character that most consistently made me laugh out loud. He did have a very stoner vibe, but it was that totally mellow line delivery, while in the background all hell is breaking loose, that really did it for me. The contrast is just so delicious.
He would always be like..... so chill! “‘Hey, just FYI’ in a deadpan delivery. So very funny!
"Are you stoned?"
@@notanumber1311 : No - are you? 🤔 Or is that a quote from the movie? I haven't watched the movie in years and I can't remember. I sounds like something people would want to ask him...
I just assumed that Fred Kwan was adopted. But the explanation on this video makes sense.
Funnest and entertaining film I had seen in a long time. Also the reason no one noticed crash into the convention center MIB was on the job.
I think it would be a good idea to have a sequel wherein the Thermians have discovered a few million of their people kept on a prison planet, and they need help rescuing them.
There had been talks but with the death of Alan Rickman, this was cancelled. Very sad.
@@TheFiddle101 They can pay tribute to Alan Rickman the way Ghostbusters did it for Harold Ramis. He dies, of course, in the sequel but highlight his importance when he was alive. Draw inspiration to when Spock died and perhaps attempt to resurrect him but they fail because the reality is he died. Just a thought.
@@jayd2655 Yes, it could work, of course. I certainly would want to see what they do but I thought the rest of the cast, in interviews, were rather disheartened to have lost Alan Rickman. Oh well, we'll have to wait and see.
The Thermians returned to Earth, of course. Where they chose to remain.
Some worked with nations, governments, corporations, universities. To teach humanity, to learn from humanity.
But most of them worked tirelessly to find those poor lost people on Gilligan's Island.
@@pwnmeisterage LMAO 🤣
You missed the fact the thermions
Home was on the other side of a wormhole
And not local. Time dilation would provide the time needed for them to develop all the tech.
Significant time dilation would require reference frames moving at relativistic speeds. Is the other endpoint of the wormhole constantly accelerating away from us or constantly moving away from us at a relativistic speed?
Theoretical effects like "time slippage" or "time travel" seem more plausible within a wormhole.
@@pwnmeisterage yeah... Oh cookies!
Plus, I would assume they were significantly more advanced than us to begin with, in order to make a spaceship that we can only dream of.
@@pwnmeisterage Another possibility is that the Thermians actually received the broadcast (say) a hundred thousand years in the future moving through normal, flat spacetime... but the wormhole happens to be connecting two regions of spacetime that are that time apart (so every time they go through the wormhole, they also travel those a hundred thousand years backward or forward). Which would be consistent with (some metrics technically permissible by) general relativity, although obviously since the Thermians also have FTL, there's something about GR that doesn't apply anyway in their universe, and it would present some issues for causality (though again, so does any other kind of FTL). There's lots of standard loopholes to deal with that.
@@robneff7084 Not to mention follow absolutely arbitrary ideas, like using a "beryllium sphere" as the power source; just imagine those Thermian engineers and scientists pondering "how the hell did they manage to make a power source out of a rocky beryllium sphere? What is it really made from in the first place?". And then the crew finds ready-made beryllium spheres in some alien mine... what is that about? Is that a remnant of a Thermian production facility? Did they outsource production? :D
And up to eleven with Omega-13. What does it do? We have no idea. But we designed and built it. So, what does it do? We still have no idea. Those are some serious mad scientists at work there :D
By Grabthar's Hammer, bang-on analysis. Thanks for posting!
I was brought up on Star Trek and fell in love with this movie. I could appreciate that anyone much younger would not enjoy it so much because they would miss all the meta - references but I was stunned when my Father, who is in his 80's and likes SF and Star Trek, didn't ''get'' this film or see the humour. It just goes to show you never can tell.
It's funny that I never noticed Fred as behaving as if he was stoned the whole time. Now that it's pointed out, I can see it.
It's the little things
Until watching this, I also didn’t catch that. I just thought his constant eating was because he is hypoglycemia. One of my nurse co-workers had this and always had to eat something or pass out from very low blood sugar readings.
He's got a bad case of the munchies! Total stoner!
