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From the director of IRON SKY. Captain James B. Pirk of the Starship C.P.P. Kickstart and his crew, Commander Dwarf and Commander Info, find themselves stranded on 21st Century Earth after a previous adventure to save the planet from hostile aliens. Life is not good and Pirk s daily routine consists of stuffing his face at the local fast food restaurant and trying to convince the ladies that he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero form the future. As the prospects for humanity's conquest of space look increasingly bleaker, Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future... Created by an ingenious band of die-hard Star Trek fans this terrific sci-fi comedy will have you gripped all the way through to its stunning conclusion! Wreck on!
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Start Trek parody on an indie budget, and a story of collaborative film-making
10 May 2009
Format:DVD
Making a Star Trek movie is not easy. One should be able to capture the spirit of Star Trek, have phaser-blazing action, romance, light-hearted fun, end-of-the-world scale drama, corrupted to the core villains, all in one story. Making a parody is not easy at all, one should take what made the original good and retain it, while with a keen eye pointing out all the little (or big) silly notions and mercilessly make fun of them - and yet the end result should remain watchable on its own.
Star Wreck manages all of the above, and as an indie movie, to boot. The special effects are completely state of the art and would do in any commercial movie of today. Every scene is lovingly crafted to as near perfection as the shoestring budget would allow. Where the homeknit quality does show, it feels mostly like homage to the cardboard and styrofoam props of ST:TOS and Babylon 5.
The criticism that could be fairly given is that the plot and the characterization suffer from a lack of a professional writer in the crew. Even then, the pacing of the movie is good, the jokes, while boyish, are on the spot, and all in all the movie leaves all the other sci-fi parodies out there completely in the dust. A definite mood-lifter for the viewer, and the story of how the movie was made is worth seeing in itself.
Star Wreck manages all of the above, and as an indie movie, to boot. The special effects are completely state of the art and would do in any commercial movie of today. Every scene is lovingly crafted to as near perfection as the shoestring budget would allow. Where the homeknit quality does show, it feels mostly like homage to the cardboard and styrofoam props of ST:TOS and Babylon 5.
The criticism that could be fairly given is that the plot and the characterization suffer from a lack of a professional writer in the crew. Even then, the pacing of the movie is good, the jokes, while boyish, are on the spot, and all in all the movie leaves all the other sci-fi parodies out there completely in the dust. A definite mood-lifter for the viewer, and the story of how the movie was made is worth seeing in itself.
42 of 44 people found the following review helpful
By J. Shepherd
Format:DVD
If you want to buy another safe, predictable big budget blockbuster then fair enough, look elsewhere. If you are open minded and want to be inspired by this epic, 7 year labor of love by a dedicated team of Finnish amateur film makers then stick around! I have dabbled with a bit of CGI and put the odd holiday DVD together. If you have the slightest idea of the effort involved in getting anything on screen you will be blown away with what has been achieved. This film hasn't made it to a commercially available DVD without good reason. If you watch the film with goodwill and ride over the rough edges and moments that lack pace, you will see some completely original and laugh-out-loud sci-fi comedy moments and effects sequences of a scale and complexity that square up to their multi-million dollar rivals.
The negative reviews of this film appear to have been written by people with unrealistic expectations who didn't stop to understand what they were buying, not least that yes, this film was made in the Finnish language! What genuine film lover prefers to watch a dubbed version of a film anyway? I bought this film because I knew it would do things Hollywood never would, and I wasn't disappointed!
The negative reviews of this film appear to have been written by people with unrealistic expectations who didn't stop to understand what they were buying, not least that yes, this film was made in the Finnish language! What genuine film lover prefers to watch a dubbed version of a film anyway? I bought this film because I knew it would do things Hollywood never would, and I wasn't disappointed!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film is hysterical. I laughed the entire way through.
As a die hard scifi fan I thought this would be terrible. I think it was actually better than quite a few major productions. The special effects definately give a lot of major productions a run for there money.
If you have a sense of humour, loved films like galaxy quest, babylon 5 and startrek, you will love this.
As a die hard scifi fan I thought this would be terrible. I think it was actually better than quite a few major productions. The special effects definately give a lot of major productions a run for there money.
If you have a sense of humour, loved films like galaxy quest, babylon 5 and startrek, you will love this.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad if you don't take it seriously
I've seen quite a few people slating this and maybe with good reason - because they were expecting a bid budget production. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. J. Coops
1.0 out of 5 stars
puerile vomit
You who are reading this, I don't know you, but I am willing to bet if I gave you a phone camera and two days to make a ninety-minute film with it on any topic you like, that your... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dago
1.0 out of 5 stars
A waste of time and space
As a Finnish speaker I was able to view this without subtitles. . What was the point of it? Described as a comedy, it did not even raise a smile. Read more
Published 2 months ago by catherine koppana
1.0 out of 5 stars
Laugh, I did .....once.
I bought this because I thought it might be funny. I realise it was made for a budget but it is poorly acted,badly scripted and mostly shot through a kind of. fuzzy focus. Read more
Published 2 months ago by T-dubblu
1.0 out of 5 stars
Star Wreck is a waste of money for everyone
I am a huge Babylon 5 fan and a Huge Star Trek fan. Yes I know the two are not usually mutually compatible, but there we go. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Phil Burrow
1.0 out of 5 stars
I like scifi and start trek but...
this was a waste of money, pretty boring, possible could have been lifted if it wasn't in Finnish, all in all I didn't think much of it.
Published 3 months ago by pwdixon
5.0 out of 5 stars
5 stars if you're a B5 & Star Trek fan
If you're not familiar with both Star Trek and Babylon 5 you'll miss a lot of the references in this. Read more
Published 7 months ago by T. Chin
5.0 out of 5 stars
hilarious
this was great, a star vtrek parody that picks on a lot of the little things about the show, which when listening to the commentary i learned just how "nerdy" the makers of this... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. A. Shepherd
1.0 out of 5 stars
Its a wreck Jim, but not as we know it
After reading a few reviews about this Finnish made film, it sounded like a promising low budget fan film. So I decided to take the chance and order it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. J. Zeun
1.0 out of 5 stars
starwreck=Schei......dreck
English Review:complete waste of time and YES! i want my money (or my lifetime spend watching that crap) back!!! BEST BOTH!!! Read more
Published 9 months ago by Niggel99
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