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)
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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... [More]
Starring: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Max Von Sydow, Ornella Muti
Director: Mike Hodges
Reviews for Flash Gordon
Top CriticLaughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
11/03/05
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03/26/09
Top CriticYoung 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
Top Critica total bomb; an insult to the original serials; not even good camp.
08/20/02
An irrelevant campy sci-fier.
02/11/02
Camped up and wrong headed in the extreme.
08/24/03
If only Ming the Merciless had turned his death ray on the producers…
01/17/03
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
He will save every one of us!
01/01/00
A respectable time-waster.
04/16/07
For most viewers Flash Gordon is the reason why phrases like 'guilty pleasure' entered vocabularies.
11/05/02
No review available.
07/14/05
One of the great "bad" movies of the decade.
12/21/04
If you feel like camping it up, then rent this one.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/30/02
It's garish goofiness is part of its charm
05/07/04
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
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August 08, 2008:
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