What makes it different from others?

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The title of this film suggests a space expedition of a bunch of men who are lonely finding a planet full of buxom beauties and is typically the type of film one tends to find on late at night on Cinemax. I think there are a couple of films that have titles similar to this one that do pretty much follow that formula. This one, however, is nothing like that and instead is a rather strange film where there are no women on any prehistoric planet. There is a prehistoric planet though, so that portion of the title at least is not misleading. I saw this film as an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and while not entirely bad, it is kind of a silly movie featuring John Agar who would go on to star in a few more movies riffed by the gang on the satellite of love. It would also feature Wendell Corey who was also in another film they riffed, Agent for H.A.R.M. The film does do a somewhat good job of creating another world, however, like most science fiction films of the era, the prehistoric wildlife consists of a lizard being projected to look big, your typical boa constrictor snake and a plush toy spider. Still, considering what they had to work with back then, they did okay.The story has a ship being hijacked by a race of people called Centurions. By hijacking the ship, they cause it to crash on a mysterious and unexplored planet. Another ship goes to the rescue, but due to the fact their ship is traveling at the speed of light, by the time they reach the planet 18 years has passed by, while the people on the rescue ship have not aged at all. A team goes out to explore the planet and find the wreckage of the ship in the slim hopes there were survivors; however, Linda, who is also a Centurion yearns to breath in the fresh air and goes exploring the planet herself and meets up with a young man named Tang whose parents were part of the crew that crashed. A romance blossoms even as the rescue team begins to crumble under the stress and the captain must decide how to go about finding Linda and getting them off the prehistoric planet.This movie was featured on the first season of MST3K, so the riffs are okay, but at this point they had not hit their stride yet. Servo was still being voiced by the one guy who just did not nail the riffs nearly as good as Kevin Murphy would do from the second season till shows initial end. Like I said, it was okay, but the movie actually carried this one as it was not too terribly bad. The film might have actually been good if not for the horrific comic relief guy and the guy from "Agent From H.A.R.M" who like in that film seems inebriated and slurs most of his lines. Then there are points that are just ridiculous where the rescue team crosses a log over an acidic pond when you can see a perfectly good land bridge only five feet from the log. Of course, that made for one of the better riffs and laughs as well as the plush toy spider attack! So, the film had some good points, had this one been made later it would have probably been a fairly decent soft core adult film. Heck, the way the film plays out, add a couple of more females and it could have made a good hardcore too as the plot really does seem to suggest some of the crew are getting randy. However, during the time it was made, we have to have very short peeks and use are imagination and that does not really carry the day. More wildlife attacks could have helped this one as well as no horrible comic relief guy or actor who apparently had one hell of a drinking problem. Still, as far as science fiction films of the 60's, it was pretty typical.

I watched this movie on a Monday night cuz nothing was on. In fact, I bought this movie. It's actually really good. It's about these astronauts who travel through space and the time shifting is off from real time. The main guys are kind of like scientists and there are a few women on this ship also. They are going to a planet that has dinosaurs and lakes made of acid. Very strange huh? Well some cavemen eventually torment the folks on this planet and there is an engineer who is really into doing stand up comedy in the middle of an expedition. He just talks and talks and at one point he does a FLIP for no reason. There is a Chinese man named TANG who is like ADAM and a woman named LINDA who is like Eve. As the astronauts leave, they look behind at the planet and name it Earth. It was a goosebump moment for sure!

The chance to comment on this film(?) finally made me register.I saw this late at night and watched with delight, wondering just how bad it could get. That was thirty years ago, so if you're looking for accurate scene descriptions and dialogue quotes, don't expect them here. But here's my hazy, loving memories.1. Wendell Corey, playing the captain of the space ship, half plastered and obviously paying off a bet with a one afternoon performance, standing in front of a blank wall with a porthole in it while someone on the other side waves a sparkler.Corey: "Looksh like another meteor shtorm..."2. The spaceship crashing in the swamp... The miniature they used must hve been about the size of a pencil stub, since it went "bloop" and tossed up one single drop of water which on that scale would have been considerably bigger than a bungalow.3. The prehistoric woman herself, a dark, hirsute beauty, wearing a bearskin teddy and looking hopefully at the director for direction after each line of dialogue.4. One set, obviously built while they still had twenty seven dollars to burn, that consisted of a cave full of giant toadstools and human skeletons. After sneaking around outside for what seems to be several days, a patrol from the spaceship enters.The patrol leader's perplexed comment: "There's something suspicious about this place..."That's where I lost it completely and rolled around on the floor.Well, you had to be there.

I must be used to the STAR TREK series plus its affiliated spinoffs plus CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND or maybe ET etc, but with this film, I have problems.There really is no chemistry between the actors. They speak to one another, but there is no comraderie. Everybody is put into his or her little box and that is where they stay.The only good things about this movie, as far as I feel are Tang (Robert Ito in pre-QUINCY days) and Irene Tsu. I actually felt that they really cared for each other. There was the chemistry that was missing from the rest of the movie.I also liked Lt. Bradley (Paul Gilbert). Why would they have such a clown in the midst of a bunch of zombies. His energies were wasted.The ending caught me off guard. I won't divulge it, but I'm going to look at this movie again tonight to see if I can pick up any clues as to what was revealed at end time of this movie.