Review of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985) by Benjamin W — 26 Dec 2009

Classic 80's animated movie. While I can see the parallels to Star Wars, it felt more like something out of Heavy Metal to me.

This review of Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985) was written by Benjamin W on 26 Dec 2009.

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin has generally received positive reviews.

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By Duncan W (53) on 17 Sep 2007

Remember seeing it in the cinema and wish I had left it at that. Got hold of it on Divx, ahhh the days before political correctness…

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Starchaser: Legend of Orin takes all of the sci-fi cliches the Star Wars helped to make popular, rolls them all together, and comes out with…

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By Steve R (825) on 15 Sep 2008

Great for a bit of 80's nostalgia, superb cheesy space opera theme tune, BUT this really shows how crap some 80's animation was...even though…

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By Huntr R (2) on 13 Nov 2007

A great movie, but it starts to tail off at the end. A Star Wars knock off, but the movie is still great…

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By Alex K (2,253) on 01 Apr 2008

It's totally not Star Wars! :rollseyes: This film is awesome! Even if it rips off of Star Wars and Temple of Doom…

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Cartoon that is, um, inspired by Star Wars, it's still a great film, and one I treasured as boy, if not for just the odd swear word in it…

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By Dave M (1,479) on 24 Aug 2007

I LOVED this as a kid - total star wars rip but so brill none the less... I NEED to find it on DVD as havent seen it in about 20 years…

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