Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a football player who has taken by Dr. Hans Zarkov with travel agent Dale Arden to the planet of Mongo in which the emperor Mingo the Merciless tries to destroy the earth from far away causing natural disasters. Flash is getting the help of Hawkmen to fight Mingo and his forces to save the world.
28 October 1941, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK
30 March 1950, Rutherglen, Scotland, UK
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
3 May 1954, London, England, UK
23 August 1938, Syracuse, New York, USA
May 02, 2008
a great camp classic
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 07, 2010
Sci-fi comic-strip movie is too violent for younger kids.
October 23, 2004
Is it fun? Yeah, sort of, it is.
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]
August 22, 2012
...a terminally underwhelming sci-fi epic that may keep small children amused, admittedly, but will leave adults bored to tears.
April 16, 2007
A respectable time-waster.
