The smelly hands of dilettantes can be found all over this amazingly inept Z-movie, starting from the moronic plot-twists, moronic characters, and moronic costumes all the way to action sequences so badly choreographed they might rank this turkey in the "Top 5 Most Awful MST3K Fight Scenes".
The Evil-Bitch Queen - or "bitch in heat" as Jack Palance so hilariously calls her - is such a bad mastermind coup-maker that one has to wonder just how stupid her kingdom's subjects must be to let her get away with it all. I think they must be even thicker than the medieval dirt-faced mob in the "burn-the-witch" skit from "Monty Python & The Holy Grail". She kills two key political figures (old geezers) in her kingdom within an hour - the second one in front of a dozen witnesses - and then a few days later actually stabs Palance, out of the blue, in the gut in front of the ENTIRE populace. So dumb it really has to be seen to be believed. Just minutes later, her "cold-blooded" Bobba-Fett-like mercenary turns against her - for absolutely no reason at all - and kills her from a distance with a spear. He then looks on with the face of a man much bewildered, not unlike Leatherface after a successful bludgeoning. Not as bewildered as the viewers though.
The MST3K team riffs the movie well; there are some big laughs, including a proper drubbing of Palance who looks positively stupid and highly embarrassed in his goofy "space" costume. We mustn't forget his elaborate clown-hat, either, which prevented him from doing spontaneous push-ups. Bored, too; his face reeks of desperation, and one can almost read the impatience on his face to finish a scene and just go back to his trailer – where I presume many bottles of hard liquor awaited to drown out the pain of doing low-budget stinkers such as this. His character has nothing at all to do with the plot in the first hour, aside from following his Evil Queen around like a piece of furniture on legs.
The Evil-Bitch Queen - or "bitch in heat" as Jack Palance so hilariously calls her - is such a bad mastermind coup-maker that one has to wonder just how stupid her kingdom's subjects must be to let her get away with it all. I think they must be even thicker than the medieval dirt-faced mob in the "burn-the-witch" skit from "Monty Python & The Holy Grail". She kills two key political figures (old geezers) in her kingdom within an hour - the second one in front of a dozen witnesses - and then a few days later actually stabs Palance, out of the blue, in the gut in front of the ENTIRE populace. So dumb it really has to be seen to be believed. Just minutes later, her "cold-blooded" Bobba-Fett-like mercenary turns against her - for absolutely no reason at all - and kills her from a distance with a spear. He then looks on with the face of a man much bewildered, not unlike Leatherface after a successful bludgeoning. Not as bewildered as the viewers though.
The MST3K team riffs the movie well; there are some big laughs, including a proper drubbing of Palance who looks positively stupid and highly embarrassed in his goofy "space" costume. We mustn't forget his elaborate clown-hat, either, which prevented him from doing spontaneous push-ups. Bored, too; his face reeks of desperation, and one can almost read the impatience on his face to finish a scene and just go back to his trailer – where I presume many bottles of hard liquor awaited to drown out the pain of doing low-budget stinkers such as this. His character has nothing at all to do with the plot in the first hour, aside from following his Evil Queen around like a piece of furniture on legs.