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Fantastic!

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Watched this horrible piece of garbage movie as an MST3K episode, and if not for the MST3K treatment, this would have to be one of the worst low-budget sci fi flicks ever. But, this one is so bad that it's funny, especially if you look out for all the goofs. For example: the woman with the big hair gets killed by Kalgan and shows up in the next scene like nothing happened, the beginning of the movie has footage from Battlestar Galactica, the captain of the space ship has an obviously fake Santa beard, all the action takes place on board a space ship, yet they have no problems blowing stuff up or starting fires, at one point the hero is running down a hallway next to a brick wall even though he's on a space ship, a flamethrower appears to be a propane bottle painted silver, the buff hero knocks out some skinny dude and then puts on his uniform which he manages to fit, a bunch of people running around in a factory and falling over railings to their deaths, and everyone uses 8088 desktop computers. Then throw in some useless plot points about some alien women who like to do tai chi while running their hands over plasma balls direct from Spencer's Gifts, a cheesy 80's soundtrack (don't get me wrong, I grew up in the 80's and love the music), and a steroid-filled leading man and you get Space Mutiny.Watch the MST3K version, it makes for some pretty funny moments, especially when Captain Santa gets lucky.

Space mutiny is kind of like Star Wars or Star Trek, except really really lame, and really badly done.Part of what made Star Wars great was that it looked fantastic, this however, looks fantastically bad. Any kind of control room is furnished with "futuristic" late 80's computers and card board consoles, the graphics are taken straight from old computer systems and much of the film takes place in some kind of boiler room where men in paintball masks ride around in bumper cars. Clothes and hairstyles are also taken straight from the 80's. Another thing that made Star Wars great was the epic story, the fight between good and evil and the mysteries of The Force. Here it is a very confusing story, the fight between some guys, and some other guys, because they are supposedly good and evil, and the mysteries of some women who dance around a bunch of plasma globes for some reason. When a film looks this bad, is this confusing and the characters are this stupid,the action (which is sometimes acceptably well done), holds no interest; no matter how much they shoot at each other with laser guns it is still boring.

The peace and serenity of the spaceship Southern Sun gets rudely disrupted by a nasty gang of mutineers led by the evil Flight Commander Elijah Kalgan (an outrageously hammy portrayal by a constantly scowling John Phillip Law). It's up to mighty macho man supreme Dave Ryder (beefy hunk Reb Brown, who displays all the charisma of a can of spoiled Spam) to stop Kalgan before it's too late. Poorly directed with jaw-dropping ineptitude by David Winters, further blessed with dreadful acting, rusty tin-eared dialogue (sample line: "Surrender or be blown into astro dust!"), copious special effects footage lifted from "Battlestar Galactica," badly staged action scenes (a protracted chase sequence involving a couple of souped-up futuristic golf carts is especially sidesplitting), laughable costumes, tacky opening titles, cheesy (markedly less than) special effects, crummy sets (the spaceship cargo bay looks just like a rundown old oil refinery -- and probably was exactly that!), and the insanely cool-rockin' ending credits theme song "The Edge of A Dream," this gloriously ghastly marvel of all-out celluloid awfulness is an uproariously atrocious riot from stinky start to fumbling finish. The uniformly abysmal performances from the Hall of Shame Faded (Semi) Name cast provides a lion's share of the unintentional hilarity: Brown projects all the appeal of a smelly plastic bag full of fresh cow excrement, Law cuts loose with the same irritating psycho cackle with appalling regularity, Cameron Mitchell sports a ridiculously fake-looking Santa Claus-style snowy white beard as the wise, gentle Commander Alex Jansen, martial arts movie star James Ryan terribly overacts as the hateful and traitorous cripple MacPhearson, and Graham Clarke sleepwalks through his part as the stolid Captain Scott Devers. Moreover, Cisse Cameron as the spunky Dr. Lea Jansen sure looks cute and steams up the screen with her remarkably sexy hula hoop disco dance. Plus a bunch of yummy psychic alien babes help our heroes out. An absolute cruddy hoot.

This is by far the FUNNIEST space adventure that ever existed! How can anyone say it is bad? I did the score to this when I was starving and we laughed so hard through out that it was sometimes hard to focus...but we made it through. The footage from the old TV show was classic and the acting...beyond perfect....in the worst of ways! Reb, the main character probably hung up his acting shoes after this one...but he should have worked it...Space Mutiny shows at Midnight...right before Rocky Horror Picture show.. So glad it is still getting action out there... Of all the C films I did...this one definitely stands out as the finest! Enjoy!