Embodies the camp, cheese & scientific naivety of 50's Sci-fi. While it uses Shakespeare's The Tempest as a template Forbidden Planets focus is more on the then state-of-the-art special effects. PS. Robbie the Robot is awesome.
This review of Forbidden Planet (1956) was written by Dean T on 24 Apr 2011.
Forbidden Planet has generally received very positive reviews.
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