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Movies that feel like Galaxy Quest (1999)

If you loved Galaxy Quest, the closest films we have are (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Kin-dza-dza! (1986). All three share Galaxy Quest's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dean Parisotwittyplayfulcerebralepicawe
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(T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1
2004 · dir. Michael Herbig
5.5comedy · science fiction · adventure

Two things both keep coming back to: time travel and parody

Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the Dreamship Surprise – Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty – for help.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2005 · dir. Garth Jennings
🍅 60%6.7adventure · comedy · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: alien

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 · dir. Georgiy Daneliya
7.8comedy · science fiction · adventure

One thread runs through both: spacecraft

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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Paul
2011 · dir. Greg Mottola
🍅 70%6.9adventure · comedy · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

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🍅 95%6.9comedy · science fiction · adventure

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2020s show

On a mission to make Christmas unforgettable for Quill, the Guardians head to Earth in search of the perfect present.

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Star Trek
2009 · dir. J.J. Abrams
🍅 94%7.9science fiction · action · adventure

Both are working the same pair: teleportation, space battle

The difference: Missing the wit of Galaxy Quest

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

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Hot Tub Time Machine
2010 · dir. Steve Pink
🍅 64%6.4science fiction · comedy · adventure

Common ground: time travel

The difference: Not nearly as awestruck as Galaxy Quest

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

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Spaceballs
1987 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 53%7.1comedy · science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: space battle

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?

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Men in Black
1997 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 91%7.3action · adventure · comedy

The same mix in both: ideas, then scale

The difference: Leans harder into action than Galaxy Quest does

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%6.1comedy · science fiction

Awestruck comedy in both cases

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 51%6.4science fiction · adventure · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: spacecraft

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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Independence Day
1996 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 77%7action · adventure · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

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