Stars: Jane Fonda, John Philip Law, David Hemmings, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Giancarlo Cobelli, Serge Marquand, Veronique Vendell

Director: Roger Vadim

Summary: Based on a comic strip character, the story involves a beautiful space age heroine who vanquishes robots and monsters on the planet Lythion.

In this infamous film version of the popular French comic strip by Jean-Claude Forest, Jane Fonda plays the sexy yet innocent space-age heroine of the year 40,000 A.D. who never gets herself into a situation that requires too much clothing. BARBARELLA opens with the titular heroine stripping down to nothing in zero gravity among strategically placed credits. From there Barbarella embarks on a mission to find a peace-threatening young scientist named Duran Duran (Milo O'Shea) by order of the president of Earth. En route, she's attacked by killer dolls, is strapped into a contraption known as the Excessive Machine, and falls in love with a blind angel. Remaining true to its comic book origins, Barbarella's adventure unfolds in a series of dramatic difficulties and unlikely solutions, making for a galloping pace and never-ending opportunities for Mario Garbuglia's hallucinatory set design to dazzle. With guest appearances by 1960s icons Anita Pallenberg, Marcel Marceau, and David Hemmings and featuring dialogue by novelist Terry Southern, among others, BARBARELLA is not only a comic sci-fi sex romp but also a sly tongue-in-cheek portrait of the morality and debauchery of that era. And interestingly enough, Fonda was married to director Roger Vadim at the time of production.

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Reviewed by: mcdermot7@aol.com
Posted on November 28, 2005 5:17 PM

Jane Fonda gives Brigitte Bardot a previous spouse of Roger Vadim a run for her money in the sex stakes. Men who drooled over Brigitte Bardot, will find Jane Fonda more than fills that role in Both Roger Vadim's life & on the big screen. This scientific plot has plenty of holes in it but I am sure that can be forgotten every time Jane Fonda makes a spacetacular appearance. If you like your sci-fi with humour this will tick all the right boxes.

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Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1968
Release Date:	October 2, 2000
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8041
Keywords:	Galaxy, Queen, Barbarella, General, Wide, Screen, Fiction, Science, Horror, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Science Fiction