Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

rmcturnan I saw this when I was 14, at the theater in 1967. Back then, it wasn't bad. Now? Not so much. I compare it to the B movies that came out in the 1950s. They weren't bad when they were released but I guess tastes change when you get older. I would compare this one to the Green Slime, which came out in 1968 I believe. Robert Horton is a good actor but that movie did nothing for his career. But Italian movies can be unpredictable. Clint Eastwood and Sophia Loren as examples of actors and actresses becoming famous due to their association with Italian films. I do have Wild, Wild Planet in my old movie collection, along with Attack of the 50ft Woman, Tarantula, X the Unknown, and Brain from the Planet Arous for nostalgia purposes.

lost-in-limbo Director Antonio Margheriti's Italian sci-fi / mystery would be the first chapter of the Gamma One quadtrilogy. I have already seen the second addition, which was rather dull.A doctor practicing biomedicine under the protection of a private own employer uses his henchman / women to go about kidnapping perfect specimens of the human race for his experiments of engineering the ideal race. But his methods are inhumanely twisted, and Commander Mike Halstead of Gamma One goes out of his way to stop it when his Lt. is taken.However "Wild, Wild Planet" is better paced (though still a little long winded), little more expansive in an economical sense and wrapped around an intriguingly hysterical, if vague (mad doctor theme) plot than its successor. It's crazier! Although it couldn't escape its risible dialogues and kitsch effects, by being bounded by it's low-rent, but richly etched set designs. It doesn't hold back on the vibrant colour schemes to mask its one-dimensional layout. There's an overuse of miniatures, break out the toys and dolls (you'll see when). Some (well the majority) are poorly conceived it becomes laughable, especially during some continuity shifts. The performances are decent for such a show-in. Tony Russel builds a presence and Massimo Serato elicits his devious character's obvious intentions. Lisa Gastoni is headstrong, but annoying. Franco Nero and Carlo Giustini do the job. Margheriti really does camp it up, but that's its charm and there's a rather bold moment or two that surprised me. The combat sequences though do feel like they're on a loop and you got to love there blow torches --- ah I mean lasers. The howling score is quite a psychedelic arrangement, but holding and ominous sting.It isn't too bad entertainment.

erinurse2000 Maybe I was REALLY ready to be entertained, but I saw this for the first time early this morning, after a night spent dealing with bad heartburn and an "iffy" stomach. At first I was happy to find a good "background noise" to fall asleep to, but then I actually got into it. Between the spaceship and "future car" models that look like they came right out of a Quisp box, and the stilted "mod" English the translators came up with for the dubbed version, this thing is really funny. Best line: The commander and two other "good guys" are wrestling around what looks like a dorm room with 3 buxom, long-haired lovelies (who are all mysteriously wearing what look like black swim trunks under their long, groovy '70s dresses). The commander warns his men to "Watch out for those gadgets on their chests! Priceless.

Judexdot1 Wish I had been old enough to see this in Theaters during it's initial "Summer Of Love" release in America. The Italian movie industry has kind of a dicey history with Science Fiction films, (see "Star Pilot"/"2+5 Mission Hydra", or almost anything by "Al Bradley" for proof), but this is by the man who started cinematic SF in Italy, with "Assignment: Outer Space", and is one of his best SF films. It's actually the start of a series, known as the "Gamma IV Quartet", and is the best of the series. Mysterious dark strangers, (who look like they just stepped out of "Thin Air", the movie) are snatching healthy folks for unauthorized experiments by a renegade Doctor, in another attempt to create a super race. Initially concerned, space cop Mike Halstead gets down and dirty when his girl, Connie, is also snatched. Very colorful, with a a nearly psychedelic approach to some effects, which offsets some of the cheesier model work. Fun stuff, followed quickly by "War Of The Planets","Planet On The Prowl", and the amazing "Snow Devils". Franco Nero left for stardom (after he made it big with "Django"), and Giacomo Rossi Stuart shows up in his place. They all use some of the same footage, and "War Of The Planets" definitely needed more effects for the big conclusion, but this seems like more of a labor of love by longtime SF fan Antonio Margherhetti. He has made a few, and provided effects for many others, (Like "Mission Stardust", the Perry Rhodan adaptation), and he continues to this day. This is one of his, and Italys, best. Hey TCM, how about running that letterboxed copy again, please!