Starchaser Nostalgia Critic Review

[Sthurmovik]

For those of you who are not aware of the 1985 animated Star Wars ripoff Starchaser it has a fembot character with quite a few scenes including one where the bot has her personality altered to be more, err, personable. Moreover this family film shows the bot's personality chips being located under her ass panel. Needless to say the Critic has quite a bit of fun with that in this crossover review with Bennet the Sage. Enjoy.

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[Asato]

I agree with the NC, that movie looks awful. I am certainly also not a fan of the idea of rape and removing someone's free will, as was pointed out in many of the comments to the review

[Karel]

Yeah, you're right Asato. They should have just cut her down with laser fire like they did all the other robots in the film.

As I recall, they somewhat make up for their appalling introduction by a having a costly change of heart about selling her at auction.

And who's to say that the personality she had installed by the despotic government in the movie was her "real" personality?

This really is a trip down memory lane for me, Sthurmovik. I only rediscovered this film a few years ago myself, after seeing it at a very young age, and afterwards (when, in the early days of the internet and the iMDb, it proved impossible to find) came to believe for a long time that I hadn't seen it at all, but rather dreamt it instead. It's remarkable how the mind works sometimes. Most interestingly, I didn't retain any memory of there being a female robot in it, and was much surprised by that fact when I found it again.

I suppose it does have a certain dreamlike quality to it, with its early use of 3D computer images, and the few extraordinarily violent and disturbing scenes that it incongruously incorporates into its generic, ripped-off space opera storyline. Reviewing the latter makes me oddly appreciative of my parents' neglect: had they been paying any attention to me and my siblings I'm sure they would have ejected the videotape they had rented as soon as those scenes came on (I'm thinking of scenes from the first third of the film in particular). But I'm glad they didn't. I'll probably ensure that my own children have access to higher quality entertainment, but I plan to make sure that it's not overly sanitized, whatever it is: better to have a few "real" moments mixed in.

[Brytestar]

Interesting set up....

[King Snarf]

I suppose it does have a certain dreamlike quality to it, with its early use of 3D computer images, and the few extraordinarily violent and disturbing scenes that it incongruously incorporates into its generic, ripped-off space opera storyline. Reviewing the latter makes me oddly appreciative of my parents' neglect: had they been paying any attention to me and my siblings I'm sure they would have ejected the videotape they had rented as soon as those scenes came on (I'm thinking of scenes from the first third of the film in particular). But I'm glad they didn't. I'll probably ensure that my own children have access to higher quality entertainment, but I plan to make sure that it's not overly sanitized, whatever it is: better to have a few "real" moments mixed in.

Eh, it was the 80s, where ostensibly "family" films were chock full of stuff to give kids nightmares- The Dark Crystal, The Secret of NIMH, The Neverending Story, etc. I turned out fine, relatively speaking.