“Don’t watch this alone…or sober!” – Warning Label on the Copy at Suspect Video – Queen Street West, Toronto.
I hadn’t seen the warning label before watching this on Friday night, but luckily, with Carrie, Vero and I arriving in Toronto, we were definitely not alone, and definitely not sober while watching this.
What can I say about Turkish Star Wars? If all Turkish films are like this, I’m moving there. The blatant rip-offs of Star Wars special effects, as well as the super-cheese martial arts moves (how the heck does he jump into the air like that? Oh yes…a trampoline!), and characters who have costumes which appear like something out of a bad Hallowe’en party; add to the amazing film which is known in the Western World as Turkish Star Wars.
I was thinking that there would be Star Wars references (read: rip-offs) throughout the entire film. It starts out with footage of all the space battles from Star Wars (aka, the X-Wings fighting the Death Star) for about 10 minutes and then…that’s it. The rest of the movie deals with the two pilots who have crash landed on a planet which somehow looks like Turkey. I’m only guessing at this because I’ve never been to Turkey. But it had deserts. I think Turkey has deserts.
Much hilarity ensues and we had some great laughs at this movie. I would also like to point out that the guy in the movie must be pretty popular because we were watching Lost and Found: Volume 7 the next day and saw some clips of him kicking ass Turkish style in it.