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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   46,773 votes
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Director:
Dean Parisot
Writers (WGA):
David Howard (story)
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Release Date:
25 December 1999 (USA) more
Tagline:
The show has been cancelled...but the adventure is just beginning. more
Plot:
The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 14 nominations more
User Comments:
Funny, thoughtful spoof more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
Captain Starshine (USA) (original script title)
Earth Dick (USA) (working title)
GalaxyQuest (USA) (alternative spelling)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some action violence, mild language and sensuality.
Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Company:
DreamWorks SKG more

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Trivia:
According to the film, Sam Rockwell's character played an adult on the original series, whereas 'Daryl Mitchell''s character played a child. Daryl Mitchell is actually 3 years older than Sam Rockwell. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: When the shuttle lands on the mining planet, we see a crescent moon lighted from the left, but the shadows of the rocks show that the landscape is lighted from the right. Even if this is a planet of a double star, the moon should have a crescent on the right side. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Laredo: Exiting the time knot now, sir.
Tech Sgt. Chen: We're alive.
Laredo: We made it, Commander. We made it.
Dr. Lazarus: By Grabthar's hammer, we live to tell the tale.
Voice of Computer: Systems registering functional.
Lt. Tawny Madison: All systems are working, Commander.
Commander Peter Quincy Taggart: I don't like it. It was too easy.
Laredo: Wait. Oh, no! They're everywhere. There are time knots opening everywhere.
Lt. Tawny Madison: A trap!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Meet the Spartans (2008) more

FAQ

Why does Alex wear the alien headpiece all the time, even when he is at home?
Which "Star Trek" characters are the "Galaxy Quest" characters based on?
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187 out of 192 people found the following comment useful:-
Funny, thoughtful spoof, 8 October 2004
9/10
Author: PMApollo

I still don't quite understand why "GQ" never conquered the box office. The movie is clever, hysterically funny, surprisingly moving and, as one reviewer pointed out, more respectful of (and better at communicating) the ideals of "Star Trek" than any of the recent "Trek" movies or television incarnations. The script is inventive, the special effects are vivid and powerful (especially when the actors see the real ship for the first time, and when the rock monster rampages through the ship), and the characters are incredibly well drawn.

I'm also puzzled by the negative reactions some people have to the film. Does the film fail to register because the "Trek" social phenomenon is unfamiliar to them, thus there's no frame of reference? I'd really like to know.

Comedy is possibly the hardest genre to get right, because line delivery, timing, direction and character shading all have to be pretty much perfect or the movie just won't be funny. GQ nails these elements -- right on the head and in virtually every scene -- and keeps up the pace by constantly moving its characters forward. Tony Shalhoub (Fred), Sam Rockwell (Guy Fleegman) and Enrico Colantoni (Mathesar) in particular are so dead-on perfect in their scenes that lack of box office and the Academy's traditional indifference to comedy are probably the only reasons these guys didn't get Oscar nods. (Okay, well, 1999 was also an incredibly strong year for American cinema.)

But GQ is also strangely moving -- particularly in the way it derives comedy from despair. The actor characters' lives are in ruins, not unlike the aliens they eventually save from extinction. Perhaps this is why -- even though the characters don't know it yet -- the two groups get along so well and why the actors make the decision to actually become their TV characters in the end. This may also be why the dismay in Mathesar's face when he learns the truth is so painful.

I suspect GQ also got lumped in with the likes of "Scary Movie" and "The Naked Gun" movies in the public's collective conscious: It was perceived as just another spoof and therefore not worthy of significant attention. I hope the movie develops enough of a cult following that it one day reaches that wider audience it deserves.

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