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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

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The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

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.

This ranks for me a 6 whether with the MST3K commentary or not. That is as in bad movie 6 that is. C'mon you've got to give a sci fi movie a little bit of slack since it's, 1: filmed in color, 2: talks about how people age on planets while the space travelers don't since they are traveling at the (close to) speed of light, 3: super hot chicks, mostly Asian ones who are all stacked and the movie flaunts it throughout, 4: it has recognizable actors in it (none of the eye candy, which is probably a good thing so we see more skin), 5: it has the "stunning" ending which Corman did before with Teenage Caveman. So there it is in a nutshell, several hot Asian babes showing just enough skin to make it interesting, John Agar in one of his finest roles, the snitch from the Rockford Files who lays it out to the stupid Officers (He's a Chief), saying WTF? Oh I know it's bad, really bad, but give me some Asian skin to look at in a Sci Fi flick and I'll watch with glee. That Engineer LT comedy relief was not bad either, you could tell he was cool because the MST3K crew were getting pi#sed off because he was actually pretty cool. Oh I forgot to mention, they fry a living iguana lizard with fire and that was definitely a real shot of that lizard burning alive, its so cruel but compared to watching a Faces Of Death movie, I'd rather see a lizard die on screen, PETA can go bite me! 6 of 10, yes it's really bad but in a good way, probably best seen with the MST3K commentary but enjoyable without it as well.

With a title like "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" I envisioned a Lost World type movie in which scantily-clad amazonian beauties ride dinosaurs, fight against half-animal savages and a harsh, unforgiving environment. But with only one women, some forced perspective lizards that com-bust on impact, and a bunch of white guys straight out of the U.S. Navy, one can only wonder what the creators of this movie were thinking when they came up with the title.To be fair, there are some legitimate scientific ideas that are dealt with in the movie, even if the writers don't understand how they really work. For example, the writers were correct in saying that when you travel near the speed of light time slows down, so that a three week journey for the astronauts aboard the spaceship is perceived by those on the planet as taking eighteen years. However, the perception of the people down on the planet has nothing to do with the speed of the planet's rotation but the way in which the planet's matter distorts the space time continuum.The real plot of this movie is that a spaceship (Cosmos III) is hijacked by the primitive Centurions (a.k.a., non-white people) who probably perform menial domestic services for the crew aboard the spaceship. The ship crash lands on an unexplored planet with only a few survivors. Another ship in the vicinity (Cosmos IV?), moving at nearly the speed of light, travels to rescue the survivors (a three week journey on the spaceship, but an eighteen year wait on the planet). Once on the ground a group of idiots looking like U.S. Navy officers are dispatched to find the crash site. Meanwhile, a beautiful Centurion girl (the ultra-sexy Irene Tsu as Linda) wanders off and encounters a mysterious stranger named Tang who is also a Centurion. Obviously, he's the son of the survivors of the crash eighteen years earlier.The story of Linda and Tang is probably the most interesting aspect of this movie. Through their adventures together they fall in love but must still deal with the tension of growing up in two very different environments. The other aspect of the plot has to do with clumsy idiots falling off logs into acid pools and shooting at anything that moves with their ultra high tech .44 pistols. The ending of this movie will surprise no one.

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.