1980's Flash Gordon was a disappointment, but what if it wasn't?
Picking up at the end, we see Flash Gordon (Sam J. Jones), Dale Arden (Melody Anderson), and Dr. Hans Zarkov (Topol) trapped on Mongo. Prince Barin (Timothy Dalton) is busy unifying the various worlds of Ming the Merciless (Max Von Sydow), but Flash is helping.
Back on Earth, things are slowly going back to normal. Happy Hapgood (Liam Neeson), reporter, is busy though. He remembers something about a scientist who spoke of aliens causing the attacks. When whole cities start vanishing in great flashes of light, he figures Zarkov might be the person to ask.
Heading to the doc's lab, he finds it ruined, but he does find a radio. By dumb luck he manages to find the right frequency and talk to Zarkov via the ship's radio. Hearing of the attack, Zarkov watches the Earth as lights from Mars strike the globe.
It seems Azura, Witch Queen of Mars (Helen Mirren) was the hand that saved Ming's ring. She's brought back and he's set up shop on Mars. With no Flash around, he figures he can have free reign.
Flash and company fly to Mars with the Hawk city's engines. There they find the Clay people forced to serve, with the Clay King (Jon Rhys-Davis) knowing how to stop her, but they are forced to live underground in order to live.
They earn the Clay people's trust by stopping the Forrest people from attacking and exposes Ming's treachery to Azura (he was planning on killing her and taking the throne for himself). She dies at the hand's of Ming, but she frees the Clay people from their curse and they attack the palace. Flash and Ming face off, with Ming falling into his Nitron ray and blowing up the palace.
From there the heroes return to Earth. Everything seems fine, but what's that shape crawling away from the wreckage?
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