Very disappointing...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Psychedelic fantasy nonsense pop-art tripping sci-fi movie with some good kick from the flower power generation. Jane Fonda plays the super-sexy agent Barbarella who's mission is to find the scientist Durand-Durand, the inventor of a deadly weapon, and to save the galaxy from destruction and tyranny. This movie is simply fun to watch, pop-corn cinema at best, one of those movies who show you how much the contemporary movie industry lacks real imagination considering story making, and imo the "effects" and settings are far better looking as all the CGI stuff that imo in many cases is more looking like video-games than movies.Barbarella, an agent who beats the enemies with the powerful "weapons" of a woman - nowadays everything but p.c., but truly more progressive and feminist as today's ordinary women-right activist might think. Watch, if you like such movies like Flash Gordon (1980).

Now that I've finally seen it I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it. This film along with "One Million Years B.C" with Raquel Welch were a couple of the more highly publicized films of the mid-Sixties, neither one relying on much of a story to showcase it's lead actress. Watching today, I now know what I missed by not dropping acid during my college years. For myself, the only redeeming factor in checking out this flick was in directing me to learn how the British new wave band Duran Duran came up with it's name. I looked it up so you can to. Otherwise, the picture is more or less an hour and a half of soft porn interrupted by not much else. I did get a kick out of the scene when Barbarella got overwhelmed by all those parakeets and finches, a subliminal way that Jane Fonda's then husband and director Roger Vadim teased the male audience who might have wondered how she'd handle all those little peckers.

This is going to be a simple review. The reason for it is that this movie aimed low, it was trying to be trash and it succeeded in maybe entertaining the kind of person who enjoys watching trash. The plot is that Barbarella is called for fan service... I mean an assignment by the President of Earth and current leader of the solar system that a scientist named Duran-Duran (That's how they pronounce it and yes that does make this movie hilarious whenever they say it) from creating a weapon, because in this future hippies and the counter-culture of the 60's is dominant across galaxies so she goes to a planet that doesn't have this and tries to find him. This movie is not for me, the entire movie is like a drug trip written on paper by someone who really hates war strung along by fan service of a 30 year old Jane Fonda. Oh and the fan service, if it's your thing to see women in extremely skimpy outfits of which she keeps changing them and doesn't put clothes on for 10 minutes, a character who for the first hour has sex every 20 minutes (including a WEIRD one where she joins hands with another person after taking pills until their hair flies everywhere... Did I mention this was like a drug trip?)... All this and more, if this is your thing then without judgement, you'll probably love this. The Visual effects are hokey but in all fairness I did like the creativity with some of the set design and this is probably the most 60's movie ever made, there is literally no other time period in which I can see this getting made. I know all I talked about is how drug-trippy this movie is and the fan service but, take that away - there isn't that much else to comment on. To sum up, this movie is trash - pure and simple. I didn't like it but I can see other people liking it so if trash is your thing then I'd recommend this.

Only in the 60's can a Soft-Core Porn movie could even get at 'PG' rating. In today's age this movie would have, at least, gotten an 'R' rating. This movie tried to be a movie of substance in it's day. In that way it does succeed very well. However, it follows a basic plot line of a very beautiful hero/heroine goes on a journey to save someone who they do not know. On her journey she meets many different type of aliens and people. A very well done B-Movie. Jane Fonda is very beautiful during the filming of this movie and is a perfect selection for the part, since it was released in 1968. I highly recommend this movie for those who want to see classic B-movie cinema.