That thing that got me about Galaxy Quest, (aside from how crisp the writing and the timing is) is that there is not just one actor that stole the show....EACH one of them did it in their own way! That’s how good this cast was.
Except Tim Allen. It was, according to Rickman's diaries, meant to be more of an ensemble piece, but it ended up being a lot more Tim Allen than the other cast members .
What I love about Galaxy Quest is that it could so easily have mocked it's obsessed fanbase. Instead it treats it's loyal fans as intelligent people that just have a huge love for their favourite TV show.
One of the great beauties of this film is that it subverted expectations in almost every way. Your point is actually the reason Patrick Stewart liked it.
@@inyobillI find myself quoting lines from that movie quite often actually. And when my adult kids ask me what it's from (they saw the movie with me!!!) I have to remind them about the movie
I’m wondering now who actually wrote the final script, because it sounds like it was completely rewritten by someone who is great with comedy but also a big sci-fi fan.
It's my opinion that this was a perfect storm of a movie. The script was excellent...the casting was spot on...and the performances from each actor was done with skill and heart. If you read the comments, you see quotes from almost all the characters. This movie had a magic that makes it very watchable over and over. It's one of my favorites and I always abandon whatever I'm watching and switch to Galaxy Quest when I see it come on.
Under rated? how do you figure? Everyone says this movie is great, never heard a bad thing about it. So that would mean it's not under rated if everybody loves it? Wouldn't it? Oh wait you were using buzz words to look smart. My bad, continue....
This is one movie that has it all: laughter, tears, adventure, drama, and a stellar cast who are totally believable. Never a dull moment. How many movies can say that?
I'd been sick for two weeks, and the weather also sucked... my family decided that since I could now safely share space with other people, we should go see a movie. I didn't really want to go (I still felt really cruddy) but a friend had told me about "this funny Trek parody film" so I insisted that if we were going to a movie, it was this one. My folks & sister weren't terribly pleased with me but agreed... and we all walked out of the theater after the end credits rolled laughing, feeling good, and generally in the kind of good mood that carries over to the next day. This remains one of my favorite movies of all time.
Like "Back to the Future" & "Goonies", it took you on an adventure where you always felt the characters were in jeopardy, but - somehow - the movie never went so far as to make you feel unsafe. Most of all, it had a heart. A very rare combination in the past 40+ years of movies. Frickin' magical.
Just thinking about that final, "By Grabthar's Hammer..." speech and how powerful that "tired old catchphrase" became in that sad moment, gets me choked up. Love that scene and this movie. RIP Alan Rickman!
You know, I'm sure from the various videos showing how to make a Tom Cruise without actually using Tom Cruise. They paste an image of the target star on an actor of the same size and do some movie magic. I hereby nominate Alan Rickman as the dead actor most missed by his fans and who should be the first digitally resurrected actor to star in a full length feature film. We want him back!
Yep as much as I love modern Day graphics in a way it's what has led to the downfall of movies that care more about the visuals now than they do the story, well it used to always be about the story find myself watching older movies now just for that reason
5:32 You know, Tim Allen gets a lot of heat and slagging off... But I am going to PRAISE HIM! He was a PERFECT CASTING for Galaxy Quest... And I feel Robin Williams was Far Better Suited to Bicentennial Man - Allen made a GENIUS DECISION!
I agree completely; I can't see him as Alan in Bicentennial Man, that's a much heavier movie overall and I just don't feel Allen could have ever pulled it off; but he's perfect for playing a Shatner-esque arrogant star its much more fitting to the persona he's crafted for TV and plays to his strengths.
"I played Richard III... there were 5 curtain calls! I was an actor once damn it! Now look at me...LOOK AT ME! I cannot go out there, and I won't say that stupid line one more time. I cant...and I wont!". ~Alexander Dane
@@oaf-77 THAT movie was AWESOME (not to mention the play...), but I think it's main problem was that it was written by some no-name writer with no talent... ¤ smirk ¤ 😆 Actually, I'd love it if Mark would analyze Richard III, as well... Or, ANY of the "Shakespeare" movies directed by Kenneth Branagh-- yet *another* acting/directing legend!
Another thing about the movie is that it actually honors the fans as well. After all, the fans in the movie actually were vital to the success of the heroes.
