MYTHICITY: *poor*
FRYEAN MYTHOS: *adventure*
CAMPBELLIAN FUNCTION: *sociological*
It's time for another game of "how low can you go," specifically the "micro-budget edition." I just finished another micro-type in RANGERS: BLOODSTONE-- and despite my having almost nothing good to say about BLOODSTONE, next to GALAXY WARRIORS the earlier micro was comparatively watchable.
The failings of GALAXY are particularly egregious because it's a "woman-in-prison-film," IN SPACE. Really, how hard is it to watch the old Jack Hill classics and cobble together something that at least emulates that example of lively trash.
Instead, we're introduced to two outer-space lady bounty hunters. Demeter (Christine Emes) and Vesta (Alianne Rozon). After a piddling adventure capturing a villain fleeing in another spaceship-- all with no FX or good costumes-- Demeter finds out that her sister Artemis has been sentenced to space-prison. So of course, both of them get themselves sent to the same prison in order to get Li'l Sis free. (BTW, though the majority of the characters have names culled from Greek mythology, all of these usages are entirely meaningless, and it's not even consistent since one male character bears the name "Jeb.")
There's no nudity, no over-the-top melodrama, and no decent fight-scenes, so GALAXY belongs in some galaxy far far from here, presumably in some undeserving alien's trash compactor.
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