Actually, despite all the fanciful stops along the way, there is a straight line to this narrative that holds everything together: Barbarella is on a mission to find a missing scientist who may be a threat to the "loving universe"... and is, ultimately. It's really no different than 007 being...
Interesting. But it was England's second most successful movie of the year, a big commercial hit, so go figure. By the way, when the film was re-released in 1977 to cash in on the STAR WARS craze, famed genre illustrators the Hildebrandt Brothers and Boris Vallejo were commissioned to produce...
According to Wikipedia, "The film was particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where it was the year's second-highest-grossing film, after THE JUNGLE BOOK." My memory was that BARBARELLA did good business in general, although it was considered a scandalous disgrace by many conservative...