5/5 Flash Gordon is the COOLEST
  by Ann Bardeen (Maple St. U.S.A.)
Were do I even start describing how amazing this serial is!! Maybe I should say what is bad about this DVD first. There is only one downside to this DVD, the sound quality is very poor, but only in the first two episodes. Besides that everything else is A-OK. If you were to compare the special effects used in movies today with the special effects of the Flash Gordon movies you would start laughing hysterically. What are supposed to be robots look more like men covered in tinfoil with pointy cardboard boxes on their heads. A lot of the costumes look like soemthing out of Robin Hood movie, the names are corny (example A being "Ming the Merciless"), and the spaceships are simply incredible in the terrible way. But all the stiff acting and corny lines do not stop this movie from being one of the best I have ever seen. It's faults are hilarious, what are supposed to be the most serious of lines are delivered like something out of a Saturday moring cartoon show, but these things just make the movie better and better. For people who like movies that are so bad they're good, this is a MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!

5/5 Flash Gordon is the COOLEST
  by Ann Bardeen (Maple St. U.S.A.)
Were do I even start describing how amazing this serial is!! Maybe I should say what is bad about this DVD first. There is only one downside to this DVD, the sound quality is very poor, but only in the first two episodes. Besides that everything else is A-OK. If you were to compare the special effects used in movies today with the special effects of the Flash Gordon movies you would start laughing hysterically. What are supposed to be robots look more like men covered in tinfoil with pointy cardboard boxes on their heads. A lot of the costumes look like soemthing out of Robin Hood movie, the names are corny (example A being "Ming the Merciless"), and the spaceships are simply incredible in the terrible way. But all the stiff acting and corny lines do not stop this movie from being one of the best I have ever seen. It's faults are hilarious, what are supposed to be the most serious of lines are delivered like something out of a Saturday moring cartoon show, but these things just make the movie better and better. For people who like movies that are so bad they're good, this is a MUST BUY!!!!!!!!!!

1/5 BAD DVD COMPANY!!! BAD, BAD, BAD!
  by Jmark2001 (Florida)
The visual and audio transfer on Alpha Video's edition of "Flash Gordon" is so poor that I could not understand half of the dialogue. Conversations warble and jitter in and out of silence. The print they used is not from the original serials but from a TV edit from the 1950's - which chops off the original intros, and over one hour of the actual running time. This dvd copy looks bad and sounds awful. Avoid this at all costs. I wasted my money on a product that no one could possibly sit through.