Lexx
A good day in the League of Twenty Thousand Planets features fear, misery, pain and death. From his seat on the Cluster, His Divine Shadow rules with dark powers and an impenetrable bureaucracy. In Episode 1 of this funny, dark and sexy series of four movies, four unlikely heroes are thrown together to wreak havoc on the Cluster: Zev, gorgeous but deadly, part love-slave, part Cluster lizard; 790, a Zev-obsessed robot head; Kai, a cold-blooded assassin whose good looks haven't spoiled at all since his death 2000 years ago; and Stanley Tweedle, a bumbling Class 4 Security Guard who can barely remember his ID number, yet holds the key to the most powerful weapon of destruction in the Two Universes. Welcome to LEXX, a rule-breaking brew of fast action, special effects, steamy shower scenes and bad robot poetry.
On Cluster, the capital of the league of 20 000 planets, a ship with the power to destroy planets lies waiting for it's master - "His Divine Shadow". But the soon to be executed rebel Thodin has his eyes on it too, and mangles the city's computer system while engineering his escape. Using the chaos that erupts, the death sentenced security officer Stanley Tweedle and the escaped "love-slave" Zev evade capture and eventually team up with Thodin... with the undead assassin Kai following, with orders to kill them all.
Zev decides they should go to Brunnis, the original home of the Brunnen-G, in hopes of finding something that can prolong Kai's life. When they arrive they find it barren, except from holographic messages left by the eccentric "Poet Man". As they enter the library, they are totally unaware that back on the Lexx Giggerota has sprung back to life and plots to steal it with the help of the remaining Divine Predecessors.
The Lexx is forced to land on a planet to eat and replenish its energy supply. While they wait, Stanley and Zev go outside to bury Kai, who seems to have run out of the protoblood that kept him functioning. On their way back, Zev insists on investigating a structure. Too late they discover that it is filled with insane people obsessed with getting "clean bodies" to make "pattern."
Kai is running out of protoblood, and a desperate Zev forces Stan to set course back to the Cluster through the fractal core. When they arrive they find they entire planet barren - everybody killed in "the cleansing", in preparation of the birth of the Gigashadow.
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Brian Downey | Stanley Tweedle |
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Eva Habermann | Zev |
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Michael McManus | Kai |
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Jeffrey Hirschfield | 790 |
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Michael Habeck | Feppo |
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Andy Jones | Smoor |
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Malcolm McDowell | Yottskry |
| Director | Robert Sigl |
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| Writer | Jeffrey Hirschfield, Tom de Ville, Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff | |
| Producer | Norman Denver, Paul Donovan | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | 1.33:1 |
| Audio Tracks | English Dolby Digital 2.0 French Dolby Digital 2.0 |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 29, 2000 |
| Regions | Region 1 |