Watch Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning For Free

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It might be OK for a funny youtube-video or a school play in elementary school, but throwing away (or perhaps not ever even looking into) all the books about story telling, scripting, ACTING, and movie making in this huge project is just a plain pity. Why bother to make all the effects, planning and costume-design if the main idea should be telling a story? As someone said before, comedy is very hard style in the art of film. There is funny scenes from time to time but all that is ruined by the oversizing, childish acting. If you haven't seen this movie, imagine your 12 year old neighbor kid reading lines from paper. I felt so ashamed for the people involved on the screen.I hope the makers will take very seriously the critical comments they have received. The problem is that only the similar nerds comment praising and saluting the effort, that is patting in the back for effects, not for a good movie.I remember seeing the first Star Wrecks on my PC long time ago. The characters were drawn by a computer-mouse I assume and only the lips were moving. The voice acting was mainly stupid but it worked back then. If a badly drawn character repeating stupid lines beats Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning's character's any time, I call that a total waste of 7 years.No matter how cool the 3d.

If the title isn't a clue enough this movie is a parody! Everything is over the top! But the good thing is that these actors (obvious sci fi fans) are very serious! Even when they do ridiculous things they maintain a straight face! This is one of the reasons why the movie works as a parody! This being said this movie isn't for everyone because this movie is full of inside jokes about "Star Trek" and "Babylon 5"! So if you are not a fan, you will not understand and not appreciate the humor! For a movie made by fans the production value is very high! The CGI looks like the real thing,the music seems similar to the music used in the shows (slightly different but you know immediately when you hear the music if it is a scene about "Babylon 5" or "Star Trek")! Even the artwork and decor looks professional! I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed this movie quite a lot!

I salute the cast and crew for this shamelessly brilliant piece of.. well, not quite art, but something similarly visually astonishing and somewhat interpretationally intriguing.There is one thing what I found strangely funny; the dialogue actually works better in the English subtitles. So foreigners, fear not of missing the comedy if you do not understand Finnish - the humor is heavily Americanized, and while there are some puns and lines that only Finns could find amusing, mostly the humor doesn't work in Finnish. The American jokes simply sound weird and unnatural spoken in Finnish. By all means that doesn't mean that the humor wouldn't be right on target - quite the contrary - and I don't wonder at all why the jokes work also on foreigners (traditional Finnish socio-political, dry and mostly black humor couldn't possibly be understood by someone not familiar with Finnish culture). I'm a Finn, but watched the movie with English subtitles and I want to compliment on very well done translation which manages to be funnier than the actual dialogue.But most importantly why the crew has earned my full gratitude, is that they made all this non-profit. I truly think that every consumer should have the right to see in advance what they are paying for. Going to the movies and renting films aren't free. Star Wreck crew enabled free Internet download, thus allowing the viewers to decide, free of charge, if they wanted to pay for the proper version of the movie or not. Just because of this exemplary deed, I'm willing to invest my money on this film to support this kind of action from the movie producers. I encourage all those, who are against Hollywood's fare-collection, to do the same.

When I was little, I used to watch Star Trek every week. The adventures of the crew on that ship were cool for a eleven-year old. Then I grew a little older. I started to notice things. Why doesn't the stars move outside the windows when the ship travels? Why does all aliens look like humans? Why was the plot just a sci-fi soap-opera? I left the Star Trek series to better sci-fi.And now I return to Star Trek once again, in this Finnish parody, made with no budget, no actors and by a bunch of guys with no previous experience of movies. And it not only manages to be much better than the material it parodies, it manages to be much better than most movies released out of Hollywood today. In fact, this and V for Vendetta are likely the two best sci-fi movies of 2005.After seven years of hard work, the team behind Star Wreck release their movie, free of charge, over the internet. I'm pretty certain some of the millions of downloaders got it because it was free, but still, most of them heard "It's good" and not "It's free" from their friends.I hope this is the start of a new era. Sounds cheesy, I know. In a time when actors get payed millions for movies, special effects look fake when the studio is world-leading, and piracy is abundant, a movie like Star Wreck fits just perfectly. Hopefully more will follow this example and show their enthusiasm instead of their greed.What to say about the movie? It's funny, it's good-looking, it's professional, the effects rock, the space scenes are unbelievable(apparently it took 5 years to render) and the team seem more dedicated and motivated by the reactions of the fans than any Hollywood actor is by the $100000000 paycheck.What have you got to lose, except 1 hr and 43 minutes? Check out Star Wreck, buy it even. It's definitely something.