{"id":20530,"date":"2016-05-04T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20530"},"modified":"2016-05-04T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T13:44:29","slug":"star-struck-tv-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/star-struck-tv-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"“Star Struck” TV Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StarStruck1979\"<\/a>You know what would make a great half hour family sitcom? Taking the Cantina scene from \u201cStar Wars\u201d and extending it, said no one ever. Recently unearthed on the web after years in virtual obscurity, \u201cStarstruck\u201d is the clear cut result of the massive popularity of \u201cStar Wars,\u201d revealing how a studio attempted to market on the fame with a very low budget sitcom format. Chronicling the adventures of the McCallister family, we follow their long lineage through the opening credits and watch as their descendants are now exercising good old fashioned capitalism in the galaxy.<\/p>\n

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The McCallisters are a large clan of space explorers that run their own Hotel and Restaurant, and come across all kinds of wacky misadventures and goofy alien species. You\u2019d think a show like this would lack the wide scope it requires, and you\u2019d be right. Most of the pilot is filmed in doors like a situation comedy, with only brief establishing shots of the McCallister space station. Granted, while the monster effects are terrible, the miniature work is pretty solid most times. While it\u2019s somewhat similar to \u201cThe Jetsons\u201d in small instances, the influences are clearly derived from \u201cStar Wars.\u201d<\/p>\n

The creators even feature two very sassy droids, one of whom is gold, while the other is small and white. The small and white droid sounds like a Scottish au pair, for some reason, doting over the kids in the series. It\u2019s not at all hard to figure out why \u201cStar Struck\u201d never landed as a television series, mainly because it\u2019s so utterly and painfully unfunny. It\u2019s bad enough the series is so derivative it borders on copyright infringement, but a lot of the humor is based around \u201cIt\u2019s funny because it\u2019s space!\u201d The father of the McCallister Clan spends his breakfast trying to crack open an alien egg to eat because it\u2019s space. The grandfather of the clan wants a specific type of cereal with an odd name because, it\u2019s space.<\/p>\n

One of our supporting characters Max orders a peculiar drink from a bar that spews purple smoke because, you know, it\u2019s space. So it\u2019s funny. All in all, \u201cStar Struck\u201d is a very unbalanced result of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d mayhem that ensued after the movie released in 1977. The pilot attempts to mix sitcom comedy, family comedy, musical numbers, and science fiction action unsuccessfully, resulting in what is a late seventies oddity worth watching mainly for hardcore \u201cStar Wars\u201d fanatics and pop culture buffs.<\/p>\n