Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest (1999)

• Director: Dean Parisot
• Based on the story by David Howard
• Cast: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Patrick Breen, Missi Pyle, Jed Reese, Justin Long
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Sigourney Weaver – Avatar, Be Kind Rewind, Infamous, Snow Cake, A Map of the World, Alien 1-4, Death and the Maiden, Dave, Working Girl, Ghostbusters, The Year of Living Dangerously
• Alan Rickman – Eye in the Sky, The Butler, Harry Potter 1-8, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Snow Cake, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Love Actually, Dogma, The Winter Guest, Michael Collins, Sense and Sensibility, Robin Hood, The January Man, Die Hard, Romeo and Juliet
• Tony Shalhoub – 1408, The Siege, A Life Less Ordinary, X Files, Barton Fink
• Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri, Moon, Frost/Nixon, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Green Mile, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Daryl Mitchell – 10 Things I Hate about You
• Enrico Colantoni – Veronica Mars, Contagion, Full Frontal, The Third Rock from the Sun
• Why? Alan Rickman. Sci-fi
• Seen:  11 April 2020

       Think Star Trek, Doctor Who, disgruntled has-been actors and real aliens.

       You might then think that this is a spoof and you wouldn’t be wrong. For a spoof it’s appropriately very funny but also exciting and moving.

       You might also wonder what Rickman is doing in a film like this. Having the time of his life, I’d say.

4* of 5