Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (3D) - Lamont Johnson - (1983) DVD

Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their talents, they try to rescue the women.
 
Oh boy do I ever enjoy this movie. For some reason I've managed to see it at least once a year since it was released and I never get sick of it and I really have no idea why. Mental disorder, perhaps. This movie redefines camp for post-apocalyptic sci-fi quest adventure 3-D crap. Peter Strauss and Molly Ringwald are both great in their stock roles - Strauss is refreshingly down-to-earth, so unlike the usual all-knowing megalomaniac space ranger with a girl in every port (his girl is a purchased robot companion, which says things about a guy.)

Ringwald's whine would give God a headache, but she's got the right proportion of bravado and vulnerability to create a believable, occasionally endearing, space orphan. I like the random nature of their search, designed to place them in situations where the production can use up a set or two that might have been intended for some other movie. Plenty of rubbery creatures abound, and the Thunderdomesque stuff is actually pretty cool. All in all this is a happily-brainless-yet-somehow-lovable piece of space junk and I'm crazy about it. Or just crazy

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