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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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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
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.
34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
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!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Just watch it and laugh! I'm a diehard Star Trek fan and this film has everything that makes Star Trek great! The storyline is a little weird at the beginning but everything falls into place at the end; oh and watching the International Space Station get blown up by 3 `Light balls/Photon Torpedos' is something more films should have!
One reviewer mentions how an incredible amount of bear must have been involved in the making of the film and they are right but not for the wrong reasons. The light hearted fun (and use of `Light beer' in the `Light balls') coupled with watching the film in a foreign language (with UK subtitles) makes for a crazy night in.
I can understand that for some viewers the unrefined humour wont appeal to them but for anyone who has seen at least one naked gun film (and liked it) should watch this to!
One reviewer mentions how an incredible amount of bear must have been involved in the making of the film and they are right but not for the wrong reasons. The light hearted fun (and use of `Light beer' in the `Light balls') coupled with watching the film in a foreign language (with UK subtitles) makes for a crazy night in.
I can understand that for some viewers the unrefined humour wont appeal to them but for anyone who has seen at least one naked gun film (and liked it) should watch this to!
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Star Wreck
Firstly be warned, to understand this 'movie' you need to be a Babylon 5 geek as well as a trekkie. Unfortunately, even as someone who qualifies, I found the humour to be strained... Read more
Published 3 months ago by sncfian
Star Wreak
Seller sent this item out fast via post, I would recommened this seller.
At a low price this is worth watching. Okay to watch once only.
At a low price this is worth watching. Okay to watch once only.
Published 9 months ago by John A. Dabson
Maybe there's something lost in translation...?
I bought this from a superstore. The back of the box led me to believe it had an English-language track and it was in the bargain bucket so I threw it in my basket, thinking it'd... Read more
Published 10 months ago by T
Buy it!!!
Not going to say too much really as a lot has been said by others before me. Firstly. you will need a multi region player to watch it....And watch it you must! Read more
Published 13 months ago by John
Best of the Wrecks
I've followed Samuli's previous efforts on the internet as his star wreck movies have progressed from simple cartoonish graphics to this, his greatest effort yet. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Action Jackson
Great Parody for what it is
I've only seen the original movie, not the new Edition (in the original they just used real Babylon 5 / Star Trek Models instead of their modified ones). Read more
Published 20 months ago by T. Schmidt
Well made subtitled blast
This 7 year long marathon to make a film has got to fill you with respect for the tenacity of the makers to keep going with this project, especially on such a small budget. Read more
Published 21 months ago by E. Jones
Hilarious
This is very funny to anyone who has watched numerous episodes of Star Trek. This is because, basically, Star Trek is funny in the first place. Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by Dr. Who Fan
Babylon 5 would have killed for these special effects
Excellent low-budget comedy science fiction. The space-battle effects however still put many big-budget films to shame. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2010 by Zak
This is brilliant
This film is hysterical. I laughed the entire way through.
As a die hard scifi fan I thought this would be terrible. Read more
As a die hard scifi fan I thought this would be terrible. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2009 by Andrea Roberta Brown
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