EW DVD Review: "Galaxy Quest"
By: Chris Nashawaty - Entertainment Weekly
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Now that there's a new "Star Trek" movie in theaters, it's the perfect time to release a new deluxe edition of "Galaxy Quest," the single greatest sci-fi satire made since Mel Brooks's "Spaceballs."
Since its original 1999 release, "Galaxy Quest" has become a cult favorite for nerds and non-nerds alike. Every time I see it pop up on late-night TV, I know I'll be losing the next two hours of my life. Why? Well, the cast for starters.
A cocky, swaggering, Will Shatner-esque Tim Allen is the biggest star in a washed-up cast of a long-canceled sci-fi TV series. The fading stars are still catnip for the Trekkie-like droolers who line up to get their autographs at conventions.
But then the show's cast wind up being sucked into a real-life space adventure, when Allen's hungover captain is abducted by aliens who think he can save the day like he does on TV.
You see, a race of aliens have been receiving transmissions of the show for years and believe the show and its cast to be real. The abductors have a huge problem with a far nastier alien race, and think Allen and his crew can defeat them, even though the TV stars have no idea how to steer a spaceship. It's a great premise.
Allen's castmates sell it beautifully. Sigourney Weaver is the bosomy blonde, Alan Rickman is the Spock-like scientist and Sam Rockwell as that guy who always tends to die first on a show like "Star Trek" because he's wearing the red uniform.
Trekkies and non-Trekkies alike will find plenty to love and laugh at in "Galaxy Quest," a movie that only gets funnier with time.
Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," Kevin James plays a guy named Paul Blart who's a mall cop; in "Valkyrie," Tom Cruise plots to assassinate Hitler; and in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle," Robert Mitchum returns in a buried treasure from the 1970s.