Galaxy Quest

Plot synopsis:
Galaxy Quest  was once a popular "geek" TV show that eventually got cancelled but was so popular among a a cult group that it has spawned 18 annual conventions where fans gather, often in costumes based on the shows, to watch old episodes, meet cast members and actors who played even bit parts on single episodes. At Galaxy Quest 18, hosted by Guy Fleegman (Sam Rockwell), an actor who played in episodes 81 and died by the first commercial, the fans are seeing a "lost" episode which is part one of a two parter dealing with the Omega 13 device. As this episode is screening in the main room back stage sits the original cast and crew:* Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman), who played half human/half alien Dr. Lazarus and moans about how he was once a great actor on the English stage.*The beautiful and buxom Gwen DeMarco who plays communications officer Lt. Tawny Madison (Sigourney Weaver), and whose job on the ship was to repeat what the computer said, complains that her TV guide article was all about her bustline and how it fit into her uniform.
* Tommy Webber (Daryl Mitchell), the child actor who has since grown up and found no life other than Galaxy Quest conventions remarks about how the commander and star of the show Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen) is more than an hour late.Nesmith finally shows up and gets into the "been there done that" groove asking if Dane has already done his "I was once an actor" thing. This, plus the fact the Nesmith is about to do a solo gig without the rest of the cast almost has everyone walking out of the dressing room and heading for home, as Jason tries to explain the gig is a couple of kids with cardboard in a garage and is nothing major.Out on the convention floor Guy now starts introducing the crew of Galaxy Quest, who snap into their roles, especially Dane after Nesmith says the magic words to convince him that "The show must go on!" They go outside to the waiting fans, the spotlights and the roar of the crowds to sit and sign autographs and give the fans a taste of the dream.Gwen happens to smile at Nesmith, basically because Tommy told a hysterically funny and true crack about the fans loving Nesmith almost as much as Nesmith loves himself. In that brief moment Nesmith see's Gwen and remembers times that once were and hopes for a rekindling of old on the set romance, which Gwen promptly shoots down when fans ask he if she and the commander once had a thing and Gwen replies, as Nesmith comes up behind her. Nope!Gwen is ushered off by officials to do a "look a-like" Tawny Madison and fans in costume photo shoot. Nesmith tries to follow and is confronted by Mathesar (Enrico Colantoni), an actual alien come to Earth to seek the help of Commander Peter Quincy Taggert, the character played on Galaxy Quest by Nesmith. Nesmith thinks this is the group of kids who are paying him to do an appearance in their garage tomorrow and tells them to keep things hush-hush, finalize details with his agent and bring a limo. The brushed off alien contingent mutter a bit and go off to do as he asked, while Nesmith tries to corner Gwen who brushes him off with a "it was cute before I got to know you" line.Nesmith eventually goes into the men's room and locks himself in a commode where he overhears two non-geeks who are making fun of the whole Galaxy Quest event and participants and calling the stars losers who haven't done anything in acting since the show, especially Nesmith who is bad-mouthed by his co-stars. Nesmith gets a wake up call and falls totally out of character for the rest of the day. He signs autographs with a "phone it in" mentality, doesn't look at the fans and when confronted by the real hosts of his next day gig turns on them, get's angry and tells them it's just a TV show.Gwen overhears this and later that night talks with fellow co-star Dane about it on the telephone from their respective homes. She expresses concern about Nesmith and Dane just expresses contempt for the whole thing.Nesmith, climbs into a bottle of booze on ice watching reruns of Galaxy Quest on TV and waking up when Mathesar and his fellow aliens come a knocking at Nesmiths' back door. Nesmith doesn't quite rise to the occasion and more like crawls around in his shirt and undies looking for shoes. Eventually they all get into a limo and head to the gig with Nesmith trying to make a play for the pretty alien girl Laliari (Missi Pyle) who can't speak because her translator device broke. Nesmith asks for a coke and promptly takes a nap as they explain the situation to him on the way up to the ship, which is a real Galaxy Quest space ship.Once there, the unshaven, groggy and very unkempt Nesmith is taken to the bridge where he confronts the evil bad guy alien Sarris (Robin Sachs) on the Vid screen. Nesmith orders them to fire blue and fire red and fire other stuff. He says that should take care of Sarris and then he asks to be taken back home to Earth. Teb (Jed Rees) really appreciates that Nesmith has saved the people.Nesmith is shown into a room where he is covered by goop