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Watch: Barbarella 1968 123movies, Full Movie Online – The year is 40,000. After peaceful floating in zero-gravity, astronaut Barbarella lands on the frozen planet Lythion and sets out to find renowned scientist Durand Durand in the City of Night, Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Excessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an expert artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who can make her fantasies take form in her Chamber of Dreams, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which dispenses Essence of Man through a poor victim struggling in its glass globe. You can not help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what minimal clothes our heroine seemed to possess..
Plot: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
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Ratings:

	5.8/10 Votes: 35,308
	74% | RottenTomatoes
	51/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 543 Popularity: 16.012 | TMDB

Reviews:

Decent watch, might watch again, but can’t recommend unless it’s for a Bad Movie Night.

I want to like this movie, it really might have been a great movie, once upon a time, but it still would have been a “comedy-whatever” movie, and it’s humor is done well.

The production value is laughable 50 years later, but even so there are odd choices most likely done for the imagery or comedic effect.

It is worth noting the changes in the MPAA over the past 50 years: the movie begins with a “zero g” striptease with tits out and fully nude (I didn’t look close enough to determine if the cat got out), and from then on, her tits are pretty much out for about half the run time, sometimes behind plastic or transparent fabric, but the movie is rated PG.

I want to like the movie, but it’s so bizarre at times, and it’s not a personal story for Barbarella it’s an assigned mission, so it’s hard to be invested in the actual story.

**Revolutionary in its time, and still highly regarded today, it is an attack on good visual taste and brings a very stupid story.**

There are films that stand out because they are really very good, for the high quality of the production, the work of the actors and the story that is told. But a film doesn’t become popular or iconic just for that… there are films that are so admittedly bad and strange that, in a way, they become remarkable and enter the so-called popular memory or collective memory. _Barbarella_ is a film inspired by a 60’s comic book, and both the original material and the film itself were very influenced by the “hippie” culture, the libertarian ideas of May 68 and the Sexual Revolution. It was a time when eroticism became popular and massively sought after and exploited by the arts. Only if we understand this can we understand why this film is the way it is.

Despite doing justice to the source material, the script tells a story so fanciful and idiotic that only someone from that time could appreciate it: Barbarella is (I really don’t want to have to take this stereotype, but it’s blatant) a dumb blonde, immensely attractive, who is sent by Planet Earth to another galaxy, in search of a lost scientist and the weapons he had. She comes into contact with various aliens and is almost always seduced or “convinced” into having sex. At a certain point, she becomes involved in a rebellion against a queen of a perverse city, where they try to kill her in a machine that causes an “overdose” of sexual pleasure. Obviously, this fails, and the movie ends with the blonde astronaut winning.

I didn’t see sex scenes in the film, but the character appears half-naked many times, which then was truly revolutionary – almost pornographic. For us, the way she is seduced is so clearly misogynistic that in some cases it would be a crime, and it’s hard for me to think that the film was so calmly received, but those were other times. If this film were released now, without a doubt, it would be so controversial for its sexist sexuality that I think the feminist movements would boycott it. Also, the dialogues, the situations and the whole concept of the movie are pretty dumb.

The film was a French-American production and a good part of the cast is French-speaking, and I would like to highlight, on the positive side, the participation of the great Marcel Marceau, in a small but relevant speaking role. The director was Roger Vadim, and then he was married to the actress and sex symbol Jane Fonda, who, thus, secured the protagonist role. For future memory exist the statements, by the actress and the director, about Fonda’s insecurity about herself and the way she didn’t feel comfortable with the character and her nudity. Even so, and despite everything, Fonda did what she could with the terrible material she was given. We can still positively highlight the contributions of John Phillip Law and Anita Pallenberg.

Technically, the film stands out for its futuristic “trash” scenography, evident, for example, in the protagonist’s ship and in the city of Sogo. It can be visually horrible, an attack on good taste or logic, but back then it was something quite avant-garde, as were the costumes, particularly Barbarella’s sexy spacesuits (which could almost be used as bathing suits). The rest is pretty bad: the cinematography is boring and dull, the camera work is average, the soundtrack is kitsch.

Sexed-Up and Super-Silly
If you’re looking for a cult classic, they don’t come much stranger than sexed-up and super-silly BARBARELLA, the peculiar tale of an intergalactic secret agent (Jane Fonda) sent to a rebel planet to find a mad scientist named Duran Duran (Milo O’Shea.) Directed by Fonda’s then-husband Roger Vadim, the film is less concerned with creating a coherent storyline than it is in finding inventive ways to strip Fonda of her already skimpy outfits.

In this it is remarkably successful, and Fonda actually has both enough sex appeal and round-eyed innocence to carry the thing off, emerging as something like a Barbie doll; John Philip Law strikes a similar note as the sexy but equally innocent “angel” Pygar. The designs are 1960s psychedelic with as many Freudian twists as the film’s makers can come up with, and when all is said and done you can’t help but roll your eyes in amusement.

True enough, BARBARELLA was probably much more entertaining back in the days LSD, and indeed one might read the entire thing as an acid trip time machine. No one in the cast takes the film very seriously, and neither should you; when all is said and done it has all the depth of a pancake, not so much funny as merely amusing and appealing to a very high-camp sensibility. But as cult movies go, it ranks right up at the top. Give a party and show it on a double bill with FLESH GORDON! Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 2500000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director Roger Vadim
Writer Jean-Claude Forest, Terry Southern, Roger Vadim
Actors Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg
Country France, Italy
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex)
Aspect Ratio 2.47 : 1 (USA laserdisc), 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France (as Laboratories Franay, L.T.C. – Saint-Cloud)
Film Length 2,670 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman)