Star Warp'd
by Pete Schuermann
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Actor: David Carty, John Schuermann, Michael Fleming (IV), Milko Davis, Pete SchuermannDirector: Pete Schuermann
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 32 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Synapse Films
DVD Reviews of Star Warp'd
DVD Review: Low-brow humor, true, but still some good parodies
Summary: 4 Stars
Unlike some of the other reviewers here, I liked BOTH this film and "Spaceballs" -- for different reasons. "Spaceballs" is live action satire with plenty of Jewish in-jokes ("Druish princesses" and all). It is exactly what we have come to expect from producer Mel Brooks. "Star Warp'd," on the other hand is a fan-produced parody that is low-budget, low-tech and, in places, low-brow in its "Dark Smell of the Force" fart-and-poop humor -- but I found it funny just the same. (After all, "Spaceballs" stooped to low-brow puns, too -- only they were mostly sexual double entendres.)
Granted, the claymation is rather crude. If you watch the behind-the-scenes feature included on the DVD, you will see that parts of this were literally filmed in somebody's garage. Other parts were generated on home computers. The puppets were made out of Sculpy, and the sets were put together in a couple of days by guys pulling all-nighters (by their own admission.) If you read the credits, you'll see the same half-dozen or so names over and over, filling in all the different production roles -- that in itself struck me as a hilarious satire of blockbuster movies.
The producers themselves called this "guerilla filmmaking" and it should be viewed as such. A film by fans for fans. As such, I think the primitive puppets and homemade sets only add to the satire. This is definitely not the slick product of Paramount or LucasFilms.
For all its primitiveness, "Star Warp'd" does do some original things in terms of effects. It's the first claymation I've seen that combines realistic CGI with puppets. In the opening scene we see a parody of the Star Wars crawl text. (When Spock asks "how did we get into this situtation?" the captain tells him to read the crawl on the viewscreen. Later on, when there's a dogfight, the ships fly through this same text -- after all, it must still be floating around out there somewhere... or was this a reference to "Contact", the film where old TV broadcasts were eventually picked up by aliens in star systems light years away?)
Next comes the title, "The Fandom Menace," and a pretty good rendition of Dark Vapor's ship chasing the ConsolationPrize (The Enterprise with propellers!) From here, it cuts to the Trek puppets -- but only two of the ConsolationPrize's crew, because, as they explain, the rest just weren't in the budget. Future scenes combine CGI with physical sets, spoofing Star Wars, Star Trek, The Terminator, X-Files, RoboCop, 2001, etc. and ending with the destruction of the Terrible Thing that caused the rift in the Space-Time Continuum in the first place. (Sorry, no spoilers here --you'll just have to watch the movie for yourself.)
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