SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

bellino-angelo2014 This is one of the least known sci-fi movies from the 1950s, but it's one of the best of the era. The great thing about this movie is that it concerns the lives of the characters and their personal problems.The plot is about a group of researchers that after a trip in Africa discover some shocking news, that the star Bellus will collide to Earth, destroying the planet. Soon they begin to build a giant rocket ship that will take a group of survivors in Zyra, a safer planet.The best part of the movie (for me) was the part of all the cataclysms (mountains crumbling, giant sea waves, the Brooklyn Bridge auto-destroying in pieces), and the music fits with the viewer's emotions. I also liked the chemistry between the two main characters (Richard Derr and Barbara Rush), especially in the night-club scene. And the ending is very superb for a 1951 sci-fi movie!This is a sci-fi movie that every sci-fi fan must see almost once in their life.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 1 November 1951 by Paramount Pictures Corporation. New York opening at the Globe (sic): 6 February 1952. U.S. release: November 1951. U.K. release: 15 October 1951 (sic). Australian release: 21 December 1951. Sydney opening as first atraction at Paramount's now long demolished "Prince Edward" (ran three weeks). 82 minutes. SYNOPSIS: As the Earth approaches Doomsday, a space "ark" is hastily constructed to transport a few elite survivors to a neighboring planet.NOTES: Winner of the award for Best Special Effects from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Also nominated for Color Cinematography, but lost out to An American in Paris. Although Paramount expected a repeat of the commerical success enjoyed by Eagle-Lion's Destination Moon, they were disappointed. True, the movie garnered enough domestic revenue to make a modest 50% profit on its million-dollar negative cost, but overseas the picture barely recouped advertising, print and distribution expenses. In Australia, Paramount's top money-spinners for 1951 were (in order): Here Comes the Groom, Samson and Delilah (including road show receipts), A Place in the Sun, The Lemon Drop Kid and My Favorite Spy. COMMENT: Despite its disappointing fade-out on an obvious backdrop, I enjoyed this Pal sci-fi entry which boasts a skillfully plotted and well-characterized screenplay plus a number of ingratiating performances, in addition to its obligatory (and often most effective) special effects. I thought Richard Derr (whose movie career surprisingly never really took off) most attractively personable as the lead, while Larry Keating and John Hoyt seized their opportunities to make the most of the best roles they were ever handed. Also to be thoroughly commended: Paramount's pleasant "Golden Circle" players, Peter Hanson (sic) and Barbara Rush. Character actor Frank Cady has a stand-out cameo too, and I liked the air of quiet authority Stephen Chase so suitably brought to his Dean Frey. Keen-eyed fans will also zero in on Mary Murphy as a prominent student at the plant and Stuart Whitman in a brief innings as a reluctant rebel. Director Rudy Maté keeps the movie simmering at an agreeable pace which makes such admirably short work of its action-packed 82 minutes, most viewers will feel inclined to watch it through again. Interestingly, although the movie repeats the Destination Moon criticism of President Truman's allegedly supine, dilatory and disinterested administration, this element is actually downplayed in When Wortlds Collide by comparison to the many overt and direct frontal attacks in Moon. Needless to say, no mention at all is made of the movie's strong political bias on the Destination Moon DVD jacket. Paramount, however, to my surprise, have really highlighted this same aspect-a minor one in Collide-on their liner notes! What makes this one-sided write-up even more astonishing is that in the film itself writer Sydney Boehm goes to a great deal of trouble to deflect this criticism and get the government off the hook. He even stages a long and almost wholly extraneous scene in the United Nations-a scene which has no equivalent in the Wyler-Balmer novel-for precisely this purpose. AVAILABLE on DVD through Paramount. Quality rating: Ten out of ten.

ben hibburd You maybe familiar with the story, as it has been parodied endlessly in cartoons and other forms of popular culture. An astronomer discovers that the Earth is on a collision course with another star. Despite all the warnings he gives, nobody believes him except for a billionaire tycoon, whose solely invested in his own preservation. Together with pilot David Randall(Richard Derr) and a group of builders, they set about constructing a rocketship that will jettison them to safety on a new planet, and restart the human race.When Worlds Collide is directed by Rudolph Maté, and he does a good job of making the circumstance and story feel real enough that the audience doesn't role their eyes at all the Sci-Fi mumbo jumbo. The film was made In 1951 and won the Oscar for best visual effects, and it's easy to see why. The film looks fantastic in all its technicolor glory. The simplistic design of the ship has helped the ageing of the film, even when it's plain to see the miniature sets and where the rocket is held up by two pieces of string. The film does have a few Issues though. It's essentially a modern take on Noah's Ark, and there are moments where it does get preachy. Also the characters have next too no personality save for the main character played by Richard Derr. This is a very plot driven film, all-most nothing else seems to matter. There are a-lot of dull scenes of people talking in a room that leads nowhere. This unfortunately makes the film more forgettable especially in a time period where Science Fiction was hugely popular.

AaronCapenBanner Rudolph Mate directed this George Pal production about a rogue star named Bellus that is on an unalterable collision course with the Earth, dooming it to annihilation. In the meantime, some wealthy men, among them a wheelchair bound industrialist played by John Hoyt, finance a private expedition to build spaceships to carry a select group of people(who have various essential skills necessary in a new civilization) to a newly discovered planet called Zyra, where humanity can start over. Will this plan work in time, or is the human race doomed to extinction? Given it's highly dramatic premise, film is strangely bland and ineffectual, though does have some good model work on display. Pity the sequel "After Worlds Collide" wasn't filmed though.