Galaxy Quest . Tucson Weekly . 01-10-00

Galaxy Quest

DIRECTED BY: Dean Parisot

REVIEWED: 01-10-00

A good-natured send-up of Star Trek, Galaxy Quest is based on a premise that could easily have been god-awful: the bickering cast of the ersatz cult classic TV series Galaxy Quest is signing autographs at a sci-fi convention when they're recruited by aliens who think the television exploits are the real thing. But the film succeeds by poking sly fun not only at Trek but at Trek culture, with the show's nerdy fans on comic display throughout. Tim Allen stars as a wonderfully arrogant Jason Nesmith, a thinly veiled Shatner type who drinks too much, steals scenes and pointlessly drops and rolls whenever he springs into action; Allen Rickman plays a grumbling Nimoy who would prefer to shed the alien makeup and do legitimate theatre; and Sigourney Weaver is a large-breasted sex symbol whose big role on the show is repeating whatever the computer says. Sparks fly, aliens attack, starships crash and everything turns out all right in the end, just as you know it will.

--Nightengale

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