I am a little upset with myself too, that I didnt notice the snacking. I just asumed he was a mellow fellow. That's what I get from taking a few decades off from partaking. Like you said, now I see it in the eyes and everything about him. Movie is funny as hell and one I can rewatch often.
I think his chill vibe was the perfect foil for all the tension the other characters had to play.
He balanced them out, no drugs necessary.
I have a friend that used to do all the sci Fi conventions. His list of celebrities in his phone book are impressive. At one convention he was sitting next to shatner at the autograph table. Shatner was in an I'll mood as it was during the time he was trying to break away from his Kirk role. Seeing his mood my friend leaned over and whispered to Shatner " Cheer up , you were the Capt of a starship and a hero to these people", you could have been the guy who got cornholed in Deliverance "! .After hearing this Shatner let out a laugh and smiled. He kept the smile the rest of the day. I guess he realized my friend was right
deliverance movie ? what is the connection ?
@@oddballsok He means being a famous starship captain is preferable to being a no-named actor who got butt f#$ked and forgotten.
Yeah Imagine you're Ned Beatty innocently shopping in a Piggly Wiggly sniffing a cantalope and being cat called with Sueweeeeee Sueweeee from the next aisle over , pumping gas , riding an elevator....,out walking your beagle. Being Kirk is probably a better deal in the long run, .
@@sed6he means being Ned Beaty, hugely popular character actor but remembered for his role in Deliverance and Superman I and II
"Could you possibly try NOT to HIT every single one?!" - Alexander Dane commenting on Tommy's terrible flying through a minefield.
I do think this movie is totally underrated. Just looking at the cast would make most people want to see it. Sigourney Weaver has a couple of hysterical lines, one in the chompers, and when Alan Richman has to repeat the cheesy "By Grabthar's hammer,..." line was on the floor. And even the "the plucky comic relief guy", named Guy, played by very talented Sam Rockwell, was great.
One very cool thing is that someone persuaded Jonathan Frakes to see it, and he absolutely loved it. He then called Patrick Stewart and talked him into seeing it. Stewart loved it, too.
I had the pleasure of meeting Nimoy and Shatner with my 7-year-old son at a convention. I had both of their books with me and we both stood in line to meet them and get the books signed. When we got to them in the line, both of them asked me about my son and I told them his name and they both talked to him like a small adult. He asked them if they were the stars of the convention and Bill Shatner said he was and Leonard Nimoy also agreed that Bill was too. They were both very funny and gracious to both of us. When I passed over their books to sign, Bill signed Nimoy's book and Nimoy signed Shatner's book. It was surreal and funny at the same time. Our son is now 26 years old, working as a Computer Engineer in Seattle and his most prized possessions are those two books that he shows to everyone when they visit his home. He still remembers the convention and how nice Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk were to him. I am crushed that Bill didn't go to the funeral but often there are commitments that you can't get out of.
Anyone in my household trying to help another person troubleshoot anything: "Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?"
🎉😂 thank you for this 😂🎉
"Miners not Minors" my favorite quote of this movie.
Yes! Alan was brilliant.
@@steverayrapp How about "You've broken the ship! You've broken the bloody ship!" He was a wonderful actor.
Guy: Did you actually WATCH the show?!
And in the good old quality dubs of that time, those jokes got translated too. In Czech, it was "They don't seem very wise" "Nah, they look green to me", playing on the similarity between moudrý (wise) and modrý (blue). Green meaning inexperienced in both Czech and English is just a cherry on top :D
There's also the "Well screw THAT!" line from Gwen that was obviously dubbed over. :D
So many elements in this masterpiece to admire!
The contrast between the actors' residences.
Nesbit's reaction in the toilet stall.
"I KNEW it was real!"
Too lovely to question. Some things are just joyous, just for being. Loved the actors in this more than ever, just for the fact that they did it and made it so heartwarming.
This film is a masterpiece in every respect and is highly underrated mostly by those who have not seen it and/or who don't like this genre, "serious" or parody to begin with. More's the pity.