that turns into a plastic shell and then he is shot out into space, landing at home by his swimming pool in a state of shock. He runs, as is, unshaven and unkempt, to the electronics store opening they have been contracted to do and tells his fellow actors about his real adventures in space with the "termites" as he calls them.Everyone thinks he's drunk and crazy, even after Mathesar and his fellow aliens show up and want him and the crew to come up and negotiate with Sarris. Nesmith tries to convince his fellow actors to come along and help him. Instead they all give Nesmith the brush off and leave, climbing into the same van hostile and critical, except for Fred Kwan (Tony Shalhoub) who plays the Tech Sgt. Chen on the show and said they all should have taken the gig because who knows when Nesmith would offer them a gig again!A gig? They all say, looking at each other and getting out of the van and meeting up with Laliari, whose image remains on Earth as Nesmith thought they might change their minds. Laliari orders up pods for all of them and in short order the acting crew of Galaxy Quest realize they are now on the real deal in outer space and that's a little more reality than they were planning on.We see the aliens in their real form for the first time and they are a type of pastel octopus or squid who use a device to take human shape and speech.Fred Kwan is the only one of the actors who is so out of it he's here now, probably due to too much Hollywood living, he is the only one blindly up for the adventure. Down deep inside he's as crazy as Nesmith only it didn't take him a first time to be that crazy. Gwen and Dane are the only sane ones who think it's totally insane to do this gig! Tommy's trying to deal with it all.They get a tour of the facility, go aboard the ship where they get more of a tour and meet the crew and other "termites" as Nesmith calls them. They take their places on the bridge and take the ship out into space to meet with Sarris.We learn that Mathesar and his people think Earth TV is serious documentary news and that shows like Galaxy Quest and Gilligan's Island are reality TV or new reports like the war in Iraq. Gwen and Dane take issue with Nesmith who is going along with this blindly because they think he's on an ego trip and maybe he is! He sure likes inspecting the troops.The audience eventually discovers that Sarris had captured and tortured the last commander who told Sarris all about things on Galaxy Quest, including the coveted Omega 13 device, which Sarris wants to own at all costs. The "termites" don't know what the Omega 13 does, but badly-constructed, the device will disintegrate every matter atom in the universe. However, nobody knows where it is.This sends the actors packing, except for Nesmith who still thinks he can handle Sarris. Well, he has to as Sarris has arrived and they must confront him. Sarris overhears Nesmith talking about his plans of attacking him with all their weapons because Gwen didn't follow Nesmith's order to cut the microphone, so he shoots first. The engine dies off, but synergy leads the starship to a landmine abandoned since an old war. When they leave the place, they manage to stop the starship.The crew tries to explain that the Galaxy's adventures are a fiction, not historical documents, but the concept doesn't entirely resonate with the aliens: they have just started to understand the concept of "lie" and "deceit" as Sarris promises something and then does another thing. A new sphere of the energy source called beridium is found in a planet nearby, so they have to go and pick them. Arriving to the planet where the sphere is, it looks like the rocky Nevada desert, and they can breathe naturally. A kind of home appears. Some little monkeys are working on the mines. Guy is worried that he's the extra - the sixth crewmember- who hasn't got even a simple surname. One of the cute little monkeys is weak and sick, so the rest of the mining monkeys eat it alive.The crew try to steal one of the beridium spheres by rolling it away. Hundreds of monkeys appear. The starship leaves with the sphere but without Nesmith, as Lazarus complains that Nesmith needs to be always the main protagonist. A large animal is about to eat Nesmith. The animal is tele-transported, and it dies painfully, becoming a ball of goo. The monkeys keep on shouting "Gorignak ", which is a monster made of rocks. Finally, Nesmith is tele-transported to the ship.Back at the spaceship, Sarris has invaded the ship. Apart from that, Nesmith is told that there are no more people on planet Earth. Nesmith says that there is no use in torturing Mathesar, as he doesn't know what the Omega 13 device really is. He and Gwen show Sarris the "historical documents", who immediately understands the situation. He forces Nesmith to explain to Mathesar in simple words that a child can understand that they are not heroes, but only actors.Sarris tells his thugs that they are going to make the starship explode with everybody inside. However, Nesmith and Lazarus pretend to fight, and they use the distraction to throw their guardians to the space