In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease (masked by the film's opening titles), Barbarella, a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Exessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essance of Man. You can't help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what few clothes our heroine seemed to possess. Based on the popular French comic strip.
Written by alfiehitchie
SoGo, the evil city Barbarella travels to, is a reference to Biblical cities Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Goofs
Revealing mistakes:
When Barbarella is flying around in her spaceship in the opening credits, in a close-up as she removes her gloves you can see her reflection in the Plexiglas she was lying on to give the illusion of floating.
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Quotes
[first lines]
videophone:
Stand by for a message from Dianthus, President of Earth and Rotating Premier of the Sun System. See more »
Crazy Credits
In the opening credits, the letters in the words move around in an attempt
to obscure Barbarella's nudity.
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