Galaxy Quest, dat piff that just gets better with Age

[KalKal]

To me, this is so much better than Spaceballs.
Spaceballs wants to mock Star Wars, like a bully beating up on a nerd in an 80s movie. It's funny, but it's mostly cheap shots.

But Galaxy Quest LOVES Star Trek and Trek fans. It's funny because it understands the thing it is satirizing.

 

[Saint1]

Originally Patrick Stewart didn't want to see the movie

I had originally not wanted to see [Galaxy Quest] because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said ‘You must not miss this movie! See it on a Saturday night in a full theatre.’ And I did and of course I found it was brilliant. Brilliant.

No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did, but the idea that the ship was saved and all of our heroes in that movie were saved simply by the fact that there were fans who did understand the scientific principles on which the ship worked was absolutely wonderful. And it was both funny and also touching in that it paid tribute to the dedication of these fans.

 

[Deltron]

all time classic.

 

[Mortal1]

I remember seeing this in the movie theaters with my brother and nephew. The movie is still funny af it’s a classic imo.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

classic as fukk. great movie. still holds up.

 

[Saint1]

God damn. Just watched it again on YouTube

Guy freaking out because they dummy know if there's air on the alien planet