Star Odyssey (1979)

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Dreadfully Boring

Admirable film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

First, let me say: I love bad movies. It's my thing. There will never be enough time to watch all that have been made. In my quest to knock out as many as I reasonably can while alive, I run across a few that don't even make the cut. This is one of those movies. I *think* that it is trying to be funny in parts, but those are the scenes that fail; the most egregious among these involve conversations about robot love. Horrible. Clearly edited with a chainsaw, sometimes characters are in two places at once, pursuing different ends. It spent a terribly long time assembling the team to defeat the aliens. Once I made it that far, I thought the movie would pick up. Sadly mistaken - I wish I had aborted the mission before that. At the end, the main woman's boyfriend dies. Let's just say she gets over it quickly. Also note the Big Twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan with key characters switching allegiances. I'm not being facetious; that guy has lost it. If only I cared. Sadly, no one will watch this movie, and hence no one will read my review. At least I got it out of my system.

Normally, I don't give out single stars but in this case all the reviewers are correct about this movie. (except the one about pretty girls. None of those on here. Just 2 plain ones).The most glaring issue being the editing with multiple scenes out of sequence which is very confusing. There is no continuity & the director clearly failed to preview the final cut, otherwise the scenes would not be out of sequence. The worst editing fiasco occurs when they are supposedly headed toward a lunar penitentiary on a stolen military vessel (really poor effects for which there is no excuse even for a simple manual overlay) & suddenly are playing cards at a casino and jumps from one erroneous scene to the next before getting back on track.It really has the worst acting & script imaginable. The story itself might be salvaged with judicious rewrites. If the director actually showed up on the set at any point, he could not have been of sound, uninebriated mind. I really mean this. Even with pocket change for a budget, I cannot fathom any sane sober person of the lowest capability permitting the mess on this film. A third grade child could have done better.They actually had one of the characters doing handstands & gymnastics in the background of a scene for no apparent reason. Plus, a totally ridiculous silly looking pair of inane babbling robots arguing about their suicide & silly relationship. We also have a poor man's R2D2.We also have 2 characters with growing hypnotic eyes. I also got a kick out of the Carol Channing comparison for the androids with Star Wars swords and the constipated officer description. Those reviews were on the nose.There was an ending to the story on my copy from the Sci-fi 100 pack. The waffle faced bid purchaser of the earth put our planet back on the auction block in collusion with a side deal with 2 earthlings for half profits. Earth was bought by his hated competitor. Basically, waffle face passed off the troublesome earth to his worst enemy for a 600% profit.The professor solved the silly robot problem by offering to give them capability for a physical relationship. Fully functional in multiple techniques of pleasuring as Mr Data would say.This movie is so messed up & ridiculous & out of sequence with such terrible acting that I cannot recommend it on any level. It doesn't even qualify for cult value. There is also seems to be a character design tie to the film War of the robots. I'd recognize those Carol Channing robots with Star Wars swords anywhere.Perhaps if someone recuts the film & replaces the entire dialogue & voices for the entire cast of characters & adds some CGI repairs plus some new music & sound effects, they might be able to bring this movie up to a 2 or 3 star rating.This isn't a case of low budget issues. This film was botched by pure incompetence, inebriated deliberate intent & total apathy which can only have been the sole fault of the director.

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 * :)