Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Hitchcoc This slow moving mess has stilted dialogue, bad acting, and some of the most incomprehensible motivations ever. First of all, what an embarrassment is John Agar. He was thought to be the next Cary Grant at one time, but good looks didn't do it for him. He spent most of his time doing these cheesy horror/science fiction movies. In this one he plays a man with a reputation for jumping anything with skirts. While these guys find themselves on a kind of isolated patch on Uranus, they guess that there is some kind of force that they must deal with. What do they do? The thing reads their imaginations and apparently the whole crew has the hormones of an eighth grader. They are constantly accosted by these babes and fall for their charms any time the force that is acting on them desires. There is also this endless exploration of the little bit of heaven they are on and they never seem to get anywhere. There is a German guy named Karl who gets his arm frozen (though thaws out), falls in a kind of ammonia quicksand, and is eaten by some unfriendly maw. He is stupid and impulsive but never changes. There is this ridiculous voice that keeps telling us that these people are stupid and he will eventually kill them. He is apparently studying them so he can go to earth later and take over. How these guys could tie their shoes let along travel through space is beyond me. There are some decent special effects and a nice use of sound, but the story just doesn't make it.

fedor8 What irony: humans finally visit 'Anus, but instead of getting analy probed, they get their minds probed; not that there was much worth probing in the empty heads of the five astro-noughts. Of course, the whole mind-probe shtick was just an excuse to have the astro-noughts meet some girls on Uranus. In spite of realizing that the girls are mirages conceived to throw them off, the alien mind-game trick works EVERY time… All I can say is thank God that the likes of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin weren't sex-obsessed penis-thinkers, otherwise humanity would never have landed on the Moon – because the astronauts would have been too busy masturbating to land properly."The year is 2001… All of Earth is under the control of the United Nations." Scary thought, huh? Fortunately, this little movie about the trip to Uranus had very little clairvoyant power.I love how the astro-nils get their mission orders only once they're well away from Earth. Sort of like a long-distance runner being informed on the 11th kilometer that he will be doing a Marathon. Or a 17th-century explorer being told in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that his goal will be to find an island with large turtles. OK, maybe this 2nd analogy is a bit daft, but you must forgive me, for I have just sat through 70 minutes of pure B-movie cheese, and much like Agar I feel as if thoughts are starting to come rarely and with some difficulty.Once the standard voice-over intro is over, the stereotypical sci-fi B-movie introduces us to the astronomically dumb astronauts – and what an introduction it is: John Agar lets his fellow crew members know that he is extremely horny at all times – which is when we find out that unquenched sexual appetite is the film's primary, main, and only theme. Never mind space-exploration, Agar's tiny mind is firmly under the control of Agar's throbbing penis, much as this sad future world is totally under the control of the vapid UN. To further confirm the viewer's suspicion that Agar is – quite fittingly – the dumbest crew member in a crew of ninnies, he actually uses the strange predicament they're in to get laid! His boss tells him that they're all hallucinating, that they're under the influence of an alien force, that the girls he meets aren't real - but does that throw Agar off? Of course not; he simply uses this new knowledge/ability to materialize a former one-night stand for the ol' in-out. Apparently, in the far, far future in 2001 NASA prefers to hire astronauts who have the mind-set of 14 year-old teenage boys.If it were up to Agar, the astro-noughts would have stayed in their green Uranal surroundings and spent the rest of their days having sex with the mirages of their choice. But as it is, Agar doesn't call the shots, perhaps partly because he is so stupid that he doesn't even cry for help straight away when being sucked in by "quick-snow". The Captain saves his life – for whatever reason.The second-dumbest astro-nil is the Irish sidekick who rushes to eat an alien apple, throwing all caution to the wind. Bacteria shmacteria! But it's easy to throw caution like that when a wind had previously blown away the entire brain out of his head. So heavily stereotyped is our token Irishman that it only takes minutes for the subject of leprechauns to come up. What's to say: it's a friggin' B-movie!The Captain of the ship, while a little less childish than the others, is hardly an intellectual; after having faced the Cyclops dinosaur, he described it to the others as being "of the rodent family" which can mean one of two things: 1) either the species of rodent Cyclops had developed on Earth by the year 2001, or 2) the Captain has an F in Biology. (It's a coin toss!) Good thing he didn't comment on the plant-life too, otherwise we might have "learned" that the surrounding trees are all amphibian, or that the grass mates three times a year. The Captain exhibits rather sad deductive skills, too, when he makes plans to foil the alien being that is mind-probing them – while pathetically not realizing that the being must know the astro-noughts' intentions at all times. Stupidly, he goes to Ingrid, his Earth-love mirage, for consultation. Stupider yet, it works! She tells him all he wants to know. For some reason, the other mirage floozies aren't nearly as cooperative. Did the blob create Ingrid too perfectly? The alien's strategy is so simple… yet so utterly retarded: let the Earthlings know what they want to know, and always inform them of your evil schemes in ADVANCE. The Uranal Uranusian has no feet to speak of, but he sure knows how to shoot himself in the foot. In the end, this incredibly powerful Cyclops blob that can terra-form with the flick of a wrist is unable to outwit and beat five incredibly dumb astro-zeros. So dim-witted is the Captain that he brings along the mirage of Ingrid, his wife or whoever, for the return voyage. What was he planning to do once he landed back on Earth? Introduce the mirage Ingrid to the real Ingrid? Have a ménage-a-ingrid-trois?Even the title song will have you laughing, with its silly space sounds. If you're a fan of 60s space-cheese, as I am, you cannot miss this one. It doesn't raise the silliness bar, because many other flicks of this sort are even goofier, but at the very least it holds the bar on par with the other cheap-ass space turkeys of the Era.Two guys named Ib worked on this movie.Somebody here wrote that TJTTSP is impressive because it "predates SOLARIS by ten years". Never mind that "Solaris" was published a year before this turkey was made.

