For most viewers Flash Gordon is the reason why phrases like 'guilty pleasure' entered vocabularies.
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11/05/02
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
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
About the only thing that isn't red in this movie is the blood
07/04/07
Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.
10/23/04
Top CriticTaken 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
A respectable time-waster.
04/16/07
Top CriticHe will save every one of us!
01/01/00
If you feel like camping it up, then rent this one.
01/01/00
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
An irrelevant campy sci-fier.
02/11/02
Laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this is a guilty pleasure that everyone can enjoy.
11/03/05
a great camp classic
05/02/08
Camp classic of the colorful kind.
01/01/00
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 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 CriticClick to read the article
03/26/09
Top Critica total bomb; an insult to the original serials; not even good camp.
08/20/02
Glossy sci-fi fun, although ultimately pretty empty.
06/16/06
Camped up and wrong headed in the extreme.
08/24/03
One of the great "bad" movies of the decade.
12/21/04
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:
Weekly Ketchup: Flash Gordon, Highlander Remakes Announced
This week's Ketchup bottle brings us news on remakes of Flash Gordon and Highlander and more Shakespeare for Gwyneth Paltrow. More...
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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