This film begins as pure camp, positively "B" material, Plan 9 from Outer Space. But there is a bit of quality to this film.Dennis Hopper, always the crazy Photographer from "Apocalypse Now", drives a beat up "Pachyderm 2000" Rig in Space, first carting square pigs from Mars, then a more diabolical cargo he doesn't know about.Hopper plays "John Canyon" - The last Trucker in space who does not work for "The Company". After he has a load 'jacked by company goons, he has to make a rapid exit from the space station/diner after George Wendt (Keller) gets sucked out guts-first from a broken porthole. He avoids the Station cops, but he gets trapped in a debris field filled with "Black Rock" Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy, Scientist Charles Dance ("Nabel") has created "perfect soldiers" equipped with "State-of-the-art-Disintegrators" (and that right there is a giveaway for some great Incredi-Gore) , which works so well that the boss "EJ Saggs" (played by Shane Rimmer) has him "killed". But Nabel had made 5,000 of these soldiers - Guess where they are going and guess what trucker is carting them? Enough of the spoilers - You can see what mischief is going to happen. Super Soldiers, Space Pirates, a crazed mad Scientist who has made himself a "super male body part" - A cute Space Waitress/NY chick (Debi Mazar) and the kid who is on his very first trucking job (Stephen Dorff), all ingredients for horror-comedy in space.Supporting Character spots played by George Wendt, Shane Rimmer and Charles Dance give this a bit better quality than your average B movie. Basically, this film is a nod to Truckers, and especially, the lone entrepreneur - Much like "They Drive by Night".The superb special effects and Make-up are sometimes combined with very clever gags, one-liners, and clichés turned on their ear. This is typical Hopper faire, the nonsense just does not let up, it builds past the point of credibility very early in the film - And this actually increases the comedy to a high degree. The characters of the Pirates are great, especially the guy who gets blasted and mistakes his own flesh cooking to someone making hamburgers. The pure inanity makes this film worth watching - At least once. It's like one of those Band movies from the 80's.There is a section of this film, which is rather creepy, regarding the super-soldiers, this occurs in the last act of the film, and it actually adds pure-horror elements into the mix, it has to do with the nature of the soldiers themselves.Once the destruction starts - It don't stop until the movie's done, so if you like wanton carnage mixed with your comedy and a touch of horror, this is for you.

With a film like this, it's hard to know exactly what you're meant to be watching. Judging form the filmographies of both the director and the writer (the only good film previously done by either of them being the directorial work of the Christopher Lambert film Fortress), it's clear these aren't exactly cinematic geniuses; so I took the film as I saw it... laughably bad. From the very start we are greeted with laughably bad special effects with blatantly visible wires used to spin a man in supposed zero g environment, and then animation on par with that from "who framed roger rabbit?" as a cartoon tooth and blood unrealistically originates from a persons face.The inclusion of Stephen Dorph, who's only achievement in life is the Blade movies, just adds to the weakness of this movie. As for Dennis Hopper, lets just say he has more to be proud of in his role in Waterworld.Basically this space trucker has to take a mysterious cargo, is hijacked by pirates and eventually gets to earth for a weak conclusion. Despite a ship that is made out of space waring metal burning up and exploding in the earths atmosphere, we are somehow expected to believe that Dennis Hoppers character was able to parachute from the same height wearing only a spacesuit.In fact the one good thing in this film is the switcheroo pulled on the bad guy in the end, but I won't spoil it. I'd recommend you watch this film if it comes on TV and you've got noting else to do, purely because it is so laughably bad it makes a fun way to pass an hour and a half of your life. But under no circumstance, even think of parting with your hard earned money to rent this movie, it doesn't deserve your money. And as long as people keep renting bad movies like this, they'll keep being made, so do the movie industry a favour and just say no... unless it comes on TV that is.

I am a great fan of films that don't take themselves too seriously and space truckers is definitely one of these. I could see Dennis Hopper actually revelling in his cheesyness mainly because he normally takes on very serious roles. The costumes were exaggerated (charles dance for instance) and the graphics, although quite gaudy were actually pretty good for its time. I liked the design of the killer robots with their face mounted death rays and karate chopping antics.A fun film with silly antics. Good stuff7 / 10

K, one day my father picked up a movie with a 'neat' cover. Got home with my mom and we were like yay lets watch this new movie we never saw before! .. Ok so it started ... interesting start, cool robots and disgusting gore (eek) on a strange planet (actually it was Pluto wasn't it?)... Blablabla I could tell the whole story but I rather not point, WTF NEVER EVER pick up a movie with a lame ass name, and seriously don't EVER I mean EVER judge a book by its cover (err tape..) it looked like an interesting movie HOWEVER it was a slap to the face for sci-fi movies, its DISGUSTING. I mean it was so bad I just started laughing (I swear it tryed to be serious) I CANT DESCRIBE THE STUPIDITY! It killed more then a million brain cells of mine I can't even write a descent critique. ITS THAT BAD! Argh and I wana prepare you for something "strange' *COUGH COUGH* mechanical p3n1$ *COUGH COUGH* Sorry just had to say it, its so funny, think of it as a commedy or a parody of sorts for sci-fi movies. Its classic batman laughs but in a new packaging. What the hell was this director thinking?