Give me the early serials or even the over-the-top Queen soundtrack-powered 1980 Flash Gordon any day over this TV episode compilation which updates the classic Alex Raymond comic strip to modern day and pops a skateboard-riding kid onto the planet Mongo to do neverending (until cancellation) battle against Ming the Merciless. If you need a little junk fiction in your juvenile collection, this so-so animated entry certainly fits the bill, but its strictly optional and smart kids will wonder as I did (and I'm not even that smart) at Dr. Zarkoff's grammatically slipshod description of his space chariot as "in words of two syllables or less, my rocketship"). Aud: P. (R. Pitman)
Flash Gordon
(F.H.E., 75 min. $9.98, avail. May 20) Vol. 12, Issue 3
Flash Gordon
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