Queen of Outer Space

Most helpful review Queen of Outer Space

• Good bad or just bad?

   

  By Magnulus (6 reviews) from Edinburgh , 12 Sep 2010

  [Highly rated reviewer]

  So, three strapping young men and a professor (Good news, everyone!) shoot off into space in reclining chairs to check out some trouble at their cosmic way station, leaving The Navigator's hapless dame behind.
  
  The waystation gets all blown and stuff, so they shoot off to Venus while under fire from mysterious explod-a-beams. Turns out Venus isn't a red-hot ball of gases and volcanoes, it's a lush forest planet populated entirely by hot, young women in short skirts. And Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  
  I suspect there's an attempted message of female empowerment in here, but it's negated by several factors, like these fiercely independent women needing male scientists and mathematicians (They can't be expected to do all that THINKING themselves, can they?!), and once push comes to shove, the 'good' women know to rely on our heroes for comfort and protection. It's not so much about empowering women as it is a film about how men should treat their little darlings better, and how women should be more like men.
  
  There are many films from this period that are 'good bad', and I suppose if you're a connoisseur of crap film, you'd enjoy the terrible effects, the hammy acting and scientific atrocities. But to my mind, this isn't good bad, just bad.

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