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Barbarella
starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau
directed by: Roger Vadim

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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Binding: Video On Demand
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1968
Sales Rank: 2794

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Barbarella DVD
An Early Jane Fonda movie - surprisingly well done. I love seeing her spinning around naked.

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- barbarella
a wonderful story with a hint of adultism not bad for the time it was made

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- "What kind of girl are you? Have you no shame?!"
The Good Things
*The film has good video quality. A few color shifts and particles on the print perhaps, but is mostly clear, sharp, and colorful.
*Some parts are actually pretty cool. The angelic alien and the Black Queen are great, and there are one or two neat fight scenes.
*Some symbolism (particuarly some phalyc symbols).
*Acting is not bad. A few good lines.
*The costumes are excellent (although some people may find them too outlandish).
*Some sets are great, with imaginative designs and props. As noted below, however, other sets are awful.
*It is presented in Widescreen. Includes English and French audio.

The Bad Things
*Some sets are great. Other sets are just plain terrible. Barbarella's ship is made of ugly brown ... Read More

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- Giggle and bounce
"Barbarella" turns forty years old, the year this is written. If anything, its silliness has just gotten sillier over time.

Fonda herself embodies the biggest of the changes since this movie was made. This stars the old, giggly, pre-feminist, pre-political Fonda, the one willing to strip-tease all the way down to her sweet self during the opening credits. Another set of social changes happened when the Sexual Revolution turned into the AIDS Era. Back then, sex was good fun between grownups. So, in keeping with the times, casual (but not challenging) kinds of nudity appear throughout. This flick stands as close to Buck Rogers as to the current day, so borrows from Buck in the subtlety of acting, complexity of plot, and depth of characters - i.e., not a lot of any of them. The effects ... Read More

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- Barbarella
Totally awful movie. I can understand why Jane Fonda was so embarassed for years.

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