The Black Hole
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Actor: Ernest Borgnine, Joseph Bottoms, Robert Forster, Roddy McDowall, Tommy McLoughlinBrand: Disney
Primary Contributor: Anthony Perkins
Primary Contributor: Maximilian Schell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-03
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of The Black Hole
DVD Review: Very different disney film
Summary: 4 Stars
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2DD8N8L7HVVWN DVD Review: Black Hole Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Just like I remembered it back then when it came out. It was nice to see it on DVD again. Special effects were advanced for that time. DVD Review: My kids liked it
Summary: 4 Stars
As with the other reviews, the ship takes the cake, however I guess my memory of this movie was better than what I saw recently. It is a classic disney film with all of the quirks and foibles associated with it. I got this for the kids over the holidays and watched it with them, they were a little confused at the end but liked it overall. We had recently watched bedknobs and broomsticks and it has that same overall feel.....it's hard to explain other than to say "Classic Disney". I would recommend for anyone looking to round out their movie collection, especially if you thought this was a good flick as a kid (and have some of your own now...).
DVD Review: Great sci-fi!
Summary: 5 Stars
If it's sci-fi, I'll watch it! The Black Hole is a movie I'll watch over and over again. It may have gotten a bad rap, but I'm very pleased with it. I'm surprised it didn't do better since I think most younger kids would really enjoy this movie. The music soundtrack is also wonderful!DVD Review: First 3/4's Great! Finale...Hmmm
Summary: 4 Stars
I loved this movie when I first saw it as a kid in 1979 and this is truly a kids film
This movie was Disney's response to Star Wars.
The story goes as follows. The Cygnus was the first and apparently last of a vast program to explore the stars. The Cygnus was as vast as a city and as well armed as a battleship. It carried a large crew. Unfortunately, after it was lost without anyone hearing from it -- space exploration went a different route....smaller ships like Palomino were sent out to explore the cosmos for life (mostly in vain).
As the Palomino with its small crew featuring Ernest Borgnine, a few other crew members, and V.I.N.C.E.N.T - the ship's robot, are making their way back to Earth they detect a massive black hole.
Caught at the very edge of the Black hole's gravity but not falling in they detect a ship. It turns out to be the Cygnus.
I won't spoil the story beyond that but suffice it to say that the first 3/4 of the movie make great scientific sense. Even when the pyrotechnics start, its wonderfully beautiful -- but the very last finale of the movie falls apart into metaphysical mumbo jumbo many times that's more reminiscent of the psychadelic 60s. In its defense, the finale does tend to be somewhat poetic, is visually beautiful, but somehow it seems out of place for a movie that seems so well grounded in science for the first 3/4s of it. Poetic ending, yes, beautiful yes....but the movie could have done with a more balanced ending.
The movie's special effects, acting, animation, robots are all great.
Beware though, if you saw this movie as a kid and see it as an adult expecting that same wonder that you felt as a kid - you might be dissappointed. The robots look a bit rigid and like they're made of cardboard -- but VINCENT's and BOBs personalities steal the show. The movie is dated, not quite as tightly woven as you probably remember. Its a fun romp through memory lane though.
I own the movie, if that says anything.
If you don't like sci fi - stay away.
Description of The Black Hole
THE CREW OF THE SPACESHIP PALAMINO STUMBLES ACROSS THE LOST SHIP USS CYGNUS HOVERING ON THE EDGE OF AN IMMENSE BLACK HOLE. ONCE ABOARD THEY FIND THE SHIP IS MANNED BY ROBOTS ITS ONLY HUMAN INHABITANT ONE DR HANS REINHARDT AN EMINENT SCIENTIST MISSING FOR THE PAST TWENTY YEARS.Disney's foray into big-budget science fiction, close on the heels of Star Wars, had some of the most impressive special effects to grace theater screens in the 1970s. Graced by handsome production design--most notably a glass and latticework interstellar craft that looks like a battleship crossed with a modern skyscraper--The Black Hole is in many ways the most beautiful science fiction film of its era. Unfortunately, the graceful and gorgeous picture is jarred by dialogue that wouldn't pass muster in a comic book and a silly conclusion that plays like a murky, dime-store knockoff of 2001. Too bad, because the visual realization of the film is a veritable haunted house of futuristic phenomena, from the cloaked zombie-like drones shuffling through corridors to the devilish, crimson robot Maximillian, the strong arm of the mad scientist played by Maximilian Schell (a kind of wild man Captain Nemo with an even more ruthless temperament). Only the way-too-cute robot V.I.N.CENT (voiced by Roddy McDowall), a merchandising gimmick that looks like a Fisher-Price toy, mars the technological landscape. Robert Forster is the quietly authoritative captain of an exploration ship that stumbles across the seemingly derelict ship, and Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, and Joseph Bottoms fill out his crew. This is one case of a triumph of art direction and special effects over story--it's worth sitting through it to see the magnificent scene of the fireball rolling through the ship's enormous hull alone. The rest is just atmospheric gravy. --Sean Axmaker
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