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starstarstarstar Bob Stephens - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
starstarstar Tom Long - Detroit News
starstarstar Sean Means - Film.com
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstar Kevin Thomas - LA Times
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstar Lawrence Van Gelder - NY Times
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online

One of the best science-fiction satires ever made

- Bob Stephens

Somewhere along the way Galaxy Quest  forgets that it’s meant to be goofing on the serio-comic sincerity of  Star Trek  and its ilk, and lets the comedy stall out in favor of its own superficial earnestness

- Rob Blackwelder

Galaxy Quest

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Has-been actors from a "Star Trek"-like cancelled show are abducted by aliens who think they are real space adventurers. The aliens need the actors to save them from an alien threat. Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Daryl Mitchell, Enrico Colantoni, Sam Rockwell, Missi Pyle. Director: Dean Parisot (1999, PG)

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