Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I saw this when it came out and was enthralled with the scenes and sets of the "real" Uranus. The icicle trees, the frozen air that acted like quicksand, the frozen arm pulled back from the boundary wall and off course the monsters. When viewed 4o years later, however, it was a bit hard to take. I still liked the Uranian sets, but the preposterous beauty queens crow-barred into the "plot" (whatever it was), the terrible dubbing and wooden acting were things I obviously made absolutely no note of in my pre-adolescent phase. I still drag it out from time to time as a childhood reminiscence, but the recognition that it was unnecessarily bad still disappoints.

What irony: humans finally visit 'Anus, but instead of getting analy probed, they get their minds probed; not that there was much worth probing in the empty heads of the five astro-noughts. Of course, the whole mind-probe shtick was just an excuse to have the astro-noughts meet some girls on Uranus. In spite of realizing that the girls are mirages conceived to throw them off, the alien mind-game trick works EVERY time… All I can say is thank God that the likes of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin weren't sex-obsessed penis-thinkers, otherwise humanity would never have landed on the Moon – because the astronauts would have been too busy masturbating to land properly."The year is 2001… All of Earth is under the control of the United Nations." Scary thought, huh? Fortunately, this little movie about the trip to Uranus had very little clairvoyant power.I love how the astro-nils get their mission orders only once they're well away from Earth. Sort of like a long-distance runner being informed on the 11th kilometer that he will be doing a Marathon. Or a 17th-century explorer being told in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that his goal will be to find an island with large turtles. OK, maybe this 2nd analogy is a bit daft, but you must forgive me, for I have just sat through 70 minutes of pure B-movie cheese, and much like Agar I feel as if thoughts are starting to come rarely and with some difficulty.Once the standard voice-over intro is over, the stereotypical sci-fi B-movie introduces us to the astronomically dumb astronauts – and what an introduction it is: John Agar lets his fellow crew members know that he is extremely horny at all times – which is when we find out that unquenched sexual appetite is the film's primary, main, and only theme. Never mind space-exploration, Agar's tiny mind is firmly under the control of Agar's throbbing penis, much as this sad future world is totally under the control of the vapid UN. To further confirm the viewer's suspicion that Agar is – quite fittingly – the dumbest crew member in a crew of ninnies, he actually uses the strange predicament they're in to get laid! His boss tells him that they're all hallucinating, that they're under the influence of an alien force, that the girls he meets aren't real - but does that throw Agar off? Of course not; he simply uses this new knowledge/ability to materialize a former one-night stand for the ol' in-out. Apparently, in the far, far future in 2001 NASA prefers to hire astronauts who have the mind-set of 14 year-old teenage boys.If it were up to Agar, the astro-noughts would have stayed in their green Uranal surroundings and spent the rest of their days having sex with the mirages of their choice. But as it is, Agar doesn't call the shots, perhaps partly because he is so stupid that he doesn't even cry for help straight away when being sucked in by "quick-snow". The Captain saves his life – for whatever reason.The second-dumbest astro-nil is the Irish sidekick who rushes to eat an alien apple, throwing all caution to the wind. Bacteria shmacteria! But it's easy to throw caution like that when a wind had previously blown away the entire brain out of his head. So heavily stereotyped is our token Irishman that it only takes minutes for the subject of leprechauns to come up. What's to say: it's a friggin' B-movie!The Captain of the ship, while a little less childish than the others, is hardly an intellectual; after having faced the Cyclops dinosaur, he described it to the others as being "of the rodent family" which can mean one of two things: 1) either the species of rodent Cyclops had developed on Earth by the year 2001, or 2) the Captain has an F in Biology. (It's a coin toss!) Good thing he didn't comment on the plant-life too, otherwise we might have "learned" that the surrounding trees are all amphibian, or that the grass mates three times a year. The Captain exhibits rather sad deductive skills, too, when he makes plans to foil the alien being that is mind-probing them – while pathetically not realizing that the being must know the astro-noughts' intentions at all times. Stupidly, he goes to Ingrid, his Earth-love mirage, for consultation. Stupider yet, it works! She tells him all he wants to know. For some reason, the other mirage floozies aren't nearly as cooperative. Did the blob create Ingrid too perfectly? The alien's strategy is so simple… yet so utterly retarded: let the Earthlings know what they want to know, and always inform them of your evil schemes in ADVANCE. The Uranal Uranusian has no feet to speak of, but he sure knows how to shoot himself in the foot. In the end, this incredibly powerful Cyclops blob that can terra-form with the flick of a wrist is unable to outwit and beat five incredibly dumb astro-zeros. So dim-witted is the Captain that he brings along the mirage of Ingrid, his wife or whoever, for the return voyage. What was he planning to do once he landed back on Earth? Introduce the mirage Ingrid to the real Ingrid? Have a ménage-a-ingrid-trois?Even the title song will have you laughing, with its silly space sounds. If you're a fan of 60s space-cheese, as I am, you cannot miss this one. It doesn't raise the silliness bar, because many other flicks of this sort are even goofier, but at the very least it holds the bar on par with the other cheap-ass space turkeys of the Era.Two guys named Ib worked on this movie.Somebody here wrote that TJTTSP is impressive because it "predates SOLARIS by ten years". Never mind that "Solaris" was published a year before this turkey was made.

