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One of my all time favorites.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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.

An international team of astronauts is dispatched to the planet Uranus. It seems that the U.N. has been receiving radiation signals from the seventh planet, so these brave men have the task of exploring and determining the cause of this signal. They land to find a strange environment where an all-powerful alien intelligence has the power to turn the thoughts of man into reality. Fortunately, since these men often have women on the brain, a succession of beautiful babes materialize, to entice and confuse them.This could have and should have been more fun. Alas, it's not that enjoyable, because even if one approaches it as a "so bad it's good" schlock production, it doesn't work that well because it's basically too dull. Sidney W. Pink (who also wrote the screenplay with the famed writer Ib Melchior) isn't much of a director, because he brings no energy and a fatally slow pace to these proceedings. The women, including Greta Thyssen...as Greta...and Ann Smyrner as Ingrid, provide some appreciable eye candy, but the acting from most everybody concerned is atrocious. Starring actor John Agar, playing Captain Don Graham, has some fun playing a cheerfully sleazy guy, but his talents alone can't spark much life into this movie.At the very least, "Journey to the Seventh Planet" can boast what are reasonably amusing visuals given the obvious cheapness of the production, and a priceless one eyed rat monster, which sadly isn't on screen for very long. The evil alien antagonist is likewise a hoot. Also, this has a rather lengthy (and innovative) closing credits sequence for a movie of this age, accompanied by a silly theme song.If you're a dedicated sci-fi junkie, you might want to give this one a look, but you're advised to go in not expecting very much.The pronunciation of the name Uranus here is funny; whether or not the filmmakers wanted their audience to keep from snickering is uncertain, but this approach backfires.Five out of 10.

Journey to the Seventh Planet (Sidney W. Pink, 1962) - Kind of a piece of crap, but, damn, it's an amusing piece of crap with some good ideas. It's not entirely its fault that the filmmakers had no money (and little talent), and, besides, its cheapness gives it some additional amusement.So these guys are journeying to the seventh planet. Hmmm. Let's see: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, um...Yes, it's an expedition to explore Uranus. I'm curious as to whether the big joke with Uranus was the same back then. I think the British pronounce it with a short "a" sound, with the emphasis on the third syllable. It seems to me then that the joke would change from "your anus" to "urine us". Not quite as funny, but I'm sure British school boys still titter at it. This film, a US/Danish co-production, gets around the gag by pronouncing it "Yer-ah-nus", a pronunciation which I do not believe is acceptable anywhere.Deep within Uranus, they discover a sentient creature which can control the astronauts' minds, and also has the ability to reproduce the astronauts' greatest fears and desires as physical objects. It produces stop-motion dinosaurs and stock footage tarantulas to attack the astronauts. It also produces their left-behind-on-Earth loved ones to distract them from their mission. This is reminiscent of Stanislaw Lem's novel Solaris, which was published the year before (and it's very doubtful anyone involved with this film had read it by then). The film also has a lot of similarities with Star Trek. Star Trek's biggest inspiration is probably Forbidden Planet, but the astronauts, the nature of their mission, and the Earth they've left behind are even more Trek-like than Forbidden Planet.Again, this is not a good movie by any means. But if you're a fan of B sci-fi, this I'd probably categorize as a must-see. I really want to see some of Sydney Pink's other films now. Hell, the title Reptilicus sells itself, doesn't it? I also want to mention Journey to the Seventh Planet ends with the most ludicrous lounge-singer end credits song ever

If you don't know by now, this science fiction adventure is one of the original "mind benders", an outer space flick in which aliens use mind control.And against this kind of mind control, what can one do? If a character is powerful enough to warp your sense of Reality, then how can you truly fight it? We get a full throttle effect by showing a full length movie in which the outcome is really decided immediately, only no one knows it.The super formidable enemy, the one you must rely solely on God's graces, or luck, to beat, is the one who controls all you perceive and conceive, the one whose control over what you see, hear, sense, is completely contrived by this foe.We go through a series of adventures, and the characters seem totally out of control, but that's because they have no idea what Reality is any more. They go through total Chaos.And the ending, which I won't spoil, leaves the audience in total Chaos, but also explains that indeed, there is nothing to be done but rely on luck if your perceptions are out of your control.Overlooked film. It actually is better than many of the later ripoff versions which tried to be too contrived in modernism, by that I mean that the later films wanted to establish that SOME humans were superior enough to overcome this obstacle, which is flat out silly. If you have no direction and no vector, you are totally helpless to change your situation. This film goes under the old school of Credibility premise instead of the 1970s contrived "Man is God" premise.

For some reason by 2001 humankind has skipped over the 7th planet for whatever and a UN expedition is now exploring Uranus. You can see immediately why Journey To The Seventh Planet was not entitled Journey To Uranus. Now that I've gotten that out my system.The most distinguishing characteristic of Uranus is that instead of spinning on its axis in orbit around the it rolls instead. The five visible moons of Uranus look like a giant pinwheel in space.Well better films than this have failed to predict the correct future, 2001 - A Space Odyssey immediately comes to mind. When the expedition gets to Uranus instead of the methane atmosphere, subzero freeze that are on Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune the other gas giants, they find an Elysian field like existence with some of the most curvaceous women you'll ever see on screen.Of course this is all an illusion and what's driving it is a giant brain which can convert just about anything to anything and it reads the minds of the expedition. What a sex obsessed bunch this was, especially John Agar.The giant brain is looking for transportation to earth with a population it can enslave. Will the men of the expedition figure it all out and stop the brain? That's what you watch the film for.Journey To The Seventh Planet is one of those films you put your brain on hold and just enjoy. But if it were made today and you hope humankind would have a more diverse future expedition say for 2080, if you had gay people on the trip as astronauts what interesting fantasies the brain might pick up.