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Such a frustrating disappointment

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A team of specialists board a submarine, are miniaturised and injected into the body of an injured scientist in an attempt to save his life. Classic, colourful sci-fi adventure in which the human body looks like a hostile, alien place. Not only are the crew and submarine attacked from their host's immune system but it seems that one of them is intent on making the mission fail (not hard to figure out who). The film's moody musical score helps build the tension. Donald Pleasence is one of my favourite actors, always gives a good performance, and the presence of sex siren Raquel Welch adds to the appeal. This film is over 50 years old, naturally it looks dated but that's not something that bothers me.

Like both VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA and 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, FANTASTIC VOYAGE is set aboard a submerged craft on a perilous mission- only this time around, the journey isn't under the sea but deep inside a human brain. While many of the effects are garishly colorful and not always convincing, the movie's a lot of fun. (It would've been far more suspenseful had the inner workings of The Human Body been presented SANS the garish lighting throughout, and doing scenes taking place in Bodily Fluids should've been done in a lightless tank, at the very least.) Anyone so inclined can find George Romero's Calgon commercial online: it's a takeoff on FANTASTIC VOYAGE, with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD's Karl Hardeman doing an over the top take as a scientist; it's definitely worth hunting down.

I saw this as a 12 year old when it came out. Even then I was a little skeptical about the science but I was certainly astounded by the movie.I ended up becoming a physician. When I watch this today I have to shake my head at some of the more preposterous portrayals, but I find other sections and effects that are marvelously accurate. The plot, characters, action and pacing are superb. It's hard for anyone who has even the slightest taste for sci-fi to not enjoy this thoroughly entertaining work. If you know some anatomy, it's even more engaging.It's still implausible to send a tiny, manned submarine into the human body and probably will remain so. But it's not implausible that we'll be inserting unmanned nano-bots into ourselves that might perform the tasks and missions with the same precision and outcomes shown here.

This movie was released in 1966 when I was a junior in college. I was 20 and I remember it, though vaguely. I remembered the basic premise but watching it today, on 'Movies' channel, filled in all the gaps from almost 50 years.This was a cutting edge premise back then, to miniaturize a small submarine with a doctor and scientists inside, to be injected into the body of an injured diplomat to find the blood clot in his brain and save him. Now, in the 21st century we are on the verge of doing just that, but in a different way. Very small surgical instruments can be injected into the body, the eye for example, and controlled with magnets and exacting instruments perform medical procedures from inside.So in this movie which is sort of an odyssey inside a human body, the group encounter a number of obstacles, each time needing to invent a solution. But the fun is in seeing the various depictions of systems inside thew body. I will mention only one of the cast, Raquel Welch who was about 25 during filming, as Cora. Now it isn't totally clear to me why her character was essential, but she provided much-needed "scenery." Of course Welch went on to a good film career as a sex symbol, but at 25 she was about as gorgeous as she would ever be.