However, most underrated of all is the cast who are brilliant throughout. In particular, Enrico Colantoni as Mathesar, the leader of the Thermians, Patrick Breen as Quellek, a Thermian who forms a bond with Alexander Dane and Missi Pyle as Laliari, a Thermian and love interest for Fred are fabulous, particularly Enrico.
As far a far real-world consequences of the crash landing of an alien spacecraft, etc., etc. go; hey, this is a sci-fi movie and an parody at that. What kind of realism would you impose on it before you broke its spirit?
This is the best Star Trek film of all.
Yeah, Galaxy Quest had plot holes but so did the Star Trek franchise. Seeing Galaxy Quest somehow made me understand Star Trek in a different light and its fans who I had begun to wonder about after a friend paid money just to take pictures of the cast. A good review, thanks.
Wait. You mean thermians don't exist!?!?! 🤪
pot holes is a feature not a bug
sorry, meant plot holes
Love this movie. "They're miners, not minors." Still use that line to this day.
Credit where credit is DUE: Rob Bottin is the man responsible for "The Thing" - not Stan Winston.
Love, love, love this movie. One of my all time favs. I try to get people to watch it all the time
“Never give up, never surrender!” I have lived my life with these historic words! This should be in the little books that they give recruits in military training.
You're only beaten if you're dead or you give up.. "Not dead. Won't quit".
Right up there with "To Infinity and Beyond." I attended a technology fair in the year after Toy Story came out and they use that as the slogan for the conference.
Guy pulled a Colm Meaney. Miles O'Brien started out as random Helmsman, and did the rounds in the early seasons as random crewmates. This continued until someone saw the potential in his personality and made him transporter Chief O'Brien. Officially making him a Mainstay on TNG. Then someone got the bright idea to make him the "Everyman" on DS9, promoting into warrant officer and making him a bona fide Legend.
Although I hadn't seen him, I heard Colm was a recognized "star" before he ever set foot on a star trek stage.
@@Robert08010 I wouldn't really call him a "star" but he had become a fairly recognizable one-off actor on several television shows in the late-70s and 80s.
I could be wrong, but I always thought he played the same character the entire series, but like Geordie, was moved from helmsman to another position
@@RemyJackson I could be wrong too. I don't know him from anything pre-star trek but I was under the impression he was somewhat well known. I agree he didn't play any other characters while on star trek, but like a lot of them, they don't always get a name in the first scene they are in. There's an interview clip with the guy who played Lt. Kyle on the original series. In it he recounts being upset the first time he saw his name in a script because the didn't realize they had finally given his character a name and he was wonder who is this Lt. Kyle who's getting all his lines.
@@Robert08010 I think we are both right. The time-travel element of the TNG finale likely ret-conned any appearance he had prior to being officially named to being O'Brien. Since he only appeared in 2 episodes in the first season (the second of which certainly seemed to be a different character as he appeared to be a security officer) then didn't get named until Season 2. He was in the first episode, which was revisited in the finale with Meaney appearing as O'Brien, officially establishing his character from the pilot episode as the same character.
@@RemyJackson Good call. I had not considered "All Good Things" a favorite episode of mine btw. What is your opinion on Geordie? Had they planed to promote him into another role right from the start or do you think Argyle was just not likable enough so they decided to replace him? I always thought they intended to show this crew having promotions and evolving like a living crew would. But that assumption was partly based on another promotion I found out later was not planned; Worf's promotion to security chief after Tasha's exodus from the series. I always based my assumption on both LeForge and Worfs promotion to new rolls, but then I found out later that Tasha's leaving wasn't planned by producers. So that kinda puts a hole in my theory. Back to Geordie; do you think they planned to promote him to chief engineer right from the start?
This was done as a love letter to SciFi. Where the love of the ideas, actions and philosophies are shown in a real world kind of sense. I love the part when he calls the teenagers and the teens get excited that it is "real" because in thier hearts it is and every person who grew up with SciFi felt that moment. Love it. Miss Alan RIP.
I am old now but my heart always jumps, and I have to smile when I hear that line "I KNEW IT!"
Fred gets his confidence from the obvious sparkle Laliari has for him. It's her smile that inspires him to take the plunge with the digital conveyor, after all.
