Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Not even bad in a good way

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

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Well worth re-visiting in full HD if you have the chance. This film is a great work of art. It works like an unofficial sequel to War of the Worlds. Enemy Mine stole much from this film. Such a delight! Shot originally in Death Valley, the skies were a stark blue so they were able to change the color to a pinkish red in the edit room. They got a lot right with the science in this one

Everyone knew by 1965 – including most 10-year-old kids – that Mars was a cold, airless place. Yes, this movie predates that moment slightly, but they didn't know this little. Or they would have known better if they would've made a single phone call to Lowell Observatory. By 1909, the concept of "canals" was dead due to improvements in telescopes. And if there were such a thing as oxygen pills, surely the screenwriters understood that stomach doesn't equal lungs.This does unfortunately carry with it the obnoxious colonial attitude of the original Defoe, in regards to poor Friday, and while the friendship developed, it was never really equal.The monkey is as irritating as monkeys always are. But the cinematography and visuals are kind of cool. Yes they're retro, but very pretty. And so I couldn't give it one star because of that.

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS has a lot going for it, especially during the first half, when he's trying to figure out a way to stay alive until he can be rescued. (PLANET OF THE APES would kinda sorta follow suit a couple of years later.) This part of the movie gives ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS a verisimilitude that the second half sadly lacks. (In PLANET OF THE APES, this "down to Earth" feel CONTINUED all the way through to the end, making for a much better film overall.) It's in the second half that ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS starts to deviate too far afield: the alien ships (which we last saw in George Pal's WAR OF THE WORLDS) aren't used very effectively (two or three sequences seem to be repeated over and over) and the whole idea of slave-driving aliens would've been much better if both of the alien races looked like ALIENS instead of ancient Egyptians and Earthlings in spacesuits. "Crusoe's" uber-Butch tack with his newfound companion rings of a jailhouse relationship (BROKEBACK PLANET...) and, if this one were to ever be remade, it's likely that THAT would become a point of departure...

Okay, don't even bother with the science in this wonderful little sci-fi retelling of Daniel DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe. It's just too out there.With that said, and my reiteration that Robinson Crusoe on Mars is wonderful, sit back with this fanciful, fun, and suspenseful story of an American astronaut marooned on Mars, battling to stay alive, and getting in the middle of slave-holding aliens. You guessed it. Friday is an escaped mining slave who provides the Terran the motivation to continue on, to defeat the Martian elements and the search parties looking for the slave.I remember seeing this movie when I was about 8. I fell asleep. It was boring. Strangely enough, RCOM isn't really a kid's movie, but it is a movie that patient children can intellectually access.I think the two things I liked the best about this flick were the slow and careful establishment of Paul Mantee's astronaut, Kit Draper, as a character we care about, and we want to see him survive. When he is confronted with this strange alien escapee, he doesn't trust him (in fact, he warns him repeatedly about stepping out of line). Through adversity, the two men from different planets begin to trust each other. That was very satisfying.The other part of RCOM that impressed me was the art direction, the graphics and visuals. Shot in Death Valley, the sky is a superimposed matte that gives the planet a (duh) extraterrestrial look. Great matte paintings, imaginative landscapes, and the alien ships that swoop in at about Warp 7 and start shooting, all make for a visual delight for somebody who can see past the lack of CGI, and mutter OMG.I caught the movie on Netflix. If you can find it, I would strongly recommend this dandy little space thriller!