Monday, July 14, 2014

Sayonara Jupiter (1984)


Toho Company
Directed by Koji Hashimoto
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(DVD, Discotek)

A project to "solarize" Jupiter by turning it into a new sun for energy becomes an effort to save the solar system when a rogue black hole threatens. Scientists are pitted against environmentalists, who for some reason would rather save Jupiter than the solar system. There are inexplicable breaks for sappy love songs, a sex scene in which two lovers float naked in space, a hippie folk singer who leads the "Church of Jupiter", a dolphin killed by a shark, and more surprises. Somehow manages to rip off Star Wars, 2001 and Jaws, all at the same time!

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