void. Gwen reminds Nesmith that neither of them can activate a neutron engine. But Nesmith knows somebody who will know how to operate it. Brandon (Justin Long) is a nerdy geek who asked a lot of technical questions during one of the gigs. Gwen and Nesmith follow Brandon and his friend Kyle (Jeremy Howard)'s instructions. When asked what the Omega 13 device may do, Brandon says they think that it may allow to go back in time in 13 seconds. Hollister (Jonathan Feyer) discovers the rhythm of the smashing iron poles.Lazarus and Quellek (Patrick Breen) open the door to bring oxygen to the Thermians. Laliari and Fred kiss like crazy. Finally, Nesmith reaches the blue button which will stop the explosion. Brandon can't help Nesmith and give him an alternate solution when the blue button doesn't stop the countdown because his mother, Katelyn (Kaitlin Cullum) forces him to take the rubbish out. Nesmith and Gwen hug, listening to the last seconds of the countdown. However, in the series, the countdown always used to stop a second before, and that's what happens.Nesmith orders Tommy to drive the spaceship into the minefield. There, the magnetism of the ship attracts many mines. Nesmith's ship faces Sarris' ship, and goes down in the last second. The mines destroy Sarris' ship.However, after going through a black hole, Tommy mentions an increase of energy from Sarris' ship. Sarris has entered Nesmith's ship. Pretending to be Fred, he wounds Nesmith and kills the rest of the crew. Nesmith shouts to Mathesar to turn on the Omega 13 device, so he arrives back in time - only 13 seconds, but time enough to hit Fred as soon as he enters the control room.All the Thermians leave the spaceship, except for Laliari. They arrive at the convention they were supposed to attend - where thousands of geek fans are already disappointed they are not there - crash-landing with their spaceship thanks to Brandon and his friends. In the convention, each cast member leaves the ship half-suffocated and dizzy. Sarris also wakes up, but he is killed in a second, something which drives the fans wild.CUE to the new season of Galaxy Quest - the cast includes a character called Laliari, performed by Jane Doe and who kisses Fred, and a new security lieutenant, interpreted by the extra actor Guy Fleegman.

Tags: comedy, murder, cult, feel-good, good versus evil, satire, entertaining

Review:
While it poked fun at science fiction and its fans, it never resorted to the kind of mockery you see in other films.Galaxy Quest is a solid, funny movie.
Tim Allen doing William Shatner doing a Heroic Spaceship Captain is worth the rental all by itself, not to mention Alan Rickman's memorably dry performance as the I-Am-Not-My-Strange-Looking-Alien character.The first thing I thought upon leaving the theater was that I had to see this film again.
"Galaxy Quest" is an excellent feel good comedy that's enjoyable for the entire family.Even though the concept of the movie is not original anymore, the story is still enjoyable and fun enough, mainly thanks to the cast who seemed to be enjoying them selves during filming.Tim Allen is surprising good as "William Shatner" like captain and Alan Rickman is perfect in his role.
Indeed there is more plot and budget than many films that try play it straight.The crew being actors think there may be a buck involved and go along with what, they initially think, are over-the-top fans and before they know it they are in space having a fully formed adventure.Jokes about spacemen, mad Trekkies, transporters with side-effects, token blacks, interracial love, British thesps who detest what they do, aliens who don't have a sense of humour, characters who think they are going to be killed because they don't have a second name, and lots, lots more.Once again I stress that this subject was a sitting duck for satire, but what is amazing is how clever the script is, worse will win Oscars.
GALAXY QUEST (1999) ***1/2Starring: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub, Alan Rickman, Daryl Mitchell and Sam Rockwell Directed by Dean Parisot, written by David Howard.
Tim Allen as the pompous hero, Alan Rickman as the whiny has-been 'Shakespearean'-actor-forced-to-play-an-android, Tony Shalhoub as the funny Fred, Sam Rockwell as the terrified-of-being-the-first-one-to-die Guy, Enrico Colantoni as the gullible Mathezar and last but not least, the incredibly sexy Sigourney Weaver as the tired-of-playing-dumb-blonde Gwen (the total opposite of her famous Ripley character) play their parts.I'm glad that I bought this film on impulse yesterday as most American spoofs I have seen, like the abysmal Scary Movies (puke) or the silly Screams (yawn) and the ridiculous Naked Guns (okay this last one was kind of funny) hardly have anything more to offer than silliness.
The references to Star Trek, the movies and its fans are clever, sly and wonderfully incorporated in the story and writing, the characters are immensely likable and engaging as well as being alive to every character nuance and the direction is done with precision.Galaxy Quest couldn't have had a more perfect cast either.
