Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)

Must See Movie...

Best movie of this year hands down!

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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.

John Agar, who costarred with John Wayne in John Ford directed films, then became a staple in Universal Studios Sci-Fi films of the '50's, now finds himself playing Capt. Don Graham, who leads a UN expedition to explore the hostile planet Uranus, and discovers a strange place where they seem to encounter people from their past, only to discover that a giant pulsating brain is behind it all, and must be defeated if they are to escape, and save the Earth.Denmark produced film is a bit better than "Reptilicus"(the same director) but is still a tacky and silly film. If filmed in black & white as an episode of "The Twilight Zone", this might have worked, but at feature length it's a bust.

For some reason by 2001 humankind has skipped over the 7th planet for whatever and a UN expedition is now exploring Uranus. You can see immediately why Journey To The Seventh Planet was not entitled Journey To Uranus. Now that I've gotten that out my system.The most distinguishing characteristic of Uranus is that instead of spinning on its axis in orbit around the it rolls instead. The five visible moons of Uranus look like a giant pinwheel in space.Well better films than this have failed to predict the correct future, 2001 - A Space Odyssey immediately comes to mind. When the expedition gets to Uranus instead of the methane atmosphere, subzero freeze that are on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune the other gas giants, they find an Elysian field like existence with some of the most curvaceous women you'll ever see on screen.Of course this is all an illusion and what's driving it is a giant brain which can convert just about anything to anything and it reads the minds of the expedition. What a sex obsessed bunch this was, especially John Agar.The giant brain is looking for transportation to earth with a population it can enslave. Will the men of the expedition figure it all out and stop the brain? That's what you watch the film for.Journey To The Seventh Planet is one of those films you put your brain on hold and just enjoy. But if it were made today and you hope humankind would have a more diverse future expedition say for 2080, if you had gay people on the trip as astronauts what interesting fantasies the brain might pick up.

In the year 1962 this Science Fiction film arrived in our small home town at the local theater. It was called " Journey to the Seventh Planet. " All the kids ran to see it. Most of us were innocent youngsters and few knew anything of Science and fewer of the Solar System. During the movie with a large box of 10 cent popcorn and 5 cent coke, we watched in awe at the planet monsters, screaming in terror. The story was interesting enough, Earthmen of the future (2001) unite under the United Nation Flag, build a space ship, blast off to visit Uranus, the 7th planet. There the four spacemen wearing flimsy rubber suits, plexi-glass helmets and kitchen gloves, encounter a Blob or Mind-Creature who plans to conquer Earth and enslave the population. The giant creatures they encounter in the movie were exactly what attracted small children. As adults today, we wonder just how a cheesy, simple and hokey movie could produce such ear-splitting screams from an audience full of kids. John Agar stars as Capt. Don Graham, with Carl Ottosen, Peter Monch, Karl Ove Sprogøe as the crew. If you're an adult today, you too can create some modern nightmares in your kids, if they promise not to laugh too hard. Recommended for very young monster-seeking five-year-olds. *