Cat-Women of the Moon
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Movie Reviews of Cat-Women of the Moon
Movie Review: cat- women of the moon
Summary: 4 Stars
this is old favorite for many older people butt acting and set up isnt made like this any more even modern actores cant copy what they had in the fifty's. this is kinda corny on some scenes butt the sole and spirit is great which lacks in movies now days.Movie Review: Telepathic Cat-Women, Giant Lunar Tarantulas, And Liturgical Dance....What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Summary: 3 Stars
"Cat-Women of the Moon" is a black and white remnant of the golden age of science fiction. Made in 1953, the film stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, and Marie Windsor. The plot is simple yet ridiculous: a spacecraft carries astronauts to the moon, where the lone woman onboard is telepathically commanded to lead the crew to an ancient city of cat-women, who have no men. They need to go to earth to breed, and are clearly evil given their wily ways and "Teenagers From Outer Space" style skintight leotards.
Along the way the intrepid explorers have to battle enormous space tarantulas (complete with enormous string), invade ancient cities composed of matte paintings, and watch the completely ludicrous dance of the cat-women. The problem is that the atmosphere of the moon is being gradually destroyed (insert your own Al Gore joke here), which has (somehow) killed off all the moon men. Into this mess is thrust Kip, the leader of the expedition (Jory), although somehow copilot Sonny Tufts gets top billing. There is a vast quantity of otherworldly dialogue sprinkled throughout (e.g. "I love you Doug, yet I must kill you." and "I'll make a bargain with you. You take me to your rocket ship; I'll show you the cave of gold.") The film is only 64 minutes long, and at about the 63 minute mark I was wondering how it was going to end. the answer is "abruptly." Not only was the ending anticlimactic, it was just plain lame.
The film was originally released in 3-D, although this version is 2-D. You can still find the 3-D version on VHS, if you really want to. On the positive side of the ledger, the film was scored by Oscar winning Hollywood legend Elmer Bernstein, who did movies such as "The Ten Commandments," "The Great Escape," "The Magnificent Seven," "To Kill a Mockingbird," and "The Great Santini." I guess everybody has to start somewhere.
For pure camp value I give this three stars. It's short and sometimes plodding, but has a great, cheesy plot, ridiculous props, and cut-rate performances from the golden age of science fiction.
Movie Review: decide for youself
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this is one of the better ones. It was good but I was annoyed with the quarrelling astronauts. The movie then turned into a drama of how the poor cat women were falling for the scientists and then the supirior cat women go ga ga over the quarrlesome earth man. Why couldnt the cat women come out on top? I liked the theme song. The kind of movie you could leave running before going to bed.Movie Review: Truly Minor "So Bad It's Good" Cult Film
Summary: 2 Stars
Now and then a bad movie is so ludicrously bad that it is entertaining, but most of the time a bad movie is simply that: bad. With a run time of 64 minutes, CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON doesn't hang around long enough to qualify as unbearably bad, but neither is it really silly enough to be consistently entertaining.
For a low-rent sci-fi horror flick, CAT WOMEN has several unexpected bona fides. The score is an early effort by the celebrated Elmer Berstein, best known for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; the panoramic art work is by Chesley Bonestell, who also worked on such films as CITIZEN KANE and WAR OF THE WORLDS and who is perhaps best known for his astronomical illustrations. The film also includes the always-entertaining Marie Windsor (1919-2000), who survived a host of bad "B" and "C" movies before becoming a gritty noir moll in such notable films as THE KILLING. Even so, Berstein, Bonestell, and Windsor can only add so much to this flick, which might be best described as not so much a bad "B" movie as a commonplace "C" flick.
The story, such as it is, concerns a trip to the moon by four men and a woman (Windsor), who make the trip in what appears to be a corrigaged tin pot complete with reclining lawn furniture and office chairs. It soon transpires, however, that the woman is under the psychic domination of the moon's unsuspected inhabitants: The Cat Women! As such, she leads the men into their deadly trap, which consists of not-so-big spiders with visible strings, really bad hairdos, and one of the least inspired bits of choreography you can imagine. There are amusing moments--who knew that any one would bring cigarettes to the moon?--but on the whole it's nothing to write home about, and I doubt even the original 3D format would have helped.
The DVD isn't bad. The picture and sound elements are in reasonably good condition and the original trailer is offered as a bonus. Recommended to fans of bad 1950s and 1960s horror, but frankly it's a good thing that the run time is only 64 minutes. Had it gone to 65 it would have gotten one less star from me.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
Movie Review: Wonderfully stupid and dull.
Summary: 2 Stars
Yikes! I admit I'm not the target audience for this film, which was apparently retarded children of the 1950's but still there should be something in this that I could find enjoyable. I did learn a lot about cat women who live on the moon. I discovered that they like to wear black unitards and break into spontaneous interpretive dance. They also enjoy serving honey dew melon in small compotes and they stack sponge cake on silver platters. Cat women (of the moon) are also fond of false eyelashes and they are quite good at putting out small fires. They find gold very ho-hum and they have no men. They are known to spout words of wisdom like "Our generation is many thousands of years older than yours." Fine. All of this sounds far more fascinating than it actually is when presented in this film, which is shot with all the artistic interest of a security camera. The central flaw of this film is that it is relentlessly dull. Nothing happens. The actors move as little as possible and display a minimum of facial expressions. While the cat women are not unattractive, the men in this film who make up the crew of the rocket ship are butt ugly. Distractingly ugly. Jesus wept. Nothing really works in this film (except the title). I love quirky scifi from the 50's and 60's but this one has very little to offer in terms of humor, action or entertainment in general. Anyone who says Coleman Francis, Edward D. Wood Jr. or Roger Corman produced bad films has never had the pleasure of enjoying CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON.
The DVD has a very good transfer that is bright and sharp and displays few scratches and no serious dirt. It's a Wade Williams Collection print so you know it's gonna look good. The mono soundtrack is clear and free of hiss and pops. A theatrical trailer is included. Cover artwork is excellent. Only a standard version is included (no 3D here). It's a very nice presentation of an outrageously uninteresting film. Best to throw this one out with the used cat litter.
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