Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Patience Watson One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Matt Kracht The plot: Space truckers run into problems with space pirates, space politicians, and killer robots (who, technically, are not space robots).Space Truckers is essentially a low budget, B movie space opera that's a parody of low budget, B movie space operas. It's full of cheesy lines, cheesy set design, and cheesy special effects. In fact, it's such a cheesy movie that it sometimes makes The Rocky Horror Picture Show look like The Godfather. At its heart, this movie is stupid, pointless, mindless, and has nothing to say about the human condition, except that it's funny to laugh at bad movies. If you're a Stuart Gordon fan, that's probably enough for you to enjoy this. As an added bonus, it's got a great cast, including many B movie veterans.It can be enjoyed as either a so-bad-it's-good B movie or a clever parody. Like most Stuart Gordon films, it has rather narrow demographic appeal, and people who are not genre fans (or Stuart Gordon fans) are likely to hate it. I love Stanley Kubrick as much as the next film snob, but the world also needs ridiculous movies like Space Truckers and The Toxic Avenger. In fact, this movie is something of a marriage between Troma and New World Pictures. If you're unfamiliar with those studios -- or you dislike their copious output -- I'd strongly warn you away from this film. Space Truckers was reviled by the critics, rejected by audiences, and thought to be unintentionally funny by B movie fans. Well, for the true believers, this is an awesome movie, and nothing will ever convince us otherwise. Such is the cult of Stuart Gordon!

bob the moo When he is late in delivering a consignment of square pigs to boss Keller, space trucker John Canyon gets into a fight and is forced to take the first available load and flee the space station with young trucker Mike and fiancé Cindy in tow. When they sustain damage from an asteroid, they are stranded and prepare to die slowly – only to be raided (and rescued) by pirates. However when the pirates try to unload the cargo they are met by resistance – resistance meant to defend the load of lethal bio-mechanical soldiers on their way to attack earth. The captain of the pirates (who also created the soldiers) plans to try and use them for his own ends.As many, many other people will tell you, this film isn't very good at all. In fact it quite rubbish at points but at other times you can see what it was trying to do and it is not so rubbish that you can't sit and enjoy it in some ways. The plot is utter nonsense and relies on coincidences and other poor plot devices to keep things moving – however it does provide big dumb explosions if that is all you were after. Also it tries to be a sort of sci-fi spoof while also being a sci-fi at the same time. This is not totally successful as it is like having its cake and eating it, but it would have taken a better film to pull that off. Here it fails to do it and, although some of it is funny (the captain having mechanical trouble 'down there' is one) it generally misses the mark and its two aims cancel one another out. I think a big problem is that it all feels so very silly and trashy; and a lot of it is down to the costume and set design. Now, when the Oscars are given out for these disciplines I must admit I rarely pay attention, but this is a film that badly needed a better design team. The look of the ships is meant to be similar to trucks, OK, but the sets all look plastic and cheap – like a slight touch would have them falling too bits. Likewise the costumes etc all look like they have been knocked up by someone's mother the night before they were due to hand in a school project.The big robots look impressive even on a budget and I just wondered why the rest of the film just looked like cr*p.Of course, blaming the sets for this film is unfair and most of the blame must go on the writers who totally failed to deliver a spoof sci-fi; instead their film has way too few laughs and is far too silly to be an effective sci-fi – they had two aims and missed them both. God only knows how it got the couple of stars it got – maybe they saw potential that is lost on me now but with little material to work with they really are stranded in a film that they must have known was going to stink the place out. Hopper and Dorff are a charismatic pair and they are fun to watch, but neither looks totally happy – in fact, if anything, they look resigned, not a mindset you really want in your cast! Mazar does her usual Noo Yark stuff reasonable well but the support cast swings from the badly miscast (Wendt) to the hammy (Dance) to the average (everyone else). Like I say, I can't understand how it got these guys all involved but it certainly gave them nothing to do.Overall this is a pretty poor film but it is not unrelenting rubbish. It has some moments where it is a little funny and some moments where the sci-fi action becomes passable in a 'Friday night in' sort of way but, outside of these odd moments it mostly misses the two targets it was aiming for – comedy and sci-fi. The cast look like they have given up and accepted the fact that their contracts are binding but they more than anyone must have looked round at their sets and costumes made of cheap plastic and realized that this was going to be a piece of junk that they just need to do and try to forget about. Maybe worth a look if you're in a really undemanding mood but, aside from a few passable bits I doubt anyone will take much from this (other than 'the p*ss'!).

Andy Steinberg Dennis Hopper must've been really hungry to do this movie. Atrocious special effects, very poor writing, cheesy dialogue, stupid-looking killer bio-robots. Never mind the blatent disregard for science. The awkward scene with the 2 young leads taking their clothes off. The best part of this movie was the pull-start cyber-penis on the wacked-out cyborg pirate captain. 2 out of 10 stars because I'm in a generous mood.

coho22 What do you get when you throw Convoy, Heavy Metal, Three Stooges in Outer Space with a dash of Anime sensability into a cosmic blender, hit puret, then pour into a warm cup of Dennis Hopper? Space Truckers! A wacky sci-fi adventure that dials the cheese meter to just the right frequency to keep us laughing while we ogle at the impressive hand crafted quality of the special effects. The script is outrageous as it equally pokes fun at, while embracing, such sci fi conventions as the crusty space hauler with a heart of gold, the plucky space waitress with a heart of gold, the rookie space jockey with a heart of gold and the dread space pirate with the cybernetic genitalia. The cyber-what? The special effects are great and the designs are all over the map. The Killer Androids look like they were stolen from some other, better movie. Watching this will remind you of so many sci-fi classics and some not so classic flicks. along with the films mentioned above I saw echoes of Time Bandits, Aliens, Barbarella, Predator, Battle Beyond the Stars, and Citizen Kane(just kidding)