My Lovely Horse posted:

Galaxy Quest is a very silly movie indeed. The original Star Trek cast is mistaken for actual space heroes by aliens and recruited for a dangerous mission, except if you called it Star Trek in the film you'd get sued. Alan Rickman plays the show's Leonard Nimoy analogue - a classically trained actor stuck in his 20-year-old role as an alien man with silly prosthetics and a catchphrase he loathes. It's not helping that one of the aliens idolizes his character on the show and has modeled his own life after his philosophy (that is, on real Earth, being used to advertise special offers at the local electronics shop).

Then towards the end there's a scene that has no right to be anything but sappy and the payoff may have been telegraphed miles ahead, but by god this is Alan Rickman at the helm and he delivers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bo_A6XnUU

(Sadly it's also the point where his character stops being very interesting or prolific but even so, it's an obvious turning point for him, and Rickman portrays him as much more at ease with his castmates from that point on.)