Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Nice effects though.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

This film was a treat! There was lots of innovative features. Landing during Mardis Gras was brilliant where A & C believed it was Mars due to all the creative costumes taken to be Martians. I don't think they have such unusual outfits today.I don't understand other reviewers taking issue with them not actually going to Mars; they were headed there; they were going there; they thought they arrived there and the men left from there. The title was just a metaphor for going crazy.Onto Venus where low budget special effects made future aspects looked remarkably advanced even by today's standards. There were clever foreshadowing tributes to later science fiction classics. However the giant dog was uninspired.Having only women on the planet borrowed from the future "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus". I laughed out loud more often than their earlier classics in scenes such as when the Queen made the King sit on the truth throne and asked him questions.Has anyone else noticed how Derek Waters (Drunk History) looks like Costello?

ONCE AGAIN, WE are reminded of those innocent, carefree childhood days and those seemingly innumerable days spent at the now long defunct American institution, the Saturday Matinée. This relic of those bygone "good old days" was the home to Serial Chapters, Cartoons Comedy Short Subjects and the Juvenile "B" Movie. Such was the realm of our subject today, A & C GO TO MARS.THAT THE COMEDY Team of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello had been boffo at the old Box Office had been a well known Hollywood axiom for some years. Evrer since the team stepped in front of the cameras in ONE NIGHT IN THE TROPICS (1938), they had been working in multi studio contracts which included pictures made at Universal, MGM, GOLDWYN and independents. There was even a famous Bob monologue in which he said something like: "It was a slow day in Hollywood. Abbott & Costello only made one picture!"ADDED TO THAT, the team was also kept very busy with a weekly Radio Show during the forties, which was in turn superseded by live appearances on NBC TV's COLGATE COMEDY HOUR and their own filmed half hour ABBOTT & COSTELLO Show. All the while, the twosome continued their movie output.OUR POINT IS, the team was getting worn out and even tired; tired of the grind, tired of the Hollywood scene, tired of each other. The result was by the early 1950's, Bud & Lou had done their best work.NONETHELESS, THE GUYS continued to churn out their pictures until 1956, with DANCE WITH ME HENRY. The road had been long, tiresome, but indeed, lucrative. During their partnership, they would essay roles that brought them out west, to haunted house, with the monsters, in the Army,the Navy and Air Force. They followed the same sort of path that was required itinerary for all comedy teams.THIS FEATURE THAT we are reviewing today surely could not be classified as being among their best; but it was certainly more than adequate fodder for our neighborhood theaters (such as our show, the Ogden, in Chicago on 63rd Street).THEN AGAIN, WE may be underestimating and misreading the situation. Could it be that the Hollywood Honchos who were calling the shots figured that A & C were hottest during World War II; when their fast, wise crackin' brand of humor best fit the times. Now that the '50's brought 'Peace & Prosperity', the Team would best be served with appealing to the Juvie Crowd; much in the same manner a revived 3 STOOGES would do at the decades end. (The format of their very 'Kid Friendly'1952 Half Hour Filmed TV would certainly seem to support this notion.) AND THE KIDS continued plunking down their quarters and just kept pouring in to see 'em! (That included this kid here. doing this writing!)

A series of misadventures sees orphan Orville get onto the base for the space rocket launch and be mistaken for an imminent scientist. Lester is having none of it and puts him to work but the two of them manage to get into the rocket and accidentally launch it. They assume they have gone to Mars and the vast array of weird creatures convince them of as much. Of course they are unaware that they have actually landed in New Orleans and fit right in wearing their spacesuits. Coincidentally two escaped criminals see what is happening and understand it better than Lester and Orville and decide to take advantage.It has been years since I last watched an Abbott & Costello film and I decided recently to record some of the various movie channels and watch them. Years ago my TV options used to be limited to 4 terrestrial channels and as such my film watching was heavily influenced by the matinees that BBC2 used to put on during Saturday afternoons and the old films they used to show during school holidays – A&C being a regular part of those slots. With access to more (hell, I can even get DVD's posted to my flat) I rarely go back into the archives except for accepted "classics", which one could not really put on many of the A&C films. In hindsight, starting watching them again with this film was maybe not the best idea because it is a pretty weak affair.The basic plot allows for three or four scenarios, each of which are played out for longer than the basic gags can sustain. Of more concern though is the lack of energy and wit that the film has, it feels tired and basic throughout the whole film (which feels longer than it is). The material is lacking for sure but strong delivery can spice up things in some cases. Shame then that the majority of the cast just seem bored. Abbott and Costello both do their usual shtick but do it like men going through the motions. It perhaps isn't as bad as I make it sound but it is not either of them at their best. The rest of the cast are obvious criminals or lovely, lovely ladies – that's it. Nobody really gives the guys a lot to play off apart from a nice scene with Dr Orivia and Orville.Overall this is a basic film without much to recommend it for. Fans will appreciate it the way they do but for the casual viewers it is best left to kids rather than adults. The material is weak but it is the lack of energy in the delivery that caused problems for me, making it feel weaker as a total film. I will continue to watch some more of the A&C films but this is a bad place to start.

Thanks to having director Charles Lamont on this one this film actually is better than some of the other films A&C made including their much inferior A&C Meet Captain Kidd. While this one does not have Charles Laughton & a lot of terrible music to support the boys, it doesn't need either of them.This film actually holds up better because there is less music & more A&C comedy. Both are welcome here. The slowest part of the film seems to be when they land on Venus. Even though there are a lot of attractive women on Venus, things slow down there.A critic when this film came out said "Go To Mars- And About Time". That comment really isn't fair to A&C as the special effects in this are sleazy & the script is grade B, yet A&C pull it up to a B Plus without much to work with. I am sure Charles Lamont's Direction had a lot to do with that.