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

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Flash Gordon was the first of the serials based on Alex Raymond's eponymous hero. This 13 part epic has everything a science fiction fan could ask for: strange new worlds, dinosaurs, spaceships, submarines, underwater cities, floating cities, ray-guns, invisibility machines, monsters, atom furnaces, and hunky guys in short shorts or/and hot girls in skimpy halter-tops. Buster Crabbe is all noble, jut-jawed hero and Jean Rogers makes a gorgeous, if somewhat ineffectual, Dale Arden, who spends most of the serial being threatened with a 'fate worse than death' by first Ming, then by a sharkman, then a hawkman (even the good guy Thun the lionman seems to 'cop a feel' while helping her escape in episode 5). The special effects, costly at the time, will seem quaint to modern viewers but that just adds to the charm as Flash makes his way from cliff-hanger to cliff hanger with the help or hindrance of some memorable secondary characters (although Jack Lipson's Prince Vulcan is a pale foreshadowing of Brian Blessed's booming presence in the 1981 version). 1936 saw the release of this serial and of William Cameron Menzies "Shape of Things to Come", archetypes of low-brow and high-brow science fiction: one's a silly, action packed adventure, the other a pedantic, philosophical bore. Probably not a tough choice to audiences of the time (especial the kids at whom Flash was aimed) and while I appreciate Menzies' vision, Flash is a lot more fun, and in the end, about as realistic. An added bonus is that watching this silly, innocent serial is the perfect segue into watching 1974's equally silly but much less innocent, "Flesh Gordon".

This thing is awful but so much fun. Anyone who grew up in the '50's remembers when this production was re-broadcast (and fer free!!!!) Dear old Dale is still a glowing beauty and is one reason all the guys loved this serial. Charles Middleton is his same wonderful self and shines as he does in any production in which he appears. Abandon logic, all who enter here as much of what is said and done defies the most basic common sense. Regardless, rejoining this group of saviors of the earth is a wonderful experience even if the reaction to Jean and Pricilla is somewhat muted because of the passage of time. One thing I've noticed is that IMDb is linking to fewer "free" videos, choosing instead to be paid off by Amazon et. al. if you prefer to watch the feature. Too bad!!! It can be found on other sites and one hopes that IMDb decides to satisfy viewers rather than the bean counters.

OK, lets not carried away and bring all our modern critical caveats to this innocent kiddie-pleaser from sixty or seventy years ago--it ain't Star Wars, folks, but it probably inspired a good deal of it, and in its time Flash Gordon thrilled thousands in actual theatres every Saturday morning.It is amazing that Buster Crabbe maintained a dedicated, non-ironic heroic stance in the face of cardboard fire-breathing dragons, and Dale was able to let out shrieks and screams at outcomes she well knew were preordained, and that Dr. Zarkov could take his left-over props from the Frankenstein films seriously--but they did, and if you let yourself, you will have an action experience unlike any other--funny, simply because time has created effects far superior, mind-boggling, because there was actually a time when we believed this stuff, endearing, because good-hearted men with rubber wings are simply a delight. And Charles Middleton's Ming is pointedly, grimly Merciless, and likely to remain so for several centuries more .Does this film accomplish what it set out to do and does it do it well? Indubitably.

Buster Crabbe as Alex Raymond's comic strip hero is custom-made for the role: with his hair bleached blonde, he looks EXACTLY like the FLASH GORDON of the strip. SPACE SOLDIERS boasts some of the most spectacular Art Deco sets in the history of cinema. It's a non-stop funhouse ride and, while I have to admit that King Vultan's phony belly-laughs wore thin pretty quick, the orangopoid more than made up for it. An orangopoid, for the uninitiated, is a gorilla with a horn on its head (its cousin, the "mugatu," appeared on an episode of the original STAR TREK teleseries, "A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR"). When Flash faces off against the orangopoid, one thing quickly becomes obvious: the orangopoid is a better jiu jitsu player than the Earthling. He tosses Gordon around, applies a series of joint locks, and is well on his way to winning the UFC title (that's the UNIVERSAL Fighting Championships heavyweight title) when Flash Gordon cheats and skewers him with a spear. Where's the ref when you need him...? All in all (the technical foul in the title fight notwithstanding), the first FLASH GORDON serial is more fun than a barrel of orangopoids.