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'''''Space Mutiny''''' (also known as ''Mutiny in Space'') is a 1988 legendarily bad science-fiction action film starring [[Reb Brown]] about, [[Sarcasm Mode|surprisingly enough]], a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the ''Southern Sun''.
The ''Southern Sun'' is a seedship, a spacefaring vessel full of colonists out to settle a new world. [[Generation Ships|Its voyage has lasted generations, so many of its inhabitants have been born and will die without ever setting foot on solid ground.]] This does not please the antagonist, [[Big Bad|Elijah Kalgan]] (not be confused with [
Kalgan sabotages the vessel's guidance system just as an important professor's shuttle is on a landing trajectory, causing it to crash [[Offscreen Crash|(offscreen)]]. The ship's pilot, [[The Hero|Dave Ryder]], is able to escape, but the professor dies in the explosion. This sabotage seals off the flight deck for a number of weeks, allowing Kalgan and the Enforcers to hold the entire population of the Southern Sun hostage. Commander Jansen and Captain Devers enlist Ryder's assistance, aided begrudgingly by Jansen's daughter [[Love Interests|Dr. Lea Jansen]], to regain control of the ship.
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* [[Artistic License Astronomy]]: "Constellation" is used as a meaningful locational term.
* [[A-Team Firing]]: Lea among others had poor aim. With both Kalgan and Ryder's "speeders" bearing down on her, she fires at Kalgan... and [[Stop Helping Me!|manages to hit Ryder's speeder]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|temporarily disabling it]].
* [[Back From the Dead]]: Due to poor editing, a woman who was murdered reappears (as an extra) in the very next scene.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Steve Codell says he'd rather jump to his doom than join Kalgan (or be put on ice). He's just climbing over the railing when Kalgan gives him a push.
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* [[The Chosen One]]: Ryder.
* [[Cool Starship]]: <s> The Galactica</s> The Southern Sun.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Sort of. ''[http://agonybooth.com/recaps/Space_Mutiny_1988.aspx The Agony Booth]'' tells us that the VHS packaging claims the film features "''breathtaking special effects from the team that brought you [[Star Wars]]''." This is ''technically'' true, in the sense that the team that worked on ''[[Star Wars]]'' went on to do SFX for the original ''[[
* [[Creator Backlash]]: The credited director, David Winters (whose other major contribution to the world of cinema was choreographing the dance routines in ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'') actually only directed a small portion of it, after which he quit due to family troubles. He wanted his credit changed to [[Alan Smithee]], but found out the hard way that the Director's Guild doesn't really care about the credits on low-budget exploitation films.
** For an encore, Neal Sundstrom, the director who was ''actually'' responsible for the bulk of the film, wasn't very happy with the finished product either, and elected to have a "co-director" title which was buried in the end credits.
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* [[Greek Chorus]]: The Bellerians
* [[Groin Attack]]: Repeatedly. On the same guard.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Kalgan is played by John Phillip Law, who starred in ''[[Danger Diabolik (Film)|Danger Diabolik]]'' and as the blind angel Pygar in ''[[Barbarella]]''. Reb Brown, AKA "He who has many names", also starred in ''[[Yor the Hunter From The Future]]'' as the title character, and played [[Captain America]] in a (mercifully) busted pilot movie. Let's not forget that the actor playing the Santa is Cameron Mitchell.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Verbatim from Ryder as he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|called out for letting Professor Spooner burn to death]].
** It doesn't even make sense, since he was teleported out of the fire by an automatic ejection system.
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** More of a parody of movie making itself than the sci-fi genre, though.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Female crewmembers besides Lt. Lamont all dress like [[American Gladiators]].
* [[Stock Footage]]: All the space footage was taken from ''[[
** The Ship in this movie flies in the opposite direction from the original.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: The movie used the same "red alert," sound effect used in [[Star Trek]].
* [[Strapped to An Operating Table]]: Kalgan's interrogation of Lea, which involves a whirring laser used to burn out her teeth. Lamest. Torture. Ever.
** And the laser sounds exactly like a dentist's drill. And it works "not unlike ancient dental equipment. Not that you'd know anything about that."
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]: This is how Ryder "ejects" from his crashing ship. It's also how they enable Reb Brown to leave a "ship" that's stock footage from ''[[
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Yet it's supposed to be a laser, despite the loud drill sounds.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]] - Engineer Parsons. At first the faction of mutinous engineers led by MacPhearson aren't actually that bothered by Parsons' refusal to join in the mutiny... until he says these words which, unsurprisingly, proved to be his last:
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