gavin6942 A United Nations space expedition to the planet Uranus discovers a bizarre world right out of their own heads...John Agar stars, which already gives this film a lot of weight for the classic science fiction crowd. And beyond that, this is something of a prescient film. Sure, we can insult its special effects and poor costumes, but take it for what it is.I enjoyed the idea that in the future, the United Nations will be the sole governing body. I thought that was a very optimistic (and realistic) view. It was somewhat less realistic that we would visit all the planets searching for life, but as this was filmed before we went to the Moon, I am not sure what we did or did not know about space exploration at this time.I also enjoyed the concept of your thoughts being used against you. I felt like this was a direct precursor to "Ghost Busters" in that respect, with the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man immediately coming to mind.

MartinHafer The immature teenage hiding inside of me can't resist--this is a movie about astronauts traveling to Uranus (snicker, snicker)! In the film, they pronounce it "Ur-an-us"....yeah, sure! As for the film, I was expecting it to be a lot worse than it was. My reason--it starred John Agar. While he was not a terrible actor, his career was spent appearing in any film provided the check cleared! The movie itself is a very mixed bag. I'll be giving it two separate scores--one for technical merit and one for artistry and originality--sort of like figure skating.Technically speaking, this movie was a pile of doo-doo. The special effects were among the worst I've ever seen for a 50s-60s sci-fi film. In particular, the rocket special effects were simply awful--consisting of a fuzzy rocket ship that appears to be cardboard flying across a terrible painting of space and later when it lands it is a child's plastic toy! It really is worse than the UFO special effects from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (these were pie plates suspended from wires). Also, many of the monsters were cheap and crappy--and about as bad as you'll find in the genre. I'd give this aspect of the film a 1 and not a smidgen more! It's really sad, then, that the story itself is so good--as it's burdened with such ineptness. The story gets interesting just before the rocket lands on Uranus. A strong mental force takes over the ship and probes the astronauts' minds. Then, when they actually land, the planet looks much like Earth--as this force can make the planet appear just like home--including providing people who are from home as well. Interestingly, the only people these men seemed to think of were hot babes in lingerie--proving these guys were pretty smart! The problem is that what exactly the force intends is uncertain. And, as the film progresses, the force seems malevolent--or at least having fun toying with them. The men are faced with a dilemma--how do you fight something this powerful and that can control what you see?! Apart from a rather flat and anticlimactic ending, I'd give this an 8--it was very original and very exciting.Overall, I think a 4 is a reasonable compromise. This film was intelligent and worth seeing--even if the special effects were abominable. This is one movie that could really, really stand a remake!!