Synopsis
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
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Cast
- Brian NarelleLt. Doolittle
- Cal KuniholmBoiler
- Dan O'BannonSgt. Pinback alias Bill Fruge
- Dre PahichTalby
- Adam BeckenbaughBomb #20 (voice)
- Nick CastleAilien
- Joe SaundersCommander Powell (voice)
- Cookie KnappMuttercomputer (voice)
- Alan SheretzBomb #19 (voice)
- John CarpenterTalby Voice
Recommandations
- 100
Empire
In essence, Dark Star has what all great comedy has: a sense of desperation and pathos allied to an abiding humanity which elevates it high above the realm of mere spoof. - 80
The Guardian
It's a smart, cynical look at space travel, treating it as a blue-collar job and not a divine calling as Kubrick and others would have you believe. - 80
Time Out London
Four bombed-out astronauts journey endlessly through the galaxy, whiling away the time with jokes, sunlamp treatment, personal diaries on videotape, and games with their own pet alien. Sheer delight. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a fun movie, and a bright and intelligent one. It bears few signs of having been made on a low budget, and the special effects are reasonably slick. - 75
Rolling Stone
The special effects vacillate between defiantly shitty and endearingly resourceful, and Carpenter and O’Bannon's sense of humor covers a similarly narrow ground between Loony Tunes goofiness and dorm-room stoned. - 70
The A.V. Club
Dark Star has a stoner sardonicism: The movie feels like the product of long nights at the dorm passing around The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics and Arthur C. Clarke paperbacks. - 70
Chicago Reader
Carpenter creates a vision of the technological future that is both disillusioned and oddly affirmative in its insistence on the unscientific survival of emotional frailty. - 50
The New York Times
There are some funny routines here, though Mr. Carpenter doesn't seem to have cared much about integrating or sustaining them. Mr. Carpenter makes his amateurishness unmistakable, especially when it comes to the film's four actors. Only one of them can act even crudely (fortunately, his is the largest role). The other three, neither photogenic nor particularly extroverted, look like well-meaning fraternity brothers helping out a pal with his class project.