Of all his performances this was the first movie I reached for when Alan Rickman passed. It is such a ridiculously understated role where he subtly steals every scene he's in with just a look or exasperated sigh. "By Grabthar's hammer....what a savings." brought me to tears.
Yeah, and it was his phone chat with Sigourney Weaver. He's still wearing his campy makeup from their discount store parking lot appearance and sorrowing over their fallen status. He meant to achieve so much more. But *poof* there he is, beyond belief, on some doomed idiotic space ship with dumbass aliens, and with all his heart he tries to console an alien at death in the kindest way he, the arrogant self-obsessed actor, can - a moment of transcendence beautifully portrayed by Rickman.
GalaxyQuest is what is called a pastiche. A pastiche is more than a homage. A pastiche is done in the style and feel of the original, honoring it, while also standing at its own story.
Check out HEARTBREAKERS, that wedding night scene is pure erotica and comedy gold. I worship her since ALIEN 4, but I'm not into her physically. Hate it when other men are considering an actress 'good' only when she is f*ckable. My two girls and I love the Ghostbusters and other 'female' reboots, those SNL ladies are masters of their craft!
Fun fact: Sir Patrick Stewart has said he didn't want to see Galaxy Quest because he thought it was making a mockery of Star Trek (possibly his version) until Jonathan Franks called him saying it pays great tribute and is a fun family adventure. Patrick then saw the movie and said he understands what Number 1 was saying and found the movie to be a delight.
And Brent Spiner said he wished the TNG cast had made Galaxy Quest. I sometimes daydream of a TNG version as well. Mathesar: "Lt. Commander Data, your positronic brain is the only thing that can saaave us! " Brent Spiner: .... And poor Michael Dorn with the forehead piece on all the time, having to eat gagh and down it with prune juice and be like 👍
I just want to say my parents didn't want to see this in the theater. Then when they watched on home video, they watched it again, and again, and at family gatherings and on most major holidays. They STILL quote it.
@Loud Noises your existence must be fucking horrible to be a party pooper asshole to people in comments showing love to an actor they like. You're just being a dick.
Galaxy Quest transcended parody and became a homage to the Star Trek genre. Just like Young Frankenstein did with vintage horror movies and Blazing Saddles did with Westerns, Galaxy Quest embraces the familiar characters and pokes fun at their shortcomings in a loving way. The fact that the dialogue and scenes are so quotable tells you that Star Trek fans got the jokes within the jokes.
Apparently he didn't have a real first name either so calling him Guy was the part of the joke. He was just a random guy in the show and the fact his name ends up really being Guy makes it even funnier.
You missed an important fact. It is the only movie ever to be in 3 different aspects. The 'Tv Screen' view at the beginning, showing the 'TV series' expands into normal widescreen at the conference and the when Tim Allen is standing on the pad to be returned to Earth as the space doors opens it expands into an even bigger aspect ration, which it remains in for the rest of the film.
@@HayTatsuko I think its either 2:35 Anamorphic or 2:77 Cinematic. They mention it in the documentary 'Never Surrender'. Because some cinema got it wrong and for the last one the screen expanded beyond the point they had opened their curtains.
Ian Samuels it would be 2.35:1 or “scope” as it’s called in the industry. Officially the widescreen part would be 1.85:1 or “flat” which is slightly wider than standard 16:9 :)
This is literally one of my favorite movies ever made. To see how things went behind the scenes, makes me wonder how anything good ever comes out. You would like to think people in charge know what they are doing, but it ends up being more of a crap shoot. Studios often do not know what they have got, until after the fact.
I think most people forget that Galaxy Quest and The Three Amigos have an important message in the true spirit Gene roddenberry's Star Trek. The message is simple: Even if you hit rock bottom there's always a second chance to do something great
This is an absolutely criminally underrated movie! I still laugh my a$$ off every time I watch it and I'm still blown away at how great the cast was and how good the story actually was. It started as a funny movie, got funnier and funnier and then turned into a damn good movie by the end.
@@chrishooge3442 i think having at least a good appreciation of Star Trek or even other fandoms really does make the movie better. I know some fans got offended at first but then were able to relax and enjoy the greatness of the movie.
I just loved how he kept wearing his makeup and prosthetics through the whole thing. He was so funny! This man was certainly a legend and a great actor. Wether he was playing Hanse Gruber in Die Hard or the angel in Dogma, he was awesome! You could hate him in Die Hard and love him in comedy. Even when he was parodying himself in shows like Family Guy he was always perfect, putting his whole heart and his soul into everything that he did. I miss him badly 💔 and will remember him fondly.
