I never liked the Flash Gordon (1980). It was full of cheap effects and the story wasn't my thing at all. years later I came across this flick. knowing that it was a spoof. When I looked at the year it was made I knew it would have some stupid effects but what a great flick it was after all.

Not really knowing what to expect from it I was surprised with the fun I had. Be aware, it's a low budget flick with cheap effects indeed and some stop motion monsters but it's the story that makes it really great. Don't think to see some excellent comedy, it's more a exploitation spoof, I may even say a sex spoof full of nudity. If I tell you that Professor Jerkoff is in it or that they go to planet Porno then you know enough. Don't watch it for the acting or the editing, it's really one of the worst kind you will see. But as i said, the stop motion is sometimes okay but the one with the, look at the name, penissaurus is really terrible. But the fact that it contains full frontal nudity makes it not watchable for everybody. And it has a lot of nudity, full frontal, pubic hair shots, boners, and even some gang banging. But don't get me wrong, it isn't a porn flick.

Only William Dennis Hunt (emperor Wang) went further in the business and is still making flicks. The main leads, Jason Williams (Flesh Gordon) stopped in 1995 but never made a notable flick. Suzanne Fields (Dale Ardor) was popular in nudity flicks but vanished one year after this flick in obscurity. Nothing is known after 1976 about her, we don't even know if she's still alive.

If you want to see a real campy flick than this is surely one to recommend, I know that there are many haters for Flesh Gordon but it surprised me and I really enjoyed it.

Gore 0/5 Nudity 4/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 2/5

When I was a kid one of the cinemas in the Isle of Man would have special late night showings in the summer season. It would alternate between soft core films and kung fu films.

Flesh Gordon would be wheeled out each summer, I think it promises more than it delivers.

A spoof of early Flash Gordon serials. Earth is hit by sex rays from outer space sending people into a sexual frenzy. When an aircraft carrying Flesh Gordon and Dale Ardor is hit by sex rays, the plane crashes as everyone starts having an orgy including the pilots. Flesh and Dale escape by parachute and land near the laboratory of Flexi Jerkoff who has a plan to stop the sex rays which emanate from outer space.

They travel to the planet Porno in Jerkoff's phallic rocket. They crash land in planet Porno ruled by Emperor Wang and he intends to marry Dale while Flesh is taken by Queen Amora as a sex slave. Somehow Flesh needs to defeat Wang but he faces rapist robots, lesbian pirates, a penisaurus, and giant monster called the great god porno.

Flesh Gordon has some really good stop motion animation, an obvious tribute to Ray Harryhausen. The film itself parodies the 1930s Flash Gordon serial rather faithfully.

However in its heart this is a campy softcore parody with some bad puns and wooden acting from Jason Williams who plays Flesh. As the title implies there is a lot of flesh on display and it has a few inspired smutty scenes. I do remember some lads at school had seen a pirate version of this movie and thought it was hilarious.

However what would had been classed as daring in the 1970s is now tame and lot of it is dull as well not helped by the poor quality of the video. It works as a piece of naughty kitsch.

More or less that is. There is a disclaimer at the beginning that tells the audience, that this has nothing to do with the "real" Flash Gordon. Something I only realized when I got the DVD that I bought blindly on ebay. I thought two Gordon movies for the price of one, is excellent. But that is not the reason, I only gave it a weak rating. Nor the fact that this was actually meant to be a porn movie did influence my vote. You can still see the bad cutting away from some scenes, though it seems those explicit scenes might be "lost" forever due to cuts the director had to make, because of an impending lawsuit back when they released it.

No, the movie did age badly and while some humor still works, most of it doesn't. I love the passion (no pun intended) that they showed (there is also an audio commentary),but the performances just don't cut it and the story is too paper thin to really work. I guess you can watch it once out of curiosity, but you might not have the strength to watch it through