It's one of the most ridiculous films ever made. And also one of the cheapest. Garrin Vincent's Starslyderz is an intentionally camp ode to b-grade science fiction that played to a greatly amused house at the 2007 Fantasia Festival, it's now on DVD and we've got a copy to give away. Here's what my Fantasia compatriot Rupert Bottenberg said about the film in the program guide there:
In the wild, weird, wide-open universe of the year 2420, someone’s gotta uphold the law, and under the auspices of the United Planets of America, that task falls to an elite team of galaxy-hopping go-getters, the Starslyderz! Brash, confident Captain Johnny Taylor and his unit –- the ever-tactless King Edd, Chip the newly-emotional android, the enthusiastic alien Sergei, the dedicated Lt. Lawson, pretty Dr. Vicki and resentful draftee Jackson –- are the ones to call when something really awful happens. Something like, for instance, the President’s daughter, Princess Genevieve, getting kidnapped by the nefarious Gorgon, a faceless megalomaniac of dire intergalactic ambitions!But something troubles Captain Taylor’s dreams –- he’s haunted by the death of his father, the original Starslyderz alpha male, betrayed to his doom by the treacherous Mortikai. And it is Mortikai and his evil ally Gorgon who now hold the Princess. But strange twists of fate will see the forces of good and evil alike -- including the diabolical, psychically-link hair-metal twins Zandor and Shandar –- imprisoned and thrown into the ring of gladiatorial combat… to the death!
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