a5c7b9f00b Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women. Oh boy do I ever enjoy this movie. For some reason I&#39;ve managed to see it at least once a year since it was released and I never get sick of it and I really have no idea why. Mental disorder, perhaps. This movie redefines camp for post-apocalyptic scifi quest adventure 3-D crap. Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald are both great in their stock roles–Strauss is refreshingly down-to-earth, so unlike the usual all-knowing megalomaniac space ranger with a girl in every port (his girl is a purchased robot companion, which says things about a guy); Ringwald&#39;s whine would give God a<br/><br/>headache, but she&#39;s got the right proportion of bravado and vulnerability to create a believable, occasionally endearing space orphan. I like the random nature of their search, designed to place them in situations where the production can use up a set or two that might have been intended for some other movie. Plenty of rubbery creatures abound. And the Thunderdome-esque stuff is actually pretty cool–I&#39;m reminded of Leela&#39;s test in that Doctor Who episode (something people who like Spacehunter are a plausible demographic to remember). All in all this is a happily-brainless-yet-somehow-lovable piece of space junk and I&#39;m crazy about it. Or just crazy. I make a point to catch Spacehunter every time it airs (usually after 1 a.m.). It&#39;s classic cheese, and I submit there&#39;s a place in our moral-cinematic universe for such films.<br/><br/>What films? Oh, having Michael Ironsidethe villain is a good clue. If I had to define them…films so goofy (yet riddled with neat ideas that only the low-budget creative intellect can conjure) that we harken back to adolescence and think how cool these films would have been/were when we saw them with our junior high pals.<br/><br/>Yes, this is MST3K material, but lovingly so, nostalgically so. An ugly duckling that never becomes a swan–never even really gives such a transformation a shot–but one we can groove on precisely because it&#39;s so dorky.
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