Product Details

• Actors: Brian Downey, Eva Habermann, Michael McManus, Jeffrey Hirschfield, Tom Gallant
• Directors: Robert Sigl
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Paramount
• VHS Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792147316
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,828 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The original Lexx saga comes to an epic close as the fractious foursome (if you count churlish robot head 790) returns to the Shadow-ruled Cluster in a last-ditch effort to obtain the proto-blood that keeps the undead Kai animated. To their surprise they find a dead universe: every human has been sacrificed to His Shadow's rebirth as the Giga-Shadow, except a clerical conspiracy has put an end to that... maybe. With the help of a dead body (guest star Malcolm McDowell, who spends much of the film as a disembodied face) reanimated with a splatter of proto-blood, the rebirth is back on schedule and only the dying Kai, the desperate Zev, and a Cluster Lizard pup named Squish stand in its way. Meanwhile Stanley plots an elaborate and rather ingenious revenge on a pair of perverted mercenaries who once made him their unwilling sex toy, but did they get a jump on the bumbling schmuck?

A fitting climax, a schizophrenic mix of apocalyptic doom and black humor, is accomplished with epic ambition and bright, funky, fantastic alien designs and skyscapes. Some of the effects are decidedly on the cheap side, but the wildly imaginative visions more than make up for such shortcomings. As epic science fiction, Lexx is a little underdone, but the darkly ironic twists that bring the history and prophecies introduced in I Worship His Shadow full circle have a satisfying sense of absurd self-destruction. --Sean Axmaker

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Time is circle..., December 6, 2001

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C. Paschall (RVA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexx - Giga Shadow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Giga Shadow ends the Lexx movies. If you do not know Lexx or hate it, give the movies a chance. Starting with "I Worship His Shadow" and ending with this tape is a fine way to start enjoying Lexx. Is it high budget? No but does sport some impressive visuals and great actors portraying out of the norm characters. It is a good mix of sci-fi themes that tend to get ignored by the stoic shows. Sex, violence, gore, and just plain odd... Lexx is the hybrid of Red Dwarf (minus the sitcom) and a third world country blue movie set inside an insect. Giga Shadow is worth owning for repeated viewing.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars " Parallel Universe" movies not exactly parallel with "Lexx", May 6, 2002

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Joe Lenius (Mount Prospect, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lexx - Giga Shadow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I sorta joined the "Lexx" saga somewhat late, beginnig with the Fire/Water story line on the SCI FI channel. The quirky satire of the show immediately caught my fancy, and although as the show progressed it became even more outrageous and obsessed with sexual matters, I always made it a point to catch all the episodes or arrange that they be videotaped.

With a busy schedule it was difficult for me to catch up on the past episodes (other than what SCI FI had rerun), and I had always assumed that "Lexx" began as an hour-long series on SCI FI. That is, until I checked the local library for video loans, and was surprised to find out that the series had in fact originated as a "mini-series" of TV movies ("Tales From thr Parallel Universe") originally aired on Showtime.

The second surprise was discovering that Eva Halbermann had originally played the part of Zev prior to Xenia Seeberg (both actresses performing excellently). But the third surprise was that the quartet of TV movies was more "straight" science fiction, with an added twist of broad satire and comedy, as opposed the TV show which esentially evolved into the reverse, with the stir, comedy and sex becoming the ain thrust (no pun intended).

The "evolution" of Lexx certainly started (or accelerated) after the change from Halbermann to Seeberg on the TV show. In finally viewing the made-for-TV movies I have to admit that, without impugning the later "Lexx" TV episodes, I enjoyed the quartet of movies MUCH more, because they concentrated more on basic plot, premise and characterization, rather than worrying about what to satirize next.

I think anyone who enjoys (enjoyed) the "Lexx" series SHOULD love all four of these "Parallel Univese" movies, and perhaps even those who did NOT favor the series will nontheless appreciate these fine films.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kai needs his proto-blood!, September 28, 2000

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Woods Woman "Into the forest..." (Jackson, Mississippi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lexx - Giga Shadow [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Lots of action and a little humor thrown in for good measure. Kai, the dead assasin turned good guy to the rescue and yet vulnerable as his proto-blood supply slowly runs out. Xev, beautiful, strong, and sexy aids him in his quest for revenge and proto-blood. Stanley, a silly idiot doing the best he can, rounds out a full crew aboard the LEXX. The LEXX is a HUGE insect spaceship (it's a living ship) that has the capability to destroy entire planets with one well aimed shot. 790, a talking robot head, keeps everyone in line with his quips and quarreling with Stanley over luscious Xev. It's available in VHS and on cable tv on the SciFi channel on Friday night at 9:PM CST. I wouldn't recommend this show for kids under 13. The violence and sexual innuendo might be a little too strong for the emotionally delicate.