Tim Allen seems to be having a ball, Sigourney Weaver is charming not to mention very, very hot, Alan Rickman is hilarious doing what he's best at bagging all the best lines and an endearing sense of bitterness, Tony Shalhoub is the wonderful Tony Shalhoub he always is with a deliberately burned-out character and Sam Rockwell is also very good.
But there is also something special about Galaxy Quest, it flawlessly satirises the acting profession and parodies fans of sci-fi and Star Trek without being rude about them and it is an engaging and original space saga in its own right.
The reason is simple - never before have I seen a parodying comedy that works without vomit, urinal and fecal jokes, a parodying comedy that doesn't need to make fun of George WC Bush.Where many serious-looking sci-fi movies try hard to explain how the futuristic technology works, Galaxy Quest in a clever way lets the spectator to find out (to his/her amusement) that sci-fi writers sometimes accidentally correctly guess something functional.Where other movies either depict extra-terrestrials as blood-sucking carnivorous monsters, or as peace-loving beautiful creatures, both easily distinguishable as such by appearance, Galaxy Quest in a clever way makes the E.T.'s surprising and twisty.Jokes about nonsensical equipment/machinery, jokes about "cult remarks", obvious nods and eye-blinks to other cult series or movies, as well as a multitude of mocking remarks aimed at the very same series and movies - that all adds a lot of fun to this fantastic movie.So to somehow wrap it up - I highly recommend this movie, it's probably the best it can be..
After having been to half a dozen conventions in glory to this campy old sci-fi show, I have to say that this movie manages to target PERFECTLY every strange quirk and idiosyncrasy which surrounds "fan boy" groups.I was also pleased by the character development which allowed for personalities that were as equally funny as they were original.
It's hard to imagine how this movie could have been improved upon.The plot is simple: typecast actors from a long-ago-cancelled sci-fi adventure series (led by Tim Allen and Sigourney Weaver as the stars of the show, with Alan Rickman a close third in his role) earn a reluctant living on the convention circuit, making special appearances in character.Allen plays James Nesmith, who played ship commander Peter Quincy Taggart.
The supporting cast is notable as well: Sam Rockwell plays Guy Fleegman, who gets dragged along for the ride when the crew suddenly finds itself aboard the alien ship based on their show, and Tony Shaloub (from the TV series Wings) does well as Fred Kawn (Tech Sargent Chen on GQ).Now for the plot: while at a convention, the "Thermians" confront Nesmith, who is convinced they are just another group of obsessed fans in character, as they inform him that their race is about to be obliterated by an evil space villain (Sarris, played by an over-the-top Robin Sachs).
To that extent, the story is also a coming-of-age tale about a group of actors who, when all is said and done, realize with a new appreciation that there are many worse fates for an actor than to be "typecast," such as being forgotten, without fans, and without work, and who seemed by the end of the film to have finally accepted that GQ is all they will ever be known for.Some sci-fi movies are "so bad they're good." This movie is just "so good, it's great." A must-see..
While spoofs of the horror genre (Scary Movie etc.) are sometimes grotesque and desperate to keep laughs coming every second, Galaxy Quest is a lot better paced and has an impeccable comic timing.
As other reviewers have said, it carries off an astonishing balancing act that manages to hit all the right notes, combining laugh-out-loud comedy with some genuinely moving scenes that could easily have teetered over into schmaltz.It somehow achieves the feat of being both merciless and affectionate, poking fun at all the clichés of Star Trek and its legions of fans, without ever being snide or mean-spirited.
I especially enjoyed the pre-teen fans who had the entire ship schematics on their PC at the age when most people are still playing with Power Rangers figures and Barbies, which is an all-too real phenomenon in the Trek fan community.The acting is top-notch, (Tim Allen plays the scene-stealing hack down to the last detail, Sigourney Weaver is hilarious as the token female on the ship, Alan Rickman adds wonderful conflict as a furious Shakespearian actor who is convinced his role on the show ruined his career) the special effects are just fabulous, and the few poignant moments are done so well that it's damn near tear-jerking.
It is very close to perfect.The entire cast delivers a high quality performance totally convincing you of the reality of this "historical document." 9/10Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub (who is brilliant as Fred Kwan/Tech Sgt. Chen), Sam Rockwell (who plays 'Guy' fits right in), Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni (who played 'Mathesar' was totally convincing), Robin Sachs (who played the evil General Sarris, brought him to life), Patrick Breen (who played 'Quellek' is why this gets a 9/10), Missi Pyle (who played 'Laliari/Jane Doe' was beautiful by just smiling), Jed Rees (who played the Thermian Historian 'Teb'), and all four fans: Justin Long who played 'Brandon', Jeremy Howard who played 'Kyle', Kaitlin Cullum who played 'Katelyn', and Jonathan Feyer who played 'Hollister.-Zafoid.
