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If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The first must-see film of the year.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. is the second, and I believe last, of the standalone Dr Who films made in the 60s. I actually enjoyed this one more than the Dr Who and the Daleks. But that's not really saying much as I felt as if I might have overrated the first film a bit by giving it a whopping 4/10. My major complaint with both films is they are not part of the larger series. I know this will sound pretentious, but they're not canon. They ignore elements of the television series I find enjoyable and replace them with a bumbling, sometimes hapless, old Dr Who and his young relatives. I suppose that if I had never seen the Dr Who series, these films might be more enjoyable, but I have seen the series. At best, like its predecessor, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. is a harmless diversion (not a ringing endorsement).In this one, Dr Who, his niece and granddaughter, and a poor policeman, who's in the wrong place at the wrong time, are transported to a future Earth ruled by the Daleks. Most of humanity has been enslaved and forced to work in the mines for the Daleks. Dr Who teams up with a band of resistance fighters who must find a way to stop the Daleks from destroying Earth.One moment in this film that brought me a real unintended laugh comes near the end just as the Daleks are about the finally exterminate Dr Who. His escape consists of cleverly (note the sarcasm) saying, "Hey, look that way". The Daleks do and Dr Who escapes. Hilarious!

Again, Mr. Cushing, solid, dependable, and highly appealing actor he was, is the best thing about this equally pointless and dumbed down adaptation of the original story from the TV show, 'The Dalek Invasion Of Earth', a wonderful story from the series, the second appearance of the Daleks, and the farewell story of the Doctor's granddaughter Susan.Roberta Tovey returns as a younger Susan, and is again perfectly fine, with a good supporting cast with Andrew Keir and Philip Madoc for instance, and though the model F/X are good, the entire film failed to hold my interest at all.Perhaps fans of the TV series were not the intended audience, and I can understand some nostalgic appeal this may hold for British fans of that time, but this film is just silly, while the original story looks even better after the updated F/X option on the DVD. Stick with that instead!

Daleks-Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is directed by Gordon Flemyng and Milton Subotsky co-adapts the screenplay with Terry Nation and David Whitaker. It stars Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Jill Curzon and Roberta Tovey. A Technicolor/Techniscope production, with music by Barry Gray and Bill McGuffie and cinematography by John Wilcox.A sequel to Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), plot finds Cushing once again playing the Doctor, who after getting transported to 2150 A.D. finds London ravaged by the Daleks. The Daleks are turning humans into slave Robomen, but an underground human resistance offers hope. Can the Doctor and his companions aid the resistance and save Earth from Dalek damnation? Even though Dr. Who and the Daleks irked the Dr. Who fan base, understandably so since Amicus' version of the good Doctor is some way from the TV series version, it was enough of a success to warrant this sequel. You pretty much get a retread of the first film with the characterisations, Cushing's Doctor is a lovable old eccentric prof, two of his lady female relations are along for the ride (Tovey returning as the same character) and Cribbins has replaced Roy Castle as the light relief companion accidentally thrust into a chaotic world. The Daleks remain a unique and devilish foe, their voices unnerving and their colours vibrant in Technicolor.Plot follows a familiar trajectory, much running, puffing, capture and escape histrionics, the good versus evil core booming throughout. The sets remain cheap, the effects basic but quaint, and the acting just about passes the test because everyone seems to be enjoying themselves and therefore performing it to the required standard. The music score is truly out of sync with the picture, at times it sounds like it belongs in a Carry On movie, at others an episode of The Avengers; in fact John Steed would have been a good addition to the plotting! But there is some darkness in the story, making it more potent than its prequel.This wasn't as successful as the studio hoped, so a third film was shelved. If you aren't a hardcore Dr. Who fan and you can accept it on its own daft and fun terms? Then Daleks-Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. is an enjoyable enough time filler. 6/10

When I first saw this on Television as a child, and now and again at Saturday morning cinema shows, I was really taken with the whole thing having been born too late to see the original Television version. And being about 20 years too early for the inevitable DVD and Video release.For a young boy into Sci-Fi and horror this was an amazing piece of cinema and I would think about what I would do if the world was invaded by Daleks - the image of the Dalek rising from the Thames was wonderful.The fact that these Daleks could go anywhere when only the week before I had seen them trapped in a metal city on the planet Skaro brought a new level of threat and where the Daleks could not go their Robomen could.The film is very much to me linked in with British Sci-Fi that I was watching at the time I first saw it UFO, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the use of primary colours and actors that I knew from television helped a great deal.It is nice to think that years later Bernard Cribbins would return to Doctor Who and feature in the third Christmas Special of the show's revival in 2007 all very circular.Andrew Keir brings in a link with Hammer films (Fathor Shandor) and Quatermass and I have a feeling that there might be a place for a Sci-Fi family tree book rather like the Rock Family Tree book that was all the rage a few years ago.Mostly filmed in ruined parts of London and bleak areas of England it would probably take a major exercise like that for 28 DAYS LATER or CGI to get the same effect again.Also nice to compare the idea of an alien invasion of Britain 1960s style to the novel WAR OF THE WORLDS and compare how similar the Daleks and Martians are in methodology of invasion.One criticism of the film though must be that the film does not give a feel of the Daleks having invaded the Earth rather bits of Britain (and shabby bits at that).Great to watch these days as a double bill with Doctor Who and The Daleks and wonderful to see Peter Cushing playing a very different version of the Doctor to that played by William Hartnell.Recommended for too many reasons to list (but including Peter Cushing, Amicus, Andrew Keir, Bernard Cribbins and the Daleks of course).