Plans get foiled time and again for poor young Flash when his girlfriend is kidnapped by Ming the Merciless, who intends to destroy the earth and make her his new concubine. A baroque world of wedding-cake sky castles, crystal swords, hawk-men and a chap who has just twelve hours to save the world armed only with a lantern jaw and a clean pair of tights. Can he avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo? Can Flash save the Earth? Will Brian Blessed's find out more...

Based on Steve Gerber's subversively hilarious comics, this film is not only one of the worst and most expensive films of the 1980s, it's also, perversely, one of the most sought after. Agonisingly ill-conceived this tale of a gobby extra-terrestrial duck reluctantly faced with saving the world is so truly awful it's almost hypnotic…..go on….risk it. find out more...

There's hardly anything I would improve about this film. The visuals, concepts, soundtrack, characters, pace, humour and animation are all some of the best I've ever seen in any film; I was worried the hype would ruin it for me, as it always does, but not even the group of kids in the theatre who wouldn't stop loudly talking could ruin it for me. It is visually engaging and find out more...