Thanks for the memories!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Imagine a space battle of ships found in George Lucas' garbage cans, where John-Boy Walton flies a talking ship that looks like part of a male anatomy and Napoleon Solo loves it when a Plan-9 comes together? I must be talking about Starcrash with Marjoe Gortner, right? Nope. But then again, much of the music in this pretty incredible farce found its way into Star Trek II: TWOK. And I mean when I say about some of the spaceships look like they were Filched from the garbage bin outside of ILM, we see half of an Empire Star Destroyer with the "Whale Probe" from Star Trek IV attached to the front end. John-Boy's ship appears to be pretty, eh, "organic". Look for Sam Jaffe, from the day the earth stood still (original one), as a Cyborg. And this is a little seven samurai "Ish". Needless to say, there is all kinds of great stuff in this movie and it's one of James Camerons early works. Despite some of the special effects looking like they were hijacked from a game of video ping-pong, you can see other effects that Cameron used and improved on later in his career. And it is much better than "Starcrash"!

Yeah it's a pretty good movie. A nice early temp from filmmaking Juggernaut, James Cameron whose talents got him promoted to head of visual effects. His crowning achievement being a really cool looking ship that looks like it has a set of boobs. Thanks Jim! Not the only set of boobs in the flick, it also features B-Queen icon, Sybill Danning in strange battle armor made out of foam. I recognized George Papard and Robert Vaughn, who were big stars to my childhood thanks to their run on the A-Team. I'm sure it brought people into the box-Office,despite their performance being so-so. Also great about the movie is the film composing of James Horner that somehow made the cheap effects look a little better. But it is worth seeing just to check out what Mr. Avatar was able to do with so little.

This is a truly dreadful film, actors ( ha ) leaving massive pauses between dialogue, awful special effects and a risible script. So WHAT that this pile of rubbish had a limited budget....That's no excuse for ridiculous performances, totally unbelievable characterisations and dialogue. For all that, it will probably attain cult status for BEING so bad. John Boy's spacecraft is shaped like a 3D womb, very bizarre I must say !The plot involves trouble in the form of John Saxon ( he of Enter the Dragon alongside Bruce Lee ) a bully boy, planet stealer/destroyer throwing his weight around. Unless the planet surrenders to him within one week, he will return to set it on fire......making you wonder what's the point. John Boy, a human amongst androids, picks himself to save the planet by recruiting anyone who can fight, seeing as he doesn't like to. Escaping from the under threat planet, he meets up with enough to recreate The Magnificent Seven ( including a bored looking and space weary Robert Vaughan who WAS in that film too )....The pacing of BBtS is all over the place but mainly painfully S-L-O-W......I recommend avoiding this altogether unless you want to spend 104 minutes with your jaw on your chest from shock at how this ever got to be made or from yawning your way through it......There is a third way of watching this but it entails you WANTING it to be as bad as possible....in which case, you will NOT be disappointed.

Young farmer Richard Thomas is sent on an intergalactic mission by his people after their world is threatened by an evil dictator in a vast spaceship. He must recruit as many mercenaries and soldiers as he can find, if they have any hope of defeating the invasion...Though clearly inspired by both "Star Wars" & "The Magnificent Seven" this modest film is still quite entertaining, with a good cast(Robert Vaughn(["Magnificent Seven"], George Peppard, Sybil Danning, and Morgan Woodward, among others. Story is so sincerely told, and engaging that it won me over, despite being highly unoriginal. Works best for kids, but adults may get the same nostalgic affection for it.