SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Actually a composite of three different movies spanning almost ten years the film "Voage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" was famed film director Peter Bogdanovich's first film that he also narrated. It has to do with a manned mission to Venus that got stranded together with its US crew that crashed on it in the near future, some 30 years after the movie was made, in 1998. With a rescue crew of astronauts sent there on a rescue mission they run into a number of obstacles including this flying prehistoric reptile, Terah, who's considered by the local population, sexy and mostly blond well endowed young women, as a God.With the help of their all purpose robot, Robot John, the rescue crew finally track down the missing astronauts,Kern & Sherman, that planet Venus blows it's top. With Robot John after heroically rescuing the rescue crew, Andre Ferneau & Hans Walter, parishes in a lava flow from an erupting nearby volcano. As for the women lead by beach blond Moana they soon realize that their God Terah, who was killed by the earthling astronauts, was a false idol and destroy, by stoning it, the graven image that they constructed of it.Very confusing at times with all the added footage added on to it the film "Voage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" dose keep you entertained in how cheesy, especially in its special effects, it is as well as the skimpily clad women, lead by Mamie Van Doren, using sea shells as bras in it. There's also the annoying narration by Peter Bogdanovich who instead of making some sense of the story confuses it even more by not letting the actors in it speak their lines by over-talking them. It's also confusing when we see the spaceship that the US astronauts are traveling in having the Soviet Union Red Star painted on it in footage, inserted into it, from the 1962 Soviet sponsored movie Planeta Bur. P.S Re-released years later as "THe Gill Women".

thinker1691 The second time at bat Hollywood director, Peter Bogdanovich took a story written by Henry Ney and created a movie entitled " Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women. " Upon viewing it, try not to laugh too hard at the many fallacies and inaccuracies in the movie. The star of the movie is one time sex goddess Mamie Van Doren who turned many a males' heads in 1968. The story is of a dreamy eyed astronaut who joins a rescue ship to the Planet Venus. Upon landing they immediately destroy a flying reptile whom the primitive women worship as their god. Thereafter the men are plagued by incessant rain, volcanoes, lava and floods. The team never meet the prehistoric woman, clad only in Bell-bottom skin tight pants and sea-shell bras. However, they do hear their siren call and continue to seek their comrades with a poor man's idea of a robot as a space aid. The movie is low grade and originally made by the Russians and were it not for the hot previews which promised it was for adults only, few would have attended it. As it is, the film is recommended to anyone too board to sleep and wants to stay awake. **

Neil Welch Yes, it is interesting to read the story of how surplus footage of a Russian sci-fi movie got inter-cut with newly shot footage and capped with a voice-over from Peter Bogdanovich (also directing, and then starting to make his way in this world which we call the biz of show).Yes, it is enterprising, and shows the ingenuity with which someone can take some source material which is perhaps unusable on its own but which has some potential and, thereby, moves towards making a whole which is greater than the sum of the parts.Yes, it explains why what is obvious some fairly well financed production values sit in a movie which is equally obviously dead cheap. It explains why there are some well matched sound effects but no synchronised dialogue: the story is told in voice-over. It may even (though not necessarily explain why the print which appears on TV contains just enough colour value to leave you with the thought that perhaps this was once a colour original.But make no mistake: no matter how ingenious, how fascinating the story behind this film, the movie itself is perfectly, absolutely, irredeemably dreadful to the point of unwatchability (unless you like watching interminable hours of indentikit blonde women in slacks swanning about on rocks as waves break behind them. And believe me, the appeal palls quickly).

flapdoodle64 Although primitive and low-budget by modern standards, VTTPOPW is worth a watch, especially for fans of this sort of cinema.This film was originally a 1962 Soviet release that was bought by a U.S. producer and then given to apprentice auteur Peter Bogdonavich to pad and repackage for U.S. consumption. As such, it is much less awkward a film than one would expect. There is continuity in the overall sound quality, in certain sonic elements, and in the element of water that smooths over the schisms, and for some inexplicable reason there is a certain otherworldly mood that prevails.The cool science fiction elements such as the robot and the hovercar come exclusively from the Soviet film, and are generally more impressive than the kind of stuff you would have seen in a 1962 U.S. scifi film. The original film also establishes Venus as a moody, damp, cloudy place, and provides the original 'singing' background track.The blond bombshells were added by the U.S. director, and although they should be silly, nonetheless seem to be plausible, mysterious and telepathic, just beyond the detection of the cosmonauts, with their hotpants and bare midriffs.This is a tale of hapless group of men, lonely, struggling for survival, absolutely clueless as to the sense-shattering beauties just beyond, and the impossibly stunning maidens, led by goddess Mamie Van Doren, oblivious to their world's invasion. There is obviously a commentary on the male and female conditions within this scenario.