Amazon.com essential video: Jane Fonda's memorable, zero-gravity striptease during the opening credits of this 1968 Roger Vadim movie is the closest the film comes to a liberated marriage of wit and sex. Based on a French comic strip, the story concerns the adventures of a 41st-century woman, who pretty much gets it on with whomever asks. The sci-fi sets were pretty interesting at the time, though they look rather anachronistic now. Appreciated today mostly as a camp classic, the movie is actually more trying than anything else. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Good kitchy fun for people with a great sense of humor
After hearing about this film for years, I finally decided to give the dvd a watch. I honestly didn't know what to expect, but I really didn't expect to like this movie as much as I did. I was familiar ... Read More
Rating: - Barbarella DVD
An Early Jane Fonda movie - surprisingly well done. I love seeing her spinning around naked.
Rating: - barbarella
a wonderful story with a hint of adultism not bad for the time it was made
Rating: - "What kind of girl are you? Have you no shame?!"
The Good Things
*The film has good video quality. A few color shifts and particles on the print perhaps, but is mostly clear, sharp, and colorful.
*Some parts are actually pretty cool. The ... Read More
Rating: - Giggle and bounce
"Barbarella" turns forty years old, the year this is written. If anything, its silliness has just gotten sillier over time.
Fonda herself embodies the biggest of the changes since this movie ... Read More
- Good kitchy fun for people with a great sense of humor
- "What kind of girl are you? Have you no shame?!"