An opportunity missed, therefore -- especially as the imaginative sets are slightly tackily realised -- but fun all the same.
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:22
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: The special effects may be a bit dated today, but Fantastic Voyage still holds up well as an imaginative journey into the human body.
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: An important scientist is attacked by assassins and almost killed. When traditional medical methods are exhausted, a crew of scientists is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the... An important scientist is attacked by assassins and almost killed. When traditional medical methods are exhausted, a crew of scientists is shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the scientist's body to destroy a blood clot and save his life. An exciting adventure with colorful special effects. AKA Microscopia and Strange Journey. [More]
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence, Arthur Kennedy, Arthur O'Connell, William Redfield, Jean Del Val, Barry Coe
Director: Richard Fleischer
Director: Richard Fleischer
Screenwriter: Harry Kleiner, David Duncan
Producer: Saul David
Composer: Leonard Rosenman
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Reviews for Fantastic Voyage
The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space -- the body of a man.
Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.
Adventure movies that get bogged down in talk are doomed, even if their premise is wonderful and parts of the film exciting or even inspiring.
This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it's the screwball poetry of the plot.
"Fantastic Voyage is an absurd but entertaining trip into inner space."
The once revolutionary special effects not merely pales in comparison to many of today's offerings, but looks downright silly.
Call this one big-time guilty pleasure. Special effects are dynamite, concept just as good.
...our own human interior was revealed, like a Jacques Cousteau travelogue, in screen-filling vistas of surreal canals and chambers filled with floating psychedelia and the amorphous Jell-O colors of a Jimi Hendrix concert.
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September 27, 2007:
Roland Emmerich Slams James Cameron's Fantastic Voyage Script
Roland Emmerich is gearing up to direct his long-planned Fantastic Voyage remake, and even though its screen debut is still in the distance, he recently discussed the project... More...
September 04, 2007:
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August 16, 2007:
Emmerich to Go On Fantastic Voyage
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