The Phantom Planet
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Movie Reviews of The Phantom Planet
Movie Review: SF camp classic looks terrific on DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
Phantom Planet is a generally-overlooked but thoroughly enjoyable slice of early-60s SF cheese. Not really good enough to be a "good movie," not really bad enough to achieve Trash status; but I could watch this one every six months without getting tired of it. Dean Fredericks in the lead makes a quite unappealing, unsympathetic `hero,' lending a strange atmosphere to the movie right off the bat. Francis X. Bushman (the silent Ben Hur) and Anthony Dexter (fallen far from 1951's Valentino) lend kitsch appeal, and Coleen Gray and Dolores Faith, as the `mute girl,' provide potential love interest for drippy Fredericks. If you watch this with the mindset of a 10-year-old there's lots of fun and clever ideas and effects: the shrinking thing, passable outer space/rocketship sequences, the disintegrator floor panels and duel of death, the flaming Solarite death ships, etc. And the sad sack monster, played by clumsy giant-for-hire Richard Kiel (`Jaws'), has to be one of the most lovably moth-eaten, pathetically unthreatening creations to grace any B-flick; kind of Paul Blaisdell-meets-Harry Thomas at the thrift store. You could probably suspend your disbelief and really enjoy this movie on a comic book level, or have a few friends over and laugh yourselves silly. Highly recommended.For long-time fans of this movie, Image's DVD delivers a fine print of the film: sharp and detailed, great tonal scale, virtually spotless save for some very light speckling and a rare blemished frame. You'll never need to worry about upgrading from this one. It blows my VHS TV prints right off the map. Unfortunately, there is no trailer for the feature, and the only other `extra' is the chapter stops. There are five trailers included in an `easter egg,' but they're the same ones as on every other Image release. Considering all the movies in their catalog, they could dish out a few new ones already! A minor gripe though, and if you love this movie you'll want this disc anyway.
Movie Review: Phantom Planet
Summary: 4 Stars
Today the film looks corny,but back in the early 1960's it was a great picture to see.Especially if you are ten years old and with a big imagination.You must remember that this movie came out just when the space race was on.not a bad picture when you went to the theater on a saturday for 35 cents and saw a double feature.And you could stay all day and see it again and again.Movie Review: Scared Little Guy
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw this movie when it first came out, (I was six or seven years old). It scared me pretty good, I couldn't walk down darkened hallways or into dark rooms. My older brother (by almost four years) however, exploited these conditions fairly well, and succeeded in terrorizing me even further, every chance that he got.
Without a doubt, this movie is hokey by today's standards. But it was well worth the purchase price to relive an influential fraction of my childhood.