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Starcrash
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United States call and Italy soon responds. A response not asked that
doesn’t revives the battle US-USSR with "2001 Space Odyssey" and
"Solaris". Lewis Coates pseudonym of Luigi Cozzi, taken by the fever of
"Star Wars" tries to follow the path, forgetting, however, that to make
a good "sci-fi" is need money or a great special-effects artist. Cozzi
has neither one nor the other, and his attempt generates what is a
great "scult".
The Doubt that he was aware too of the inadequacy of his film emerges
but it’s in contrast to the honest attempt to create backdrops
depicting planets, with embarrassing colored lights, to use badly the
stop motion and paste just as bad on film various robots, monsters and
spaceships. Who knows if Ray Harryhausen has seen this movie and who
knows, the face has done. But apart from a very bad realization, we
must recognize that Cozzi works with a good cast, at least in part.
There is the beautiful English actress and model Caroline Munro, seen
in many horror films or in films of Hammer and in "The Spy who loved
me" who duels and duets in beauty with Nadia Cassini for once changing
role and doesn’t shows her ass. In the male cast there is always
adequate Christopher Plummer finished somehow in this production and a
ridiculous Joe Spinell which take almost a baptism of a young David
Hasseloff.
It must also be recognized, net of a terrible realization that
"Starcrash" has a tight plot, full of events, which hasn’t slow
moments. Indeed in a hypothetical happy ending is added a tail, made of
explosions, laser swords and missiles.
Of the work by Lucas there is little or nothing, if we exclude the idea
of stellar collisions and lightsabers. This film is much better known
as "Starcrash" tells us in a comics epic style the adventures of
criminal Stella Star (Caroline Munro) and her inseparable friend Akton
starring Marjoe Gortner former preacher and actor. The two after an
escape from a prison are captured by the Universal Emperor (Plummer)
who hires them to find his son Simon or Raima (depending on the
version) and above all to fight the Count Zarth Arn (Spinell). With
them there is a robot, a little penis 'shaped that just takes a beating
in all the planets where they end. There are the Amazons, led by
Corelia (Nadia Cassini) and there are the troglodytes, some with giant
robots (those glued to the film and moved in stop motion) and others
with more rudimentary weapons. There is also an emissary of the count,
but all this doesn’t prevent our heroes to find Simon (Hasseloff)
that runs with a carnival mask and shoot lasers from eyes and take down
the bad.
Between spaceships that end up on the beaches and overturned bins that
serve as reactors, "Starcrash" is a funny movie, trash in the right way.
