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Did everyone enjoy this fan flick spoof movie? (imdb) Because I sure didn’t. Sure, one can appreciate the effort that went into making this on a non-existent budget but … the end result is amazingly poor, and it’s not the usual money drains of CGI and cast that hampers the film. In fact CGI effect are excellent, considering, and the acting, well, if you’ve sat through a movie with Jessica Alba before, this isn’t half bad. I find it very ironic that the main problem with the movie then is with directing and the actual script. Both are goofy but not in a good sense.
For one, the “Pirk” character lacks comic relief and spoof qualities since it doesn’t really build on Kirk or classic Star Trek mythology. Except for getting stuck in the past, the ship, costume and set design, there is very little Star Trek about it. Put simply, it would have been more fun and spoof had Kirk’s/Picard’s/Whatever character been an exaggerated version of the same. Basically a reckless and smug git with a planet sized ego. There is some of that in there but the evil emperor thing is just weird. Kind of like when you go pornsurfing and end up on “golden showers” or “she-males”, because the thumbnail did tell the whole story. Now that just wrecks your day. But I digress.
The spoofing of “Babylon 5″ is in fact more true to form, if a bit flabby and crude, but anyway showing the way. Want a good Star Trek spoof movie? Watch “Galaxy Quest,” which is incidentally also one of the few spoof concepts ever, across all genres, that has worked out well.
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I don’t understand why you ##### this movie? You must be American who is down by ####### Bush… Movie makers have little money to make this movie and they used their mind to make movie in 7 years. I have see worst movies what Hollywood is maked with money and this was better than SW1 + SW3 (SW2 was wachable, SW4 is best). Galaxy Quest was good movie but they have money and actors to to some like that. I know that some jokes will go bad when translated to english. And in the end: Some ST movies are so bad also…
Markku ‘Tare69′ Tauriainen
Well, perhaps it is a language thing. But the plot elements are readily understandable even if the jokes lose their edge. Indeed, they have mostly their minds to work with and that is why I am somewhat disappointed. Because that is where the movie fails. Not in any of the areas which are costly. Sets, actors, costumes, CGI are all adequate. But, it may not be an intentional failure. It’s as if many parody writers strive towards "kitschiness," just like comedy sometimes strives towards slapstick.
Actually I’m Swedish. So if anyone outside of Finland should "get it", I ought to be a candidate. Mostly I guess I’m revolting against the automatic canonization of non-mainstream products. Everything is "Slashdotted" to fame on the premise that it must be good.
I guess you didn’t watch the ending very closely, they weren’t stuck in the past…
If you were left cold with the relatively small amount of Star Trek jabs in SW:ItP[/b], that might be because most of the Star Trek parody was already done in the previous installments of the [i]Star Wreck series. In the Pirkinning is the sixth or seventh Star Wreck movie, and a conclusion to Pirk & co’s story. The humour in SW:ItP is a bit darkish in its tone when compared to the previous parts and there are not nearly as many "split-your-sides" cracks as in the previous Star Wreck movies.
The Swedish subtitles are now available on the download site, by the way. There are also subtitles for a stupendous amount of other languages. These can be found in the "Post your subtitles" thread on the forum.