Fantastic Voyage

Starring Stephen Boyd (was Rod Taylor busy?), Raquel Welch (the only person whom the form-fitting costumes flatter), Donald Pleasence (who looks kind of like Moby), Arthur Kennedy (a once-interesting actor who now looks like he could use a good colonoscopy) and Edmund O'Brien (just a pretty, pretty man). The special effects are nifty. The science is Tom Swifty. It's probably 1,000 times better when you see it on the big screen and you're either a) high, or b) 13, or c) both.

Raquel Welch takes off a white jumpsuit to reveal yet another white jumpsuit.

Fantastic Voyage was certainly ambitious and does capture the imagination to a degree, but it was simply a little too far ahead of its time to pull everything together properly. Although the special effects are pretty good, the psychadellic nature of the human body certainly seems a little misplaced, if at lower production cost. The main flaw is the lack of real event and purpose as everything plods along at a grindingly slow pace. It's still somewhat of a classic however and worth a viewing.

This story is about the thing we are closing to get with computers: medical helper microrobots to fix inside of us. Honey, to shrink the kids, then again, is as ridiculous as it sounds. The forklift for miniature sub was the most funniest invention.

It's a fun adventure with interesting visuals.

Apr 25, 2018 Kurtköy

Em honra do centenário do de Stuart A. Reiss. Imagino que deve ter sido um estouro quando foi lançado, especialmente pela direção de arte de encher os olhos, mas ele se torna menos impressionante para quem cresceu vendo o Innerspace do Joe Dante, ou mesmo da excelente versão do Fleischer para 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. BlurayRip AMIABLE.

Because of its age, you have to suspend some belief to enjoy watching this film. Some of the scenes are overdramatic and silly. Its pacing is a little slow, but overall it's a fun story, even with its contrived plot-built tension.

I Am Weasel did an episode lampooning this film. It focuses on Babboon and Weasel fixing The Red Guy's broken ass bone. It's brash, visually crass and a fitting episode in the I Am Weasel ouevre. Still far more interesting than this film. If this film has an advantage, however, it's the visuals and whenever i think about this movie i can taste the aloe vera juice that i had while watching it. It was very tasty

Fun but also frustratingly slow. The best part was listening to my wife scientifically pick apart the movie.

I have a fair amount of nostalgia for this movie, but that doesn't mean it's particularly great. Donald Pleasance is here, and that's neat, and I'm sure in 1966 this movie was just as visually fascinating as I found it when I was like 6 years old. But like a lot of Richard Fleischer's work, it's a workmanlike studio product that is firmly entrenched in its time. A lot of the acting is quite stilted, and at 100 minutes the Magic School Bus premise is stretched out to a pretty slow pace.

Maybe I just watched a bad print, but neither the sets nor the visual effects - both of which won Oscars - quite blew me away. Has its moments, but the poor script, wooden acting, and tame view of the human body keep it from becoming more than modestly diverting.

I was more intrigued by thinking about how they made this movie than I was by the movie itself. But I do have a soft spot for classic sci-fi flicks.

The awesome opening credits here set the bar for cinematography a little too high for a film that mostly takes place in a human body portrayed by cheesy and underwhelming visuals. The story, meanwhile, loses the luster of its intriguing set-up from outside the bloodstream as it never really picks up the pace on the inside, with its points of crisis too far apart and often featuring dated special effects. The tense silence in the operating room when the sub is in the ear is a great moment though.

The idea is cool, but it's wasted by a mix of poor execution and very dated special effects. There are long stretches where nothing happens and it's mostly really tedious to watch.

The special effects in this film are really dated. It is hard to take the effects seriously. The script is average and the characters are uninteresting. Overall I would say skip this film.

Overlong, dated, and too ridiculous for its own good. It begins like a bad Austin Powers movie and then improves slightly, but not by much. I prefer the Magic School Bus episode.

Highly enjoyable and well-done sci-fi has weathered the years quite well, thanks largely to the enjoyable team in the submarine (though it's fairly easy to spot the ineveitable traitor, and Welch appears to be employed for no discernable reason, no not even the obvious one!) A nicely done, old fashioned yarn.

Thought this was great when I was a kid,unfortunately it's fantastically dated

dated badly but still very enjoyable to watch.. effects well ahead of its time... all medical people should watch it; inner ear and alveoli sets are very real...

The effects might have been great for its day, but their looking dated isn't the biggest problem here. It's that this film plods along. It has maybe 60 minutes of material painfully stretched into 120. If you enjoy watching people in labcoats stand around doing literally nothing and golfcarts driving up ramp after ramp, then watch this. But have something else to keep you busy during the downtimes.

Science fiction is the one genre probably most at risk of looking dated quickly, due to its reliance (in most cases) on special effects and on technology that is often just slightly out of reach and that's often central to many people's criticisms of certain movies. While it might look out of date and cheesy by today's standards, this is a film that deserves to be looked at in the context of the time that it was made.

Enjoyable. My favorite scene is when Raquel Welch is attacked by the antibodies. !?!?

Still packs an unusually potent punch.

The color work and the animation are first-rate

Sure

It's not that great. Watchable and occasionally amusing, but mostly due to cheesy effects and a dated psychedelic aesthetic.

What would've been amzing in 1966 has dated badly, though Donald Pleasance is always good value

An overlooked sci-fi classic. Never particularly gripping, but who knew the human body could be so psychedelic?

It hasn't aged well, with, among other things, its corpuscles that now look like throw pillows more than anything -- but I first saw this as a kid when it was still fresh and new, so for me it still retains some of the gosh-wow quality I originally got from it. It's essentially a theme-park ride. But I love the concept, love Donald Pleasance as the villain, and still believe that the voyage is (mostly) fantastic.

An inpiring old sci-fi classic.

Interesting Sci fi.