I think I saw this one back when I was a kid, but I can't remember much about it. Basically Star Trek actors get abducted by a real galaxy that needs their help because they saw the TV signal from Earth, right? I like that concept and Rickman's apathy towards his fans. But as a fan of Rickman, My the force be with you.. I mean live long and prosper.. I mean.. whatever I hate this week. Godspeed Mr. Rickman. :(

"Three Amigos!" did something similar but with silent movie westerns. "Hero at Large" did that with superheroes, sort of. Trying to think of other films where actors get mistaken for the roles they play and have to step up.

... you probably never heard of "Hero at Large":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75EXgcE3EMs

Starring John Ritter as an actor who just happened to stop a robbery while dressed as a superhero, and discovered that helping people was a fulfilling pursuit. So it's not a big mix-up forced him into heroing. Also his striped underpants are incredible.

I was just about to submit that when i found this in the hopper, and I decded it would be redundant

https://youtu.be/uDJsCE01LYI

No thanks. Deranged lunatics are supposed to be incredibly strong

I'll accept this as the best Star Trek movie if you'll agree
that Guardians of the Galaxy is the best Star Wars movie.

I loved GotG but the allegory was kinda weighing down the movie: Kid Needs To Escape From Dealing With Mother's Death was sad, no doubt, but here they literally got sent to another galaxy, and it wasn't some non-canonical nostalgia fest.

It's not much of a vote of confidence, but this is easily the best Tim Allen movie I've ever seen.

Not unlike Bruce Willis, Tim Allen may be a pretty good actor who tends to star in terrible movies... or at any rate, movies that people with taste (and without kids) would tend to avoid. It seems to me he was okay in "Wild Hogs", a movie from 2007 that is only memorable for having John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox from Scrubs) in a small role as a gay state trooper, and Marissa Tomei in the full flower of milfhood. He was great as the voice of Buzz Lightyear in "Toy Story", and he was perfectly fine here. And that's all I've ever seen him in, except for an occasional snippet of HOME IMPROVEMENT. I hated that show, but he himself wasn't really bad in THAT, either.

Incidentally, what ever happened to the Dr. Cox Guy? He really ought to be famous by now.

Anyway, Tim Allen should not scare you away from Galaxy Quest, and, once again, it's on Netflix. I watched it last night.

Home Improvement was pretty much Allen's raunchy stand up routine toned down for a G-rated audience. This was the same network that thought Bob Saget would work on a family sitcom too. That's the 90s for you. But despite the coke and boozin Allen made a pretty convincing TV father figure to me growing up. Now excuse me while I get back to coke and boozin.

Good movie, great casting. Tim Allen was a fine choice to spoof Shatner because they're both one-note hams you love to hate. This and the documentary Trekkies splash into the "surprisingly legit" pool of Star Trek run-off.

Jesus christ, John. How does someone 79 years old know John McGinely as "the Dr. Cox guy"?

He'll always be Major Griffin to me.

Rickman was great, but Tony Shaloub may be my favorite part of Galaxy Quest, as the one guy who seemed to take being shot into space completely in stride, and who discovered that he was into alien tentacle sex. I had just seen the finale of "Nurse Jackie" the day before, and he was great as a big-hearted doctor dying from some kind of brain tumor. He's a really special character actor, and I'm going to start seeking him out. Wonder if Netflix has "Monk".

Off topic but glad you're enjoying Netflix Motherfucker! There's some quality stuff on there; not sure if I mentioned it in my last post about Netflix but Making A Murderer is required poeTV viewing if you have Netflix. I won't give anything away but the story hits very close to home for me, and that's not because I happened to live there during that time.

It's how I always picture Alec Guinness.