Davis P Yes everyone, this is FOR SURE in the category of so bad it's good. Kind of like Batman and Robin... Now I would never have watched this film unless Jane Fonda wasn't the star. I adore Jane Fonda and I'm going back and watching the films of hers I haven't seen. I have not seen many of her older films, and I chose to start with one that I thought I could laugh at... and I did laugh a good bit during Barbarella. I don't think anyone can say this film is truly well made, I mean I think it's meant to be made fun of and kinda satirical. The whole thing is basically an hour and a half long acid trip. It is just very strange and very very hippie and 60s. Jane Fonda look incredible in the role and she does fine with everything, for the material she was given lol. The special effects are really bad, ofcourse it was in 1968 so that's that. This film is just one that you can have mindless fun with because its so bad and funny. And if you love the legend that is Jane Fonda then you got that. So if you'd like a good laugh... Try Barbarella. 7/10.

sddavis63 I have to say that this is watchable from pretty much beginning to end. As a matter of fact the opening title sequences - which may be the sexiest title sequences ever made as Jane Fonda floats around half-naked in some sort of zero gravity environment - ensure that you're probably not going to take your eyes off this (at least if you're a straight male) for the rest of the way. Yes, it's a movie in which there are many young and attractive female characters in the background (and Jane Fonda front and centre) who spend much of their time in various states of undress. Admittedly it's pretty tame by today's standards (really nothing more than toplessness) but definitely aesthetically appealing! (And for the straight women out there there's also half naked angel Pygar!) There is a story to this. Fonda is Barbarella, sent by Earth to find mad scientist Durand Durand (and yes, the rock group Duran Duran took their name from the character Durand Durand in this movie!) and experiencing various adventures along the way. It's not an especially good story, the special effects are quite primitive - even laughable - and the script leaves a lot to be desired. But it's quintessentially 1960's stuff in so many ways.It seems to pay tribute to various entertainment genres that were all the rage at the time. Sci-fi had started to hit big time with shows like Star Trek. There was the secret agent out to save the world (or in this case maybe the whole universe) like James Bond. The was the campiness seen in TV shows like Batman - and Barbarella's turn in the Pleasure Chamber seemed like a soft core version of the various traps Batman and Robin would be subjected to. Some scenes are the epitome of pyschedelic, and there's a few scenes featuring a few apparently high characters smoking - well - something.Apparently a number of actresses (including Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren) had been considered for the title role, but Fonda was well cast. She was well known but not quite as famous as Bardot or Loren, who probably wouldn't have agreed to some of the more "revealing" scenes Fonda did. And Fonda played the whole thing with this sort of wide eyed innocence that really made the film all the more enjoyable. It's not a good movie by any means. But it is an interesting movie - or, at least, it's a movie of interest that certainly isn't unpleasant to watch, even if it is hopelessly a product of its time. (4/10)

Tweetienator Psychedelic fantasy nonsense pop-art tripping sci-fi movie with some good kick from the flower power generation. Jane Fonda plays the super-sexy agent Barbarella who's mission is to find the scientist Durand-Durand, the inventor of a deadly weapon, and to save the galaxy from destruction and tyranny. This movie is simply fun to watch, pop-corn cinema at best, one of those movies who show you how much the contemporary movie industry lacks real imagination considering story making, and imo the "effects" and settings are far better looking as all the CGI stuff that imo in many cases is more looking like video-games than movies.Barbarella, an agent who beats the enemies with the powerful "weapons" of a woman - nowadays everything but p.c., but truly more progressive and feminist as today's ordinary women-right activist might think. Watch, if you like such movies like Flash Gordon (1980).

npfares Only in the 60's can a Soft-Core Porn movie could even get at 'PG' rating. In today's age this movie would have, at least, gotten an 'R' rating. This movie tried to be a movie of substance in it's day. In that way it does succeed very well. However, it follows a basic plot line of a very beautiful hero/heroine goes on a journey to save someone who they do not know. On her journey she meets many different type of aliens and people. A very well done B-Movie. Jane Fonda is very beautiful during the filming of this movie and is a perfect selection for the part, since it was released in 1968. I highly recommend this movie for those who want to see classic B-movie cinema.