Battle of the Stars (1978)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Overrated and overhyped

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I get a big kick out of these Brescia space movies so sought out "Battle of the Stars". Most of the comments here, and even the plot outline, seem to be about another lovely Brescia movie called "War of the Planets"."Battle of the Stars" is about an alien invasion of the earth. The Gonians have used up all their natural resources and are now a dying and decaying species. They arrive in their spaceships with their super computer to take over earth and use our healthy bodies to replace their own. With space mummies, the super computer (same prop from War of the Planets!), and their ability to take the shape of trusted humans, the Gonians need to sabotage the Earth defense system before their entire invasion fleet can land. Defense system designer Mike Layton, his pretty girlfriend/scientist Diane, and a couple helpful Gandymedeans are our only hope!Five stars for being "out there" and fun!

Everyone else pretty much summed this one up perfectly. This REALLY does look like a cheap 60s Italian SciFi movie, so the biggest surprise is that it was done in the late 70s. Wow!There are so may bad things, but a couple jumped out at me: 1) The bad computer has waited 100s or 1000s of years for someone technically capable of fixing it. It said the local inhabitants where not advanced enough, but guess what, all anyone had to do was remove a circuit board from a storage rack, walk across the room, pull out the bad card and replace it. I think those folks on the planet could have done that and besides, the bad robot created another robot that was all powerful. Couldn't he have done it?! Maybe it wasn't in his union rules. 2) The panicking reporters who, because 2 alien space ships passed by an earth space ship way out in outer space, one of which our spaceship easily blew up, all reported that the end of the earth was imminent falling all over each other to make the report. At least some of the people in the film addressed this unbelievable stupidity...and it happened twice!One could go on and on. Suffice it to say, this is one of the greatest bad movies ever and anyone who is an MST3K fan owes it to themselves to check this one out. Don't you dare miss it!

I laughed. I cried. Then I watched Battle of the Planets or whatever it was called. Seriously. Hilariously bad. This is sort of a spaghetti space western I guess. Extremely low production values -even for a 70s sci-fi flick. Really strange and bad acting complements the nonsensical story. I'm pretty sure that the stars were just white paint splattered on black boards or occasionally white Christmas tree lights. For the space walk scenes it appears that they just turned the camera on its side while people waved their arms around.I got this movie as part of the 50 Classic Sci-Fi Movies pack available at amazon.com or that deep discount DVD place. I highly recommend getting one or more of those.

Where to begin? The clothes all look like they're from a 30's sci fi film, even though this was made in the 70s. The dubbing is terrible. The plot is almost totally incoherent; it centers around a hothead space captain who believes that he can make better decisions than computers, and therefore is always getting into trouble (though in this film, he's probably right considering that the main computer is called "The Wiz", no kidding!). The characters actions often don't make any sense, like one scene where two crew members die, but everyone else is happy for no good reason. The evil giant robot looks like something they made on purpose to make people laugh, but you're supposed to think it's scary. Throughout everything, the deadly earnest and serious tone of the acting and story just makes the whole experience more surreal and more funny. My favorite scenes: destroying the giant robot/computer, and the space command guys dealing with the reporters. This film is worth seeing with a bunch of friends, with or without any substances that may enhance one's sense of humor!