...a deserved cult-classic with the widest of appeal. It’s camp, it’s silly, it’s funny and it manages to update the Boys Own charm of the original serials...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 30, 2023

The movie itself is pure fun, and its status has only benefitted from the resurgence of interest in Queen, who wrote and performed the original score.

| Sep 7, 2022

If the character of Flash Gordon reminds you of Buster Crabbe's exploits in vintage 1930s serials, then this new version of Flash Gordon is definitely for you.

| Jul 26, 2022

The result is a campy, jokey spoof that resembles nothing more than an expensive remake of Flesh Gordon without the sex, and also without that much cheaper movie's good special effects.

| Jul 26, 2022

While it is undoubtedly messy, silly and incoherent, Flash Gordon still works 40 years on from its original release.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2022

Once upon a time, comic book movies weren't always such serious affairs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2021

The combination of so many forms of bad filmmaking results in a campy bit of surreally over-the-top fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 6, 2020

Basically, whether laughing with this film, or at it, you'll have a blast.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 10, 2020

Director Mike Hodges' Flash Gordon is a wonderfully executed piece of science fiction cinema. It's a film which has become a much deserved cult classic since its original release way back in 1980.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 7, 2020

You'll never see anything else quite like it.

| Aug 6, 2020

A kaleidoscopic trip, Flash Gordon remains a cheerful tale of rich textural spaces.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2020

Elements of it may have aged more like a discarded pint of warm beer than a fine wine, but that doesn't prevent it from being a sheer delight from start to finish - in all of its ultra-camp glory.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 1, 2020

Perhaps, like many a superhero film, this one flags just a little in the final battle sequences, but Von Sydow is always there to keep things bizarre, playing it absolutely straight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2020

a mid-air skirmish of corny old-fashioned retrofuturism and knowing postmodernism, even as its veneer of homespun innocence keeps being subverted by the corrupting powers of kink.

| Jul 31, 2020

In between brittle skies and other galactic junk, the adults are likely to doze off. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Sep 20, 2019

Though the special effects are on the cheesy side and the direction little more than workmanlike, Flash Gordon has the good, giddy grace never to take itself seriously.

| Jul 19, 2019

While it's not the best of the sci-fi genre, you don't have to go to a galaxy far, far away to enjoy every minute of it.

| Original Score: 9.5/10 | Jun 29, 2015

There's plenty of colourful fun and an awful lot of men in tights. Don't listen to its pofaced detractors -- for sheer cinema fun, Flash Gordon can't be beaten.

| Apr 12, 2013

...a terminally underwhelming sci-fi epic that may keep small children amused, admittedly, but will leave adults bored to tears.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 22, 2012

This is like a drug-induced sexy fever dream of what the 80s had turned into for much of science fiction cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2012