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  • Actors: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau
  • Directors: Roger Vadim
  • Writers: Roger Vadim, Brian Degas, Claude Brulé, Clement Biddle Wood, Jean-Claude Forest
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language: English, German
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Danish, Finnish
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 2 Oct. 2000
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (160 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005421R
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,959 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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An outrageous blend of humor and erotic fantasy, focusing on a sexually emancipated space woman who vanquishes evil all around her, and rewards the handsome men who assist her.

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Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humour, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favourite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while travelling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing eveil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhabited manner, the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen, or the Angel Pygar, she just can't seem to avoid losing at least part of her skin-tight space suit!

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Format: Blu-ray
A film very much of its time, and so barking mad that it is quite brilliant. Don't expect any profound commentary on the human condition, though; it is cheap, disposable, sci-fi akin to the Saturday serials from a bygone era.

The studio-bound sets are unconvincing, and much of the acting is execrable - poor dubbing doesn't help (although Joan Greenwood's voice matched with Anita Pallenberg's body is definitely a winning combination) - and there is a disjointed feel to the sequence of set-pieces reminiscent of the aforementioned serials, but Jane Fonda (then wife of director Roger Vadim), together with screen stalwarts David Hemmings and Milo O'Shea carry the piece quite well enough.

The story (such as it is) is thin - Barbarella (Fonda) is sent by the President of Earth to capture a renegade who has done the unthinkable in the peace-loving future where the greeting is "Love," by developing a weapon!

A pleasant-enough way to spend 100 minutes, and quite inoffensive (why it continues to cary a "15" certificate defies reason; it's arguably little more than a "PG"), and if you've ever wondered where Simon Le Bon's bandmates got the name of their group, the answer will be found here.
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I must confess that the first review I read of the recently released blu ray had me spooked.
My pre-order had arrived and was as yet unviewed. Haven't watched the whole movie yet but here are my first impressions of the transfer. The picture quality wasn't the disaster I expected. True there is a degree of grain which is only to be expected on a movie more than 50 yrs old, and to be fair there are much better preserved examples of similar or older vintage out there (e.g. Zulu) but the mastering job is actually fairly decent. Those who like to make a correlation between video bit rate and image quality will be pleased to hear the video rate is continually nudging the 40 Mb/sec mark. (Something this film shares with Zulu and other top transfers). The grain is quickly forgotten after a few minutes.

Comparing it with the R2 dvd reveals that they've either found a better original or managed to clean it up quite a bit.
The R2 dvd shows a lot of flaws on the master (i.e. white/black "sparklies") which are almost entirely absent on the blu ray.
Resolution is much improved on the blu ray and makes the purchase well worthwhile.
If you have a huge screen and have a tendency to sit too close then the grain might be a deal-breaker for you but for anyone else I say enjoy this version because it's as good as you'll get (for the moment....)
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To enjoy ‘Barbarella’ you probably better put the ‘feminists’ arguments’ against this film to one side and simply enjoy it for what it is... something totally silly. Does it degrade and/or exploit women? I don’t know. I can see both sides of the story; I just choose not to think of it.

Basically, if you don’t know, it’s a science fiction film with more than a few shades of ‘soft p*rn’ added for... well, good measure? Our heroine is the scantily-clad titular Barbarella – a member of Earth’s space police who is given the task of hunting down a rogue scientist on a desolate planet. Along the way she encounters all manner of weird and wonderful characters, all of which are dressed equally provocatively as our fair maiden.

If you’re going to be totally realistic then you have to admit that Barbarella is a pretty awful film. The dialogue is terrible, the plot is wafer-thin and the special effects aren’t that special (not including the costumes – as most guys may consider the costumers pretty special). But then it knows it’s not a great film. It doesn’t try to be. And, the reason it’s still talked about today is because there will always be an audience who can appreciate ‘bad’ films and take delight in them.

Don’t go into this expecting anything other than a daft, slightly saucy, space adventure (and I’m told that the real ‘hard scenes’ were left on the cutting room floor). As long as you know what you’re in for you should enjoy this film. It’s not meant to be viewed as a great, intellectual work of art.

Also, kudos for the genuinely creepy ‘doll scene’ – it’s pretty nasty.
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The 1960s produced some of the most important works of science-fiction in cinematic history - features which have influenced generations, pushed boundaries of technique and storytelling. La Jetee, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes stimulate the cerebrum and represent a master class in allegorical exploration of what it is to be human - but only Barbarella saw Jane Fonda get her chebs out in zero gravity as she embarked on an adventure in a fur-lined spacecraft. Nearly half a century on, Fonda still looks incredible - but the rest of the film hasn't aged well.

Barbarella was a flop at the time but has gained a cult following, and although the film is average at best - you can't help but feel defensive about it. With killer lines such as "wait, let me adjust my tongue-box" and "de-crucify him or I'll melt your face" along with a bonkers plot, this is an entertaining film - but not in the way it intends to be. The visual effects are dodgy and some of the sets look cobbled together from whatever was left around the studio (with backdrop curtains which could have been rejects from a school play). It's sometimes hard to believe that this was released the same year as Kubrick's masterpiece. Despite the lack of intelligent plot and the absence of a half decent script, Barbarella does contain some iconic moments - those demonic, biting dolls are still the stuff of nightmares.
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