Admirable film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

1st watched 5/1/2010 – 2 out of 10 (Dir-Al Bradly): Very bad battle against an alien race movie that takes bits&pieces from the Star Wars epic and changes them slightly but otherwise is just a badly made movie for any genre. The movie appears to be an Italian-made film and the version I watched was dubbed. The story involves the earthlings first encounter with an alien race which turns out violent as they destroy our first ship that comes into contact with it, then bombs targets on the ground, and starts taking away different races of people for their own slave trade business. This group ends up being one of many planets in an interstellar planetary system and they won an auction for our planet. The spaceship is made up of an impenetrable substance called indiron and a group of scientists and other folk are assembled to figure out how to defeat the ship. This quest is the main plot of the movie until they find the answer and then the ensuing fight against them occurs. This is a poorly acted, poorly made movie with very poor special effects and it's only redeeming part is the unique storyline. There is also a bickering man and woman robot pair that's supposed to provide comic relief but doesn't. The movie is pretty much a waste of the little amount of money it was made with. I guess they were trying to cash in on the Star Wars craze(I hope they made some money for themselves but I won't contribute to their profits and you shouldn't either).

"A race of aliens is en route to Earth with the intent of enslaving the human race. The world turns to a top scientist in the hopes that he, and the team he pits together, can come up with a plan to drive off the extraterrestrial invaders. Is there enough time for our hero and his companions to prepare for a fight the will decide the fate of the entire planet?" asks the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Man's first contact with an alien race turns sour when they want to take over the planet, and make us futuristic slaves. "Star Odyssey" (in English) is a another cheap attempt to cash-in on the "Star Wars" success; although it doesn't really steal much story, and attempts some of its own cheesy style. The title and advertising graphics must have lured fewer victims this time around, as there was no follow-up.Gianni Garko (as Dirk) and Yanti Somer (as Irene) manage to keep straight hero and heroine faces. This had to be difficult with lovesick robots "Tilt" and "Tilly" wandering around. The promise to alter their parts, so the mechanical couple would be able to consummate their relationship, is never shown on screen. Alas, it might have made the movie more than a complete waste of resources. * Sette uomini d'oro nello spazio (10/26/79) Alfonso Brescia ~ Gianni Garko, Yanti Somer, Malisa Longo

There are many movies that are "so bad they are good", and then some that are so bad you just have to kind of marvel at them. This movie is hypnotic, and suggests a vision of some sort that is compelling enough to recommend it to anyone with a taste for cult Italian cinema. STAR ODYSSEY is sort of like the final half hour of YOR but without a story -- Images of a futuristic world literally using junk at one point to create a different time and place.Just where that time and place is I haven't a clue. But it has some impressive parts: The film "stars" cult legend Gianni Garko, best known for his SARTANA Spaghetti Western, features music by Marcello Giomboni (including passages recycled from his MURDER MANSION score), has the great Italian character actor Silvano Tranquilli in a supporting role, and one of the central characters is a blonde bimbo in a leather fetish 1 piece with thigh high vinyl boots. "Far out."It is compulsively watchable though: You can find it on those 2 DVD bargain bin box sets at the Mall ("Deadly Dimensions" is the release I have) and for $9 or so you've got yourself a film that attests for the best of humanity at it's worst, putting their everything into a project so devoid of apparent substance that in the end, the parts add up to more than the sum of their whole. Which means this is one of those films best watched when you can let it waft in and out of awareness as the better and lesser interesting moments follow each other in a regressive chain that, ultimately, lead up to nothing.Think STAR WARS by David Lynch but on the budget of your average Discover Platinum card with production design by French artist Jean Tinguely, who made fame by building robotic sculptures that destroyed themselves during live performances. The women are all exceedingly gorgeous, Gianni Garko gets to do back flips & beat people at poker, and there is one guy who runs around with a big letter J on the back of his blue plastic jacket. It is just that kind of movie.

Out of boredom, my friends and I decided to have ourselves a "worst movie marathon". Among the titles we rented were "la guerre de l'espace en l'an 3000", "La soupe au chou", " Como rubare la corena de Ingleterra" and "Space Oddysey (english title of this movie)". Although all the movies were disgusting and hard to watch, this one had to be the worst...Here are a few things that stood out...A male and a female robot ( she has metal eyelashes) in love!A woman scientist working in a tight leather "swim suit"A gymnast fighter ( we dubbed him "mr exercise" ) who jumps around during the movieA hero who walks around like he is constipatedAn army of evil "droids" with blond wigs and silver suitsThe characters are not developed, ( some seem to come out of thin air) and the villain is laughable.The thing that got me the most, though, is the fact that this movie has no end, literally; Music covers the dialog in the last scene, were everything unfolds.Really, this is something you should try to find at your local videostore.-1,5 * :)