Review of Fantastic Voyage (1966) by Greg S — 08 Jan 2015

The inspiration for various cheesy "fantastic voyage" plots commonly found in TV shows, this film didn't intend to be overtly camp. In fact, with its Cold War overtones, the film itself was pretty serious, or so it was trying to be, but with a premise that asks you to suspend your disbelief as heavily as it does, I can't exactly take it as seriously as the film-makers may have intended some five decades ago.

The main problem is that the film feels quite outdated, at least by my standards, and I say this mainly because the characters and dialogue felt overly familiar. It wasn't really fresh, but that's not to say it was a bad film.

At the very least the film's concept was original, and despite everything else having aged pretty badly, the visual effects seem to have held up quite well. Nowadays, it's essentially a B-movie in shiny dressing, but for the time, it was quite original, and it does have its moments.

If only a decade of TV didn't ruin it for me.