Turist Ömer Uzay Yolu'nda |
Turkey • 1973 • 72m •
  • Directed by: Hulki Saner. • Starring: Sadri Alisik, Erol Amaç, Cemil Sahbaz, Ferdi Merter, Kayhan Yildizoglu, Elif Pektas, Sule Tinaz, Oytun Sanal, Füsun Olgaç, Nevhilal, Necip Koçak, Nermin Altinses, Yilmaz Sahin..   The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.
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Review:
Obviously a rip-off of Star Trek, mainly 'The Man Trap', you can clearly tell they didn't just copy the look and characters, the essentially copied the plot, which actually makes this watchable to a certain extent because they're using the work of American writers, which is what made the original script this was based on so good (not saying other countries don't have good writers as well, just mean in this context). The addition of Turist Omer makes this more than just a simple rip-off of Star Trek, but continues on a series of comedic movies based on this character.
The similarities to this and Turkish Star Wars is that they blatantly lift footage and sound effects from Star Trek, but where it differs is that unlike Turkish Star Wars, this plot follows all the way through. If you're not familiar with Turkish Star Wars, they used movie footage, music and sound effects from Star Wars, along with music and effects from other sci-fi movies, but this only shows up for the first part of the film and a brief glance at the end. The rest of the movie is essentially an original plot.
A lot of the humor will probably be lost on most of the western audience as it ranks right up there with other such greats as Brazilian Star Wars, it's just comedy for a totally different audience.
A lot of the set pieces look like they took the 'rumored' idea that Star Trek was just cardboard stands and chicken wire and ran with it, but I'll give them credit that it look far better than most of us could do with lesser budgets (if this had one). If you want to see what a western "home made" movie looks like, go and check out "Space Trucker Bruce", these two movies would be best of buds at a convention awarding the 'worst sets ever' (although, Space Trucker Bruce was done by only a couple people, so props to them for doing all that work).
The acting is... well, fine. Being that I can't understand Turkish and had to get all the info through subtitles, so it's really hard to tell what makes a good actor in this movie or other foreign films for that matter. For a really broad idea, the actor playing Kirk had this very prominent "I'm better than you" attitude about him, especially in the way he walked. I'm not kidding, the instant you first see him step off the turbo lift, he struts in like he's God's gift to Star Trek and always, ALWAYS has his nose in the air. It's actually quite humorous to watch. Spock (or Spak) was hardly 'Spock' as he was always getting upset and frustrated and even angry enough to want to leave the ship at one point. To be fair, Omer was being a bit of an!@#$ to him. They would always zoom in on a closeup just so he could raise his eyebrow too, they did it over and over again multiple times. He was also kind of an a-hole. McCoy didn't stand out too much, but he came off looking more like Karl Urban's version of McCoy than Deforest Kelly, which is kind of funny when you think about how far apart those versions are. Most of the rest of the crew are secondary (and thirdary? Is that a word?) Uhura shows up for only a few shots, though you also get a nice panty shot because her skirt is so short. Scotty only comes in for a random voice over, Sulu only has two shots and there is no Chekov. Also, aside from Uhura, none of the other nationalities are there, just Turkish actors.
The effects are what you would expect from something like this, terrible and will make you cringe just knowing you've seen them. I can't help but love the man in the rubber monster suit... no, I don't mean Godzilla, I mean a literal rubber suit, complete with a zipper and huge inflated balloon glove hands. I think they were trying to make the Gorn... but failed.
Overall, a terrible but enjoyable rip-off set in the universe of another completely different series that will leave you shaking your head and wanting to see more.
Review by cujoe_da_man from the Internet Movie Database.
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