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Barbarella (1968)

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Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 9

Unevenly paced and thoroughly cheesy, Barbarella is nonetheless full of humor, entertaining visuals, and Fonda's sex appeal.

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 3

Unevenly paced and thoroughly cheesy, Barbarella is nonetheless full of humor, entertaining visuals, and Fonda's sex appeal.

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A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up. Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an interstellar representative of the united Earth government in the 41st century, is dispatched to locate scientist Durand Durand, whose positronic ray, if not recovered, could signal the end of humanity. Outfitted in an array of stunning Star Trek/Bond girl outfits and cruising around in a plush, psychedelic spaceship, Barbarella travels to the Tau

PG, 1 hr. 38 min.

Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Roger Vadim

Written By: Vittorio Bonicelli, Claude Brule, Tudor Gates, Terry Southern, Roger Vadim

In Theaters: Oct 10, 1968 Wide

On DVD: Jun 22, 1999

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Jane Fonda
Barbarella
John Phillip Law
Pygar
Anita Pallenberg
Black Queen
Milo O'Shea
Durand-Durand The Conci...
David Hemmings
Dildano
Talitha Pol
Pipe-smoking girl
Marcel Marceau
Prof. Ping
Ugo Tognazzi
Mark Hand
Antonio Sabato
Jean-Paul (uncredited)
Joan Greenwood
The Great Tyrant [uncre...
Maria Theresa Orsini
Suicide Girl (uncredite...
Franco Gula
Catherine Chevallier
Stomoxys
Marie Therese Chevallier
Glossina
Giancarlo Cobelli
Claude Dauphin
President of Earth
Serge Marquand
Captain Sun
V�ronique Vendell
Captain Moon
Umberto Di Grazia
Nino Musco

Critic Reviews for Barbarella

All Critics (35) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (10) | DVD (9)

The film is ugly on so many levels -- from art direction to human values -- that it's hard to know where to begin.

April 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

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Despite a certain amount of production dash and polish and a few silly-funny lines of dialog, Barbarella isn't very much of a film.

April 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety

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Throughout the movie, there is the assumption that just mentioning a thing (sex, politics, religion) makes it funny and that mentioning it in some offensive context makes it funnier.

May 9, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Renata Adler

New York Times

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It's fun in a 'What were they smoking?' kind of way.

June 10, 2004 Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Colin Covert

Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Fonda looks sensational and glides through this romp like a dazed, ripe-to-the- touch innocent.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

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Cheerfully catch-all.

July 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Kim Newman

Empire Magazine

A kitsch cult classic.

July 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

Most of this is soft-core nonsense, but snappy dialogue and design -- as well as the striptease routine that Fonda performs behind the opening credits -- have made it something of a cult favorite.

April 17, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

I just couldn't take my eyes off the screen.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium

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JoBlo

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Terry Southern's dialogue occasionally sparkles, and the imaginative designs, as shot by Claude Renoir, look really splendid.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

An awful film, certainly, but also undeniably watchable.

April 7, 2005 Comment

Rob Thomas

Capital Times (Madison, WI)

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I yield to no one in my appreciation for soft-core porn and self-consciously "bad" cinema. Thus I was eager finally to see "Barbarella," which came out in October of 1968, but which I somehow never saw all these years. I was expecting good, fun trash, and instead I got a dorky, un-funny, un-sexy snooze-fest, and some

October 30, 2011

William Dunmyer

Super Reviewer

A Sex kitten traveling through space in a fur-lined spaceship, I mean how cool is that.What I like about this film is it's deliberateness. What I love most about Barbarella is how hard it tries, It's like Bono. Trying so hard to be cool...somehow makes him cool.

April 19, 2007