I loved how he didn’t want to play Professor Snape until Rowling told him how his character ultimately saves Hogwarts by leading Harry Potter to fulfill his destiny and eliminate Voldemort. All because he loved Lily - always.
Not only was Sam Rockwell's lines unforgettable, he was on the receiving end of lines like "you live with your mother" and Rickman's "Are we there yet?"
This was such a well cast movie with a great performance from Tim Allen. In fact in some scenes he mimics William Shatner brilliantly and even bears a slight resemblance to Shatner when he did the first couple of ST film. Sigourney Weaver also reminds me of Wilma Dearing from the Buck Rogers TV show, which was made around the time the Galaxy Quest TV show was supposedly made. One interesting point is that the Rock Monsters in this film was an idea borrowed from the original script of Star Trek V, which was directed by Shatner. In that film the production ran out of money to make and film the rock monsters so the ending had to be rewritten to something that was less expensive to film. Shatner has seen Galaxy Quest because he stated that the rock monsters used here were pretty much how he wanted them to look in his film but the budget just wouldn't stretch to it. Anyway Galaxy Quest is both a homage and a loving parody of the Star Trek universe as well as a few other shows. It deserved to be bigger than it was but let's be grateful it exists.
This was such a great movie. The script is brilliant, the cast is marvelous. All of them put out great performances. I wish there was a sequel. RIP Alan Rickman ! (And Sigourney Weaver is just gorgeous in this one.)
The ship named the NTE- 3120 is rumored to stand for "NOT THE ENTERPRISE " I love that Sigourney Weaver is willing to tip her hat to the sci-fi community in a comedic way every so often. "Paul " is another fun one she's in.
@@Augustbeauty69 I am not a Tim Allen fan. He should have been brought up on charges. He killed as Cmdr Nesmith. Pure gold. I am not a word smith, I', a nerd, hopefully my point gets across. I will watch anything with Alan Rickman. "You! Maram! Ten thirty tonight! You! Ten forty-five! Bring a friend!"
Sigourney Weaver's look in this movie, while fulfilling a stereotype is not what I would consider typical for her. Despite that, (maybe even because of that) she totally makes it work. One of my favorite actresses for sure!
She played as a stereotype, because she wanted to. The blond hair was her idea. Showing her cleavage as much as she did was her idea. If you get a chance to see a comment from Tony Shalhoub, he said every time her character was on screen, she would poke her chest out on purpose. He said she was shameless. 😊
I love this movie, it's literally what all of us as fans WISH would happen revolving around our favorite movies! Brandon totally gets to do what I'VE always wanted to do, only MY dream is Doc showing up in the DeLorean to tell me he needs me to come with him! My favorite bit is the return of the show at the end after the ship crashes into the convention and the guy just presents the cast as if it was planned:)
One thing about this movie I found hilarious is how, at the end, that ship crashes through a parking lot, destroying cars and plows into a building. Yet all the damage is ignored and attributed to a skit for the fan convention. Imagine leaving the convention to find your car pancaked.
Fun fact: I saw this film for the first time.... at a Star Trek convention way back in 2001. Before that con weekend, I had never heard of it. One of my very first DVD purchases was Galaxy Quest :)
I was recently backing my mother-in-law's car out, on this narrow driveway between the awning posts and the house. I'm not very good at backing, and I came close to scraping the side of the house. I busted up laughing, thinking of the scene where Laredo is taking out the starship, scraping along the side of the space port the whole way.
I bought this movie shortly after its release and have watched more times than I can count. I am so disappointed that there were no sequels, and agree that after Alan Rickman’s death there cannot be a sequel. His performance, along with Justin Long, and Tim Allen, is the backbone of the movie.
The DVD itself is amazing. Lots of the menus had funny background activity going on, especially if you let it run longer then you usually would since most backgrounds in DVD menus are meant as well, a background for the menu and you'd usually quickly select a chapter or play the film instead of staring at the background for a couple of minutes, but if you did? There were some genuinely funny things going on with the Thermian crew! Also there were secret features I managed to find... good stuff. One of the most memorable DVDs I've ever seen, and it spoiled me for future DVD/Blurays since I was always looking for secret clips and features that weren't really in many others and I was always a little bit disappointed.
around a week ago i watched "Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary" it was awesome and actually shocked on how many fans that still love this movie and cosplayers.
