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Flash Gordon

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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.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

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 as the brilliant Dr. Zarkov, in an effort to thwart the... 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 as the brilliant Dr. Zarkov, in an effort to thwart the monomaniacal evil-doer. Features a fun score by rock group Queen. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Sam Jones, Melody Anderson, Max Von Sydow, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton

Director: Mike Hodges

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 7, 2007

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case Premium Packaging
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Interviews
  • Additional Products - 1. Collectible Packaging featuring Artwork Designed by Comic Book Artist Alex Ross.
  • 2. Collectible "alternate" key art postcard by Comic Book Artist Alex Ross.

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4/4

a great camp classic

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05/02/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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5/5

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?

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02/13/08
Rob Gonsalves
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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

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08/03/07
Brian Orndorf
DVDTalk.com
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About the only thing that isn't red in this movie is the blood

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07/04/07
Shane Burridge
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2/4

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.

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04/16/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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A respectable time-waster.

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04/16/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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3/5

Glossy sci-fi fun, although ultimately pretty empty.

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06/16/06
Steve Crum
Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers
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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
Time Out
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4/5

Laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.

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11/03/05
Adam Smith
Empire Magazine
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3/5

No review available.

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07/14/05
Emanuel Levy
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3/5

One of the great "bad" movies of the decade.

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12/21/04
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
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3/4

Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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3/5

No review available.

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10/08/04
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
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5/5

Quite possibly the greatest movie ever made, and I thoroughly distrust anyone who suggests otherwise.

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07/31/04
Luke Y. Thompson
LYTRules.com
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3/5

It's garish goofiness is part of its charm

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05/07/04
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World
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2/5

Camped up and wrong headed in the extreme.

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08/24/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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07/09/03
James Hill
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06/20/03
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
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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.

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03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
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If only Ming the Merciless had turned his death ray on the producers…

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01/17/03
Rob Vaux
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