Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

nospam-996-435993 The movie took me back to my youth, a space ship going to the moon! I had a great time looking at equipment used to make this and the ignorance the writers had concerning physics. I was so impressed with the plastic lawn chairs that swiveled along with those cheap aluminum frame lawn recliners which my parents actually had in our back yard,attached of course to the wall with two standard electrical conduit clamps, SO HIGH TECH LOL!! Seriously, its a fun movie to watch and they may have gotten some things more right than the fake moon landing NASA claims we did. Imagine how the movies we watch now will be laughed at 50 years from now :) Its kind of funny how the women were treated with respect as a 'weaker' sex unlike today. Also there were no tattoo's, no piercing, and NO SWEARING, very strange! How in the world did they make such a movie without using the Lords name and the F bomb shouted every minute!? Oh, I forgot, they were OUT OF THIS WORLD.

MartinHafer "12 to the Moon" is certainly not a very good sci-fi film, though with so many terrible sci-fi films made during this same era, at least it cannot be counted among them. Heck, at times the film almost is good...almost. The film is about an international space flight to the moon with 12 astronauts from 9 different nations. Despite this, all of them sound pretty much like Americans...except for some of the astronauts from enemy nations--they are a bit like cartoon characters. It's especially annoying when the Russian astronaut argues with the three Americans and talks about the joys of communism. It's all a lot of Cold War hooey. Fortunately, this crappy dialog ends when they land on the moon. Unfortunately, the moon is inhabited by super- intelligent creatures that communicate to the crew telepathically and they warn them to get lost...which they promptly do. However, these nasty moon folk aren't very nice and do all sorts of nasty things to prevent them from getting back and telling the rest of the human race about them. Ultimately, a really stupid plan is executed and the day is saved...or is it?The biggest problem with the movie aren't the silly sets but the dumb dialog...and the film too often sounds as if the film were rushed to completion. According to IMDb, that's exactly what happened and the film was made in a paltry 8 days! Occasionally interesting...but not very.

Hitchcoc The preposterous images in this film made it the ultimate snooze-a-thon. The silly sets and the stiff acting are laughable. I think it's valid to evaluate a film based on the accomplishments of others. Even some of the very weak science fiction films of this time are so much better than this. The surface of the moon is beyond cheap. Then there are the animals: a cute cocker spaniel, some cats, and some clueless monkeys. We also have a Jewish astronaut who resents being on the same voyage as a German. Did any of these people check the manifest before deciding to go to the moon. Of course, worst of all, is the trite, vapid plot, with it's prescription morality and speech making. Save an hour out of your precious life and skip this.

Michael_Elliott 12 to the Moon (1960)* 1/2 (out of 4)The title pretty much gives the plot details but to expand on it you'd have to say ten men, two women, two cats, two monkeys and a dog enter a spaceship and head off to the moon. After finally getting there they are confronted by a faceless alien and on their way back to Earth they learn the U.S. has been frozen by the alien so they must thaw it out before they can land. This Columbia sci-fi film has pretty much been forgotten, which is somewhat of a shame but the bigger shame is that such an ambitious film is wasted in the hands of screenwriters who obviously don't care too much for the genre. Just about every possible cliché is thrown into this film and it even comes up with a few new clichés. The movie is certainly bad due to the special effects, acting and directing but at the same time I have a lot of respect for the movie trying to be something special. Every five minutes a new plot device jumps up to make things difficult and had the film enjoyed a bigger budget some of these ideas probably would have worked a lot better. There's a sequence on the moon where the astronaut's enter a cave where a couple are sucked down into some quicksand like material. The lingering shots of the arm sticking out are quite effective but a great item like this is followed by a silly scene on the spaceship, which looks incredibly fake and takes away the atmosphere. All of the special effects are beyond bad and I'd probably rank them down there with PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE in terms of awfulness. Just take a look at the scenes with the rocket flying through space. For starters, they keep showing the same scene over and over but to make matters worse is that you can see through the spaceship!! Other really bad looking scenes include the stuff on board when we see meteors coming towards the ship. Once again, incredibly fake looking to the point of being laughable. The performances really aren't anything good either and that includes Ken Clark and Tom Conway. The one interesting thing is that a multi-raced cast was used, which certainly wasn't the norm for this period in Hollywood's history. It was quite refreshing seeing a movie with so many different characters but this too leads to some rather dumb stuff including obvious references to the Holocaust. In the end, this is a pretty bad movie but there's so many interesting things that one can't help but wish a better budget and real writers were used to make it work.