FLASH! AhhhAhh. He'samiracle!
Synoahpsis:
The world is under attack! Crazy stuff is happening, and only ex-Nasa researcher Dr. Hans Zarkov has offered any explanation- an attack on the earth by unknown but vastly powerful extra-terrestrial alien aggressors! Luckily, Dr. Hans has built himself a rocket ship to go up into space to take a look. Only no one will co-pilot his crazy contraption? I know who will...
FLASH! AaaaAhhh. Savior oftheuniverse!
So flash, quarterback for the New York Jets crash lands a private aircraft into Dr. Hans' lab alongside the movie cutie, a travel writer called Debbi or Dana or Diane or something. Anyway, they all go up into space, the heroes that they are (though the good doctor is a nutcase holding the other two at gunpoint) and they fly light years (somehow within 45 seconds) and are tractor beamed into the planet Mongo, a crazy police stated ruled by the cruel emperor Ming.
Flash and his friends are taken captive and split up! Oh no! Will they get out of it? Yes, yes they will. But can they stop the Ming's evil plan of causing the Earth's moon to crash into our beloved planet seconds before impact?? Yeah, they can do that too. But can they encounter beloved Shakespearean actor Brian Blessed wearing a costume making him look like a hawkish super hero??
You'll have to watch it to find out!
The best bit:
The hawk-guy army's (or is it an airforce?) raid on some big space cruiser was simply magawesomeific. Imagine a giant airship held up by strings firing phaser cannons at a hoard of crudely animated bird-men who, in some frames, can also be seen hanging from strings. Now imagine the hawk guys are actually terrible, fly very slowly, refuse to fire their phaser guns until they safely land on the wings of said airship, despite the hail of gunfire and sustaining massive hawkine casualties. Imagined that? Good... You've got yourself a film.
Marks out of 10:
I hated Flash. A lot. Good thing he saved the world, because he was really annoying and had almost no other redeeming qualities. Maybe in comic books he did a load of supposedly bold and daring clever things to save the world, but the film, he just made a series of blatantly bad, headstrong decisions that just happened to pan out beautifully. The lines were goofy, the acting (apart from Brian's performance, obviously) was dire, and the whole experience was honestly really boring. There were a few laughs in there and a few clever set designs and special effects though, so not all is lost. But most is. 2.5
FLASH! AhhhAhhhh... Kingoftheimpossible!
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