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He'll save every one of us! morePlot:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 1 win & 7 nominations moreUser Comments:
Knowingly Camp version of matinée sci-fi classic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sam J. Jones | ... | Flash Gordon |
| Melody Anderson | ... | Dale Arden |
 | Max von Sydow | ... | The Emperor Ming / Ming's Floating Servant (as Max Von Sydow) |
| Topol | ... | Dr. Hans Zarkov |
| Ornella Muti | ... | Princess Aura |
 | Timothy Dalton | ... | Prince Barin |
| Brian Blessed | ... | Prince Vultan |
| Peter Wyngarde | ... | Klytus |
| Mariangela Melato | ... | Kala |
| John Osborne | ... | Arborian Priest |
 | Richard O'Brien | ... | Fico |
| John Hallam | ... | Luro |
| Philip Stone | ... | Zogi, the High Priest |
| Suzanne Danielle | ... | Serving Girl |
 | William Hootkins | ... | Munson |
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2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | UK:A (theatrical rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Netherlands:12 | Sweden:15 | UK:PG | USA:PG | West Germany:12MOVIEmeter: 
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Revealing mistakes: In the shot of the Ajax cruiser after the Hawkmen have taken it, it is seen with a swarm of Hawkmen following it. During this shot, the superimposed Hawkmen are not composited in for the first frame. moreQuotes:
[first lines]The Emperor Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What play thing can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K System, your majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet Earth.
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During the middle section of this movie, our hero 'Flash' Gordon, accompanied by Ornella "Most beautiful woman in the world" Muti, witnesses ex Bond Timothy Dalton giving ex Blue Peter presenter Peter Duncan the sweet merciful release of death by putting him to the(cardboard) sword (offscreen). "Its an initiation" purrs the shapely Muti, "I just love initiations".
This 1980 version of the perennial Saturday morning sci-fi cliffhanger is a feast for the senses. That is, if your senses crave lashings of junkfood. With an eye meltingly lurid palette of colours and rocktastic Queen soundtrack Flash Gordon was the perfectly overblown movie for the start of an overblown decade. The costumes are extravagantly cheesy, the effects farcical, the acting hilarious.
Almost every minor character was hammed up to perfection by the cream (or perhaps custard) of character actors of the time including such luminaries as Rocky Horrors Richard O Brien, Phillip "I corrected them" Stone from the Shining and the half-man, half-beast that is Brian Blessed.
The only minor flaw in this popcorn delight is the fact that it is, in almost every way - a terrible, awful movie - I HIGHLY recommend it.