The narrative is a little plodding, but adult punters will soon slip back into areverie for the lost visions of Saturday morning cinema.
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01/26/06
Flash Gordon (1980)
83 %
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 24
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus: Campy charm and a knowing sense of humor help to overcome a silly plot involving a spacefaring ex-football player, his adoring bevy of groupies, and a supervillain named Ming the Merciless.
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: New York football star Flash Gordon vaults into outer space to battle the nefarious Ming, supreme ruler of the planet Mongo. Ming intends to conquer planet earth, and hunky Flash teams up with several of his daring female admirers, as well... [More]
Starring: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Max Von Sydow, Ornella Muti
Director: Mike Hodges
Reviews for Flash Gordon
Top Critic Laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
11/03/05
Top Critic
Taken solely as a pop wedge of cheese, it's beautifully realized. As for the empty-headed dialogue and the puerile plot, isn't it obvious those are both part of the point?
02/13/08
The film literally explodes with a festival of colors and opulent costume design. It lends the movie a majestic spilled-cocaine imprint that's unmistakable and urges the film into distinctive areas of presentation George Lucas could never follow
08/03/07
Young kids will probably enjoy this one, but anyone over 10 years old can forget it, as Lorenzo Semple's script pokes more fun at the audience's intelligence than at the story.
04/16/07
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Top Critic
Quite possibly the greatest movie ever made, and I thoroughly distrust anyone who suggests otherwise.
07/31/04
A soundtrack by Queen is one of the highlights of this film actualization of the comic strip. The crazy set design and costumes are also dead-on replicas of the strip.
03/10/03
Latest News for Flash Gordon
August 08, 2008:
Flash Gordon Gets a Writing Team 
Work on Sony's upcoming Flash Gordon feature continues to move forward, with the studio hiring writers Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to pen the script. More...
May 23, 2008:
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May 21, 2008:
Breck Eisner Heading to the Planet Mongo
Columbia is in talks with Breck Eisner to direct -- and Neal Moritz to produce -- the studio's "redo-update" of Flash Gordon. More...
March 30, 2005:
Two Sci-Fi Cult Classics to Get the Special Edition Treatment
The fantastic DVD site Digital Bits brings news of two in-the-works DVDs that should please the sci-fi enthusiasts: first off, DB confirms that a Special Edition DVD of Mike... More...
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