Galaxy Quest

Film details

Film TitleGalaxy Quest
Suitability
Genre
Length101mins
Year1999
CountryUnited States of America
DirectorDean Parisot
ActorsTim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Robin Sachs, Jed Rees, Justin Long, Missi Pyle, Patrick Breen, Jeremy Howard, Sam Lloyd, Rainn Wilson
LanguageEnglish
Showings

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA protector – “Commander Peter Quincy Taggart” (Tim Allen), “Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver) and “Dr.Lazarus” (Alan Rickman) – set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space…and then their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for “historical documents” and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

The entire cast is game for the ridiculous, while Stan Winston’s aliens and ILM visual effects give this the gloss of a straight-faced sci-fi spectacle. Beam on up.