Barbarella (1968)

It is the distant future and Barbaralla (Jane Fonda) strips off her space suit in Zero-G.  No sooner is she naked than the President of Earth contacts her.  She must go to Tau Ceti and find the missing scientist, Durand Durand.  He explains that the scientist has created a positronic ray that could lead to war, something unknown in the current era.  She sets course and soon crash lands on Lythion, where she is promptly captured by delinquent children.  After tying her to a post in the ruins of Durand Durand's ship, the children (multiple sets of twins, oddly enough) unleash a mob of razor-toothed animated dolls upon her.  Luckily, she is rescued by Mark Hand the Catchman.  It is his job to catch errant children and send them to the city of Sogo.  The Catchman tells her that Durand is likely in Sogo and suggests she look there.  He has made repairs to her ship.  She once again wrecks her ship but this time in the labyrinth that surrounds Sogo.  Here she meets Pygar (John Phillip Law), a blind angel.  He introduces her to Professor Ping (Marcel Marceau in a speaking role), who offers information on Sogo and the Great Tyrant.  Most notable is that the city rests upon a living lake called the Matmos, a being that feeds on evil.  Serving as eyes for Pygar, she flies over the labyrinth and infiltrates Sogo.  Both she and Pygar are captured by the Concierge and the Black Queen, aka the Great Tyrant.  Sentenced to death, she is locked into a glass cage and set upon by swarms of birds.  Before she is finished off, a secret door opens and she is spirited away to the secret lair of the resistance where she meets Dildano (David Hemmings).  Dildano provides the means to enter the Black Queen's private chamber in exchange for weapons from Barbarella's ship.  Once again infiltrating Sogo, Barbarella is again captured by the Concierge.  He tries to kill her with his excessive pleasure machine, but the machine is no match for Barbarella.  Infuriated, the Concierge ponders some new fate for her, but, upon learning that she has a means to enter the Black Queen's chamber, he has a new plan.  He locks both Barbarella and the Black Queen in the chamber then crowns himself the new tyrant.  However, Dildano has launched his rebellion.  The Concierge, who is in truth the missing Durand Durand, uses his positronic ray to eliminate the rebellion in a flash.  The Black Queen has a secret weapon of her own: she can unleash the Matmos to destroy Sogo.

The film is thoroughly 1960s.  The effects are all psychodelic and the costumes outlandish.  Barbarella mostly proves to be a hapless heroine more reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline.  The big selling point for the film is the nudity and sex kitten nature of Barbarella.  She uses sex as a reward for the Catchman, an incentive for Pygar, and for humor with Dildano.  Her seemingly insatiable sex drive is what destroyed the excessive-pleasure machine.

A goofball sci-fi adventure that is more an excuse to have Jane Fonda in various sexy outfits or no outfit at all.  Of particular note, Fonda was married to the director, Roger Vadim, at the time!  Definitely a movie to see once.