Flash Gordon Classic

[Shaka Zulu]

The sexism is mean to evoke the 1930's version of Flash Gordon, in which women were helpless.

As I said in my comments at Cartoon Brew, although this is a nice little film, this should not be expanded into a longer feature-the 21st century needs a new Flash Gordon that will fit into it.

No it doesn't. Filmation did a 30's inspired cartoon in the 70's and that worked out just fine.

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And the last time somebody tried to update the concept for this century they turned Flash into a jobless has-been who lived with his mother. More of that kind of modernity we don't need.

The mid-90's one was Flash and Dale as teens, and also having adventures in the same mold as the original strips/serials/movie (Flash and Dale meet the older Zarkov, take off in his homemade ship, crash on Mongo, have the same adventures, can't get back to Earth because the wormhole to Earth [which Ming uses to conquer other planets] is closed and they both decide to stay on Mongo and kick Ming's saurian ass.) That was a great update of the character (complete with skateboards!) by Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens, and its's also too bad that it didn't get a second season; it serves as I consider it to be a great update of the characters and situations, and is better than just having Flash & Co. in the 1930's doing what was already done in live action.

About the recent live version, the less said, the better. And no, I don't want it to be a template for a updated Flash Gordon (even less so the so-bad-it's-good [but only slightly] 1980 movie version, which is good for a rainy day weekend or when you're cleaning the house and need some background ambiance as you're doing so, but just only that.)