Push those thoughts aside, Galaxy Quest is truly one of the most original concepts for a film in a LONG time.It basically makes a play at Star Trek, and the actors who play the crew in the movie (from the TV show they are in) are forced into taking on a real life scenario a sci fi TV show exhibits.With the help of a clumsy albeit charming cast of aliens that emulate the show and bring the actors show to life (ship and all!) Galaxy Quest manages to produce some funny moments.The movie never loses it's charm.
Surprisingly, this film moves along good and will shock you when details you thought were irrelevant come into play later.Galaxy quest takes itself seriously in it's own created world, but never loses sight that we viewers know it's a take on star trek.It does a better job then you would imagine in distinguishing itself as memorable.Excellent film.
Galaxy Quest is science-fiction movie wrapped in a parody of the Star Trek TV series phenomenon.
This piece makes fun of the fans, the actors, all the paraphernalia surrounding them, as well as those milking it for all its worth.That being said, it's only half of what you're going to see, because you'll have a true sci-fi flick on your hands, with special effects, space ships, exotic planets, scary aliens and creatures.It might not have a very complicated story, but really it's a character movie, and based on that, it's quite a success.
Sure it had some funny moments, but overall I felt a lot like I was watching a cross between Star Trek the Original Series and a Mel Brooks film.
Galaxy Quest is funny on its own, but the humor of it only REALLY becomes outright tear inducing if you remember some of the old Star Trek episodes, like the one where Kirk fabricates a weapon to fight an alien.
All in all, I think this is a great film with a fun plot, the ending is cute, and the cast is what makes this movie a must see, and incredibly entertaining.
Galaxy Quest is a comedy sc/fi action adventure film rolled into one.it is a spoof of Star Trek and and other sc/ci TV shows/ movies.but more than that,and more importantly,it also pokes fun at popular culture and how absurd we have become as a society.for instance, the worshipping of Celebreties as idols."the cult of Celebrity" plays a prominent role in this movie.any movie that skewers celebrities and brings them down a peg is always a good thing.this is great satire.in this case it also happens to be hysterically funny at times,with great action and even some romance.the movie is not done in a mean spirited way,so is not overtly offensive or insulting to it's targets(well,okay,to some it would be,but we won't get into that here)although i guess,to be fair it is pretty blatant.oh well,cry me a river.honestly,the average human being that enjoys laughing frequently will enjoy this movie 9/10.
Rockwell plays the doomed other guy--the "Ensign Jones" character from Star Trek--and delivers one of the funniest lines in recent memory, "Did any of you even WATCH the show?"Galaxy Quest is a keen parody of science fiction in general, and of Star Trek in particular, and it pulls off the impressive feat of poking fun at the genre without ridiculing or belittling it.
I'm an avid Star Trek fan and I haven enjoyed "Home Improvement", so I was pleased to hear that Tim Allen was going to make a sci-fi parody movie.
(What a way to start, with a big player like Dreamworks and with stars like Allen and Weaver!)In the movie, "Galaxy Quest" is a classic sci-fi TV show with a cult following, much like the original "Star Trek" is today.
Examples include: Nesmith getting his shirt torn off in a fight on an alien planet; Weaver's character, Tawny Madison, not having anything important to do on the ship besides talk to the computer and look pretty; a cold, calculating first officer; "transporters" turning things inside out; fans who believe the show is real; discord among the "Galaxy Quest" cast; parts of the ship that serve no useful purpose except to provide danger for the episode; etc.It should be noted that the movie does poke some fun at Star Trek and its obsessive fans.
Some Trek fans may not like being object of some good-natured ridicule, but the majority of fans (those who don't take themselves too seriously) will enjoy and join in on the jabs at their own sci-fi enthusiasm.The story, sound, music, special effects and humor in "Galaxy Quest" are all excellent.
Especially interesting are some of the added features on the DVD, including scenes cut from the final version of the movie, and dubbing of the entire film in Thermian, an alien language in the movie, for that oh-so-geeky touch.If you've already seen "Galaxy Quest", see it again and catch all those in-jokes you missed the first time around.
