Absolutely the worst movie.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The only two big-screen outings for Dr Who have always been met with scepticism and mixed reactions from fans and public alike. People seem to either love them or hate them. They're not considered as 'cannon' therefore they have no links to the TV series.This is the second and last Dr Who film to date and sees the Doctor travel into Earth's future, only to discover the Daleks have only gone and taken over the planet, turning the population into leather-clad slaves (like something out of 50 Shades of Grey!). However, the Doctor is on hand to sort them out. But there are some differences with the official series. For a start, the Doctor is human and has a family. So, if you can get over that (quite major) change, you may just enjoy what follows.If you're used to the current Dr Who series, you may be a bit disappointed with what goes on here. The budget is small and the effects slightly corny. It's unlikely to win over any new fans here, most of which will probably find it a bit too cheesy to be watched. But, if you've watched sci-fi that was made in the sixties, you'll probably know what to expect - bright, garish colours, wooden sets and some of the least futuristic gadgets known to aliens across the galaxy.If you've already seen it, you'll know what to expect and will probably still love it for its sheer nostalgia value. If you haven't, don't expect an alien invasion movie on the scale of anything made today. Lower your expectations and enjoy.

This second outing for Peter Cushing's Doctor Who benefits from a bigger budget, which at least translates into a far larger cast than the preceding movie and bigger, if not better sets and special effects.Oddly still travelling with his young grandchild, Susan, he gets a new grown-up couple who act in the act same way as their predecessors. Thus comedic actor Bernard Cribbins gets a fairly cringe-worthy silent comedy scene, just like Roy Castle's Ian did the time before.As a movie it's again shot in bright colour, with multicoloured Daleks by the score, with another easy-to-follow plot of the Daleks trying to conquer earth, this time by using assimilated earthmen as robotic slaves to construct a giant mine to blow out the earth's magnetic core, making it possible for them to rule the planet. Naturally, the Doctor turns up and has something to say about that, eventually having the last word, in a fairly laughable explosive finish which wouldn't have been out of place in Gerry Anderson's string-bound animation of the time.Never mind, there's a bit more characterisation this time with the treacherous side of humans shown in the duplicitous characters played by Philip Madoc's black-marketeer and Sheila Steafel and her mother trading in Susan and Andrew Keir's gruff rebel to the Daleks for extra food.Peter Cushing is again charming in the title role and young Ray Brooks shines in a slightly under-written part in what is a reasonably entertaining British sci-fi feature, the better for being set in Earth's future, thus helping the viewer to identify more with their oppressed fellow-humans' plight.

I am a fan of the Doctor Who TV show, both in its original incarnation and in modern dress. I've also seen the two earlier movies and thought them odd and sad. I was therefore shocked and pleased to find this movie version of "The Dalek Invasion of the Earth" serial to be excellent. The pacing is better, the color photography by John Wilcox has its moments of beauty -- even the Technicolor Daleks have a peculiar beauty.Working with only minor variations from the television serial, this demonstrates something I have long maintained: the writing on the TV DOCTOR WHO was often first rate. It was the cripplingly tiny budgets that often made it seem ridiculous, with its impossible shooting schedules, cardboard sets and monsters that frequently seemed to be a man lurking under a cast-off shag rug.The memories of children often play them false in later years. People report on seeing a particular favorite DOCTOR WHO serial from childhood and being shocked at how much better it is in memory than looking at it as adults. Children assume the lovely details that the adult mind demands. How very pleasant for this adult to see them filled in here!

When I first saw this on Television as a child, and now and again at Saturday morning cinema shows, I was really taken with the whole thing having been born too late to see the original Television version. And being about 20 years too early for the inevitable DVD and Video release.For a young boy into Sci-Fi and horror this was an amazing piece of cinema and I would think about what I would do if the world was invaded by Daleks - the image of the Dalek rising from the Thames was wonderful.The fact that these Daleks could go anywhere when only the week before I had seen them trapped in a metal city on the planet Skaro brought a new level of threat and where the Daleks could not go their Robomen could.The film is very much to me linked in with British Sci-Fi that I was watching at the time I first saw it UFO, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the use of primary colours and actors that I knew from television helped a great deal.It is nice to think that years later Bernard Cribbins would return to Doctor Who and feature in the third Christmas Special of the show's revival in 2007 all very circular.Andrew Keir brings in a link with Hammer films (Fathor Shandor) and Quatermass and I have a feeling that there might be a place for a Sci-Fi family tree book rather like the Rock Family Tree book that was all the rage a few years ago.Mostly filmed in ruined parts of London and bleak areas of England it would probably take a major exercise like that for 28 DAYS LATER or CGI to get the same effect again.Also nice to compare the idea of an alien invasion of Britain 1960s style to the novel WAR OF THE WORLDS and compare how similar the Daleks and Martians are in methodology of invasion.One criticism of the film though must be that the film does not give a feel of the Daleks having invaded the Earth rather bits of Britain (and shabby bits at that).Great to watch these days as a double bill with Doctor Who and The Daleks and wonderful to see Peter Cushing playing a very different version of the Doctor to that played by William Hartnell.Recommended for too many reasons to list (but including Peter Cushing, Amicus, Andrew Keir, Bernard Cribbins and the Daleks of course).