the leading man is my tpye

Very Cool!!!

Not even bad in a good way

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Three hundred years in the future, Mars is colonized by humans and their leader Regulator Rogul (Hans-Michael Rehberg) plans to conquer Earth. Queen Königin Metapha (Anja Kling) is advised to send the gays Captain Kork (Christian Tramitz), the Vulcannette Brigitte Spuck (Michael Herbig) and the engineer Schrotty (Rick Kavanian) from the Surprise to the past in an experimental time machine to destroy the spaceship that human discovered in Area 51 in 2004 and avoid their technological knowledge in spacecrafts. She summons the trio and the taxi driver Rock Fertig Aus (Til Schweiger) brings them to the meeting but Rogul attacks Earth. In the havoc, Kork, Spuck, Rock and Metapha travel to the past but they are hunted down by the evil Lord Jean Maul (Rick Kavanian). Now the only hope for the human race depends on the success of their mission."(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1" has a promising storyline, with a parody to the cults "Star Trek" and "Star Wars". However this sci-fi comedy is not my type of humor and is indicated only for very specific audiences. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "A Espaçonave das Loucas" ("The Spacecraft of the Crazy Gays")

I just so loved this movie.As the first one also: Der Schuh Des Manitu. The three actors: Christian Tramitz, Bully and Rick Kavanian are just super. On this movie they successfully brought back the feeling of their legendary and amazing TV-show: Bullyparade. The performance of them is amazing and really funny, and their voice, i love it.(Everybody must watch this movie in original German, thats the best) I watched it a hundred times, but i cant get bored with it. Many of the great vignettes come back from the Bullyparades Traumschiff surprise, but they don't make the mistake making the same again. Its great to see commitments to the previously film (Sky Dumont, Jim and Jack), and Till Schweiger was also a great choice for the role of Rock. Usually the drama-actors are in the spotlight, but its also very hard to make a good comedy. They did it, i just love this German-sense of humor. 10/10

I picked up a copy of this film based on a friend's recommendation. And whilst what I watched was a Chinese translation, with English subtitles over a German film I still found it funnier than Either of the well-noted American spoofs, Spaceballs or Galaxy Quest.Set in a Sci-Fi Universe that's visually a lot like Star Wars, but structurally much like Star Trek the plot sees the (Emporer Plapatine-like) Martian Regulator blockading the Earth with aspirations of conquest.Earth's only hope? The crew of the Dreamship Surprise - most notably it's camp command crew, Captain Kork, Spucky and Schotty. As they travel to Earth to make a journey back in time to save the future they acquire the assistance of Earth's beautiful young queen and a Taxi Driver.The plot manages to skewer both Star Wars and Star Trek quite effectively, whilst somehow maintaining the looks of both (The sets on the Surprise are very sixties-Trek, most everything else seems Star Wars inspired). The journey in the past takes detours through Medieval Europe (Allowing a few Knight's Tale style moments) and the Wild West before ending up at Area 51 (which is foreshadowed in the opening).I'd seen a brief clip of the film before watching but was surprised at how consistently amusing it was. Yes, there's a few cheap gags, and more gonad jokes than I'd expect from it's American counterparts but it's still darn funny. Some nifty sight gags lurk in the background and some of the puns are meticulously set up and had me groaning out loud (in the manner of someone who appreciates a bad pun).If you like or hate sci-fi, there's many a reason to track this down. Some of the 'gay' gags may not be up everyone's street (and may cause a little offence to some - but it's hard to say) but that's par for the course with any parody.The soundtrack echoes it's inspirations very effectively, and a few times I thought it was actually going to take the plunge and rise dramatically into a John Williams soundtrack. Not only that, but there are actually a handful of brief musical numbers thrown in as well (Most often from the crew of the Surprise).The performances are pretty over-the-top for the most part, this is not a film that requires much in the way of subtle acting, but again isn't that another shot at it's targets? And before I sign out, Kudos must go to the special effects team, who managed to succeed in making a film that looks worthy of the huge effects budgets on the Star Wars prequels, presumably for a fraction of the price. The film is visually stunning in that regard, The Surprise, The Battleships, The Taxi and even the time-travel sequence (Which takes place on a sofa - surely a nod to Douglas Adams there) all look incredible and the film's one big action scene looks every bit as good as the Pod Race or space battle from the Star Wars prequels.My opinion, it may not be perfect, but there's no way I'll regret buying it. There were enough laughs to keep me occupied through it's entire run-time even though the pacing could have done with a minor trim.As a fan of Science Fiction in general I enjoyed it a great deal and would recommend it to most.

Well, Michael Herbig has become a really international German movie comedy star! He is known just by Manitoe's shoe movie in Czech Republic where I live. No wonder, because Vinnetou stories (Pierre Brice and Lex Barker) were very popular here at 60's - the original German western movies.But (T)Raumschiff Surprise has quite international qualities with the quoting the Star Wars, Start Trek, Matrix... but Herbig also stays the German by nature - greatly inspired by the story telling of the third part of German Spessart movie series "Glorious Times in the Spessart" where the heroes also travel to the past (through middle ages) to save the future.Even the more: Herbig went out to meet American's style. And he made it brilliantly in German style.