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If you like to look at pretty French girls, this is your movie. Actually, they are all young adult women. One of the problems with this film is getting a decent quality copy. After many attempts, I found a good copy at The Movie Detective. (I have no relationship with them other than being a customer.) In the version I received the English subtitles are part of the movie. If you understand French, you'll just have to ignore them. This is a light movie with some serious moments. The USA production code was in full effect at the time this movie was made. But the French were a little freer. So what do you get when you have a hotel full of young women? You get girl fun, and girl problems.

I like this movie. It's an upper scale B picture. The movie stars Caroline Jane Munro (she was the Bond Girl in The Spy Who Loved Me) who will be memorable to any healthy male. A sultry brunette beauty from a couple of Hammer vamp-chillers, the utterly exotic maiden from The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad and the glamorous femme fatale from The Spy Who Loved Me. She takes on the villainous might of Count Zarth Arn (Joe Spinell) and wrestles with Amazon women, giant stop-motion robots, sizzling laser-bolts and all manner of excessive visual effects in a valiant and and enjoyably hokey attempt to save the universe. Before Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff found himself in Starcrash. I'm confident when we have a base on the moon or Mars, the women there will be running about in thigh-length boots and a shiny black bikini as documented by Caroline Munro's wonderful outfits.

The film is a non-stop series of captures, escapes, battles, evil speeches and colourful encounters across a wide variety of spaceships and planets. How can you not like a robot with a West Texas accent. This film has something for everyone. We've even got the galactic equivalent of women's wrestling when Stella begins flinging partially-clad Amazons around. And how many films do you know have boasted a scene in which a veritable goddess, clad in a see-through mac, gets carted-off and hung upside down? Starcrash is flamboyant, and archly theatrical with a huge quotient of camp.