Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

siderite This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The base idea is sort of ludicrous, the effects are ridiculous, the acting is really bad and the script is awful. It does show some of the pathetic stereotypes that were common in the 70s, though. As such, it is a learning experience.The plot: the Chinese develop a planet buster weapon. The Americans find out about it and, at the last minute, send a few women with a mission that was going towards Venus. Why? Because they realize the world is doomed and they plan to... repopulate on Venus. The beginning is very funny, since it shows what sci-fi writers expected from space exploration: space stations, a Moon colony and the exploration of the outer Solar System.The film, though, is all about the trip to Venus. Declared right in the beginning as a four month trip, it lasts only a few hours after the world is destroyed or at least this is the impression. And, because they needed another craft to land on Venus, they happily find a Russian derelict somewhere in space.In the end they reach Venus and there are aliens! Two minutes later, the movie ends. Hilarious!

Robert J. Maxwell Lots of more or less recognizable faces in this El Cheapo Production, most of them over the hill. Of the half dozen astronauts who travel to Venus, Bobby Van is a baby-faced wisecracker, Daniel Wilcoxin started out in movies in 1931, the ligneous Grant Williams' best-known role is as an incredible shrinking man, Ruta Lee is a determined doctor of cosmology or cosmetology or something, Mala Powers was Roxanne in the Oscar-winning "Cyrano de Bergerac" twenty-two years earlier. But I kind of liked the line up. Any cast with two dancers among the principals -- Bobby Van ("Kiss Me Kate") and Ruta Lee ("Seven Brides For Seven Brothers") -- is okay with me.And with that, the accolades disappear into outer space. The acting is perfunctory. The dialog is formulaic -- full of phony technological static. "Don't change your azimuth because we can only give you two degrees of yaw on the nose." The inside of the space ship is bigger than my living room. Hell, it has more square footage than my entire mobile home. And its only furniture is six chairs for the astronauts, and the chairs are recycled recliners.I didn't get past the space ship's journey to Venus but I know from the diligent research I've done that the plot has something to do with a Doomsday Machine that the Chinese Commies have buried two hundred miles deep in the earth. When it blows, it will set all the faults of all the earth's plates in motion. (Better that, than that they should dump their dollars and start investing in Euros.) To be honest, I knew I'd never be able to handle it shortly after the launch of the space ship. The director must have dozed off. I can understand some tense radio exchanges about technical junk but the scene dragged on and on -- and on. And -- NOTHING HAPPENS. And so we say good-bye to the six resourceful space travelers as they sail off into the sunset.The movie is available without cost through Hulu Movies on the internet as part of a package called Elvira's Movies Macabre. I don't know if everyone knows who Elvira was but many years ago, in the LA area, people looked forward to seeing her. She was all made up in ludicrous vampire garb but still sexy, what with her cantilevered bosom. Her comments were never scary and sometimes funny. Here, she carries on girlishly about putting a man on Venus. How about putting ARMS on Venus first! (Then she has to explain the joke because otherwise nobody living in Los Angeles is going to get it.)

Chase_Witherspoon If you enjoy curiosities, then you must witness "The Doomsday Machine". An uncompleted 1967 movie concerning a group of astronauts half of whom shortly before take-off on a mission to Venus, are replaced with three female astronauts under presidential direction to potentially save the lineage of mankind which is facing an imminent nuclear disaster (of which all but two of the astronauts are unaware). Although credited under the given name "Scott", Denny Miller unmistakeably stars as the sympathetic yet stern Colonel heading the mission, with Grant Williams as his boorish navigator, Bobby Van, Henry Wilcoxon, Ruta Lee, Mala Powers and Lorri Scott rounding out the expedition.It's so bizarre it's actually compelling viewing; lovely Lorri Scott saunters around the shuttle in a revealing pink bath robe, exposing her lustful limbs and naked back to the male crew, arousing Williams until he becomes some sort of sex-crazed maniac as the two gyrate and trade sexual banter about their 'vibrations' for one another. Poor Henry Wilcoxon is left to lament his age, being the odd-man out of the Noah's Ark procreation mission, delivering banal dialogue that belies his credentials as an accomplished actor. If you're interested, Mike Farrell has a cameo early in the film as a reporter.Aside from the simmering sexual tension, the film's nonsensical ending (shot separately in 1972) should leave you more than a little bemused. Inexplicable alien voices beam across the airwaves shortly before an abrupt conclusion that left me wondering if I had narcolepsy - did I miss something? The answer is no, as you'll discover if you watch "The Doomsday Machine".

madpigmadpig I't's unfortunate that the destruction of earth is the only thing that can get rid of Casey Kasem. Aside from that, why did all the actors in the first few minutes of the film look like low budget 70's porn stars? If only they had killed off the two garbage characters early in the story, or just not had them in the first place, I can see a potentially good movie there. Instead they spent most of the movie on emotional dross, produced largely by the whiny nut case and her would- be rapist. The instant those two died the movie improved immensely; the characters started acting normal, an engrossing plot began to form, and just as it was about to get really interesting one of the ships disappeared and the movie ended!! What kind of filmmaker would do such a thing? It's so cruel; to torture the audience so long, give them the hope of being entertained, and then snatch it viciously from them! How depraved.