Flash Gordon
Although NASA scientists are claiming the unexpected eclipse and strange 'hot hail' are nothing to worry about, a football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
9 October 1936, Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
September, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK
9 March 1927, London, England, UK
19 September 1941, Milan, Lombardy, Italy
August 22, 2012
...a terminally underwhelming sci-fi epic that may keep small children amused, admittedly, but will leave adults bored to tears.
March 10, 2011
With gaudy sets and costumes by Fellini's favourite designer, Danilo Donati, and ultra-camp performances throughout, this is a film that positively revels in its cheesiness.
January 26, 2006
The narrative is a little plodding, but adult punters will soon slip back into areverie for the lost visions of Saturday morning cinema.
July 08, 2010
I'm guessing nine out of ten people would rather watch the bearded, barrel-shaped Blessed--strapped to giant wings--bellow, 'Impetuous boy! Oh well, who wants to live forever? Diiiive!' than watch Olivier deliver 'To be or not to be...' [Blu-ray]
June 29, 2015
While it's not the best of the sci-fi genre, you don't have to go to a galaxy far, far away to enjoy every minute of it.
April 16, 2007
A respectable time-waster.
April 12, 2013
There's plenty of colourful fun and an awful lot of men in tights. Don't listen to its pofaced detractors -- for sheer cinema fun, Flash Gordon can't be beaten.
October 23, 2004
Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.
August 01, 2012
This is like a drug-induced sexy fever dream of what the 80s had turned into for much of science fiction cinema.
May 02, 2008
a great camp classic
March 26, 2009
The expensive new version of Flash Gordon is a lot more gaudy, and just as dumb, as the original series starring Buster Crabbe.
September 07, 2010
Sci-fi comic-strip movie is too violent for younger kids.
