Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea & Fantastic Voyage (DVD, 2000, Double Feature)

These two movies are bundled together on opposite sides of the same disk.

Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea spawned a successful TV series by the same name. Having enjoyed the series, I thought the movie would be even better. Not so. The science behind it was not just lacking, as in the TV show, it was positively Execrable. (The van allen belts caught fire, causing global warming. It just goes downhill from there.)
The dialog was boring and wooden. The special effects were on a par with anything they had at the time, which was nothing.


Fantastic voyage, on the other hand, was at least interesting. In fact, it had more diving sequences than did VTTBOTS (see above)
Of course, the idea itself was insane. The basic plot was to shrink down a submarine to microbe size and put it into a famous scientist to dissolve a blood clot. Problem: only one hour to complete, or the submarine returns to regular size. If you fail to extract so much as a paint chip from the patient, its going to cause more damage than the original clot.
Still, it was fascinating to watch, and you could tell they put a lot of effort into imagining the trip through the human body. The effects must have been ground breaking for its time. The red corpuscles exchanging oxygen would still be a fine effect even in our current time frame.
In short, for both of these films, if you can overlook the incredibly stupid science, they are both great examples of 60's sci-fi, worth watching just to get
a feel for those times.

Great set of movies for you mature adult (not quite seniors-yet) sci-fi lovers who sat in front a of T.V. on Saturday afternoon and earlier evenings. Watching their favor monster program on a "square box with thin metal rods" popping out the top wondering "boy, what would it look in COLOR!"

Not "Super CG" graphics, but not bad for the time period. Very clean movies no drop outs or circles in corners to reminder projectionist to switch projectors. Fantastic Voyage good story as well. Could be a good re-make. Hint-Hint for the motion picture crew. Maybe get Rachel Welch for cameo.

Voyage to Bot. of the Sea, probably still ahead of it's time. (Seaquest DSV, 25 years later, comes very close if not an equal match for early 90's). Re-make this one too and have Barabra Eden and Frankie Avalon in cameros as well.

In any event, great movies to watch for any age group on slow-lazy afternoons.

Both of these films are from times gone past. What a joy it is to see them without commercial interruption, though! Given the dates that these were actually produced, they contain special effects that were state of the art at that time. A bit cheesy compared to present day, by still worth seeing. And actually, seeing how far the film industry has come in the almost 50 years since these were filmed is worth noting too. Acting is as important now as then, but the direction is much different.

If you are a fan of older cinematronics, you'll enjoy them both. If you are a fan of nostalgia, the same can be said. If you like a good story, they fit the bill, too. A lot of current day films do not measure up.