Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Claudio Carvalho When Dr. Who (Peter Cushing) shows his time machine TARDIS to the clumsy Ian (Roy Castle), who is boyfriend of his granddaughter Barbara (Jennie Linden), he accidentally transport them and Dr. Who´s granddaughter Susan (Roberta Tovey) to somewhere in space and time. They explore the spot and see a city; Dr. Who fakes a leak in the fluid and they go to the city to seek mercury to refill the component. They are captured by the Daleks and soon they learn that a war between Daleks and Thals has destroyed the planet. Further they are exposed to radiation and only the Thals have the antidote. The Daleks send Susan to find the cure and she meets the Thal Alydon (Barrie Ingham) that has the antidote and wants to negotiate with the Daleks to exchange for food. But the cruel Daleks want to destroy the Thals to rule the world. The naïve "Dr. Who and the Daleks" is a funny entertainment for children and for adults in a Saturday afternoon. The art direction is very poor, the plot is silly but in the 60´s we had "National Kid", "Lost in Space" among other films and "Dr. Who and the Daleks" is in the same level. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Dr. Who e a Guerra dos Daleks" ("Dr. Who and the War of the Daleks")

LeonLouisRicci First of Two Big Screen adaptations of the Popular and extremely Long Running TV Show (800 episodes and counting). Most Fans of the Series seem to give this a Grudging Pass. Many Things were Altered from the Show but the general Nonsensical Whimsy and Gaudy Low-Budget Effects are in Evident.Viewed from a Non-Cultists and Naive Perspective, except for a Psychedelic Color Palette and Surreal Sets, the Movie might be Insufferable to some. The Most Glaring is the Voice of the Daleks. Grating, Throbbing, Ear-Piercing Icepicks, the Dialog from these Salt and Pepper Shakers is a Headache Inducement.The Look of the Movie is that of a No-Budget TV Show Enhanced for the Big Screen. Exactly What it is. While it does have Artistic Flare, the Film is so Juvenile and Uninteresting with its Condemnation of Pacifism, Slapstick Humor, and Dull Pacing with Ridiculous Action Scenes, the Film just Limps along Until it's Over.Worth a Watch as a Curioso and Viewed with a Tolerance for its Big Screen Changes, it might Entertain with a bit of Nostalgia for those that were there at the Time. But most, including Die-Hard Followers of the Series, will most likely Reluctantly Nod and Move On, but other more Critical Purists will Not Be so Kind.

Tweekums As this film opens it quickly becomes apparent that this incarnation of the doctor is very different from the television version; he is not a Time Lord but an elderly, human inventor living with his niece Barbara and his granddaughter Susan and his name is Dr. Who; not The Doctor. When Susan's new boyfriend, Ian, visits he is shown the latest invention; TARDIS; a machine capable of transporting to any time or place. Ian accidentally activates the machine and they fine themselves on a strange alien world. It appears to be long dead but as they look around they find a city. They return to TARDIS but it doesn't work; Dr. Who explains that a part is broken so they will have to go to the city to find the mercury it needs to work. Here they run into the Daleks and learn that there was a war between the Daleks and the Thals which left the planet a radioactive wasteland; the Thals have found an antidote to the radiation but the Daleks can't leave the city and must live in special protective machines. They hope to use the doctor and his travelling companions to lure the remaining Thals into the city so they can eliminate them once and for all.It took a while to accept this version of Dr. Who as he is so different to the television version; Peter Cushing did a good job in the role and Roy Castle was fun as comedy relief Ian; of the girls young Roberta Tovey seemed to perform better as Susan although Jennie Linden's Barbara didn't really have much to work with in her underwritten roll. The opening scene made it clear that this would be fairly tongue in cheek when we see the two girls reading science books and the elderly doctor is reading The Eagle (a comic). In common with most sci-fi of its time there is no explanation as to why creatures on an alien world would be speaking English just as there is no surprise on the part of the characters when this happens. Taking advantage of the fact that the film is in colour, unlike the TV show at the time, the Daleks come in a wide variety of colours; they weren't a particularly formidable opponent once the final battle came unfortunately; all the heroes had to do was grab the and turn them to face each other and let them kill each other! The Thal where aliens of the 'almost human' variety with little charisma; this meant they weren't interesting characters. Overall I was a bit disappointed with this; possibly because I was expecting something closer to the television version; it wasn't bad though and a laughed a few more times than I'd expected.

fedor8 A colourful piece of 60s sci-fi nonsense for the kiddies. For 60s kiddies, mind you. I'm not quite sure how the 21st-century kiddies would react to this. Unless they're younger than 7 (or a bit on the daft side) they might find it all a little too goofy and dull.Granpa, a small girl with an IQ of 249, a comic-relief oaf, and his blond gal accidentally leave Earth in Cushing's time/space-travel "room", when the blond sexually assaults her boyfriend with an attempted hug and kiss. The four cartoon characters suddenly find themselves in the midst of an age-old conflict between some tin-cans and a tribe of very lazy blond people who do nothing all day but sit around their forest, staring into trees and putting on bad make-up. It is up to the 4 silly Earthlings to restore peace to this strange cardboard planet. After all, isn't that what Earthlings are well-known for, restoring peace everywhere they go? The Daleks aren't even proper robots. Sure, they speak in a slow, almost retarded monotone, and they move slowly (on wheels?), but inside each tin-can there is a small Dalek whom we (conveniently for the budget-restrained special-effects department) never get to see. Not that I was dying from curiosity to find out what they look like, mind you. The Daleks are given voices that are so over-the-top annoying that I had to mute the sound on occasion when they were talking, I simply couldn't bare to listen to them anymore. The movie's biggest crime.Cushing & co visit the Dalek city upon their arrival, and then they go back to their "room" in the forest. Then they return to the city, get captured, then manage to escape back to the forest, only to get re-captured. Yes, it's that kind of cheesy sci-fi with the usual table-tennis plot that goes nowhere. The Earthlings are basically like four ping-pong balls that move between the Daleks and the Thaals, between the city and the woods. Yes, the Thaals. Their name has a double A in it and they're all extremely blond. Dutch? Who knows.Funny creatures, the Thaals. They start off as a bunch of placid, apathetic, cowardly Gandhinistas, refusing to fight or kill anything or anybody in the name of pacifism, even finding excuses to not defend themselves against a bunch of decidedly anti-Thaalian quasi-robots. Cushing keeps trying to change their minds, to make them appreciate all the joys which armed conflict brings with it, but they simply won't budge. Yet all it took, in the end, was for one punch to be thrown by a Thaal, and these formerly inactive lazy hippies rapidly become a bloodthirsty fighting army, ready to destroy as many Daleks as they could. They suddenly understood: violence can be a lot of fun.Yes, it's that kind of 60s movie. To top it all off, we are even forced to watch a protracted climbing sequence. I mean, what would a goofy 60s sci-fi film be without some mountain-climbing-related padding?