Out of curiosity, I searched Last Days of Planet Earth and badmovies.com was one of the first listings on the search engine. Badmovies.com is as superfluous and annoying as the Medveds' "Golden Turkey Awards". The type of criticism that approaches older, lower budget films as inferior and takes cinema completely out of cultural context.  Mostly a product of the film brat generation, which loves to label unworthy films as "cheesy"(I hate that word), yupster "bad movie" lovers wouldn't know an inspired film unless somebody else told them.

That being said, Last Days of Planet Earth is certainly a flawed film. But while it is clumsy at times, the oppressive atmosphere of dread and pessimism make this an oddly compelling piece. There are some impressive special effects (the chain reaction traffic jam explosion), and some not-so-impressive ones (the little girl who can jump 20 feet into the air). My main complaint is that the tacked on conclusion following the nuclear holocaust and grotesque radioactive mutant feeding frenzy is a cop-out.

Finally, the atrociously dubbed dialogue is the fault of domestic and/or UK distributors, and has nothing to do with the Japanese film as it was originally produced.

There is one thing this movie teaches us.

If the Concorde ever explodes in midair it will destroy the Ozone Layer.

No really. Go run screaming from your homes! You must see this movie. As dumb and cheesey as it apears today, it's also quite good and artsy in parts. Chilling too.

No...wait.....yeah it was just bad.

It's one of those fun bad movies. It's horrible, yet, you can't stop watching it. I am even thinking about trying to find it, and buy it myself.

As kooky as this film was, I remember catching the last part of it, the part with the little mutant people, at like 3 am one night.. well, I woke up to them on my television rather, and for some reason they creeped the ever loving crap out of me..

.. well, so did the monkey people at the beginning of 2001:ASO ..   

 When this was made it was not ment to hammer in the message that you need to protect your environment, in fact the movie was actually based off of a book in Japan and was just ment as a cautionary diaster movie. The last days of planet earth version screws this up and makes it all doom and gloom, plus this version is missing about 26 mins of footage from the uncut 114 minute version of the film which can be only rarely seen because it was banned in Japan, and the dubbing doesn't help any either as film is based on performances and the dubbers usually don't give 100%, so don't be so hard on the japanese who made the film be hard on the film distributors who released this pile of crap.

If you get the chance to see the international version you will be able to sort of get the movie as it was originally released but a few scenes have been deleted out of the international version and then even further cut in the last days of planet earth cut, now originally in the uncut version we are shown the past desendants of Dr. Nishiyama being persecuted for his belief in the prophecies of nostradamus, a female narrator replaces the narrator in last days of planet earth who reads out the prophecies in a creepy mannner. There's a subplot in the uncut version were Nishiyama's assistant is having a kid, but the kid ends up dying of pollution, this connects to the scene with the pediatrician talking about the deformed babies and weird shots of wife and assistant later. This subplot is in neither the international cut or the last days cut. The narrator narrates less in the international version, the slug scene was re-edited showing things multiple times over in the last days cut, nudity on the boat scene with mariko was cut from last days, cannibalism was cut out of the new guinea scenes including two natives shown eating one of the explorers in the bed, the cave scene with the discovery of the past search group was a little more graphic with  nishiyama removing some of the skin off of one of the mutated scientists. The scene with mariko on the beach is cut to seem that she is crazy, but she is not, dialogue between the dying wife and nishiyama was cut and a speech by the prime minister were both cut from the international version and last days cut, the montage at the end of last days is not in the international version. The first meeing between mariko and her boyfriend a a dancing studio was cut also. By the way elvis' name is actually Akira or  something like that. If you look on youtube and typein La find du monde  D'apres Nostradamus you will find videos of the weird french cut to this film, its in french with no subtitles so it will be a litle hard to understand.

Giant slugs ? No problem, add garlic and call the french!

The Japanese version of this movie is a lot better!