The Wild Wild Planet

[bill]

I saw part of this movie as a kid.. when you could get in a theater for a quarter on a Saturday afternoon.  And I never could remember the name. But here it is..  Thanks for this website. Truly a service to humanity..

[Kaoslord]

Maybe I'm just slow, but why is merging people into one body a good thing?  I didn't get it in the fly remake and I don't get it now.

[gary]

You call this a bad movie?  This movie is excellent.

In reality, it was directed by Jess Franco from a lost script by Orson Welles.  Anyone who reads Video Watchdog knows that means greatness.

And a mad scientist merging his body with a woman's body does make sense if all he can think to do with his sexy female minions is run around ranting like a looney.

[Ernst Bitterman]

From the end of the review: "...corporations thumbing their noses at the federal government would be all the rage. "

Well, I guess the flying car must be just around the corner.  Dammit, the future IS a dystopia after all.

[David]

Does anyone know where I could obtain a copy of one of thre greatest cult movies of all time- Wild, Wild Planet?

[IndigoBlack]

I remember seeing this as a kid and I felt like washing my brain out with soap. They just showed this movie on Turner classic movies 10-18-05 (why its a classic is beyond me) and my maturity and great age (50) laughed through the whole movie. Ah...the furture ain't whaty it used to be.

[baron_louise]

Hahaha. Devo streakers from outer space. That's what I got out of this.
The butterfly theater was pretty bizarre too.

[Jeff]

Just saw it on TV.  Had to watch it in stages.  But what fun. Love to see how serious the actors are.  Don't make them like this anymore!!

[ZM73]

Chem-Bio-Med, no?

[jeriwho]

Watched most of this when I was 15 and babysitting.  Got as far as the girl agreeing to go to mad scientist's planet for a vacation and getting there, realizing it is not a paradise at all.  Always wondered what happened, now I see it doesn't matter. Nothing would ever save her from being in this bad movie.  At 15, I kept wondering if, when I grew up and got sophisticated and wore my hair in a beehive and knew aikido, would I be stupid enough to go off with a man I hardly knew, a great distance from my friends, to a destination I'd never heard of before?  Or would I stay as savvy as I'd been at 15 and tell the creep to take a flying leap? I'm happy to report I stayed savvy.

[JCF]

Just saw this film. I Tivo'ed it when it was TCM a few months back. it coupd of passed as na Ed Wood film if ti wasn't in color and dubbed. The little red shuttle ships sounded like vacuum cleaner.

[Bernie]

I agree with Gary.  This movie is near perfect.


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You call this a bad movie?  This movie is excellent.

In reality, it was directed by Jess Franco from a lost script by Orson Welles.  Anyone who reads Video Watchdog knows that means greatness.

And a mad scientist merging his body with a woman's body does make sense if all he can think to do with his sexy female minions is run around ranting like a looney.

[Flangepart]

Ah, a fine Italian cheese. Provolone au cinema.
Devo four armed aliens, a villian who should be in a pasta western...oh, wait, he was...whats not to love?

Btw, in the opening scene, we see a  dome with lungs, a heart under glass...first thing I said was "Hey, they got most of the ingrediants of Haggis there!"

[Paula]

This is one of the Greatest movies ever. I've waited 42 years to see this movie again and it was worth it. I couldn't remember the name of it, but I was channel surfing at 5:00 am one morning and recognized it and had to call my "baby" sister. We watched it together over the phone and had a Hoot!

[Jack]

All I remember is the fight scene with the girls in short skirts, and the heroine going on vacation to the bad guy's lair, watching bodies being put in some sort of containers, and then going to her room as if everything was pretty much okay.  Loved those futuristic cars though.  They looked like you might seriously damage one by tripping over it, but they had those big jet exhausts on the back that could propel them upwards of 30 mph.