Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
by Roger Vadim
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Actor: Anita Pallenberg, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Marcel Marceau, Milo O'SheaDirector: Roger Vadim
Brand: FONDA,JANE
Writer: Roger Vadim
Writer: Brian Degas
Writer: Claude Brulé
Writer: Clement Biddle Wood
Writer: Jean-Claude Forest
Writer: Terry Southern
Writer: Tudor Gates
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
Movie Review: "A Five-Star Double-Rated Astro-Navigatrix"
Summary: 5 Stars
The 1960's were an era of terrifically beautiful actresses, ranging from Ursula Andress to the starlets of Hammer Film Productions. Among the highest order of cinematic goddesses was young Jane Fonda, whose performance in the title role of "Barbarella" remains extremely erotic--today's more explicit sexuality notwithstanding. The film's slight storyline concerns a futuristic "astro-navigatrix" trying to track down a mad scientist and prevent him from using a horrific weapon that he invented. Hot on his trail Our Heroine encounters all manner of intergalactic beings who do their best to separate her from her unusually frail space-girl costumes; a blind angel, sadistic "leather men," children w/carnivorous dolls, and a tyrannical lesbian queen are all eager to entice Barbarella into their various fun & games. Finally, when the space-girl does catch up to her quarry (the crazed scientist wonderfully named Duran Duran) he too wants to work out his fantasies on her; he subjects her to his "excessive machine"--a pleasant torture device that supposedly kills by inducing a lethal number of orgasms! Fortunately, Barbarella's [...] capabilities outlast the machine, causing it to collapse in broken fuses. And so it goes until the less-than-inevitable, but happy, finale.
All in all this film's fantastic episodes are brilliant, inspired. Barbarella's narrow escape from flesh-eating dolls as well as her many encounters with the lesbian tyrant (played to the hilt by Anita Pallenberg) are truly imaginative sequences. Other highlights include the film's initial scene--with Barbarella doing a strip-tease in a zero-gravity chamber; and her down-and-dirty defeat of Duran Duran's nasty machine. In essence there are very few dull moments in the entire film. Director Roger Vadim--Jane Fonda's husband at the time--was at the height of his considerable powers. And Mistress Fonda herself was glorious; in such an unlikely role, her extreme beauty blended harmoniously with an essential innocence in a way that made her the cinematic descendant of Marilyn Monroe! For any actress at any time there can be no higher praise than comparison with Marilyn; and in Jane Fonda's case, such comparison is actually deserved. My highest ratings.
Summary of Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather anachronistic now. Appreciated today mostly as a camp classic, the movie is actually more trying than anything else. --Tom Keogh
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