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Lexx - I Worship His Shadow |
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Lexx - I Worship His Shadow
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by Paramount
Sales Rank: 21003
Price: $7.99
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The sexy cult cable series <I>Lexx</I> began life in 1997 as a set of four Canadian-German TV coproductions, sci-fi farces about a trio of fugitives in a living spaceship on the run in an unknown galaxy. It's like a twisted parody of the playful but far more serious space opera <I>Farscape</I>, though <I>Lexx</I> actually was produced first. Sad sack Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), a bumbling engineer with bad judgment and worse luck, is the pilot of the most powerful weapon in the galaxy thanks to a fluke accident. And his motley crew includes platinum-blond bombshell Zev Bellringer (Eva Habermann), whose DNA has been altered to contain that of a bloodthirsty cluster lizard; former assassin Kai (Michael McManus), a humorless, dead warrior kept animated for 2,000 years with artificial blood; and a decapitated, lovesick robot head named 790.<p> The colorful "I Worship His Shadow," the satirical debut of the series, is an absurd fantasy about a rebellion (led by guest star Barry Bostwick, who gamely keeps a straight face while running around dressed in psychedelic <I>Arabian Nights</I> duds) against His Shadow, an immortal emperor who renders his subjects into raw protein for his invincible insectlike spaceship, the Lexx. Directed at a fast and furious pace and crammed with cool CGI effects that make up in ambition and wild design what they lack in polish, it's the show's finest hour and a half, a crazy adventure with a wacky sense of humor. It's obvious the show's producers lavished their care and attention on this pilot, for the balance of the miniseries never again reaches this level of invention and fun, though in moments it comes close. <I>--Sean Axmaker</I>
Viewer Reviews
I just loved the LEXX mini-series back in the days, so I got it on VHS as soon as it was released over here in Germany. Sadly, I had to find out those tapes contained versions of the movies that were quite heavily cut - something only too common for German releases. You might be surprised, but censorship on movies is really rigid in Germany. Even movies that are being released as NC-17 are very often cut-down versions. The latest example being "Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning", which will hit German cinemas - and probably DVD-players - solely in a version that's about 10 minutes shorter than the original, although being rated NC-17!
Anyway, don't even think of buying this DVD, since the censorship is immanent here, too. For example, movie no. 3 is stripped of SIXTEEN MINUTES of fun, violence, and sex on this release; movie no. 4 is missing nearly 20 scenes... and so on. This is absurd. Apart from that, as another reviewer already mentioned, these DVDs contain only German language, what renders them completely useless. Sadly, that's another practice all too common in Germany.
If you want to see this great mini-series in the way it was intended, look for the british DVDs from kult T.v., "Lexx - The Movies" 1.1 and 1.2, containing all four films in their uncut, english language versions. They're a little hard to hunt down nowadays, though. I've also been told there's a more recent, uncut canadian release from "Koch Vision", but I don't know any details about that one.
5 stars for the movies, -4 for this release. Equals 1 star only. Too bad.
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