Rating: PG
Length: 111 minutes

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1

English, French, Spanish

Flash Gordon, a New York Jets Quarterback, and a young travel agent are thrust into the near impossible situation of having to fight the evil megalomaniac Ming to save the planet Earth from destruction.

Bright colors galore, a very good soundtrack from Queen and some eye candy for everyone; Flash for the ladies and plenty of lovely ladies for the guys (1980, when women that didn't have breasts the size of basketballs were still correctly considered beautiful enough for lead roles).

Lot's of cheese, campy one-liners and some "not-so-good" acting (who would have guessed that a future James Bond would star in this movie). And for a special edition package, where are the extras? According to IMDb, all the main actors are still alive and well so why aren't there some interviews with them? Fly a camera crew to them for an afternoon and interview them if it's too expensive to fly them to you. Let me guess, that's for the next DVD release.

• Interview with Artist Alex Ross
• Interview with Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr.
• Flash Gordon Serial Episode from 1936 (One Episode Only, Ends in a Cliff Hanger)
• Trailer

The creators of this film made it to be a fun and carefree so it should be viewed that way. If they weren't making a serious Sci-Fi movie then it shouldn't be compared to one ("Star Wars" came out three years earlier so this was inevitable). This is nothing more than a feel-good movie where the good guys have to defeat the evil empire while not straying away from it's comic book roots. Invite some friends over, pop some popcorn, pass around everyone's favorite beverage then kick back and enjoy.

Melody Anderson - Dale Arden

Brian Blessed - Prince Vultan

[Alexander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]

Suzanne Danielle - Serving Girl

Timothy Dalton - Prince Barin

[Cleopatra (1999), The Lion in Winter, Licence to Kill, The Living Daylights, Mary Queen of Scots]

John Hallam - Luro

[Dragonslayer]

William Hootkins - Munson

[Batman, Indiana Jones 1, The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Superman IV]

Sam J. Jones - Flash Gordon

Mariangela Melato - Kala

Ornella Muti - Princess Aura

Richard O'Brien - Fico

[Dungeons & Dragons]

John Osborne - Arborian Priest

Philip Stone - Zogi, the High Priest

[Indiana Jones II, The Shining (1980)]

Topol - Dr. Hans Zarkov

[For Your Eyes Only]

Max von Sydow - The Emperor Ming/Ming's floating servant

[3 Days of the Condor, Conan the Barbarian, The Druids, Minority Report, Needful Things, The Seventh Seal]

Peter Wyngarde - Klytus

[Alexander the Great]