Tim Allen stars in this entertaining and well-written parody of the Star Trek hype. He plays a man who was the star of a popular television show, Galaxy Quest, from the early eighties. As time progressed, the show gained die-hard popularity, like Star Trek did. Allen, and the rest of the Galaxy Quest cast lives their post-television life signing autographs and making special appearances for a living, never doing anything important since their show was canceled. That is, until a quartet of off-the-wall aliens reach his house, who received television signals of the show and mistook it for "documented history" and calls for Allen and his crew to defeat Sarris, a bad alien-dude who threatens their very existence! Galaxy Quest is entertaining and funny.
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Starring:
Tim Allen, Sigorney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl M. Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Robin Sachs, Patrick Breen
Directed by:
Dean Parisot
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1999 sci-fi/comedy
Rated PG.
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Don Ignacio's score: B+