This movie actually started Dreamworks’ infamous knack for inside jokes. The bad guy “Sarris” was named after a bad tempered executive who had turned the movie down at another studio. This trend would continue with the facial design of Shrek’s Lord Faarquad.
7:58 When I watched the movie I just assumed that the overdub of "F that" was intentional humour. It was hilarious and fit in with the story perfectly. The audience at the theatre I was in exploded with laughter at that overdub. It was far funny that way than if she really has said "screw that" or had they left in "f that".
The best Star Trek film since Wrath of Khan. It's so insanely quotable too... As good as Sigourney Weaver and Tim Allen were, it was Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell who absolutely stole the show.
Galaxy Quest is possibly the perfect spoof film. It takes off on Star Trek without belittling the original. It laughs with it, rather than at it. Original ST fans love this movie, as well as original ST actors.
This movie was imaginative and different. It shows Hollywood can come up with new and original ideas. Even if they have to go to a galaxy far far away.
The mockumentary campaign included a cover feature in Starlog Magazine, which was the preeminent magazine for popular science fiction back in the day. And I initially completely fell for it. I remember beginning the article and wondering how I could have possibly missed the series when it aired in the eighties. A quick search shows that this was Starlog #270, and also featured an article on Bicentennial Man.
This film was awesome I loved as a kid I know it's a spoof of star trek but come on Tim Allen Sigourney Weaver Alan Rickman they were brilliant in it who agrees with me?
Yes. that is a great idea. i would see it in a second. But we should protect this gem of our precious childhood memories. If we start to ask for another cut some dim wit in hollywood will get the idea of rebooting it and ruin it.
I went with a friend that was a huge Star Trek fan that was so hyped to see this movie in 1999.. To be a good friend I went not expecting too much from it.. By the end credits he absolutely hated this movie and i loved it..
@@badtouch7340 it wouldn't be any good and it would ruin the movie.galaxy quest 2 mist its chance,and that sucks but at list we have this movie.I CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE DIDN'T LIKE THIS MOVIE ENOUGH TO MAKE SERIOUS MONEY WHEN IT COME OUT. WOT THE FUCK.
@Kristopher Chavez "I am not Spock" is actually a trope now. Where it's beyond just being typcasted but an actor's famous character has become so big that they can only be seen as that character. Here is something meta. How did Alan Rickman himself felt about the character Alexander?
"Galaxy Quest" inspired incidents in two of my favorite video games, specifically the pig lizard. Half Life 2. and Skyrim. In HL2, Kleiner is working on teleportaion with Barney Calhoun as his lab assissant. Kleiner has Barney get a test subject, and Barney gets a stray cat. The teleportation was a success, but the cat was inside out. In Skyrim, when you go into the Frozen Hearth, you hear the innkeeper yelling at an Altmer mage, telling him that his last expirement "Smelled like some creature turned inside out and exploded"
Fun fact: long before Galaxy Quest, there was a short story based on a similar premise -- actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley are on set during the original TV series shoot schedule, dealing w/ the everyday stresses of scripting issues, retakes & the occasional groupie. They get ready for yet another retake where they start a scene that has them just finishing getting "beamed in" to the Enterprise transporter room ...only to experience a few moments of a strange, dizzying sensation before regaining their senses. Shatner steps briskly off the transporter pad to deliver his line to James Doohan -- only it's NOT Doohan, but the REAL Chief Engineer Scott! Before Shatner can clue in his fellow cast members, Nimoy grumbles that Shatner has screwed up the shoot AGAIN, then when Scotty asks what's going on Nimoy snaps at him, "How about losing the accent?" Scotty: Mister SPOCK!? The rest of the short story is a humorous, mad scramble for the Big Three to cover the fact that they've become unwitting imposters for the Real Big Three while trying to figure out (w/ Scotty's help, eventually) how to leave the Real Enterprise of the future & get back to the Desilu / Paramount studios of the 20th century....
It wouldn't be a Minty video if he didn't pronounce at least one name wrong. be it an actor, studio, or location. He does is it so often , you have to wonder if he doesn't do it deliberately just to see if we're paying attention.
