Galaxy
Quest by David Howard
8.5 out of
10
If for no
other reason, then it is still worth seeing this Science Fiction comedy for the
outstanding team that acts in it – Tim Allen as Jason Nesmith aka the commander
of a galactic ship in a series, Sigourney Weaver as another artist, Gwen
DeMarco, with a role on the same space ship, Alan Rickman as a disabused actor,
Alexander Dane, who had tolerated enough of the arrogance of Jason Nesmith,
Tony Shalhoub as Fred Kwan and the recent Oscar Winner, Sam Rockwell as Guy
Fleegman, the one with just a cameo in the series, but who happens to get
sucked in a Galaxy Quest, meant to save some…aliens.
The superb acting
– though perhaps the visitors from Outer Space overdo their mannerisms…and even
this is hard to assess, for who knows how aliens behave – helps carry the story
around, in that the ‘commander’ is amusingly preposterous, too infatuated to be
taken seriously, for quite some time, though an actor in the film, he acts as
if he really has superior knowledge and he is towering over the rest of the
‘crew’ and people in general – in one of his mesmerizing novels, I think it was
Point and Counterpoint and not chrome Yellow, Aldous Huxley writes about an
actress that has to portrays a char woman and after a while, she changes her
manner of speaking and takes that character into real life, where she is no
longer that acclaimed artist, but the woman she had been meant to bring only to
the audiences…
Aliens
arrive at a meeting with the fans and they are evidently taken for something
else, for quite some time, resulting in some amusing scenes, wherein ‘the great
commander’ insists on the limo, for he is sure these are just those who want
them to show at a gathering of admirers of the series – that resemble the real
aficionados of shows like Star Treck or the Star Wars sequels and prequels,
that are devoted and intoxicated with the personages, the light sabers,
costumes and all the paraphernalia involved…
Only they
are ‘real’ and they take the one they think is so skilled, adept at managing
crisis – suddenly, I am thinking of Trump, who also wants to show off and
speaks of himself as the ‘very stable genius and more recently the war
president’ when in fact is just a con artist who has managed to trick so many
fools into voting for him and before that buy his phony products, university,
vodka, airlines, etc…a crook that has been in bankruptcy Six (6!) times - to their universe, where there is trouble
and calamity in store…
This is not
Doctor Strangelove, King of Comedy, History of the World by Mel Brooks, or The
Producers by the same comedy genius
It is
probably good entertainment though, especially at the Time of the New Cholera,
the Corona Virus 19
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