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.
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06/04/07
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
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Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 21
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7/10
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 scientist's body to destroy a blood clot and save... [More]
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Reviews for Fantastic Voyage
Top Critic 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.
06/04/07
Top Critic 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.
06/04/07
Top Critic ...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.
06/03/07
An opportunity missed, therefore -- especially as the imaginative sets are slightly tackily realised -- but fun all the same.
01/26/06
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A landmark of 1960s sci-fi… remains compelling entertainment despite dated special effects, deliberate pacing, and indifferent dialogue and acting, thanks in part to the genuine wonder it brings to its premise.
09/12/03
"Fantastic Voyage is an absurd but entertaining trip into inner space."
04/07/03
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