Lucybespro
It is a performances centric movie
Smartorhypo
Highly Overrated But Still Good
Francene Odetta
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Lee Eisenberg
Unlike most of the movies riffed on "Mystery Science Theater 3000", Kurt Neumann's "Rocketship X-M" is not completely idiotic. While clumsily made, it does contain a warning about the potential for nuclear war (which seems more possible than ever nowadays). When a manned mission flies to the moon, it gets diverted and ends up on Mars, which turns out to have its own story.All these old movies about space travel come across as silly in an era when there's already been a moon landing and there's an International Space Station, but they're still fun to watch. As for the MST3K riff of this movie, that episode was the first to feature TV's Frank. Joel, Servo (voiced by Kevin Murphy for the first time) and Crow have fun heckling the movie. Good times.Anyway, not any sort of masterpiece, but still enjoyable.PS: Kurt Neumann also directed the original version of "The Fly".
writers_reign
I've been reading some of the reviews here and am bemused by the number of times Destination Moon is mentioned as a rival product. In England the two films were shown as a double bill so by definition there was no rivalry as audiences were not asked to see one at the expense of the other. As to the film itself, seen today it's ludicrous and lacks credibility. The crew of the spaceship wear their ordinary clothes and are firmly anchored to the floor and free to move as they will without 'floating' i.e. no account is taken of the effects of gravity. Also conveniently ignored is how they eat, drink, and go to the toilet. Rather than a computer or even push buttons the ship is manoeuvred by levers that resemble the landing-gear controls of an airplane. Okay, maybe in 1950 audiences were happy to swallow all this but then is then and now is now.
friedman-21
When I saw this as a young teen (early 1950s, on broadcast television), I was immensely moved by the tragic love story, immensely glad to find--finally--some movie out there actually saying what most of us growing up in the shadow of the Bomb were secretly feeling: that nuclear war was hardly a help to sacrosanct "National Security" but, rather, a threat to all life on Earth; just as the explorers in Rocketship XM were to find on Mars, nuclear bombs could indeed destroy a civilization, turn a world to desert. I don't think it was mere teenage romanticism that made the lovers' heroic, passionate, tragic deaths so unforgettable, either; this was a film about the struggle of life against doom. And I am delighted to learn, here on IMDb, that the film was written by Dalton Trumbo, the politically astute author whose novel Brave Cowboy, as the film Lonely Are the Brave, with its anti-Establishment hero riding his horse toward Mexico and shooting down the pursuing police helicopter, ushered in, for some of us in Berkeley, California, in early autumn 1964, the whole Movement era.
nnnn45089191
Wow, this was a real stinker. This early sci-fi flick has nothing going for it than pure camp. There's so much scientific mambo-jumbo in the dialog it's laughable. The female character played by Osa Massen is just a plot device for the male characters to serve sexist remarks during the entire length of the film. Watch this one with your girlfriend I guarantee it will make her blood boil.The only good thing is the musical score which expertly build the moods of the film. The special-effects are rather crude but not bad considering the vintage of the movie. With some good B-stars in the lead roles,the acting isn't too bad. But the lines they are given must have given them quite a challenge. The challenge of not laughing their heads off.