Galaxy Quest is a great Trek style movie. It is kind of like the Orville, which I think is a great Star Trek style show. I always liked to think Gene Roddenberry would have been proud of both. The hope and social commentary of both movie and show appeals to most Trek fans.
Agreed. That's what I really appreciate about GQ. It pokes fun at Star Trek and the fandom, but does it in a loving, good-natured way. It's never cruel or mean-spirited. And, it actually has a lot of heart. It could have easily been cynical and mean, but instead has the hope and optimism of Trek.
"Even though you're washed up and feel your best is behind you, you never know what's around the corner, and it's never too late to strive for greatness" is the message I needed today, thank you!
A very underrated film. Tim Allen made the right choice. It was cast PERFECTLY throughout. As for the swear words, a few sporadically thrown in at certain times. They COULD do a sequel starting at a funeral of Rickman 's characters death then go vs year later where it officially begins and dedicate the film to Rickman
Still love the idea of accurately basing the piloting controls from what the child version used...and how tense that scene got. The “SIGH” of relief when it was over, was very refreshing. One other thing I didn’t put together until now. In Toy Story, when Buzz is whacked out at the tea party and dressed up like a woman, he calls himself Mrs. Nesmith...or at least that’s what I thought he said. May have to double check that one.
One of the best uses of an unexpected swear word was in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, when Indy faced the dual fancy swordsmen and then reached for his sidearm, only to discover it was missing.
Long before Galaxy Quest, we actually did get to see a non-canon short story in which William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley switch places with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. It’s called *”Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited.”* It was written by Ruth Berman and published in 1976. I vaguely remember borrowing it from a library when I was in my teens- which, by the way, was in the Nineties and not the Seventies! The best part about the story was “watching” Leonard trying to stifle his real life emotions in order to pass himself off as Spock. In fact, I think Ruth wrote him dissolving into fits of laughter, when he was alone in the Turbo Lift of the Enterprise, in homage to an actual Star Trek Blooper reel! 💚🖖😂💚
The name of the book is "Star Trek: The New Voyages", edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. I bought a copy in 1976 and may still have it packed away somewhere.
”Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited”, was a follow up to the short story,( also fan fiction), ”Visit to a Weird Planet”, where Kirk, Spock and McCoy enter the transporter and find themselves appearing on the SET of "Star Trek".
@@mikerussell7253 HAHAH. just because someone has a different opinion of yours, doesnt mean they cant be professional. One of my favorite go to for odd or outlandish personality is Tom Cruise. As a person, hes just wrong. As an Actor, hes phenomenal.
Mike Russell as much as I hate Allen’s love of the Trumpster, he was great in the movie. Just likes he’s great in Toy Story. He’s a good actor not a good person.
It’s a very clever movie with a heartfelt commentary on what it means to belong to a fandom. Be it as an actor or as a fan. The humor is top-notch, and the performances are excellent by everyone.
Like "Star Track," GQ quietly urges its audience to extend themselves to strangers and the unknown. The nihilist apocalyptical crap that Hollywood's been in love with does nothing of the sort. We're poorer for that sad transition.
Minty the part where they change the words to screw that is priceless. Its my most memorable part of this awesome movie i think it makes it that much more funny. Thanks for sharing
I think this is one of the best sci-fi films set-in-space of the last 25 years. And what makes it great is that most of the characters have an actual story arc. They're not the same people at the end of the movie as they were at the start, and you can see *why* they've changed in the ways they've changed as they experience the story. And while the story itself is absurd in some ways, most of the characters act in believable ways given what's happening to them in the story.
Love this movie, remember when it came out in 1999 the visual effects blew me away, and they're still pretty impressive but it a fantastic comedy Sci-Fi adventure rollercoaster of a movie. One that I wish got a sequel but sadly Alan Rickman is no longer with us. 😥♥️🎥🎬
The idea of members of the star trek cast getting accidentally getting transported to the real enterprise had been covered in a published fan fiction book. I read it years ago. And I loved it. Galaxy quest was brilliant. I would loved to have seen this idea covered in the start trek series
This.movie is one of my all time favourites and there aren't a lot of those. It has so much going for it, reality, fantasy and SciFi. The actors come from such varied backgrounds you wouldn't think it would work but it does. They all just fall in together perfectly. Actually, I view it as the all time top of the 'StarTrek' movies.
