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It had been a few years since I watched “Barbarella”, and watching it again for a second time recently was joy, like discovering its kitsch joys for the first time all over again!
There’s no point dwelling on the plot, because it’s as thin and transparent as most of Jane Fonda’s outfits! This is pure high camp comedy, wonderfully played up a superb cast. Some wonderful characters, brilliant one liners, and some of the oddest sets and costumes ever seen on film. Highly unenjoyable and would be instantly forgettable were it not for Jane Fonda excelling as our heroine and also for introducing the name “Duran Duran” to the world!
Rating: 5 / 5
Set in an era of universal peace and love, Barbarella is sent to retrieve the Earth scientist, Duran Duran (recognise the name?), from the planet Lythion, a world beset by evil and indulgance. Barbarella overcomes many evil obstacles, like the flesh eating robotic dolls and the Orgasmatron, an evil device designed to kill by causing the victim to endure multiple orgasms, to finaly find and eventually destory the now evil scientist. Well worth watching just for the fun of it.
Rating: 4 / 5
It’s said that a reviewer asked Vadim why he opened the film with the free-fall strip. He said “Plenty of people who don’t care about science fiction will watch it just to see Jane Fonda nude, so I put that at the start so they didn’t have to sit through the rest!”
Just to say that anyone who did walk out as soon as the credits had finished floating over Fonda’s skin would have missed an erotic treat as well as a comic one.
Rating: 5 / 5
In the future, wars are unknown. But mad scientist DURAN DURAN
has developed a ray gun that blasts people into the fourth diminsion.
Jane Fonda (naked at the time) is called up by the president of the galaxy. Her mission is to drive her fur lined space ship, to the planet and stop DURAN DURAN.
DURAN DURAN captures her and puts her in a machine that kills young women by forcing them to endure massive orgasms. Jane Fonda takes all the machine can throw at her, and the mad scientist DURAN DURAN starts getting upset when it starts blowing up and catching fire.
Oh and there is a evil entity called the MATMOS that is a bit like a lava lamp under the evil city.
Its wonderful 60’s madness. BUY IT
Rating: 5 / 5
Wierd, charmingly innocent,costumes ahead of their time, including the legendary g-string, and a Jane Fonda you actually like because of her innocence. Plastic sets a plenty, lots of dry ice, but in there too are snipets of intellect, silly pink/red pencil sharpener spaceship with fake fur interiors merely add to the enjoyment.Even “the essence of man”, for ladies who want to taste rather than feel the sense.Kinky leather robots with whips. Like I said, strange, but pure fantasy.
Rating: 5 / 5