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The movie is spoofing everything from 1960s American TV Show, Star Trek, to all the Star Wars movies, to 1990's Back to the Future Part 3, and even have bits of Das Traumschiff, a German television series, similar to the series 1977's American show, The Love Boat. This movie claims to be the first democratically chosen movie. The viewers could choose between "Manitou's Shoe 2", "Lissi und der wilde Kaiser" (later made in 2007), "Ein Film, wo keiner mit rechnet" or "Dreamship Surprise". After making 2001's Manitou's Shoe, Michael Herbig allow his audience to choose, what subject his next movie should be. The movie is based on a recurring skit from Herbig's 1997 to 2002's TV Show 'Bullyparade'. I can't truly hate the film because it really did try to be entertaining. Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 is one of those so bad, it's good. It wasn't as bad, other parodies I have saw, but it wasn't that good. Its still, isn't that funny, today, when I just re-watch it.
I have to say, the movie directed by Michael Herbig was part of my childhood when I saw in Germany. Definitely recommended for an evening after a hard day's work. Stay tuned during the credits, where some blooper scenes are shown, and if you stay until the end of the credits, you'll be rewarded with yet another short hilarious scene. Spoofing and combining key characters from Star Wars and Star Trek have been attempted before in Hollywood comedies, but definitely not in the manner that Dreamship Enterprise had. If you think that the Chicken Little ad now showing in theatres is cute, you haven't seen nothing yet! Spoofing obvious movies like Star Wars - pod-racing, battleships hovering in orbit, the Jedi Council, Coruscant, Queen Amidala, Han Solo, Emperor Palpatine, Darth Vader, Stormtroopers, the list goes on, and Star Trek - the main leads, there are also numerous references to movies like Austin Powers (the phallic-shaped starship), Back to the Future (time travel), Minority Report and even A Knight's Tale. But it's made more difficult when Kork and crew are more interested in their rehearsals for an upcoming Miss Waikiki competition (don't ask). To save Earth from the aliens, the team has to travel back in time to prevent the discovery of alien lifeforms in Area 51. Serious Trekkies might not take this too kindly though, to see their beloved franchise taken to "new" heights. Needless to say, the crew of Dreamship Surprise is a complete spoof of Star Trek's Starship Enterprise crew, right down to the uniform, the multi-racial crew, and the technology available on board. Somehow, Earth's last hope lies in the hands of Dreamship Surprise and its crew of merry men, led by the gayish Captain Kork, and equally feminine-like officers Mr Spuck and Schrotty. In the future, Earth has colonized Mars, and some aliens aren't happy with it, so war is declared on the Earthlings. The story's not award winning material to begin with, and it was never the intention of doing so. If you're looking for a plot, be reminded that a spoof-fest only has an outline of what resembles a story. No wonder this comedy broke the German box office with its madcap, low-brow, at times, crass humour. This movie is so insanely gay! And I mean it in both sense of the word.
(Most of the time my ratings for a movie are below the IMDb-average so me rating it the same as the average voter while saying it deserves a higher score is not a contradiction. This movie is not quite as bad as the IMDb-rating (5.4) suggests but way worse than the hype around it makes you believe it is. I remember laughing quite a bit the first time I watched it but even back then I found it disappointing.
About a year after watching it the first time, I watched it again and I laughed about 5 times and smiled maybe another 10 times. There was a huge hype around this movie and when I finally saw it I was disappointed as the movie did not deliver. I like Bully and I think he is funny, loved "Der Schuh des Manitu". So really you have creative ideas and funny and original jokes but in the same scene you have old or plagiarized jokes and gags that are complete misses. It has some new jokes but what I found shocking is that some of the jokes were "borrowed" (from Austin Powers Loriot.). "(T)Raumschiff Surprise" is sometimes funny, sometimes hilarious but it is also embarrassingly stupid at times.