Tobor the Great
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Movie Reviews of Tobor the Great
Movie Review: Tobor the Great
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent 1950's B&W sci-fi. I haven't seen "TOBOR the GREAT" since I was a child. What a classic!Movie Review: A Nostalgic Reminder
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this title because I remembered watching it on Chicago's WGN Series "Family Classics". Although the "special effects" are very dated, the story is, surprisingly, as enjoyable as I recalled from my childhood viewings. I would recommend it for fans of 50's & 60's Sci-Fi, as long as you watch it with an appropriate amount of appreciation for the tongue in check & try not to be too jaded by everthing we now see in the movies. I would be a great vehicle for a big-budget, digital effects remake, of course updated to modern times - perhaps the first "robot" guided mission to another planet.Movie Review: Good reminder of Saturday afternoons in the sixties
Summary: 4 Stars
How can you go wrong when you spell robot backwards, chuckle. Definitely one of the Sci-Fi classics of the 50's and 60's that I remember watching on Saturday afternoons on the good old B&W TV set.Movie Review: SyFy winner
Summary: 4 Stars
If you love robots and sci fi adventure check this out. It gets more interesting as time goes by.Movie Review: Tobor the Average
Summary: 3 Stars
My friend and fellow sci-fi fanatic have our own personal "wish lists" of films we've always wanted to see. Well, Tobor has topped my list for the past 20 years or so. It's almost never shown on t.v., and even the VHS tape of the film has been out-of-print for years. So it was with great enthusiasm that I greeted this long-overdue DVD release.
Unfortunately, like so many things that we build up in our minds to be great, the reality is that Tobor isn't really the "lost classic" I'd hoped it would be. Oh, it's hardly a bad film. The production values are first-rate, especially the expansive lab set wherein the title character is created. And I was impressed that there was some real SCIENCE in this science-fiction: The idea of using artificial beings to test the dangers of space travel is a fine idea.
Where Tobor misses the mark is with the ludicrous plot device of the robot creating an ESP-based link with its inventor's grandson, which then proves useful when the boy is kidnapped by criminals intent on stealing the mechanical man. It's as if the writers couldn't decide if their story was a kid's movie, or serious sci-fi. With about equal amounts of both, the result is not that satisfying.
But if you like 50's sci-fi, you may still find this a worthwhile purchase. It does retain much of the "gee whiz" innocence of the era, and I'm sure the nostalgia factor is high for anyone growing up during that time.
For a much better boy-and-his-robot picture, check out THE INVISIBLE BOY, available as a bonus feature with Forbidden Planet (Two-Disc Special Edition).
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