

Watch the video above or check out the slideshow below!Ĭheck out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. But they all deserve a chance to take you to incredible new places and save the galaxy along with their heroes. Some of them might just not be for everyone. Some of them require a code key to fully appreciate how wonderful they are. Some of them are legitimately great by any reasonable measure. With that in mind, we now highlight our picks for the best space operas (that aren't Star Wars or Star Trek). The fact that these movies are weird, or silly, or seem like they were made by people who did a LOT of drugs isn't a bug. But the darnedest thing is, many of the reasons why people criticize space operas that aren't Star Wars (or, arguably, Star Trek, which also grounded its sci-fi storylines, albeit with scientific and bureaucratic realism) are actually the reasons why they're great. The only limit is the imagination, and sometimes the imagination flies off the handle. Space operas give filmmakers a license to go completely nuts and create larger-than-life characters, costumes, locations and storylines. And that's probably why so many other space opera movies fail to find a large audience, no matter how interesting they are, or how much fun.
