6.0
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.
Jane Fonda
Barbarella
John Phillip Law
Pygar
Anita Pallenberg
The Great Tyrant
Marcel Marceau
Professor Ping
Claude Dauphin
President of Earth
Milo O’Shea
Concierge / Durand-Durand
Véronique Vendell
Captain Moon
Serge Marquand
Captain Sun
Catherine Chevallier
Stomoxys
Marie Therese Chevallier
Glossina
David Hemmings
Dildano
Ugo Tognazzi
Mark Hand
Giancarlo Cobelli
Jean-Paul
Fabienne Fabre
La femme arbre
Corinne Fontaine
Nino Musco
Umberto Di Grazia
Franco Gulà
Jean Saudray
Romolo Valli
Robert Rietti
Professor Ping (voice)
Kitty Swan
Girl in Sogo (uncredited)
Fabio Testi
Tall Man at Party (uncredited)
Talitha Pol
Pipe-Smoking Girl (uncredited)
Antonio Sabàto
Jean-Paul (uncredited)
Honey Autumn
Bald Handmaiden at Sogovian Court (uncredited)
Diane Bond
(uncredited)
Silvana Venturelli
(uncredited)
Carla Cassola
(uncredited)
Joan Greenwood
The Great Tyrant (voice) (uncredited)
María Teresa Orsini
Suicide Girl (uncredited)
Chantal Cachin
Revolutionary (uncredited)
Director, Screenplay
Roger Vadim
Author
Jean-Claude Forest
Screenplay
Terry Southern
Writer
Vittorio Bonicelli
Writer
Claude Brulé
Writer
Brian Degas
Writer
Tudor Gates
Writer
Clement Biddle Wood
November 6, 2020
6
Decent watch, might watch again, but can't recommend unless it's for a Bad Movie Night.
I want to like this movie, it really might have been a great movie, once upon a time, but it still would have been a "comedy-whatever" movie, and it's humor is done well.
The production value is laughable 50 years later, but even so there are odd choices most likely done for the imagery or comedic effect.
It is worth noting the changes in the MPAA over the past 50 years: the movie begins with a "zero g" striptease with tits out and fully nude (I didn't look close enough to determine if the cat got out), and from then on, her tits are pretty much out for about half the run time, sometimes behind plastic or transparent fabric, but the movie is rated PG.
I want to like the movie, but it's so bizarre at times, and it's not a personal story for Barbarella it's an assigned mission, so it's hard to be invested in the actual story.