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Sorry, this movie sucks

best movie i've ever seen.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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

There's just something special about some of these early 80's Corman "cult classics." This is maybe the least impressive of the ones I've seen ("Galaxy of Terror" and "Humanoids From the Deep" being tops) but it still has it's moments and is entertaining enough.It's clearly self-aware, but not in a tongue-in-cheek campy way. The music is ridiculous and awesome in equal measure. There's a scene where everyone on screen in contributing in their own way to the score. A couple's moans while having sex, a crewman watching on security cam while playing with a fancy light up yo-yo thing that makes a zing sound and a guy sitting on his bed playing a translucent space sax.It could have used some more scares and more effective kill scenes. There's some pretty good special effects work here but it's all after the fact with the tension all but deflated.

Roger Corman produced this film and although his movies almost always made money*, they always were made with minuscule budgets. None of them are what anyone would consider high art, but a few are masterpieces of inexpensive cinema. This one, however, is pretty much like most of Corman's films--super-cheap, kind of cheesy and a bit dumb...but also almost entertaining enough to keep your interest. After all, if the story (a re-working of ALIEN) doesn't keep your interest, the film tossed in quite a bit of gratuitous nudity to keep your interest!When the film begins, there is a really crappy space battle that looked very, very dated for the early 80s. Following this, the captain of the ship arrives at a research station where some sort of accident has occurred...though the leader of the station continually downplays the seriousness of it. They've created some sort of super-organism and although folks seem amazingly complacent, it soon starts wiping out folks on the station. Can they stop it in time or are they all doomed to be entrées for this creature?ALIEN came out in 1979 and looks a billion times better than this film. Heck, several other sci-fi movies of the 70s look a lot better than this one. But it does sport two women who love to take their clothes off for no discernible reason other than to distract the audience from the overall crappiness of the movie. The overall effect is anything but artful and isn't particularly good...but folks wanting to see a lot of flesh should be satisfied. Otherwise, not a film most folks would want to watch and would do a lot better just watching ALIEN.By the way, 're-working' is also occasionally a nice way to say 'blatant ripoff'.*Corman's only money-losing film (out of over 400 credits) was reportedly "The Intruder" (starring William Shatner). Sadly, this was among the best films Corman ever made and yet it lost money and some god-awful ones made money. A great example of the phrase "life ain't fair".

Let me again rant about IMDb's policy of having to write at least 10 lines, when only 1 is at times more than suffice. Corman is responsible for movies way too cheesy and campy to be considered art, the only redeeming quality is the nudity. Extremely bad scripts and bad acting. What is more insufferable is that some actually believe movies that are so distasteful warrant a rating of more than 4, but then again some consider extremely poor scripts and portrayal of a part an art form, which explains the rave reviews of Abrams version of Star Trek script plots that are not fit for lining the bottom of a bird cage, Potboiler scripts are what movies like this have, anything with great Special FX and CG appeals to people who have no cinematographic artistic taste.

Allan Holzman takes us on an unnecessary but highly enjoyable roller-coaster ride in this epically bad film. Everything about it screams B-movie, from the terrible acting of the male actors, the gratuitous full frontal nudity of the actresses, the jumpy and improbable plot, the cheesy lines. Movies like this are like a tasty cheeseburger in a cheap fast food restaurant. It's unhealthy, and disgustingly greasy, but after finishing it you feel a satisfied customer, and the next time you're in the neighbourhood you might just drop in for more. Yes, it's an Alien rip-off. Small crew, isolated base on a distant planet, and a monster that is made for killing and feeding only. And yes, they stole that robot design directly from Star Wars' stormtroopers. Are those reasons to dislike "Forbidden World"? Far from it. It steals shamelessly, and if anything the obviously stolen ideas make this movie even more fun to watch. I would have hated it if they tried to hide the fact this is a blatant rip-off. How could you not like a movie in which the monster is frequently called a "dingwhopper", and which packs these fantastic lines: Barbara : "I hear you're the best troubleshooter in the federation. Want to ehm.. see some trouble?"Barbara: "If it is intelligent, have you tried communicating with it?" Mike: "That's about the stupidest damn idea I heard all day"Dr. Timbergen: "Let's see how my wildly mutating cells get along with yours.""Forbidden World" makes no effort to be classy, it just shoves all the goodies in your face, and says "feast on this." So I did, and it was worth every second.