Starcrash/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Accidental Innuendo: "It feels so good to be turned on again."
  • Ass Pull: "Imperial battleship! Halt... the flow of time!"
  • Critical Research Failure: Thor and L follow Stella and Akton's "friction trail" through space.
  • Ham and Cheese: Christopher Plummer is deliciously hammy.
  • Narm: Thor's death: "These deadly rays will be your death!" Also, pretty much anything the Emperor of the Galaxy says.
  • Special Effect Failure: Like Star Wars, the first minute or so of the film consists of shots of a giant spaceship. Unlike Star Wars, the spaceship looks like it's made of Lego (you can actually see they used model-car runners pasted *intact* on the ship sides) and space looks like it's full of Christmas lights. Later, during the space battles, you can see the strings the ships are moving on (and don't worry if you miss them the first time: the scenes are reused). Also, halting the flow of time (for three minutes) is accomplished by bathing things in green jello.
  • What an Idiot!: Zarth Arn's masterful plan to stop the heroes from destroying his ultimate weapon is to lure them onto said weapon and then blow it up.