Space Mutiny/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Non Sequitur Scene: Any scene featuring the Bellerians.
  • Cliché Storm: You think?
  • Cult Classic: Hell, yes.
  • Fan Nickname: "Lobster Guy" for Kalgan's bodyguard, who wears crinkly red armor plates that make him look like a lobster. And is played by a guy named Guy.
  • Fetish Retardant: Lea's dance scene.
  • Fridge Brilliance: If Cisse Cameron is to be believed, then it makes sense that this movie has every bad sci-fi cliche in the book. That was the point. Or so she claims.
  • Fridge Horror: At the end of the film, Kalgan, thought to be dead, suddenly opens his eyes, leaving the viewer with the horrifying implication that the filmmakers were actually planning a sequel to this piece of crap.
  • Fridge Logic: ...wait, if their ship has a shuttle bay, why don't the disaffected crew members just leave?
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that all of the space shots are recycled from the old Battlestar Galactica is pretty funny to begin with, but it all got even funnier-or at least, that bit more ironic-when the final season of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica had a major arc involving, yes, a mutiny in space aboard Galactica, which was also spearheaded by a power-hungry Machiavellian type and a trusted member of the crew who walks with a pronounced limp.
      • Plus, the Captain bears an uncanny resemblance to the Galactica 1980 version of Adama.
    • All the jokes about how the inside of the ship looks like a brewery are even funnier in light of the 2009 Star Trek film, in which in the engineering section of the Enterprise really is a Budweiser brewery.
  • Misblamed: David Winters is credited as the Director despite the fact that Neal Sundstrom really directed most of the film and a third, uncredited director was responsible for the stuff with the Bellerians.
  • Nausea Fuel: Plenty to go around.
  • Special Effect Failure: Much of the action takes place in a treatment plant with visible sunlight. Bricks in the walls are visible in many of the shots.
    • Not to mention the Enforcers' "speeders," which are either golf carts, floor waxers or "Hervé Villechaize's death car[s]" capable of "reaching speeds of 3!"
    • Even the titles aren't immune to this trope, looking as if they were produced on a Commodore Amiga Video Toaster by someone using it for the very first time.
  • Squick. Lea's totally-not-obvious seduction of a pudgy henchmen.
  • They Just Didn't Care: Continuity errors all over the place, most glaring in one instance where a supporting character who was just murdered appears as an extra in the very next scene.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:

Devers: Sir, we both know there's only one man here who's capable of combat. A man who's had the training, physically and mentally.
Commander Jansen: [reluctantly agreeing] All right...

  • Unfortunate Implications: The crew has the initials of the "Southern Sun" as in insignia on their uniforms, which happen to be SS. Not only that, they're also written in the typical lightning-rune way,and there aren't any crewmembers who aren't caucasian.
    • Also the moral of the entire movie seems to be that, if you're opposing the law (no matter how oppressive, illogical or poorly written it is), then you're definitely in the wrong and deserve to be burnt to death horrifically by some Aryan dude.
    • And it was filmed in South Africa...
  • Viewer Gender Confusion (Lt. Lemont)
    • Doesn't help that the actor/actress is named Billy Second.
  • What the Hell, Casting Agency?: James Ryan, an accomplished martial artist, is cast in the role of a crippled man who is barely able to walk.
  • The Woobie: Poor Steve.