4:09 There’s a huge subtlety to this racial casting, as notice when he’s addressed by his character he squints his eyes. In the prologue to the show he is shown with that same exaggerated squint. I think it’s brilliant commentary on that casting trope in Hollywood
I've always wondered: was the name "Thermians" derived rom "Theremin," the instrument used to make those weird, other-worldly sounds used in every early sci-fi movie?
I strongly suspect you're right. Which gives it a connection to "Forbidden Planet" another SF classic in the "Trek" mold. (David "Trouble with Tribbles" Gerrold has pointed out that Captains James T. Kirk and J.J. Adams would be equally at home on one another's ships - especially in their relationships with the ship's doctors and chief engineers.)
The theremin is a unique instrument. The band Wintergatan uses one in some of their music. I think they felt it was required; Wintergatan means Milky Way in English, so the space theme continues!✌😸
EDIT Wintergatan's front man is German.
@@PhoenixLyon little confused - do you mean "German" or "Dutch" or some other language? In English, we usually just call it, the Milky Way.
Another bit of trivia - Theremin was named after its Soviet inventor. He also made a listening device planted in the U.S. embassy that was undiscovered for years, because it had no power supply, was only active when the Russians pointed a radio transmitter (at the right frequency) at it from outside the building.
Thermal also means heat. Could be related to that as well.
I loved this movie. I’ve never listened to movie critics. Shaloab and Rockwell were fantastic and to have Alan Rickman come on to a film like this was a masterpiece move.
I've always heard that Shatner was invited to Takei's wedding but declined the invitation which caused massive butt hurt. Shatner has said that he didn't go because he didn't consider himself and George to be friends because they had very little interaction off set. That makes sense because of their age difference and being at very different stages of their lives.
I understand this because I've been there. In my early thirties, I was working with a group of engineers who were all in their mid twenties. They were all single and would head out to have fun after work. I was married with children so I headed home to be with my family. Different stages of life.
All of that and George Takei seems to be just as big a diva as Shatner when you see him off screen.
@@88michaelandersen Interesting attitude for an actor who is famous for being famous. Looking at IMDB, it looks like, other than Star Trek, he's done voice acting and episodic TV work.
@@88michaelandersen Yes, Takei IS irrational. His behavior on Twitter these days proves that. However, for Shatner I think he took the criticism of himself seriously and became a better person for it. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it seems to me. Meanwhile Takei is still holding a grudge.
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 I think you're right. Takei just keeps saying crazier and more narcissistic things, but Shatner has started to mellow out a bit.
@@88michaelandersen It seems so.
9:40 - Guy still lives with his mother!
and while she's away. Who's going to feed Zuul!?
10:47 - That really is a good scene, in a film full of good scenes, that one showed excellent character story ark, emotion, growth. From I won't say that stupid line one more time w/ utter contempt to sincerely meaning it, showing resolve in his vengeance! Cool!
This is a fantastic movie. I'm a lifelong Trek fan and went to dozens of ST and scifi cons in the 80s and 90s. We saw ourselves in the fans. They nailed and spoofed US, and we loved it. It could so easily gone wrong but they did it all with love, understanding the fan's love of the show and the actor's relationship with the fans.
And of course all the actors were fantastic, they GOT it. They knew what they were doing and that it was a loving spoof, not a insulting parody. They grew up with ST and while they might not have been fans, they understood it well enough. The writing was spot on, the special effects were so good you got sucked in easily. I can't say enough about how much fun this is.
It is also about the last scifi movie I enjoyed, almost everything since has been utter crap.
As a veteran (and survivor) of countless dealers' rooms at countless cons, when the ship crashed into the convention center, my first thought was, now THAT's something I'd LOVE to do to a dealers' room!
I LOVE this movie. It's wonderful to see that others "get it".
wow, that ending statement makes me remember why I love some of my favorite characters from my favorite movies!
Ken Wheeler is right. Galaxy Quest is an absolute masterpiece. Definitely underrated.
