Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

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

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

kennethfrankel There was a question in one of the reviews or messages -- If the mutants were watching all the cave entrances, how could the man and woman go out and look at the Moon? Apparently, they were up on a cliff ledge, which was not accessible from the outside. They use Einstein's relativity and time warps sort of merged together. If you go really fast (the rocket frame of reference), your clocks slow down compared to the laboratory frame of reference (like the people on the Earth). So things look normal to the rocket ship passengers, except that when they return to their starting point, many years may have passed by. "Clocks" here include our biological clocks, the motions of atoms, radioactive decay, and so on. So what is a time warp? I don't know. Going forward in time just results from the apparent slowing down of the fast moving clocks. Going backward in time is a different matter, and it is not clear how to do it. The astute reader might ask - Why can't I assume my rocket ship was not moving at all, but it was the Earth that was moving really fast?. Yes, but the tricky part is that this part of relativity assumes a constant speed and direction. The little comment above about returning to your starting point invalidates that - you have accelerated - that is a change in speed and/or direction. The odd trig functions like tanh, sinh and cosh are the hyperbolic functions and deal with the time, length, and apparent mass changes in relativity. So if you fire a fast bullet from a fast rocket, it will not go faster than light. Say .75 c + .75 c = .96 c using the tanh function to add velocities properly. Not 1.5 c. The wimpy men are more the result of inbreeding than lack of sunshine or exercise, which would still be good for them. Adding 4 more men to the mix, one of whom seems virile because he took his shirt off, is not going to save the human race. How could the intelligent humans know about the "exponential time displacement" that happened somewhere near Mars hundreds of years earlier? Why did it happen leaving Mars and not going there? How did the rocket ship explorers change their orbit around Mars from equatorial to polar? That would take a lot of fuel. Rocketship X-M did something like that when they went straight up and then turned right to leave the Earth. Changing the plane of an orbit is a big deal. If you go 1 Planck length in 1 Planck time you are going as fast as you can - at the speed of light (in a vacuum). The gimmick is to use a wormhole (which is warp-like)-- if space itself can go faster than light, then it's OK, or use a tunnel or wormhole, so it is like a shortcut. Then you don't violate the speed rules. It is not clear if we could ever get to the stars or if we are stuck - going there would take thousands of years or more like the Voyager spacecraft. Time will tell (pun intended).

