YMMV / Barbarella

• Accidental Innuendo: Durand Durand - "You turned them into fagots!" ^note Made better by the fact that he's talking about how Barbarella broke his Orgasmatron.
• Adaptation Displacement: More people are familiar with the film than with the comic book.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: It's not unlikely that Barbarella refuses the Black Queen's advances not because they're both women, but because the Black Queen murdered two men in front of her. Barbarella's other rescuers used far less lethal ways of saving her. In fact, by the end, she seems to have warmed to the Queen after seeing her perform a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Angel/Devil Shipping:
  • Barbarella (The Ingenue) with the Black Queen (The Caligula).
  • Pygar (he's as good as Barbarella, plus he's a literal angel) with the Black Queen.
• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Barbarella ends up kidnapped and tied up by multiple people, faces certain death more than once and gets tortured in the Excessive Machine, as well as seeing many of her friends die. She's remarkably chipper by the end.
  • Pygar as well, which Barbarella lampshades. He's happy to fly the Black Queen to safety, even after she had him tied up, essentially raped him and has been a tyrant for ages.
• Awesome Music: The OST is very memorable in general, but "Fight in Flight" stands out particularly in its awesomeness.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The most remembered parts from the movie are Jane Fonda's striptease and the scene where she's put in the Excessive Machine.
• Common Knowledge: The Black Queen is not a lesbian. While she's interested in Barbarella, she also shows interest in Pygar too, meaning she's obviously bisexual.
• Cult Classic: It was not a great success on its first release, but is now considered a cult classic of the 60s.
• Draco in Leather Pants: The Black Queen. Since the movie isn't supposed to be taken seriously, no one pays any attention to the fact that she's pretty awful, and we only see Anita Pallenberg in kinky see-through outfits. Many viewers end up preferring her to Barbarella.
• Evil Is Cool: The Black Queen. She makes her debut by murdering two rapists that were about to assault our titular heroine, while wearing an Eyepatch of Power and showing phenomenal skill with two knives. She carries herself with flair and confidence even as her attempts to seduce Barbarella fail time and again. And it's her, not Barbarella, who puts a stop to the real Big Bad's plans, accepting that she will die in the process (due to sheer luck, she doesn't, happily enough).
• Fan Nickname:
  • It's common to hear the Excessive Machine referred to as the "Orgasmatron".
  • Due to the band naming themselves after him, Durand Durand is often accidentally called Duran Duran.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Made in Italy and France, it was the second most profitable movie of its year in the United Kingdom (number one was The Jungle Book (1967), in case you're wondering).
• Harsher in Hindsight: Talitha Pol, who played the woman who offers Barbarella her hookah, died of an overdose just three years after this movie.
• Heartwarming Moments: Pygar saving his previous tormentor along with Barbarella. His quote "An angel has no memory" beautifully connotes that angels do not hold grudges.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Anyone watching the movie after the 1980s might find a villain named Duran Duran a little hard to take seriously.
  • The Creepy Twins Barbarella encounters when she first lands may bring to mind the Grady sisters from The Shining.
  • Milo O'Shea playing a mad scientist who tries to punish an Ingenue via sex machine is amusing when one knows he was starring in Romeo and Juliet (1968) around the same time, playing a friar who is also something of a scientist too.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Barbarella's various costumes are enough of an attraction in their own right. The Black Queen's outfits aren't too shabby either.
  • Jane Fonda's performance is another big draw.
• LGBT Fanbase: With its reputation as a Camp classic, Jane Fonda in several fabulous outfits, the Black Queen's lesbian attraction to Barbarella, and John Philip Law spending the entire movie in a loin cloth, it's quite understandable that there's a significant queer fan base.
• Memetic Mutation: People really like to repeat the line "De-crucify the angel (or I'll melt your face)!" and (probably sarcastically) champion it as one of the greatest lines in film history.
• One-Scene Wonder: Dildano isn't in the film much, and only has one major scene, but it's also the very memorable one where he and Barbarella have sex via the pill, and so it's one of the funniest moments.
• One True Threesome: Since the ending features Pygar flying off with Barbarella and the Black Queen under both arms, it opens up a possibility for Barbarella to be with the two of them.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • For the opening sequence, Jane Fonda was made to roll around on a pane of glass to give the illusion that she was floating in zero gravity. Unfortunately during some close-ups she is very obviously reflected on the glass, as is at least one of the credits.
    • Not only that, but her movement is restricted to the X-plane (i.e. perpendicular to the camera's viewpoint); she does not float up or down, nor in the Y-plane (i.e. closer to or further away from the camera).
  • The wires lifting Barbarella's spaceship are very easy to spot in the moments after Mark Hand repairs it.
  • The invisible wall separating the Chamber of Dreams from the outside world. Invisible wall? More like pane of glass, considering you can see Barbarella reflected on it.
• Spiritual Successor: Barbarella would receive one known as Space Adventure Cobra.
• Values Resonance: While a ridiculous comedy, it does have a sex positive message, with Barbarella happily enjoying it and seeing no issue about Sex for Services, and beating the Excessive Machine by being Too Kinky to Torture. And the Matmos considers her pure enough to shield itself from her, meaning Barbarella is still seen as pure and heroic.
• Vindicated by History: The movie failed on its first American release in 1968. It was through a re-release in 1977 (to cash in on A New Hope) that it gained recognition there.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: Many, many outfits, but the large horn on the Black Queen's head stands out as the stupidest costume design choice.

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