Leonard Nimoy in 1976 did a stage play THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (originally written and presented in the late 1890s with permission of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- it, not the paperback stories, did things like coining the phrase, "Elementary, my dear Watson", and several other Holmes identifiers). He of course was Holmes and I saw it. It was the BEST stage play I have ever seen, with lots of humor in the neat tricks by Holmes as he went up against the evil Moriarity (played by a magnificent actor who made him so evil he could break mirrors; beautiful!). When I saw this play, Spock simply disappeared in my mind. Best Sherlock Holmes I ever saw.
0:45 The make-up effects in John Carpenter's THE THING were almost entirely done by Rob Bottin, with Stan Winston's company contributing only the first dog kennel transformation. Winston's work is always top-notch, of course, as it is in GALAXY QUEST.
Galaxy Quest was hands down Brilliant,,, sad thing is they never made a sequel
No. Probably a blessing. So many sequals are terible disasters that just ruin the first movie. Much better to have a single brilliant movie.
I love Galaxy Quest. I've been a scifi fan since forever. Most recently I'm in love with Farscape. More than anything else Ive found camaraderie with the Scape fans and have met one of the cast. We all feel like a strange long distance family. Farscape gave me a reason to look forward when i was having serious depression and finding Scape helped me through. Your comments about a fandom being a good thing rings so true. I've met George Takei and Jonathan Frakes and both were amazing. George Takei is just a sweet guy!
I love Galaxy Quest in that in highlights the con...a lot of fans can meet with other fans, whatever their genre is and not feel like an outcast. They can be themselves for awhile and just have fun in a world that tends to be dark. Galaxyquest has lasted because it is so good. As much as a sequel would be welcome I think where the movie ended is just perfect. The cast was great and the story good. The effects made it believeable and just a fun movie.
(One fun note...apparently Alex has no life outside of his character as he doesn't take off the wig even in his daily life...a nod maybe towards how these actors often can never escape their character and are stigmatized by it. That could have been a line in the movie somewhere.) Plus, I often use the main line 'never give up. Never surrender in my life...i battle depression and it fits perfectly!
So never give up and never surrender! ❤
Awesome point about the con and the fandom Christina. To be around people who "get it" and are safe and fun is
an environment that absolutely banishes toxicity in every way, and hence depression and trauma get banned, for a while at least. Never Give Up Never Surrender.
A good motto!
All I can say is I wish I saw it in a packed theater!!! Instead, we play it on disc and love it every time. What a great one! A true master of sci-fi comedy.
Galaxy Quest is the movie I quote when asked what kind of movies I like. It is the cast which takes an essentially stupid story and turns it into a clever, funny movie.
In the list of great Star Trek movies we always have "Galaxy Quest" somewhere after Wrath of Khan and perhaps just before the Save The Whales movie.
...nuclear wessels at Ala-me-da!
I was lucky to see this a week or so before it was released as a fundraiser run by a group of Sci-Fi Fantasy clubs jointly called Multiverse (they also had 3 day events with the stars of various shows coming out - amazing!). We were asked to dress up in costume if possible so we filled an inner city cinema in Melbourne with folks dressed in Star Trek, Men in Black, Terminator, Star Wars, Dr Who, Red Dwarf... you name it.
Of course when the opening scene of a crowd in costume hit the screen we all went wild!!!! It was a wonderful night and I remember the sadness I felt when the club Multiverse finally shut its doors in the early 2000s.
By Grabthar's Hammer, Qa' pla!
what a fun film. Alan Rickman was superb in this. All the actors were great!
Galaxy Quest and Three Amigos are basically the same story. They're both awesome!
One other thing to notice -- Rickman's character never takes off his forehead prosthetic, even when he's at home. That absurd quirk makes him the weirdest member of the cast.
Only adults? Tbh I never have seen this as a kid movie. It's still a cult classic favorite on my list, and I can't say I ever thought about showing it to kids... due to the jokes :P
and Gwen's "attributes"....
I love this film. Showed it to my kids knowing they wouldn't get the jokes...they do now they're adults!
@@sseltrek1a2b You think kids are harmed by a little cleavage?
