Watch Barbarella For Free

I love this movie so much

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

I have to say that this is watchable from pretty much beginning to end. As a matter of fact the opening title sequences - which may be the sexiest title sequences ever made as Jane Fonda floats around half-naked in some sort of zero gravity environment - ensure that you're probably not going to take your eyes off this (at least if you're a straight male) for the rest of the way. Yes, it's a movie in which there are many young and attractive female characters in the background (and Jane Fonda front and centre) who spend much of their time in various states of undress. Admittedly it's pretty tame by today's standards (really nothing more than toplessness) but definitely aesthetically appealing! (And for the straight women out there there's also half naked angel Pygar!) There is a story to this. Fonda is Barbarella, sent by Earth to find mad scientist Durand Durand (and yes, the rock group Duran Duran took their name from the character Durand Durand in this movie!) and experiencing various adventures along the way. It's not an especially good story, the special effects are quite primitive - even laughable - and the script leaves a lot to be desired. But it's quintessentially 1960's stuff in so many ways.It seems to pay tribute to various entertainment genres that were all the rage at the time. Sci-fi had started to hit big time with shows like Star Trek. There was the secret agent out to save the world (or in this case maybe the whole universe) like James Bond. The was the campiness seen in TV shows like Batman - and Barbarella's turn in the Pleasure Chamber seemed like a soft core version of the various traps Batman and Robin would be subjected to. Some scenes are the epitome of pyschedelic, and there's a few scenes featuring a few apparently high characters smoking - well - something.Apparently a number of actresses (including Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren) had been considered for the title role, but Fonda was well cast. She was well known but not quite as famous as Bardot or Loren, who probably wouldn't have agreed to some of the more "revealing" scenes Fonda did. And Fonda played the whole thing with this sort of wide eyed innocence that really made the film all the more enjoyable. It's not a good movie by any means. But it is an interesting movie - or, at least, it's a movie of interest that certainly isn't unpleasant to watch, even if it is hopelessly a product of its time. (4/10)

Psychedelic fantasy nonsense pop-art tripping sci-fi movie with some good kick from the flower power generation. Jane Fonda plays the super-sexy agent Barbarella who's mission is to find the scientist Durand-Durand, the inventor of a deadly weapon, and to save the galaxy from destruction and tyranny. This movie is simply fun to watch, pop-corn cinema at best, one of those movies who show you how much the contemporary movie industry lacks real imagination considering story making, and imo the "effects" and settings are far better looking as all the CGI stuff that imo in many cases is more looking like video-games than movies.Barbarella, an agent who beats the enemies with the powerful "weapons" of a woman - nowadays everything but p.c., but truly more progressive and feminist as today's ordinary women-right activist might think. Watch, if you like such movies like Flash Gordon (1980).

People who are into James Bond Films will appreciate the tag line "Oh Jane!". In this case it also describes what is most important with regard to Barbarella. Jane Fonda. But while Jane has aged magnificently over the years, one can't say the same about Barbarella. Sadly, this is one of those movies, which were exciting then and when you watch it you can still see why that was the case, but nowadays it just isn't that exciting anymore. The visuals are clearly identified as staged, the oversexualization of Fonda seems forced and the story itself is pretty dull. Of course, one can image how this movie played at the time of its initial release. The guys who were in love with Fonda. The stoners and a little bit of counter culture. It has this B-Movie vibe, that would definitely come to life in the right, drugged up circumstances. But that wasn't the case when I watched. it Sober and interested in movie history I wanted to cover this gap. Finishing the movie I was satisfied with doing that, mildly entertained and of course thinking: Oh Jane!

I'm usually a fan of dated, camp science fiction movies but only when the camp is unintentional and not put on. Unfortunately with BARBARELLA, loads of effort has gone into making the film a camp comedy, one of those films you just know that the producers hope will be termed a "cult classic", and there's nothing I hate worse than a film which tries to be funny like that. This is the reason that BARBARELLA leaves me cold; it's a slow-paced, dated and extremely silly affair from beginning to end, more of a 60's fashion show than a real movie.I had been looking forward to watching this film for a while (Italian science fiction has always been an entertaining genre for me) but sadly the end result is a highly disappointing outing in '60s kitsch with little or no redeeming values for a modern audience. The best thing about the film are the imaginative and colourful sets, but these are countered by some appallingly dated special effects (the back projection in particular is awful) and a music score that really grates on the nerves with one or two dreadful songs.The plot is pushed so far into the background that it becomes non-existent, the film instead concentrating on the weird and wonderful characters that Barbarella (herself included) encounters on her journey. Most of the adventures are of the sexual variety, with Barbarella herself a highly sexual space creature - already in the opening credits we see her stripping naked from her spacesuit and then losing most of her clothes as the film gradually progresses along.Jane Fonda is plain annoying as Barbarella, although I'm positive that her style of acting was just what the doctor ordered, and her attempts at being sexy just do not work. Elsewhere, Euro-stalwart John Philip Law embarrasses himself as a blind angel - yes you heard me right. Meanwhile, we have French actors overacting, Milo O'Shea striving for the award for worst overacting as the baddie, and David Hemmings wasted as he stands around on the sidelines looking handsome. I had expected a lot more from director Roger Vadim than this silly, arty-farty look-at-me sci-fi comedy provides, and although I'm sure the film has an audience who enjoy this sort of thing, I know that I never can.