Diagonaldi Very well executed

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Chung Mo Having seen this in Japanese on the big screen back in the early eighties and later on TV, I can say that it's pretty strange no matter what the US dub did to it. The best I can say however is the film is very entertaining in a bad movie way.The audience I saw it with at the Japan Society here in New York City laughed at a lot of the film and this included a number of Japanese. The strangeness of the film starts with the weird inclusion of Nostradamus as a way to explain the social commentary the film makers were clearly trying to get across. Why it didn't occur to them that Nostradamus would just turn the whole shebang into a big fantasy farce is only clear when you see the bizarreness that follows. Entire traffic jams blowing up from one car crash. New Guinea wildlife mutants. Motor cycle gangs gone suicidal and driving off cliffs. Japanese mobs rioting for rice. Scientific / paranormal explanations going hand in hand. A final apocalypse sequence that lasts for 15 minutes but is entirely made up as if the movie has become a documentary. The acting is very over the top sometimes and other times it's very, very restrained. There's a few "Speed Racer" type reaction shots that don't play well on live humans here in the US.There's a lot of SFX footage pulled from other Toho productions, The Submersion of Japan (Tidal Wave) and The Last War (1961!) being the obvious ones. However, the movie is so visually disjointed by the end that it doesn't really make a difference. It's interesting to compare this to other Japanese fantasy films of the same era that toss modern-day Japan into chaos. It seems that the consensus was the Japanese would loose their self-control and become a violent mob.The music is good in an unusual way and the pacing of the film is enough to keep you watching even though it's sheer idiocy (for a good cause, though).

bomba6 Oh, what a wonderful movie!!!! I loved it!!! Ok, special effects are a little weak, but the script was terrific!!!

emm We can expect more IMDb user coverage on LAST DAYS OF PLANET EARTH, and tons more that fall into the "schlock" category. And for a good reason! This one is about as bad as, say PLAN 9, and may just be the worst science fiction production imported from Japan. Why science fiction? Is it because Earth is under peril from natural and man-made disasters that is described in the prophecies of Nostradamus? This is a classic example of a plot used heavily in these movies, minus the seer's words. In fact, you can always expect ANYTHING to happen, making EVERYTHING go wrong in the plot without a trace. It all ends up as an in-depth documentary that focuses on the stages of mankind's existence in the final days, spoken by an overpaid voice actor who needs his lips glued with Mucilage. Read the Weekly World News and you'll soon find out that feeding on fear is such a silly idea after all. Anybody else want to comment?

Atragon I'll tell you, the screeches this movie gave for MST3K must've been pretty quiet because I certainly didn't hear them. Doesn't matter since MST3K is the most annoying show on television. This is very much underrated by people. I was entertained by this movie and that's all that matters. See the this movie if you can find it.