Vegas in Space

I first saw this on USA Nite Flight years ago. I never expected to find it on DVD (a Troma Release) at Best Buy!!!!

Yes, all the actors are men in drag (right?) and it's silly silly fun. Hey, how many movies have u seen made in someone's apartment? How many movies have you seen using make-up and nail polish bottles to resemble a minature cityscape? (please recall that Star Trek (original tv show) used European Salt and Pepper shakers as medical gear!)

This movie is silly bad and was made over 7 or 8 years. It's FUN.

So put in your fave wig and enjoy.

Comes with 3 silly Troma Trailers and some other funny extras.

In the far distant future, a theft of priceless jewels with mysterious properties lead three agents to set down on a planet to investigate--but alas, they are men, and it's a "women only planet." What to do? Why, pop a pill and turn into women, of course!

Not all the performers are men in drag--the cast is filled out with quite a few busty-babes who are more than capable of giving their genderbending co-stars a run for their tassels--but if you enjoy drag queens, VEGAS IN SPACE is the movie for you. And for the most part, the male-to-female performers are expert in their work--which ranges ultra-high camp to occasional bouts of good old fashioned tacky. The script is silly, the cinematography, sets, special effects, and virtually everything else about the film is cheap. But the performers make it fun, with Doris Fish heading the line up. Watch out the Queen of Police doesn't bust ya for wearing beige! Gary F. Taylor, aka GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Well, not surprisingly, this movie was a smash hit in gay/drag circles throughout the U.S., maybe even the world. All I know is that it sucks. It's intentionally bad, but bad nonetheless, and so, it being my sworn, solemn duty to watch the worst crap I can, I watched it. Futuristic cities made out of fingernail polish bottles. Earthquakes caused by violently shaking the camera, which appears to be handheld. Men inexplicably change into women for no other apparent reason than to just do it. No real reason for it written into the plot. It's as though it's a must-do thing before you beam down to a planet, change your sex. Who knew. All this, thrown in there with intensely gaudy sets, neon everything, and a bit of drag psychedelia too, this movie is good for just about anyone, gay, straight, drag, whatever, who loves bad movies. My friend has had his copy that he rented for almost 2 years. He doesn't like it, he just wants to keep people from destroying themselves through watching it. (I think he secretly enjoys the movie and that's why he's had it for so long) That, and it's funny to keep a movie you rented for 2 years, evading various court summons and arrest warrants.

a true "b" movie if ever there was...

a fun romp with drag queens in outer space (i've always felt they were somewhat other worldly anyway). i only wish i had been in s.f. during filming, i would have like to have met these guys before they passed... from the cheesy sets to the dialogue (reminds me of the guys i worked with the 4 summers i worked on fire island) this is a movie to play as background at a party or have a campy get together with white trash hors d'oeuvres (cheese balls, onion dip, that sort of thing served with 3 foot martinis) and watch the glamour meter rise!!!

glamour first, glamour last, glamour always!

You know that a film is not meant to be taken seriously when the cast list includes names like Doris Fish, Miss X and Jennifer Blowdryer. This no budget opus, shot in somebody's apartment with a hand held camera, is clearly meant to be a goof. A gay/camp/drag homage to Ed Wood, and to ALL bad grade Z sci-fi films, it was clearly made by people who think they're really clever. They are not.

The film tries so hard to be campy and bad that it succeeds beyond it's wildest dreams. Every single double entendre falls flat, as do all the other jokes, which seemed childish and forced. What makes Ed Wood films so charming now was Wood's total sincerity in his work, and the fact that he had NO IDEA that he was making bad films.

Vegas In Space was made by trendy hipsters who think their inside jokes and deliberately cheap production values are the last word in chic, downtown humor. That they are so impressed with their own fabulousness is painfully obvious and annoying.