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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- The fun is in watching hacky Gil Gerard, a.k.a. Lucky Buck, smirk his way from cleavage-baring space pilots to midriff-revealing aliens to distressed damsels in every corner of the galaxy.
- It’s comic-book material, but it has been brought to the screen with imagination and a delightful sense of tongue-in-cheek humor. Daniel Haller’s direction is perfectly in tune with the lighthearted script and he progresses the action with an infectious spirit.
- 50The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbySome intelligent, sophisticated people have knocked themselves out to transform bland into bland, and they have succeeded to the extent that anyone who fondly remembers the comic strip, or the old movie serial with Buster Crabbe, probably will not feel cheated.
- 50Time OutTime OutAt best, the formula works like vintage Bond (explicitly so in the title sequence). But too much time is wasted with stale Star Wars plagiarisms, including the screen's dullest robot.
- 40EmpireIan NathanEmpireIan NathanStar Wars it wasn't and still isn't...camp 70's space stuff but the TV series spin-off is a fond memory for 30-somethings throughout the Western World.
- 40Washington PostGary ArnoldWashington PostGary ArnoldThe character is again a lackluster after-thought, exploited by a new Universal assembly line that specializes in the serials manufactured for weekly television consumption.
- 40The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe kind of schlock that is impervious to criticism. Take it seriously and you look like a fool; evaluate it on its own comic-strip terms and you are reduced to talking about costumes and special effects. [04 Apr 1979]
- This movie has pretensions to mediocrity, a goal far too high for it to reach.