LeonLouisRicci Not as embarrassingly bad as some of its fifties family of sci-fi but it comes close. The script is semi-intelligent and has fewer inanities and laugh-out-loud, ludicrous lines. But, it is another silly costumed, cosmetic vision of the distant future. A rubber monster with few moving parts and silly not scary looking "mutates" diminish the rather neat looking spaceship and underground interiors that have that glossy looking germ free environment that so many housewives strive. Cue Mr. Clean.WWE has a pretension about it that is troublesome and can't help but propagandize itself. Weapons are the main point of contention and mentioned in almost every scene and rightly so. It was, after all, the war weapons that made the whole world almost end. But we have here the makers and users of those weapons arrive to save the day with, you guessed it, weapons.The mind of the cold war warriors is closed to any alternative to world peace other than MAD (mutually assured destruction). Mad is what these hack warmonger script writers and filmmakers should make you feel. Let's not ever forget it was sci-fi efforts like this that refused to take the pacifist point of view and presented a lock and load, mine is bigger than yours (bazookas) mentality, that forgave the causers of the "apocalypse", and say...that was great, may I have another.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Top of the line Allied Artists motion picture in both Technicolor and Wide Screen, reserved for the biggest blockbusters of major films studios back in the 1950's, has a quartet of US astronauts end up getting caught in a time warp. This cause their space craft accelerate beyond the speed of light that takes them form the year 1957 to 2508 in a matter of seconds on their maiden flight to Mars as the first men in outer space! Landing on this mysterious and forbidden planet the boys from space John Borden, Hugh Marlow, Dr. Galbarithe,Nelson Leigh, Herbert Ellis, Rod Taylor, & Hank Jaffe, Chris Dark, are at first in the dark to where they are. It's after being attacked by giant spiders as well as mutant and for the most part one eyed cave men that they get the picture, in escaping into an underground cave complex, that the place or planet their on is the good old earth itself!Taken in by the few humans still left on the planet the fly or space boys learn that a nuclear war had broken out in the 22th century and destroyed almost the entire human race. As for the surviving humans lead by the dilapidated and undernourished looking Timmak, Everett Glass, who've over the years had lost their nerve or willingness to fight the mutants and are now satisfied to live out their entire lives underground without as much as even seeing the light of day! It's when the astronauts get a look at the women in the cave who all look like their in their early 20's who just stepped out of a 1950's girlie magazine that they changed their minds about coming back to 20th century earth if that's at all possible. With all the shapely women flocking to the astronauts it's Mories, Booth Colman, one of the wimpy men in the cave , who for some reason all wear shower caps, who plans to discredit the time travelers to his leader Timmak. Mories does this by murdering one of of his fellow futuristic humans James, William Vadder, and then blaming his death on the innocent astronauts.Astronaut John Boden and his men have a tough time proving their innocence but it's young Deena, Lisa Montell, who saw Morise murder James who rats him out to her leader Timmak who was ready to thrown the time traveler out in the wild and at the mercy of the mutant cavemen. This has Morise now exposed as James' murderer run for his life outside the safety of the cave complex only to get caught and brutally beaten to death by the mutant one eye cave-men who were waiting for him outside! By then Borden & Co. finally convinced Timmak and the some 2,000 humans cave dwellers that he's in charge of to finally get their act together, by making and taking up arms, and fight off the mutants before they all end up becoming extinct! In that by them and their offspring's by not getting enough sunlight or vitamin "D" the cave complex populations birth rate has just about dropped to zero!Even though the flight crew were supposed to be future astronauts they wore 10 year old WWII style surplus US Army Air Force bomber and flight jackets not the air tight silvery and robot like astronaut outfits we became used to seeing in the many space flight, by both the US & USSR, over the years since the film was released. There's also Aussie actor Rod Taylor who some four years later would again travel into the future in the movie "The Time Machine" desperately trying to hide his very pronounced Australian accent, and sound American, but being totally unable to do it!

copper1963 Arresting Allied Artists adventure borne out of the ashes of Monogram Pictures, a Poverty Row stalwart better known for its economical Westerns and Bowery Boys' sagas, than for its epics made on a high budget or shot in a widescreen process. This outer space tale-of-woe begins with a quartet of explorers--led by Rod Taylor and Hugh Marlowe--returning to Earth from a lengthy jaunt to the Red Planet Mars. And somewhere between those two points of interest, their rocket ship slips through a rip in the fabric of time, slinging them hundreds of years into the future. Back on the post-radioactive world they once knew very well, the spacemen find themselves battling hairy, one-eyed mutants who reside in high-rise caves. In another cave, earthbound, they encounter a race of people, untouched by radiation, living in an advanced underground society. A cut above most films of this ilk, World Without End (a superb title) showcases the traditional mix, for that time, of vibrant, mini-skirted females and timid, cowardly males. In fact, the head of the tunnel dwellers is aptly named "Timmek." The lead female role is authored by the very healthy and overheated Nancy Gates. She is called "Garnet"--a precious red gem--and falls instantly for the older Commander Marlowe. In one scene, she offers to take him to an "old tunnel" exit, where they can gaze at the moon from a protected cliff. It's a sweet, sexy scene played out by a modern man and a post-modern woman. After he kisses her in the moonlight, she returns the gesture with a heavy dose of feminine gusto. She rocks. He then rebuffs her feelings of love and thoughts of marriage. What was he thinking? Everything is resolved by the final fade-out. Marlowe dispatches the mutant chief to The Happy Hunting Grounds, somewhere in the heavens, with an assist from the old peacemaker: the bazooka. Can a fresh batch of little ones be far behind?