Barbarella

Product Details

Director : Roger Vadim
Actor : Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau
Format : Import, NTSC
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5014437200822
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Video

ASIN : B00004RRWW

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Editorial Reviews

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Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather anachronistic now. Appreciated today mostly as a camp classic, the movie is actually more trying than anything else. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Queen of the Galaxy (2007-01-07)
I first saw this movie in a small theater outside West Point, NY in 1968. I remember the theater as it had moths on top of the popcorn in the dispensing machine. The movie was innovative for the time. And one of the characters is Duran Duran the inspiration for the band by the same name. In the 41st-century astronaut Barbarella (Jane Fonda) receives a message from the President of Earth (Claude Dauphin) and is tasked with a mission to track down a threat to the earth, the scientist Duran Duran (Milo O'Shea,) inventor of the "positronic ray." On her quest she must go through many trials and tribulations. We get to experience them vicariously. Put your tongue back in. Will she find Duran Duran before it is too late? When Jane looks back on her extensive career this will be her crowning performance. She never really re-captured that Barbarella spark. I think that Barbarella inspired the opening scene of "My Stepmother is an Alien."

A trip (2004-06-24)
This movie is a trip. In spite of what agenda-driven, right-wingers have to say about it, based on their personal dislike for Jane Fonda and her oppinions of the Vietnam war, this movie is a true classic. It's campy to a point that it makes you think how serious, pragmatic and booring people have become over the past decades. It's a total groovie trip. It doesn't take itself seriously at any moment. And best of all, it actually has lines to read between.

Hanoi Jane in her best role (2004-06-19)
The only movie she ever made that I can sit through.

Ban Jane Fonda (2004-04-21)
Read up about her role in the Vietnam War before giving her your patronage.

An All Time Favorite For Camp Lovers- And Hanoi Jane Haters (2004-02-11)
Do you hate Jan Fonda for what she did in vietnam? Then this is her ONE film you'd actually love to watch. Her character is consistently forced to submit to kiny tortures; flesh eating robot dolls rip her skimpy outfit to pieces while she is tied up; she is locked in a bird cage while a horde of angry birds deprives he of her next slinky oufit. Then there is the grandaddy of them all; the excessive machine.

Thiking ahead a little, Barbarella takes off her clothes before this torture commences. The machine whips he up into a sexual frenzy that is supposed to kill her, but her stamina proves a bit too much. Wow. All of this, combined with the famous space-suit stripper scene, makes for a delightful guy movie that's hard to beat.

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