Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

robert3750 Some bad films have amusement value in their badness, and are entertaining as a result. This one isn't. No amusing lines of dialogue, no characters who are a "hoot", just a dull, plodding excuse for a plot that's a chore to get through despite the short running time. A guy in a gorilla suit with a plastic helmet is supposed to be an alien monster. Even the godawful The Creeping Terror had a more monster-looking monster LOL.

peter bird Well, I pass the trophy over from Jaws III to this movie. It really is so bad. Some movies can be so bad they are good. Not this movie...it is a stinker. The acting...what acting? The special effects...what special effects? The dinosaurs...well, they were kinda cool. But what purpose did they serve? Best thing about this movie? That's easy; the love scene. Our hero and heroine are fleeing from some hairy armed man in a diving helmet (supposedly an alien) and incredibly they find time for a bit of flirting, foreplay and a massive kissing session in the hay while this killer robot is limping around in the desert looking totally lost (probably trying to find a way to sneak off the set. In a word, dreadful.

connorbbalboa Robot Monster is easily one of the worst films of all time. A lot of people like to call it a "so bad it's good" film, but I didn't see it that way. It felt too tedious and annoying for me to call it that. It is probably the longest single hour I have ever wasted watching something, as the incompetence of the film makes it so painful to watch. The story, in simple terms, is that alien creatures called Ro-Men, who look like gorillas wearing diver helmets with TV cables, kill almost the whole human race except for one family who must find a way to kill the Ro-Man who is after them. Nearly everything in the movie is terrible, from the dialogue, to the acting, to the poorly-placed stock footage to the screenplay. The humans in the film try to convey a message that they are better than Ro-Men because they can feel emotions, but I didn't take it seriously for almost all of the above reasons. Some things that don't make sense is how the Ro-Man finds it so hard to kill this family when it could just strangle each of them, instead of futilely using a death ray that they are immune to, how the family ties up the teenage daughter so she doesn't see the Ro-Man when it could be the only chance of safety they have (and all because she is the teenage daughter), why the Ro-Man leader doesn't send down multiple Ro-Men to kill the family, why the teenage daughter decides to marry the good-looking young man of the film, even though he has been a complete ass, how the family doesn't even follow their own rule of being careful about going outside their house and property, and how the Ro-Man leader can conjure up earthquakes, lightning, and dinosaurs. The human characters are so stupid and unlikable, especially the little kids, that I wanted Ro-Man to kill them just to get them to shut up. It even gets stupid and predictable when Ro- Man falls in love with the teenage daughter. To add insult, the movie is revealed to be a dream sequence with all of the annoying humans alive and well. One thing I will say that I like is the creepy Elmer Bernstein score and the opening title screen with 50s sci-fi comic books. Other than that, this film is a disaster. It's unworthy of existence and I strongly recommend anyone who owns this film to throw it down their toilet bowl instead of watching it again.

poe-48833 The first time I saw ROBOT MONSTER, it was televised in 3-D. We had to get our 3-Dimensional glasses from a convenience store. While I can't really say that the effort was worth it, I will say that revisiting ROBOT MONSTER just the other day WAS worth the effort. I'd all but forgotten the fact that the whole thing was "just a dream." THAT explains the numerous sequences from so many cheesy Monster movies: the kid was simply dredging up some of the things he'd seen at the movies over the years. This framing device harks back to classics like THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE WIZARD OF OZ, and INVADERS FROM MARS, to mention but a few. ROBOT MONSTER also seems to have had its roots in the pre-Code Horror comics of the early 1950s: the movie actually opens with a shot of an assortment of such comics which includes an issue of ROBOT MONSTER itself. Any enterprising filmmakers out there looking for comics to bring to the Big Screen would do well to check out MIGHTY SAMSON (in which a Herculean strongman battles mutants in a post-apocalyptic future), DR. SOLAR, MAN OF THE ATOM (which features a super hero not unlike the Dr. Manhattan character in WATCHMEN), or MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER (in which a future Martial Artist battles robots intent on ruling the world; an idea ripped off for the Will Smith stinker, I, ROBOT).