For some reason by 2001 humankind has skipped over the 7th planet for whatever and a UN expedition is now exploring Uranus. You can see immediately why Journey To The Seventh Planet was not entitled Journey To Uranus. Now that I've gotten that out my system.The most distinguishing characteristic of Uranus is that instead of spinning on its axis in orbit around the it rolls instead. The five visible moons of Uranus look like a giant pinwheel in space.Well better films than this have failed to predict the correct future, 2001 - A Space Odyssey immediately comes to mind. When the expedition gets to Uranus instead of the methane atmosphere, subzero freeze that are on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune the other gas giants, they find an Elysian field like existence with some of the most curvaceous women you'll ever see on screen.Of course this is all an illusion and what's driving it is a giant brain which can convert just about anything to anything and it reads the minds of the expedition. What a sex obsessed bunch this was, especially John Agar.The giant brain is looking for transportation to earth with a population it can enslave. Will the men of the expedition figure it all out and stop the brain? That's what you watch the film for.Journey To The Seventh Planet is one of those films you put your brain on hold and just enjoy. But if it were made today and you hope humankind would have a more diverse future expedition say for 2080, if you had gay people on the trip as astronauts what interesting fantasies the brain might pick up.

The immature teenage hiding inside of me can't resist--this is a movie about astronauts traveling to Uranus (snicker, snicker)! In the film, they pronounce it "Ur-an-us"....yeah, sure! As for the film, I was expecting it to be a lot worse than it was. My reason--it starred John Agar. While he was not a terrible actor, his career was spent appearing in any film provided the check cleared! The movie itself is a very mixed bag. I'll be giving it two separate scores--one for technical merit and one for artistry and originality--sort of like figure skating.Technically speaking, this movie was a pile of doo-doo. The special effects were among the worst I've ever seen for a 50s-60s sci-fi film. In particular, the rocket special effects were simply awful--consisting of a fuzzy rocket ship that appears to be cardboard flying across a terrible painting of space and later when it lands it is a child's plastic toy! It really is worse than the UFO special effects from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (these were pie plates suspended from wires). Also, many of the monsters were cheap and crappy--and about as bad as you'll find in the genre. I'd give this aspect of the film a 1 and not a smidgen more! It's really sad, then, that the story itself is so good--as it's burdened with such ineptness. The story gets interesting just before the rocket lands on Uranus. A strong mental force takes over the ship and probes the astronauts' minds. Then, when they actually land, the planet looks much like Earth--as this force can make the planet appear just like home--including providing people who are from home as well. Interestingly, the only people these men seemed to think of were hot babes in lingerie--proving these guys were pretty smart! The problem is that what exactly the force intends is uncertain. And, as the film progresses, the force seems malevolent--or at least having fun toying with them. The men are faced with a dilemma--how do you fight something this powerful and that can control what you see?! Apart from a rather flat and anticlimactic ending, I'd give this an 8--it was very original and very exciting.Overall, I think a 4 is a reasonable compromise. This film was intelligent and worth seeing--even if the special effects were abominable. This is one movie that could really, really stand a remake!!