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Lesbian Space Princess, Cineverse

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Review by Mark Dujsik | October 30, 2025

It's probably not for the best that the villains of Lesbian Space Princess are the funniest thing about the movie. They're a group of "Straight White Maliens," depicted as thick straight lines of white with simplistic faces, and the three antagonistic aliens are voiced by the comedy trio of Aunty Donna (Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly, and Zachary Ruane). These are pathetic beings, desperate to lure women to their lair with a "chick magnet," and one of the better visual gags here has them revealing their first attempt. It's a big magnet covered in chickens.

One wonders how much of the dialogue and scenario involving the villains was written and how much of it was improvised by the comedy troupe. The jokes in the sections with the Straight White Maliens are funny in a way that the rest of the movie, unfortunately, isn't. That's not to take away from co-screenwriters/co-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, who obviously came up with the gag of the baddies in the first place. Maybe having such a prime target filled with comedic potential simply brought out, well, the comedic potential in the filmmakers.

The rest of the characters, story, worlds, and jokes of this animated science-fiction comedy aren't nearly as interesting or, surprisingly, imaginative. The filmmakers have set themselves up in a futuristic galaxy, where a planet inhabited solely by gay women is just the starting point. From there, our main character travels to a moon that has some crystals and an outer-space night club with the defining feature that the theme is weaponry. With limitless possibilities, the movie feels wholly limited.

Part of that comes from its bland protagonist. She's Saira (voice of Shabana Azeez, who is trying to bring some life to the role), the daughter of the two queens, Anne (Madeleine Sami) and Leanne (voice of Jordan Raskopoulos), of the planet Clitopolis ("It's hard to find," someone obviously jokes). Saira is supposed to become the ruler of the realm one day, but she is timid, antisocial, and anxious about pretty much everything. The princess is especially worried that she has yet to manifest a mystical labrys, the battle axe that any true ruler of Clitopolis will obtain when she has proven herself worthy or something like that.

At the moment, Saira is devastated after being dumped by intergalactic adventurer Kiki (voice of Bernie Van Tiel), who assumed someone in Saira's position would be cool and fun. Instead, the princess doesn't want to go anywhere and has already made a scrapbook of the couple's relationship—after dating for only two weeks.

The plot has the Straight White Maliens capturing Kiki with the idea that Saira will exchange her labrys, which is very specifically required for the three to use as a battery for their newly acquired chick magnet, for the badass buccaneer. That means Saira has to steal a ship (a "problematic" one, voiced by Richard Roxburgh, in an idea for a joke that doesn't do much), leave the safety of "gay space," and find out how to obtain her weapon and rescue her ex, hoping Kiki will take her back after she proves herself.

The world here is bright and colorful, which serves as enough of a distraction from the fact that the animation and actual character design is rough and imprecise. Apart from the villains and an occasional background figure, all of the characters here are humans, drawn with gangly bodies, limbs that curve instead of bend, and big oval heads with faces that are more than halfway occupied by eyes. There's an initial charm to the look of these characters and the bold hues of the backdrops, but once it becomes apparent that the script is restricted both in its plot and its willingness to invent some distinct locales, that charm wears out quickly.

The bumbling, dunderheaded, and wrongly entitled Straight White Maliens are funny, to be fair, and Saira's pair of partners—Kiki and Willow (voice of Gemma Chua-Tran), an aspiring singer-songwriter whom Saira finds stranded on that moon with the crystals—have enough personality to make us wonder why the story revolves around the princess instead. Yes, Saira's journey is about more than just trying to save the warrior in distress or discovering that a romantic partner who's more suitable to her might exist in the galaxy, but her confronting a dark figure representing her self-doubt and the pressure of her parents comes across as a cliché, considering how little else there is to the character.

Lesbian Space Princess puts forth a lot of broad ideas and characters and design elements, and that carries over to the humor here, as well. It knows what it wants to say, but the movie doesn't come up with a unique, not to mention particularly imaginative or funny, way to say it.

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