Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition)
by Richard Fleischer
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Actor: Arthur O'Connell, Donald Pleasence, Edmond O'Brien, Raquel Welch, Stephen BoydDirector: Richard Fleischer
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Fantastic Voyage - A fantastic memory of the 60's
Summary: 4 Stars
Fantastic Voyage was a good (four star) sci-fi film made smack dab in the middle of the 60's. The story line was authored by Isaac Asimov and made a good transfer to film. I couldn't think of a much more representative sci-fi film of the cold war years and this film had all the trappings.
I won't describe the story line except to say that it predicted a very improbable form of what we today call "nano-technology". It was, nevertheless, very entertaining and featured good actors of the day and very decent special effects which just managed to pull off the plot visually.
The plot involved some impossible technology to shrink an entire medical team and submarine designed for a crew compliment of about six, in order to perform brain surgery with a medical laser. This was an inside job and required suspending disbelief to the point of severe strain as the crew and sub were reduced to the size of a blood cell and injected into the patient.
I am out of my depth but this must have violated several of the classical laws of nature like conservation (of matter, energy, reactants and products, direction of entropy change) as well as some of newer ones in particle physics. However, it was all in the name of entertainment.
This film came at a time of relative calm and stability in my life during which I was going through engineering school. One Saturday night, while studying for some tests, my parents asked me if I would like to go out with them for dinner and possibly see a film.
A night out with my parents to see a sci-fi film is something I would remember since my father (who was a diesel engine mechanic and pretty hard headed) had never taken me to the movies except for this particular film! This was about as unexpected a pleasure as I could imagine as going out with my parents did not cause me any problems even when I was a young man.
The movie appeared to be a hit with everyone including my hard headed father. My mom, of course, could always be counted on to appreciate a good flick as we had made a habit of going to the movies together since forever.
Summary of Fantastic Voyage (Special Edition)
2001: A Space Odyssey took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean AxmakerScientist Jan Benes who knows the secret to keeping soldiers shrunken for an indefinite period escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with the help of CIA agent Grant. While being transferred their motorcade is attacked. Benes strikes his head causing a blood clot to form in his brain. Grant is ordered to accompany a group of scientists as they are miniaturized. The crew has one hour to get in Benes's brain remove the clot and get out.Runtime: 101 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 024543440437 Manufacturer No: 2244043
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