Mars Needs Women
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Movie Reviews of Mars Needs Women
Movie Review: Good B-Sci-fi Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Is Tommy Kirk wasted here? Yes.
Is this poorly filmed and directed? Yes.
Is this a good B sci-fi movie? Yes.
Movie Review: The Movie Behind The Cliche
Summary: 3 Stars
A signal from space has been detected. It contains only three words: Mars Needs Women. A Martian ship is on the way to collect some women to help prevent the destruction of the Martian race.First the Martians attempt to teleport some women but that is unsuccessful (we never find out what happened to them). Now they are arriving in person. While they wanted healthy and cooperative volunteers, the short press of time forces them to use hypnosis.
Teen idol Tommy Kirk is the Martian Leader. Plans are going well until Tommy runs into a woman scientist played by Yvonne Craig (Batgirl). It is them that he realizes that even though his race is dying, women are not enough. There must also be love. It is this love that causes the return of the other women as the Martians leave just ahead of the military.
This almost thoughtful film brings to mind This Island Earth where aliens use humans to save their civilization but stop for issues of conscience and morals. The title of this film leads one to expect something a little more sensationalistic than thoughtful, but they would be disappointed.
The film was shot with an obviously small budget, but the plot and acting are respectable. At one point you may even wonder why a certain loudspeaker did not get a mention in the credits as it is filmed almost like a central character for awhile.
Forget what you think you know about this film and take a chance to actually see it for yourself.
Movie Review: INVEST IN FEDCO
Summary: 3 Stars
MARS NEEDS WOMEN needs no introduction (so much so that it dosen't even have a preview on the disc - I'm not sure if this is an oversight or it never had one to begin with) - the title alone tells you all you need to know, and just what you will find underneath the cover. But don't let that put you off, because MARS NEEDS WOMEN is a classic... even if only for all the wrong reasons. Ernest, but DRAGNET stiff, dialogue deleivered by Tommy Kirk and company make this feature a delight to watch as everyone puts all they've got into making it come across like a high school play gone wrong. Wet suits used as space suits, with duct tape filling in for command stripes, and a model space ship that is so horribly obvious that the opening edits in the credit sequence seem to be going out of their way to hide it - or remove it all together. It's a pleasing and entertaining mess that strives for science fiction, yet comes up with a jumbled collection of erotic dancing, IBM salesmen looking aliens, stock footage, of which every second is shown (they paid for it, you're going to see all of it), and the timeless tale of true love conquering all (efficiently - in under 24 hours). For the collector, MARS NEEDS WOMEN is a must, for the casual viewer, you will find gem of a film that is not to be missed and can be watched over and over again.Movie Review: Venus Needs Men
Summary: 3 Stars
The costume and hardware are strictly Ed Wood. The acting is the substance of Pinocchio. I can't really dislike this flick because it does have a certain disarming charm in it's near ineptitude. I bump it up a point for the presence of Yvonne Craig, THE Batgirl. If anybody wanted to revive the beehive they should look no further.Movie Review: Mars Needs Rehearsal!
Summary: 2 Stars
Of all the bad Larry Buchanan movies ever made, this is one of them. And, sadly enough, this may be his best.Martians Tommy Kirk and Company, in vacuformed bodysuits with "boing" antennae, announce to the Pentagon that Mars needs women. When America refuses to cooperate by providing a few suitable single females, Kirk and Crew baldly state that they will simply do their own informal poll and take some girls on the sly. The Secretary of State informs the public that Martian kidnappers are on the move, and creates a think-tank to deal with the problem. One of the think-tank's members, space geneticist Yvonne Craig, falls into Kirk's sights as a perfect inductee for the Martian breeding program - and, unaware that Kirk is in fact one of the Martians she is working against, she falls for him while he is in undercover guise.
This is one of the weirdest movies ever made. It isn't a comedy, nor does it try to be one. That it isn't good goes without saying - but it's really not that bad, either. Strangely enough, the script would actually have worked, if given a halfway decent production. It's all played serious as a heart attack, and only the incredibly cheap production values, drastically overused stock-footage padding, and a lack of rehearsal that make the performances come off as first dress night at the local community theater kill it. It's got virtually no entertainment value, and yet the seriousness with which the story is undertaken almost hypnotically holds your attention. It's sometimes amusing - and even interesting - in spite of itself.
Recommended only for unusually thorough sci-fi cinema buffs.