Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
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Release Date: Jul 12, 1961 Wide
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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Walter Pidgeon is the nominal star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, portraying Admiral Harriman Nelson, the designer of the submarine Seaview, a glass-nosed research submarine. The sub embarks on her shakedown cruise under the polar ice cap as the movie begins. Upon surfacing, however, the crew discovers that the entire sky is on fire -- the Van Allen radiation belt has been ignited by a freak meteor shower, and the Earth is being slowly burnt to a cinder. Nelson and his colleague, Commodore
PG, 1 hr. 46 min.
Jul 12, 1961 Wide
Jun 5, 2007
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (2) | DVD (11)
It's a film to be enjoyed for its DeLuxe Technicolor eye candy visuals.
It's the fantastic situations that give you the feeling all this excitement just maybe could be real.
Amusing, attractive, now somewhat quaint sci-fi flick.
There's a nice little collection of extras on the 'Global Warming Edition' DVD.
Yes, there's a cool cast, but the story is stupid and it's a boring submarine movie too. As much as I enjoyed seeing Lorre, Fontaine, Eden, Pidgeon, Sterling, and Avalon in a movie together, the movie itself wasn't worthy of having them in it. I don't recommend this movie.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
A colourpuking and bizarre mash up of Vernesian ideas and Hollywood mainstream, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea never really takes of as a movie and introduces many ideas while not developing the old ones. The character's motivations are utterly one-dimensional and taken out of the help-yourself stereotype box (foreign
October 8, 2008Super Reviewer
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