Hysterical comedy, decent enough sci-fi film, and stellar parody of "Star Trek", its fans, and the friction existing between its stars.Tim Allen leads the cast as actor Jason Nesmith, who in turn played the fearless commander Peter Quincy Taggart.
Excellently played by Ms. Weaver, letting her sci-fi hair down after the "Alien" series character Ripley.Alan Rickman stars as Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus.
In a parody of the Star Trek TV series, the cast of a popular sci-fi TV show Galaxy Quest are kidnapped by an alien race who thinks the show is actually real.
In my opinion, the show stealer is Sam Rockwell playing the hapless glorified extra who just wants to be part of the crew.If you love sci-fi, Star Trek, space movies or just comedies - this one is a mandatory watch.
Allen is superb as the jaded Kirk character with Sigourney Weaver also excellent as his woman that got away with a wonderfully dry Alan Rickman as an "I am sick of playing Spock" character, but for me the real scene stealer is the excellent Sam Rockwell as Guy Fleegman, an extra who was killed in one episode of the original series who is terrified that art will truly imitate life.Kudos to the rest of the cast who all do a great job, but especially Robin Sachs who plays a particularly nasty real alien villain Sarris, who truly is frightening and adds the sense of danger that the film needs.
This time, I can rate it 8/10 instead of 7, just like I did after my first viewing.It has been seventeen years since the cancellation of "Galaxy Quest", a cult sci-fi TV series, but the former members of the show's cast appear at conventions and grand openings.
The starring roles in this 1999 movie are played by Tim Allen (Nesmith), Sigourney Weaver (Gwen DeMarco), and Alan Rickman (Dane), and these three all deserve credit for a job well done.
"¡Three Amigos!" parodies the western genre and "Galaxy Quest" parodies sci-fi, but the main characters in both movies are actors who find themselves actually doing what they've only been known to act out on screen, and both of them can certainly be funny.
Fans of sci-fi shows, particularly 'Star Trek', will appreciate it all the more because there are many in-jokes (such as the geeky fans at the convention who need to know every detail of the show) that they will recognise.I'm not a huge fan of Tim Allen but his portrayal as Jason Nesmith, a character that is a parody of William Shatner, was just great as he depicts the character's sheer arrogance and narcissism without losing heart.
There are times when he doesn't even have to say a word, just his facial expressions portray the character's disgust with the situations he is placed in (check out the deleted bathroom scene on the DVD for a great example of Rickman's expressiveness).'Galaxy Quest' is probably one of the best cinematic spoofs out there, making the 'Scary Movie' collection looking positively amateurish and infantile in comparison.
Rounding off his main crew are Sigourney Weaver, who plays buxomy blonde Gwen DeMarco/Lt. Tawny Madison, whose only job is to repeat what the ship's computer says, and Alan Rickman, as Alexander Dane/Dr. Lazarus, the token non-human on-board the ship, making him the butt of many alien jokes.While the cast and crew of Galaxy Quest are made to be all chummy and such, in reality, they are a bunch of quarreling has-beens whose show has been canceled 20 years ago, and are now making ends meet by attending conventions, and opening electrical stores.
When the 'fans' turn out to be aliens convinced that the Galaxy Quest actors are the saviors of their civilization, the results are laugh out loud funny.The plot is original and the jokes just keep coming.
Galaxy Quest is a surprisingly clever comic adventure that does stretch credibility, but provides a little more substance than you might expect from this kind of comedic adventure.The title of the film is actually the title of a short-lived, sci-fi television series that during its brief time on the air, developed cult status, a fictionalized STAR TREK, if you will, that continues to live on through conventions and live appearances for its cast, whose careers have pretty much been reduced to these live appearances, which most of the cast seems bored with, except for the star of the show, Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), who lives for these live appearances until he accidentally overhears a couple of fans talking about how ridiculous the show and Nesmith are, which sends Nesmith on a drunken bender.
The ultimate homage to "Star Trek" series and fans, "Galaxy Quest" also comes off as one of the best movies ever made about the film industry, actors and "make-believe".
A delightful sci-fi comedy about aliens who accidentally mistake a corny Sci-Fi TV-show for "historical documents" and kidnap the actors to help them, this is a great, fun family film.Eighteen years ago, Jason Nesmith (Tim Allen), Alexander Dane (Rickman), Fred Kwan (Shalhoub), Gwen Demarco (Weaver) and Tommy Webber (Darryl Mitchell) were the stars of "Galaxy Quest", a popular "Star Trek"-esque TV series about a group of space explorers who get into various adventures across the galaxy.