Star Wreck: In The Pirkinning

You may remember my review of Iron Sky in, which I talked about Star Wreck and how I thought it was a superior film than Iron Sky.

Well -

It's -

It's sorta superior.

It's a guilty pleasure much like the Devilman OVA's.

Way back when, when I was just a wee lad I was a huge fan of sci-fi, mostly Star Wars and Starship Troopers. I hadn't seen much I know, which is way Star Wreck In The Pirkinning has a special place in my heart.

You see in Finland we have movies too, mostly dramas and our movies are well, really really dark I think this comic from Scandinavia And The World says it all: http://satwcomic.com/funny-movie
But that wasn't the reason why I was staying away from Finnish cinema, when I was a lad. No the reason was that most of the movies I saw we're from 50's and they sucked!

Anyways I grown out of it and all, so that really isn't a problem anymore.

Back to Star Wreck.

Way back when, Star Wreck In The Pirkinning was a big thing, the first Finnish sci-fi movie ever! With only a budget of 10 000€ that was something.

Star Wreck movies we're created in early 90's by Samuli Torssonen who iss a big fan of Star Trek, I guess, I really don't know, and Star Wreck In The Pirkinning was seventh movie in the series, you can see them all in Energia Production's Youtube page if you wish.

Star Wreck In The Pirkinning is a direct sequel to Star Wreck V Lost Contact and it continues the story. After Captain Pirk, Info the Android and Mr. Dwarf ensured that the first contact was made with the aliens. After that the three decide to stay behind so that time line wouldn't get all screwed up, Captain Pirk learns that the international space program has been cancelled and thus we finally have learned why there is no space program in Terra Nova! Seriously there had to be a reason! So Captain Pirk decides that it's up to them to save the day and ensure that Earth can defend itself against vicious aliens.

How they decide to do this? Why, taking conquering the planet OF COURSE! I couldn't resist.

Needless to say they succeed on it and thus all is good until they discover a wormhole near Pluto and decide to take over that universe as well OF COURSE! heh he you see the thing is that I never get to use that meme so - yeah - don't worry I stop using it.

And thus Captain Pirk ends up fighting against Babylon 5 spoof.

So why I like this movie?

Well, simply because these movies seemed to be made with a ton of heart, to me these are like Mr. Rolfe's early movies, you just got to respect the fact that Samuli Torssonen took couple of he's friends and went on making bunch of silly stupid Star Trek Spoof films.

Like I said before, I never seen the original Star Trek series because it came at a bad time to me, when it actually came. But I've been watching ton of Star Trek Next Generation and I've been catching up with Star Trek movies and it's all thanks to this silly spoof film!

Yes, this is the movie that got me interested in Star Trek, even though this lead to the fact that my first Star Trek film I saw was Star Trek IX so - yeah.

This movie really is just a dumb popcorn flick, with ton of references to real Star Trek movies and  series plus bunch of inside jokes - mostly for Finns, but hey Iron Sky really wasn't that good either so, yeah.

The bad?

The acting is over the top and goofy and some of the jokes are kinda bad and just really more of miss than hit.

But like I said this movie really means a lot of mean, because this was my first Star Trek experience and but needless to say it's just ok and I only recommend to guys like me or just as some sort of weird extreme experience.

Also after seeing Leon Thomas'es Renegade Cut episode I have to ask, really? Yanks didn't know this? Really?

Link to Star Wreck V and to the Energia Production's Youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GZ1vyJkcTM

Link to Renegade Cut episode about Iron Sky
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/leon-thomas/renegade-cut/39087-renegade-cut-iron-sky-and-not-bad-movies

Link to Film Brain's review of Iron Sky, because why not.
http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/fbv/projector/35455-projector-iron-sky

Just for good measure Confused Matthew's review about Star Wreck In The Pirkinning.
http://blip.tv/confused-matthew/requested-review-star-wreck-in-the-pirkinning-6378145

If the links ain't working please tell.