
Rating: 5.5 stars
Seen 1 time
Seen on: 11/13/2011 (rewatch)
Most recently watched by sensoria, BTSjunkie
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Rated PG | Length 111 minutes
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Perhaps the epitome of ‘80s era sci-fantasy excess, Flash Gordon, like Krull, suffers from its post-Star Wars comparisons; it harkens back to a more dumbed down, kitschy approach to sci-fi and fantasy that had dogged the genres since the ‘30s and the age of the cliffhangers.
My kids had never seen it, so I figured now was as good a time as any to expose them to it.
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