Barbarella

Rating: ***/*****, or 7/10

Extremely campy sixties' Sci-Fi film, almost unique in its own right as a countercultural hippie science fiction flick. In the distant future, astro-navigatrice Barbarella (Jane Fonda in her younger days, when she obviously wasn't very experienced in the art of acting) is ordered by the President of Earth to track down missing scientist Durand Durand, who is rumoured to have invented a terrible weapon, on the uncharted planet of Tau Ceti. Upon arrival, Barbarella falls from one crazy, saucy situation into another, as she is confronted by psychopath kids with murderous biting dolls, a blind angel who lost the will to fly and a city of evil ruled by a wicked bisexual dominatrix. To get out of such pickles she constantly loses her outfit, only to be dressed in an even skimpier one than before, plus she makes love to anyone she comes across and frequently runs into various hallucinatory substances. They sure don't make them like this anymore (though a remake has been planned for years) and it's no secret why. Still, if you know what you're in for, this can be a very fun movie.

Starring: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

Directed by Roger Vadim

France/Italy: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematographica, 1968