This film was actually and originally released in 3D.

I remember seeing this movie in the theater when I was real little.  I can remember it being in 3-D and being really freaked out on the verge of screaming at the scene where the android melts near the begining (hey I was real young).  Anyways, I haven't thought about this movie in awhile so i'm going to have to try to dig up a copy of it and rewatch this stinker.    

Oh, Lord, what a horrid, horrid decade. Three-Dee is THE low point of cinematic development; video porn is, relatively speaking, a grand achievement. Not only were "Spacehunter" and "Metalstorm" created simply to showcase (and exploit) the process, but we also sat through (it 'we' were stupid idiots) "Comin' At Ya!," "Jaws 3-D," "Friday the 13th Part III," "Treasure of the Four Crowns," the re-releases of the (cough) 'classics' "House of Wax" and "Dial 'M' For Murder," plus others that I've forgotten by accident or design. The most horrible of all, though, was "Starchaser: The Legend of Orin." Filmation-Saturday-morning-quality animation? In 3D? Plot, characters, and whole swaths of dialog and other elements stolen from "Star Wars?" Oooh. Like a diamond drill, burrowing into my forehead...

This is one of my favorite all time corny-as-hell goofball guilty pleasure movie of all time (and you'd be surprised by how many of those there are)!
I too saw this in the theatre when I was like 7 3/4 years old, because at that time you still use fractions to describe your age. I didn't know what 3-D was and actually swerved and ducked in my seat during the opening scene where fragments of the exploding Starliner cruiser zoomed towards the screen (isn't that cute?).
The dialogue ranges from the classic -
"Most people like to stick with something. But you, you're like fly s**t on a window. First breeze that comes by and you're gone."
To the ludicrous -
"Better not skizz my home or I'll have my father split your face. And I got brothers too!"
The film is a hoot from start to finish. A real treat to anyone who still enjoys those corny campy sci-fi movies from the early eighties. I'm not saying you won't want to throw stuff at the screen. But you've really gotta love this stuff to have a film like this so close to your heart.
FYI: this film was released not two weeks before another corny sci-fi 3-D film set in the desert - Metalstorm: the Destruction of Jared-Syn. Yor was released the same summer too I remember *shudder*.
Okay, now that I've shown that I know waaay too much about this film, I'll just say thank you so much for giving the first legitimately humorous and accurate review of this film I've seen online.

This movie is goofy, but its a kick to watch.  

My theory on the Forbidden Zone, it is nothing more than a polite nickname for Molly Ringwald's then illegal underage
pootwang.

I learned many things from this film, and many more questions.

In the future, all hot dogs will be square shaped.

Why would anyone even want to go to a place called the forbidden zone? Is the temptation of forbidden fruit that bad?

Still Spacehunter is a far better Star Wars ripoff than the Hasslehoff disaster Starcrash.

Never got to enjoy (???) this movie.
Why? well it was originally released in 3-D and if you sit to the side of the theatre you lose much of the effect and secondly if you take your four year old who won't keep his glasses on you get distracted a lot. Well I tried anyway.

I was 14 when I first saw this so don't panic when I say I thought Molly was sexy as Hell!  I can't believe there no images/movie of her bondage scene (where Overdog is draining her).  Too hot (geez, I'm 34 and I still tingle just thinking about it - going to lay down now).