Dark Star
Dark Star

Dark Star (1974)

6.0 ? Mar 30, 1974 1h 23m

Overview

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

Genres

Comedy Science Fiction

Release Date

March 30, 1974

Rating

6.0 /10

Runtime

1h 23m

Official Trailer from YouTube

Brian Narelle

Brian Narelle

Lt. Doolittle

Cal Kuniholm

Cal Kuniholm

Boiler

Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon

Sgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge

Dre Pahich

Dre Pahich

Talby

Adam Beckenbaugh

Bomb #20 (voice)

Nick Castle

Nick Castle

Alien

Joe Saunders

Commander Powell (voice)

Cookie Knapp

Muttercomputer (voice)

Alan Sheretz

Bomb #19 (voice)

John Carpenter

John Carpenter

Talby Voice

Miles Watkins

Miles Watkins

Watkins - Mission Control

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JJJ222cool

10.0/10

Jun 21, 2023

Hilarious, taking the mickey out of science fiction films but still honoring the genre. I love it

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CinemaSerf

6.0/10

Nov 10, 2024

There was always a dearth of sci-fi movies on the television as I was growing up, and this one used to appear rather regularly - and rather disappointingly too. It's supposed to be funny, but somehow the humour is just too contrived to make for much to remember as a group of astronauts start their twenty-year mission into outer space tasked with destroying unstable planets. Over time, though, the crew start to question the morality of their quest and coupled with the antics of their pet (looks like a rubber space-hopper) they find themselves facing the ultimate, explosive, dilemma. In it's favour, it is quite short and it doesn't hang around, but the acting is all just bit bland and there's way, way, too much script with little else by way of action to pad out the thin story that aims for parody but falls well short. Maybe we'd all be this way after a couple of decades in deep space, but somehow I think I'd have reached for the airlock about ten years earlier. In many ways it reminded me of a sort of "Monty Python" does life amongst the stars only with some ropey, low-budget, visual effects and annoying characters about whom I really didn't care. It'd been a while since I'd seen it, and will probably be the same before I watch it again.

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