Galaxy Quest is 25 years old this year. Commemorate the occasion with the new 4K UHD. It looks like a Star Trek movie in 4K, and the goofy 1999 CGI effects are appropriate to the cheesy TV show aesthetic, with surround sound effects that capture space transport and space rumble.
Director Dean Parisot gives a new interview along with all the archival extras, during which he credits Alan Rickman with the film’s ending. After their real adventure in space, Rickman, Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell and Tony Shalhoub return to the Galaxy Quest convention and take bows.
“We changed the ending because I liked coming back to this idea that we’re in the movie, we’re watching real people but we’re also watching a movie,” Parisot said. “They take curtain call, a bow, at the end. Part of that was a suggestion of Alan’s because they’re working together as a team.”
The cast plays stars of a TV show who get a chance to go on a real space mission. The heroics end up repairing the friendships of the cast members too.
“That movie is about teamwork basically as far as those characters are concerned,” Parisot said. “The fact that they all take a bow together and Tim doesn’t hog the limelight anymore, and that they’re all equal on the stage, that idea started with a suggestion that Alan had. That bow reminds you that this was all a show.”