I was disappointed in 'Galaxy Quest.' While I suppose the
climax was better than we see in most spoofs, the movie just
didn't have enough laughs to be a good comedy.
The best scenes were when Tim Allen was spoofing William
Shatner. So what if Shatner is the easiest-to-spoof man in
Hollywood?
Oddly enough, I have been a sci-fi fan since grade school. I
even went to those conventions, which were portrayed with too
much realism for a comedy. My wife hates sci-fi. Yet somehow she
got more laughs than I did and recommends the movie to her
friends.
If I had written 'Galaxy Quest' the alien technology would
have been more realistic, aspiring to but not matching the TV
show. The good aliens would have gotten lots of laughs begging
the TV stars to explain their secrets. ("How do you make a
gun that always stuns creatures you've never seen before, but
never hurts them? How do you hear explosions in space? How do you
seduce aliens with whom you cannot possibly breed? Who plays that
tense music every time you are in danger?")