@@ChrisMaxfieldActs depends on the context, and the environment at home, I would think, and how parents address such things: are they taboo, what's their purpose/use, and how to properly/respectfully "interact" with them?
My take on Fred Kwan is that the whole movie takes place in his head. He often suggests the next plot twist, then it happens. ...and he gets the girl.
This was one of my all time favorite Movies. Cheers to all the wonderful actors and thanks for the laughs.
One of my all-time favorite movies. It was fun while having a laugh while reaching our hearts.
Galaxy Quest is on my list of perfect movies--flawless.
As an adult, I know that Galaxy Quest is not about anything "Inter-Galactic" -- it is about travel through THIS galaxy. The term "Inter-Galactic is only used by dummies who don't know how big a galaxy actually is.
That's a good observation Scott. It's been a few years since I saw the movie but I thought they were saying 'Intra-Galactic', but perhaps wrong.
5:04 The mention that Fred's name is not really Kwan is not the only reference. The best reference is when the actor remembers he is suppose to be asian and briefly squints up his eyes during scenes. Like that is the essence of asian or something. That was a level of satire that still kills me in its blatant ridicule of whitewashing.
On your Thurmia Make-over point:
You're forgetting that there is a worm hole at the edge of our solar system we haven't detected that places Thurmia only a few minutes away at sub-light speed.
Remember when they exited the worm hole on their return trip they were about to enter earth's atmosphere and had to detach the command deck to prevent the entire ship from being destroyed.
It was my understanding that Nimoy and Shatner actually became friends years later, and while Shatner couldn't go to Nimoy's funeral because he was scheduled to do a charity function, I read that he went to visit the Nimoy family while they were sitting shiva (the Jewish period of mourning when the family receives people at their home; unlike a funeral, which is about the deceased, shiva is about comforting the people left behind).
Stan worked on the "Dog Thing" but most of the Effects in The Thing were done by Rob Bottin.
Still a fun movie.
I liked this movie because it comes full circle for me. I was too young for the original Star Trek. I mean I was not allowed to watch it because my mom didn't think I was old enough to see people die in space, and the re-runs didn't interest me when I was old enough. Then I was in high school when I saw Star Wars in the theatre in 1977 and most of my friends thought it was kind of campy, what with the puppets and robots and the shoot-em-up bang pew-pew and explosions. But, ya know, I thought Elvis was goofy back then, also. Now that I've seen all the star wars and trek TV and movies, I have an appreciation for the genre, even though reality must be suspended in order to enjoy, and Galaxy Quest puts it all in perspective.
Hey! -- Never give up! Never surrender! 😲It was a fun movie to watch.... I didn't /don't over analyze it too much and I don't think others should either. Just enjoy it! 🙂
Sudden urge to rewatch Galaxy Quest...
A sci fi spoof that turns into a great sci fi film. Has its cake, eats it, then bakes another. Brilliant!
This is one my dad would let my brother and I rent from Blockbuster or Hollywood Video pretty frequently ♥️ good times, and it's still great for being over 20 years old
One of my favorite movies of all time. Brilliant synopsis.
Sorry, but the studio that owns the rights to Galaxy Quest would just claim it was all part of the stunt, pay for the damage, and people would believe it.
Any government getting involved, would keep that cover story, and claim the tech.
Stan Winston was not the primary SFX artist on The Thing. That honor goes to Rob Bottin. Winston and Team were responsible for the “dog thing” transformation/attack scene in the kennels.
Was just about to respond saying the same thing. Glad someone else picked this up.
I LOVE THAT MOVIE!!!!! 🥰 I miss Alan and hate that we will never see him in any more movies
Considering one of the aliens is a cast member, I always read it as the real facts were not only accepted, and co-opted as publicity for the new show. A commentary on the TV industry.
I love this movie!
This is ACTUALLY a decent film commentary. I was surprised at how decent it is.
I Loved G.Q. Funny Scifi done well is great. Aliens vs cowboys/ Paul / John Carter/ Firefly are great examples of FUN movies.
I like to think the revival is because it was impossible to cover up and since it happened at a Galaxy Quest convention, the fan base was huge, and the cast was directly involved.
