BARBARELLA recaptures the spirit of the early American comic strips, marked by the same audacity and originality, the same mixture of fantasy, humor, beauty, and horror, cruelty and eroticism that made comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while travelling through space in her rocket. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist her in her adventure. Whether she is wrestling with Black Guards, the evil Queen, her innocent lover, or the Angel Pygar, she just can't seem to avoid losing at least part of her skin-tight space suit. BARBARELLA has become a cult favorite.