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03/26/09
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
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Reviews for Flash Gordon
Top Critica great camp classic
05/02/08
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
About the only thing that isn't red in this movie is the blood
07/04/07
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
Top CriticA respectable time-waster.
04/16/07
Top CriticGlossy sci-fi fun, although ultimately pretty empty.
06/16/06
The narrative is a little plodding, but adult punters will soon slip back into areverie for the lost visions of Saturday morning cinema.
01/26/06
Top CriticLaughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
11/03/05
No review available.
07/14/05
One of the great "bad" movies of the decade.
12/21/04
Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.
10/23/04
Top CriticNo review available.
10/08/04
Quite possibly the greatest movie ever made, and I thoroughly distrust anyone who suggests otherwise.
07/31/04
It's garish goofiness is part of its charm
05/07/04
Camped up and wrong headed in the extreme.
08/24/03
No review available.
06/20/03
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
April 14, 2009:
Breck Eisner Talks Flash Gordon, Creature from the Black Lagoon 
Breck Eisner is currently shooting his remake of George Romero's "The Crazies," but he isn't too busy to talk with IGN about two high-profile upcoming projects -- namely, his... More...
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...
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