This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It was around this period that the Hammer film studio started to try other film genres, probably because audiences were declining for their period horror movies. "Moon Zero Two" was radically different than anything Hammer had done before, and it would be nice to report it was a solid effort, but for the most part it's not. The main reason why it fails is the script. It has the one-two punch of not only taking forever to get going, but once it gets going it doesn't progress at an acceptable speed. The movie is dull and slow moving. It's not a total waste of time - the idea of making a western in a future space environment was a new idea at the time, and occasionally this radical update of an old genre shows something a little interesting. And the props, sets, and special effects are pretty good by 1969 standards. All the same, most viewers will probably fall asleep before the end. If you want to see a movie that's more or less a western out in space, you'd be much better off watching the Sean Connery movie "Outland". It's not a great movie, but it's a heck of a lot better than "Moon Zero Two".

The movie billed as the first space western sets out to entertain, and it succeeds. "Moon Zero Two" is set in 2021 on the moon, where a colony (presumably built by Newt Gingrich?) has attracted a number of people. A former astronaut gets more than he bargained for when he takes on a mission to bring down a sapphire asteroid.The movie very much has the look of one of those 1960s-1970s sci-fi flicks, including some go-go dancers. It's fitting that the movie got released not long after the moon landing, and a lot of the movie appears to have taken inspiration from "2001: A Space Odyssey". The cast includes James Olson (Father in "Ragtime") and Adrienne Corri (Mrs. Alexander in "A Clockwork Orange"). Warren Mitchell played bigot Alf Garnett on "Till Death Us Do Part", on which "All in the Family" was based.You gotta love Hammer movies.

I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and though it was featured on the show, I thought it had its moments. In fact, I would say it is a rather fun film featuring a city on the moon and a heist in space. Hammer generally makes an entertaining film, though usually they are known for horror films. Donald Pleasence was in a couple of their films, and I could so see him as the bad guy in this one mainly because the main villain here wears some rather strange outfits and if you have seen Donald in a film, you know if he is a good guy he dresses in a distinguished way, but if he is the bad guy, prepare to seem him in leather and other completely insane outfits. The effects are dated, but look good for the time and my guess is the budget as well. Sure, you see a lot of lines holding the actors and actresses when in space, but you saw those in the Disney film, "The Black Hole" which was made later and featured a bigger budget and they were more obvious in that one as you could see the clothes being pulled by the wires in that one! So, while not a great film or perfect it is a rather fun film to watch.The story has a pilot of a spaceship who salvages things in space like satellites who comes across a woman who has come to the city on the moon in search of her brother. The pilot is also approached by another man who is rather wealthy who has a business proposition for the pilot as he proposes crashing an asteroid onto the moon. Why you ask? It is basically a huge chunk of sapphire. They have all the details worked out and they complete the first portion of the mission fine, but while waiting for the second phase back on the moon the pilot is once again approached by the woman who has not seen her brother. They go to try and find him and find out there is something sinister behind his disappearance.This movie made for a rather good episode of MST3K, but not because they riffed particularly well, but because they didn't. The movie was good enough that I watch this episode mainly to see the film and maybe chuckle here and there at a riff rather than watching it exclusively for the riffing. It is a first season episode which is why the riffing just is not quite up to the later years on the show, so it is nice that the movie itself helps carry the episode. I did like the bump where Joel recreated the anti gravity fight, like I said, they just were not quite as sharp during the first season, but the film itself made this a good one to watch. They also would riff an Oscar winning movie about space, but if I had to watch either this one or that one, give me this film. It is more fun while I found that one had some okay moments, but was a bore in other.This was not a bad film to me. I like a Hammer made film, and this one had some crazy stuff going on. I would actually like to see the film without MST3K as the film had to have at least twenty minutes cut from it and I am curious as to what is missing. They definitely left enough in so that you are not lost. I like the actors for the most part, but I think someone else in the villain role would have been preferred. I do not know, I just like the way the portrayed the city on the moon and the bar in particular, with the really crummy alcoholic beverages. So, sure it is lame and the effects are dated, but the fun still remains.

First saw it when I was 12 and it has a place in my heart still after all these years; unlike a lot of other movies I enjoyed as a kid but can't stand today like "Battle of the Bulge" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".Anyway, back to the movie. Today, it's the kitsch value that I really like, I mean, there's something incredibly cute and sexy about 60's women in futuristic garb. There is a conflict in the movie about the tone; is it a sci-fi thriller with action and danger, or a tongue in cheek effort (with Moonopoly even)? The effects are good in some areas and really poor in others; but apart from 2001 you can say that about most sci fi films of that era. It shares something else with 2001 that other more famous sci-fi movies don't and that's no sound in a vacuum. Full credit to the film makers that they paid attention to their science. In fact, the movie script has some basis in real science about conditions on the moon and in space (groovy sequence of a spacesuit puncture causing the crushing of a hired goon). So we have no noise in a vacuum, but do they give us just silence? No, they fill the soundtrack with what can be only described as the kind of music known as Porno-Jazz. No matter, I actually like that kind of stuff. C'mon everyone "Moooooooonnnnnn Zero Twooooo, let's all go to the Moon nowwwwwwwwwwwww, Mooooooooonnnnnnnn Zero Twoooooooooo".