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Movies that feel likeGalaxy Quest (1999)

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 Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe.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.

If you loved Galaxy Quest, the closest films we have are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), Kin-dza-dza! (1986) and Dark Star (1974). All three share Galaxy Quest's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Trip to the Moon (1902).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dean Parisotwittyplayfulcerebralepicawe
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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: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Dark Star
1974 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 74%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Galaxy Quest does

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
2009 · dir. J.J. Abrams
🍅 94%★ 7.9science fiction · action · adventureParamount+

Both are working the same pair: teleportation, space battle

The difference: Trades the wit of Galaxy Quest for an angle of its own

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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Spaceballs
1987 · dir. Mel Brooks
🍅 53%★ 7.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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Mickey 17
2025 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 77%★ 6.7science fiction · comedy · adventureMax

Cerebral where it counts, epic underneath

The difference: 26 years apart, and the 2020s show

Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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

Common ground: spacecraft

The difference: Leans harder into action than Galaxy Quest does

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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A Trip to the Moon
1902 · dir. Georges Méliès
🍅 100%★ 8.1adventure · science fiction · comedyMax

Awestruck comedy in both cases

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of the mysterious planet.

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

Both are built on the same subject: teleportation

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

Common ground: time travel

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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John Carter
2012 · dir. Andrew Stanton
🍅 52%★ 6.6action · adventure · science fictionDisney+

Common ground: alien

John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

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