the audience applauded

One of the best films i have seen

Absolutely Fantastic

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This happens to be one of those pictures where the good and the bad reviews both sound about the same, and everyone winds up considering it a blast. You can put me in the same category, who wouldn't have a good time picking this thing apart for it's cheesy monster, cheesy model toy tanks and airplanes, and cheesy actors playing it straight and wondering how they'll make it through the whole thing.Even so, I've come up with a couple of observations that might be worth mentioning. Anyone else notice how the original male astronauts of spaceship AAB-Gamma were introduced by their last names - Captain Sano, medical doctor Shioda and signal officer Miyamoto? But then, the space biologist on the mission was introduced as Lisa! I'm not into the whole feminism thing but that was a pretty significant slight to an important member of the team. Speaking of which, I couldn't help thinking while watching Peggy Neal in the role, that she could have been a stand-in for Angie Dickinson in a bigger budget flick.The other thing I noticed was that business of the 'guilala' spore burning through the table and floor and eventually into the earth before wrecking the space station, while the science folks were partying it up at Dr. Berman's (Franz Gruber). I hate to think this is where the writers for the 'Aliens' franchise got the idea for their monster, but it makes you wonder.But when it comes to the monster itself, oh baby!, stand by for what's probably the goofiest looking Godzilla knock-off in the annals of Japanese monster movies. Every time it set down it's rubbery feet on an unsuspecting mechanical victim, I had to laugh - there was no way to control their floppy motion. The bonus had to be those fiery spitball blasts at the attacking war planes, unless of course, one considers the monster ability to absorb itself into a red ball of energy and float around from city to city on it's path of destruction.Well, with embarrassingly hokey special effects and laughably ridiculous science, this has to be one of the all time, campy sci-fi greats, even if I'd never heard of it before catching it on Turner Classics the other day. You know, as I sit here and think about it now, the scientists involved here never did get around to discovering the mystery of the UFO that popped up every now and then. Not that I would have expected them to, when they couldn't even come up with a decent title to describe the 'X' from outer space.

Bizarre movie and a lot of fun but only for people who enjoy goofy monster movies.I happen to love the movie, from the off the wall totally wrong music to the weird chicken-like beast.One thing that might get overlooked is how the end of the movie seems to indicate that space exploration and races mixing is wrong. It ends with a weird speech about how all things should stay where they belong and the Asian characters walk off in one direction while the Caucasion ones walk off in another... huh? Funny stuff.This is without a doubt a fun bad movie.

In the 70's, as a kid when looking through the new TV Guide for the week's monster movies, the only thing as good as finding a Godzilla film or two was finding the Godzilla wanna-bes, like the undeniable classic "The X From Outer Space.""X" is probably the personification of "cheesy Japanese monster flick." This monster is silly-looking, the FX are horrid, the music is terrible, and the film is a total blast. The "X" attacking planes and destroying buildings is just good and bad enough to make everyone happy.The reason this film is a blast is because it has a lot of charm and heart. Those are a few of the ingredients that certain giant monster films made back then lack, and that's why they are unwatchable and truly bad, while films like "X From Outer Space" are bad but have enough of those things to make it fun. When a film lacks those things and is clueless, you get dreck like "Queen Kong" and "A.P.E."There's nothing wrong with "The X From Outer Space" if you are simply into watching fun giant monster films with actors in suits (no computer crap) stomping on miniature buildings and swatting airplanes on wires out of the sky.

The acting in this movie is so-so but the dialog will grind on your nerves. Has anyone counted how many times the terms 'AAB-Gamma' and 'FAFC' were actually repeated? It was really annoying. I assume the writer was going for realism but the effort is totally lost the first time you see the monster. I have always enjoyed the Japanese giant monster genre (both serious and silly) and I accept this movie for what it is. I guess I have watched it 4-5 times during the recent run on the Showtime Cable Network and I still enjoy it (except for way too many AAB-Gamma and FAFC references). It's not on a par with the Godzilla series but would hold its own compared to the old B&W Gamera series. See it at least once and judge for yourself.