SunnyHello Nice effects though.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

dougdoepke No need to get into the loony plot. Thanks to this ghastly treasure, I nominate Ordung and Tucker for the Outpatient Hall of Fame. After all, who else but the ditzy would think a gorilla suit topped by a diving bell is the stuff of nightmares. And if that's not scary enough, top it off with a menacing Lawrence Welk bubble machine. Still, when those alien bubbles came flying at me, I was under the bed in nothing flat. Yes indeed, this lunatic mess qualifies for not just any award, but for a big fat Golden Turkey. I love it when the world's at stake, and a shirtless Roy and a busty Alice traipse off to the weeds for some serious canoodling. Nice to know Hollywood won't let world's end interfere with a commercial product. But the movie's real star is lowly Bronson Canyon. It's a burned up pimple on the face of LA that no 50's schlock would be complete without. Then too, I love the way a waddling Ro-Man clumps up and down the desiccated slopes like he's looking for Humane Society rescue. Oh well, what can you say about a near home-movie that cost all of sixteen grand. Heck, production companies spend that much on lunch these days. Still, someone should have let the cast in on the joke. They play things like there's an Oscar at stake. Anyway, a tip of the diving helmet to the makers of this inspired mess. Meanwhile-- Is it safe to come out now?

Aaron1375 I viewed this film on an episode of MST3K and have to say it is pretty bad. In fact, it is god awful and I am probably being to kind. I think even Manos the Hands of Fate has more redeemable qualities than does this film. It features annoying children, a stupid plot twist that is pointless thanks to the fact it is telegraphed and a monster that is a person in a monkey suit with a diving helmet for its head. There is just nothing all that good to say about it other than they did have the guts to kill off one of the annoying children. Granted, in the end not really, but they did sort of.The story has two children bothering these two men digging. The little boy is obsessed with playing aliens and such while the girl just wants to play house. Well the children's mother and older sister comes up and they takes the kids back to a picnic and then the boy runs off and has flashes of other movies and then he awakens to a world where the Romon rules the world and the remaining people exist in a life of fear as their number rapidly dwindles. What has happened? Why is this monkey person such a threat? And why is this film so bad that anyone with half a brain already knows it is just the boy having a dream!?! The episode made for a pretty good episode of MST3K. It was a first season episode, so it was not great as they were still trying to feel their way through things at this point. The movie did provide plenty of riffing material and probably would have made a better later episode when they had gotten their feet a bit more wet.So overall, a horrible movie, a fairly decent episode of MST3K and a monster than consists of a monkey suit with a helmet. The movie basically lets the audience know right from the get go that it is all a dream and then tacks on a stupid ending suggesting the Robot Monster was real. They do not make them like this anymore and in the case of this particular film, that is an incredibly good thing.

Leofwine_draca ROBOT MONSTER is often heralded as the worst movie ever made, although I've seen plenty that are more boring than this zero-budget effort, which is enthusiastic if nothing else. The nutshell plot of the film sees a family struggling to survive in the aftermath of an apocalypse, where they're menaced by the titular alien.The film features an anything-goes, shot-in-your-own-backyard feel which makes it hard to take seriously. I'm a huge fan of '50s sci-fi, but this has more in common with the dodgy offerings of Ed Wood than a real film. The acting is sub-par, the script even worse, and the attempts to enliven things by shoving in stock footage are simply helpless.Things aren't quite so bad as all that, though. ROBOT MONSTER is a film that it's easy to laugh at, which counts for a lot, and Ro-Man is quite an entertaining menace...at least, he's highly amusing, whether it be his bizarre look or the way he talks in that portentous voice. As a movie, it's also very short, which makes things easier to take. Watch it as an unintentional comedy and you might even find yourself enjoying it.

Videogamer595 "MOON MONSTERS COME TO EARTH AND ATTACK AND KILL ALL HUMANS!!!" Quite possibly one of the most infamous movies of all time, let alone a prime example of a well done "so bad it's good" movie, Robot Monster puts all other movies to shame, literally. Ro-Man, the main antagonist in Robot Monster is a sex-starved, gorilla-suit, diving helmet monster contraption that has destroyed all of humanity with the exception of a group of survivors which, coincidentally, happen to be a family. But, little do they know that this horrific creature is coming to kill them off and steal their women, once and for all. Sounds like a pretty good premise, right? Actually, this was a typical 50's Sci-Fi premise for most of the Sci-Fi movies made during that time.In all seriousness, this film lacks acting, creativity with the monster (to a degree) and pretty much everything in between. A micro budget film, with a short run time, this film, to most critics, would probably be given anywhere between 3 to no stars. But I am not like most critics. Being only 21, I have, literally, immersed myself in almost 1000 different movies in the past 6 years. But, Robot Monster, for some reason, seems to be one hell of a masterpiece. You may be asking why in the hell I would think this film is a masterpiece if it's rated at a 2.8 on here, 31% (by critics) and 41% (by users) on Rotten Tomatoes. Well, how about it?Although this film is a complete nuclear disaster, it shines as being one of the best, best-worst movies I have ever seen. Much like the infamous Creeping Terror (which would be released some 11 years later) would put Robot Monster near the top of the "good-bad" chain. But, just how bad can you get?Robot Monster, undoubtedly, is one of the most hilarious and entertaining movies I have had the pleasure of screening. It gets the job done with zero screams and many laughs, but, really, was meant to scare the pants off of you. As I have said before, I am a very young movie critic with an interest in some of the oldest, and cheesiest, films of all time. This happens to be Gouda cheese quality (see what I did there?) I will award it no stars (to keep other Z-movie lovers, like myself, happy to find movies with a low rating) but, in a B to Z critic standpoint, I would award it 10 out of 10 stars. A fine example of putting two unlikely things together and making a fine piece of crap along the way.