Review of Barbarella (1968) by Michael C — 19 Dec 2009
This is a ridiculous film. It's campy to the furthest degree, and some of the scenes makes you feel that the possibility that narcotics were heavily digested during the making of the film is likely very high.
Within the immense silliness of this film though is a somewhat amusing movie. Jane Fonda is drop-dead gorgeous in the title role, and appears to get how absurd this film is, despite playing the role pretty straight (I heard she turned down Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby to do this film, which is laughably poor judgment).
It is pure 60's shlock and awful effects, but much of the films charm is how dated it is and how humorous this makes the film overall, and it has its own charm as an exploitation relic from its time.
This review of Barbarella (1968) was written by Michael C on 19 Dec 2009.
Barbarella has generally received mixed reviews.
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