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Written by: Jean-Claude Forest (comic "Barbarella"), Claude Brulé (collaborating writer), Terry Southern and Roger Vadim (screenplay), Vittorio Bonicelli and Clement Biddle Wood and Brian Degas and Tudor Gates (writer)
Directed by: Roger Vadim
Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg
Rated: PG
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Plot
In the distant future, Barbarella must stop the evil Durand-Durand.
Verdict
There is so little story to this you can't call it a movie. Jane Fonda
prances around, changing costumes every few minutes and then the 'movie'
ends. It's incredibly bad, but not in a so bad it's good sense. It's a
marvel it was made. It's ridiculous on so many levels in a bad way. It's
so far down the alphabet that calling it a B movie is generous.
Skip it.
Review
Based on the comic of the same name, Jane Fonda was directed by her
husband, Roger Vadim. I can only assume he created this as an excuse to
dress her up in skimpy costumes.
From the first scene, in which Jane Fonda undresses from a space suit in
zero gravity, I'm wondering what is this thing? This is a B movie of
epic proportions. I would not be surprised if some of these scenes were
filmed in a basement. While Barbarella is tasked with tracking Durand
Durand, her main role is to change costumes at every opportunity.
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| Barbarella - Less a movie, more a Jane Fonda bizarro fashion demo tape. |
The plot is sparse, much like the clothing. The setting is either very
warm or these characters hate clothes. This is a collection of scenes,
that seems too earnest to be a joke but that's what this movie is. It
has the worst production values I've seen, though it may not be the
worst movie.
There is a scene were Barbarella receives an invisible key. The scene
might as well have been filmed with random people off the street.
Barbarella gets attacked by dolls, children, and parakeets. At some point this movie ends, but did it ever really begin?
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