To bad we'll never get a real life revival of Galaxy Quest. RIP Alan Rickman!
Radio waves don't travel at the speed of light???? You sure about that? I'm pretty sure all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum travel at 300,000 Km/s am I missing something? Am I about to get r/whooshed?
@@jonahpatton8879 I looked it up, your right
@@Gpz0 I thought for a second that there was some inside joke making fun of sci-fi movies that I didn't get. Which would make sense. In some movies people several light minutes or light hours away have a normal chat on the radio
@@jonahpatton8879 I wasn't thinking in a vacuum lol
One of Isaac Asimov’s early stories was about radio lag from Mars. The heroes mother suggested doing “what women do on the phone”, don’t stop talking, just come back to answer earlier questions, later.
One additional note regarding the ending and the return of the series; Guy is added to the main cast. It wouldn't be a happy ending without Guy joining the team!
this is a gem of a movie all the things you want and need
This was lots of fun. I have this film on Blu-ray and it's so enjoyable with a ton of extras that include Sigourney Weaver doing rap. You, however, are like the ultra fan that wants to talk about the minutiae of a particular episode making this video even funnier. Kudos🎉🎉🎉🎉
Sigourney Weaver was the best character in that movie.
And hot AF.
I loved all the characters.
This incredible movie WAS underrated but it has been gaining traction as time goes by. The writing is brilliant throughout and it manages to be serious/funny/poignant/heroic all at once and alternatingly as the film progresses. The cast is brilliant. The Thermians were just a little too cute for me but their plight and bravery ultimately offset and overshadow all.
This has made me want to watch it again... it has been many years!!
Loved this film! Long live Dr. Lazarus!
I think when it was first released, there was a belief that the Star Trek fans would hate the film, and hate being made fun of. The reality is that the Trekkies are the biggest fans of Galaxy Quest. :)
Because it's the best Star Trek parody ever filmed, hands down. Way ahead of "Spock's Brain." (Which totally stank as an episode, but if one thinks of it as a parody, it's actually very funny. "What have you done with Spock's brain," uttered with a straight face. How is that not rip-roaring funny?)
@@CrankyBeach lol, yah, there were a few stinker episodes. But then there's the iconic City on the Edge of Forever, and the Trouble with Tribbles....
Great movie! Tony Shaloub's character was hilarious, lauuughed..! All of the actors were excellent. Brilliant writing obviously helps. It's very hard to describe this film, it's so unique & wonderful. Just see it, you'll understand.
Many years ago, late 80s, a group of us made a Star Trek parody. One guy worked for a video production company and they let us use the place for a weekend. The characters had names like Schlock, Boney, Captain Jerk, Lt. New Hairdo, etc. We actually had the bridge looking almost real, but for all the buttons we glued on skittles and sugar cubes. There was a computer monitor set into the bridge with an airport radar indicator constantly sweeping around. We had sight gags like, "You can't transport within the ship" and later you see an arm dangling from a bulkhead. Or we would film New Hairdo's shots with the close up camera, re-do her hair, then do all her lines again with the camera pulled back. When the editing combined the camera angles it looked like her hair style was changing constantly. It made me realize what a lot of work goes into production and that was just a little 10 minute clip.
And this give a nod to the Sequel. There are, other Themians being held captive. And the next movie should be there rescue, also, First contact and possibly they take Earth as a surrogate home. And/or another Planet, I'm just guessing. Also, Liam Neeson as Allan Rickman's Dr. Lazarus's Brother. Just a thought.
I was expecting stuff like Gwen Demarco's ripped top, and her non lip-synched exclamation 'Well screw that'.
Somewhat disappointed...
I'd like to see an actual Galaxy Quest series, but I guess that's kind of what Seth MacFarlane's TV series was in a way.
Hey, Looper, suspension of disbelief makes watching movies more fun.
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that litle snap of autographing is sooo 1000% Alan Rickman.
I don't get why actors that work together are supposed to be all close friends. I have coworkers I've worked with for years and would never expect to be invited to their wedding