This film parodies various earlier films and is so joke-driven that it often comes close to breaking the fourth wall, but it also works as a 'straight' science fiction comedy. It is based on the tried and tested premise of an everyday character suddenly being catapulted into a space opera plot. Earlier classics based on this premise include Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (1973) (also known as 'Turkish Star Trek') and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981).
The film has high production values, which makes it stand out among Turkish films (at least compared to earlier films). Apparently it was only marketed in Turkey, which is a pity because most of the humor is international. Some of it pokes fun at specific Turkish circumstances, but can be understood by an international audience. The few untranslatable elements, such as the weird pun that motivated the movie's very name, could easily have been glossed over in the translation.
My only complaint is that for my taste, the film contains far too many jokes related to male homosexuality. (I would have tolerated one or maybe two of them, but there were definitely to many and I didn't really understand why.) Fortunately they are not as blatant, pervasive and obnoxious as those in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), a far worse science fiction comedy / spoof that came out in the same year. (This German film enjoyed some limited international marketing and I believe is much better known internationally than G. O. R. A. is.)
The film has high production values, which makes it stand out among Turkish films (at least compared to earlier films). Apparently it was only marketed in Turkey, which is a pity because most of the humor is international. Some of it pokes fun at specific Turkish circumstances, but can be understood by an international audience. The few untranslatable elements, such as the weird pun that motivated the movie's very name, could easily have been glossed over in the translation.
My only complaint is that for my taste, the film contains far too many jokes related to male homosexuality. (I would have tolerated one or maybe two of them, but there were definitely to many and I didn't really understand why.) Fortunately they are not as blatant, pervasive and obnoxious as those in (T)Raumschiff Surprise - Periode 1 (2004), a far worse science fiction comedy / spoof that came out in the same year. (This German film enjoyed some limited international marketing and I believe is much better known internationally than G. O. R. A. is.)