Forbidden Planet [HD DVD]
by Fred M. Wilcox
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Actor: Anne Francis, Jack Kelly, Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Warren StevensDirector: Fred M. Wilcox
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 187 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Forbidden Planet [HD DVD]
DVD Review: An over-rated classic.
Summary: 2 Stars
Let's be honest here......had it not been for the jaw-dropping special effects (at least for the time), this mundane flick would have been quickly forgotten. As another reviewer pointed out, most of the money for the production seems to have gone for the effects, with only a token amount devoted for the cast and soundtrack. Robby the robot alone cost some $100,000 to create...not a small sum for the mid-1950's. I like Leslie Nielsen, but he was just getting started here. A bit green and it shows. Walter Pidgeon, an otherwise fine and gifted actor, was far past his prime by the time he did 'Forbidden Planet'. Leggy Anne Francis comes off more as dingy blonde prick tease than anything. And I can only assume that a booze-guzzling Earl Holliman was inserted as comic relief.
The politically correct crowd will find a lot to gripe about with this film. There wasn't a single African-American in the entire cast. And apparently, females had not yet been trusted to operate, much less travel in, interstellar spacecraft, since Nielsen's crew is entirely male. And even they begin acting like immature teenage boys as soon as they get an eyeful of Anne Francis. As the only female character, she didn't do much to advance the feminist cause. This sort of thing could be found in any number of films from the 1950's. 'Forbidden Planet' most certainly was not the only one.
The most annoying thing about this film is the soundtrack. OMG...what were they thinking? An overheated theremin (along with some creative use of reverb and echo) pushes out a near-constant stream of bleeps, warbles, shrieks and other noises that don't sound anything like music. Imagine a pair of white-hot sewing needles being inserted into your eardrums. This film would have been so much better served by a soaring, orchestra-based soundtrack.
All in all, this is NOT a bad film, but it has some bad qualities. Worth watching at least once, if for no other reason because it's a classic. But not worth the tons of praise I've seen heaped on it over the years.
DVD Review: Forbidden Planet
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that I have loved since I first saw it as a child. I bought it on VHS and finally on DVD. Although it is old, the special effects for that time period were outstanding. It is actually the only movie that I have ever seen Leslie Neilson acting in a serious part. DVD Review: digital remix fantastic
Summary: 4 Stars
It's been more than twenty years since I've seen this movie and the remake is absolutely awesome. I watched the film with my 10 year old grandson and he said the film was great. He couldn't believe that the film was made over 50 years ago. The color and graphics were great and the audio was very good. I couldn't recommend a better movie for entertainment.DVD Review: His evil self at the door
Summary: 5 Stars
1. Altair 4, twenty years earlier science crew explored the planet. The mission is to find survivors.
2. Oxygen content 4.7% richer than earth air content.
3. Not cities, no sign of civilization, but the crew was radar scan from an area twenty miles square.
4. United Planets cruisers, Captain John J. Adams makes verbal contact with Edward Morbius, who rejects the offer for help and insists that the ship turn away and warns of danger. Captain JJ Adams decides to take a land crew and survey the situation. The landing location is in the middle of a desert and crew are instructed to wear side arms.
5. A robot navigating like a "mad man" is to transport the crew to the residence. The robot can speak a 180 languages. The robot is named Robbie.
6. The crew eats a synthetic meal was replicated by Robbie. Robbie is simply a tool. Robbie can not injure human life. Edward Morbius illustrates how safe and comfortable to the Captain and encourages him to leave.
7. The planet was occupied by an advanced civilization.
8. Morbius staff have all died of a mysterious deaths. The coworkers were torn limb from limb. The dark force has not attack Morbius and lying close at hand.
9. Morbius daughter, Altair, emerges and is introduced to the crew.
10. Cap JJ Adams must make contact with base earth for instructions. A special communication device must be constructed to contact earth. The estimated time to complete is ten days.
11. The monster is invisible. Valuable property was taken.
12. Ancient Hieroglyphics, the Krell, million years ahead of human, solved sickness, no crime, then turned outward to space, walked earth, and in one night they perished. Krell metal can drink up energy like a sponge, impenetrable to blasters.
13. Krell final project was a civilization without instrumentality.
14. Ventilator shafts spanning twenty miles in both directions, 7,800 levels, 400 shafts, a single machine, 8,000 cubic miles, and 16 years ago a modification was made to the machine, and 92 thermonuclear reactors. Morbius will administer the release of Krell technology.
15. The cook and Robot were drinking alcohol while the monster attacked the ship and killed the Chief. The robot could not be the killer.
16. Special cannon lasers and an energy fence are initiated to stop the monster. Automatic control attacks a mysterious shape, big as a house, radar blip, and the crew drives back the monster.
17. Morbius alternate mind has created the monster using the Krell mind machine. The mind machine has an infinite energy source and the krell doors can not protect Morbius. His evil self at the door.
18. 24 hours to be a hundred million miles in space before self-destruction.
DVD Review: DVD REVIEW
Summary: 5 Stars
I AM VERY HAPPY WITH THE DVD. PRICE WAS GOOD AND IT WAS SHIPPED AND DELIVERED QUICK.
Description of Forbidden Planet [HD DVD]
A dutiful robot named Robby speaks 188 languages. An underground lair provides astonishing evidence of a populace a million years more advanced than Earthlings. There are many wonders on Altair-4 but none is greater or more deadly than the human mind. Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen portrays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to the green-skied Altair-4 world that's home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) his daughter (Anne Francis) the remarkable Robby...and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.Running Time: 100 min.Format: DVD HD Genre:?SCI-FI/FANTASY UPC:?012569792104 Manufacturer No:?79210This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make this movie as fresh, imaginative, and fun as it was when first released.
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