GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Scott LeBrun A five man team of astronauts undertake a joint American-British mission to investigate the possibility of life on the previously undiscovered 13th moon of Jupiter. There they discover a civilization of babes who are supposed to be the last living descendants of the residents of Atlantis. Oh, and they also realize that there is a "creature" roaming around that the lovely ladies fear."Fire Maidens from Outer Space" just goes to show you that the Brits can deliver cheesy goods just as "well" as Americans when it comes to this sort of low budget genre entertainment. We of course don't take it seriously, although it's largely played with an endearing sincerity from the majority of the actors. That "creature" is certainly good for laughs; Richard Walter plays the role in a crude mask that seems to have no means of vocalization, yet the thing is always heard howling and snarling. The sets are designed as frugally as possible, and special effects are likewise economically done.Anthony Dexter plays American scientist Luther Blair, our strapping hero, and receives amiable support from Paul Carpenter, Harry Fowler, Sydney Tafler, and Rodney Diak, who play his comrades. Owen Berry is a hoot as gnarly old man Prasus, Jacqueline Curtis is alluring as the jealous Duessa, and Susan Shaw is positively GORGEOUS as Hestia, the female lead."Fire Maidens from Outer Space" has its clunky charms, just like many other movies of this kind, but the unqualified highlight is when the Fire Maidens perform interpretive dance to the strains of music by Aleksandr Borodin.Written, produced and directed by American-born Cy Roth, whose other theatrical credits include "Air Strike" and "Combat Squad".Five out of 10.

lemon_magic "Fire Maidens Of Outer Space" misses the mark on so many levels that I wanted to travel to England and throw rocks at the window of the room in the nursing home that Cy Young is probably living in now. It's an exercise in tedium, static blocking, and endless padding, weighed down with a tiny budget and zero imagination in production and art design. In its favor: they actually play some music by Borodin and what sounds like the "Saber Dance" at some points in the movie, a nice touch considering the title; the fire maidens are quite attractive (if somewhat blank faced) and the camera spends a lot of time focused on their shapely legs as they walk endlessly from one corridor to another; if you're going to have liturgical dancing in a cheap science fiction movie (and it seemed to be a requirement whenever the plot concerned alien civilizations), you might as well have well choreographed liturgical dancing, and the women are pleasantly limber and graceful. Also the set-up with the alien civilization can't help but serve as a litmus test for the modern male viewer's chauvinism and political correctness (what with the patriarch apparently being a semi- doddering drunk surrounded by nubile women - your reactions to this will tell you a lot about yourself). Against: well, the first third of the screenplay is about as exciting for the viewer as the time my best friend and I camped out in his back yard in a piano crate overnight and pretended we were flying to the moon and back. (We were 10 years old at the time). And the special effects aren't much more convincing. The rest of the movie resembles a slow motion Brtish bedroom farce, only without the slamming doors or humor. I am glad I saw this - once! - if only to assure myself that the movie in no way lived up to the promise of its title and that I hadn't missed anything worthwhile by putting off watching it for 30+ years.

JohnHowardReid Despite inept dialogue, cramped sets, second-string acting, penny-pinching special effects, and time-wasting "B"-picture shuffling, this low-budget, sci-fi yarn is not all that unentertaining. Decided assets include: (1) The plot, neatly combining the Atlantis legend with Theseus and the Minotaur; (2) a bit of effective Minotaur make-up by Roy Ashton; (3) a few flashes of directorial skill by Mr Roth; and (4) not least, a bevy of really beautiful fire maidens led by the very charming Susan Shaw (one of my favorites, I must admit) and the agreeably villainous Maya Koumani.Camp followers will also enjoy the zippy music score comprising a few snatches of Khachaturian's "Saber Dance" with generous excerpts from Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances". If you close your eyes, you can almost imagine yourself listening to the soundtrack of M-G-M's Kismet.True, Dexter makes a wet hero, and Carpenter is even more soppy, but who cares?

Michael H Tedious? You bet and quite cheesy too, but unlike most films seen on MST not too fun. Joel and the bots do try but this film just drags and drags and drags. Five whitely dressed British astronauts go to the 13th moon of Jupiter because they saw it had an atmosphere (without the aid of any of the Voyager spacecraft or the Hubble telescope) after dodging space popcorn they safely land their V-2 rocket in Wisconsin (sorry Jupiter's 13th moon) and smoke a lot. Eventually an old man and his hot daughters greet the men and try to seduce them, convincing them that they are the last survivors of Atlantis. Well it takes forever for our nicotine fiends to find their way out their lair and try to avoid a not too scary monster who wears a turtleneck. The best part of all of this was not the movie itself but Joel's epic battle with the evil Timmy!!