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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea/Fantastic Voyage (Widescreen)

Stephen Boyd (Actor), Raquel Welch (Actor), Richard Fleischer (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea gets a dose of On the Beach in Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. While the Seaview, the world's most advanced experimental submarine, maneuvers under the North Pole, the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks, and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most formfitting naval uniform you've ever seen, fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank, gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon, and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work. --Sean Axmaker

Fantastic Voyage
2001: A Space Odyssey took the world on a mind-bending trip to outer space, but Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the center of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colorless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasance is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvelous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply, and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturized humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker

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le sous-marin del'apocalypse Sep 16 2009
By babar54
Format:DVD
en mission au pole nord à bord du Neptune un sous-marin nucléaire ultra-sophistiqué, l'amiral nelson(Walter pidgeon)apprend que la terre est menacée par des radiations spatiales,dans leur course pour sauver la planète de l'apocalypse.nelson et son équipage vont devoir affronter les attaques simultanées des monstres marins terrifiants et de sous-marins ennemis. le célèbre réalisateur irwin allen's nous propose un classique film de science-fiction des années 60 et nous plonge dans les profondeurs angoissantes des fonds marins.technologie de pointe,monstres marins terrifiants,trahison,suspense...tous les ingrédients d'une aventure exaltante sont réunis.film en couleur 1960
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Great Movie. Feb 27 2009
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I say great movie... and not movies because I only really liked one of the two movies that is on this DVD. "Voyage to the bottom of the Sea" has almost nothing to do with a trip to the bottom of the sea, I think they only briefly visit the bottom once or twice. It should have been named "The Skies on Fire" or some such thing. BORING movie anyhow. But that's not why I bought this. The movie "Fantastic Voyage" withstands the test of time. This is an excellent movie, and even though it is somewhat dated, the special effects are still quite good when you consider when it was made. They have never made a movie like it since then, which is really unfortunate as a modern version of this would be an amazing movie. I would have rated this 5 stars if it was just this movie. Fantastic Voyage gives you exactly what it says, a Fantastic Voyage into the human body. A group of people are shrunk down to microscopic size, along with a miniature submarine and injected into the body of a scientist in order to save his life. The movie takes place with their journey through his body and is really well done, there's isn't a boring moment in the movie. I showed this to my young nephew who was born 20 years after this was made and he loved it, that has to say something. It's well worth adding to your collection, but only for Fantastic Voyage.
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Barbara Eden and Frankie Avalon Jun 24 2004
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Barbara Eden is the Best actress and is Great.The best scene is with Barbara Eden dancing and Frankie Avalon playing the trumpet in the movie.Frankie Avalon sings the theme song of the movie.Buy this DVD if you Love Barbara Eden and Frankie Avalon.
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Most recent customer reviews
One of the top ten sci fi pictures any time
Fantastic voyage is a real imaginative picture. A group of scientists will make a weird voyage , in the deep of the human body . Read more
Published on Jun 21 2004 by Hiram Gomez Pardo
Great Quality reproduction
As I've viewed more DVD's I have found that there is a lot of quality difference, especially when porting old movies. Read more
Published on Jun 6 2004 by traderje
Come with me, on a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea~
Let's give this movie the props it deserves. Considering the fact that the SPFX were done over 40 years ago, they are still very impressive. Read more
Published on April 27 2004 by H. N. Dohe
Lucky Anti-Bodies get the ultimate body
Raquel Welch unfortunately stays dressed for the most part of this well crafted sojourn into inner space. Read more
Published on Feb 7 2004 by J. Hardy IV
Both movies are now dated beyound watching.
Both these movies were made at a time when effects work in Hollywood was not that advanced. Hollywood pretty much treated Science Fiction films as B-pictures (and only the Ray... Read more
Published on Jan 15 2004
Cold War Science Fiction and Technology
If you grew up during the early '60's and were fascinated by the real-life adventure and technology of the time you will find this film interesting. Read more
Published on Jan 8 2004 by Randel B. Smith
2 Voyages! 2 Submarines! 2 Babes!
Irwin Allen (Poseiden Adventure / Towering Inferno) was definitely one of the most over-the-top directors ever. Read more
Published on Dec 23 2003 by Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein
"Classic" SciFi
A bit of a mixed bag here. Both movies have Cold War overtones. Fantastic Voyage is a good yarn. Though full of plot holes (how many SciFi movies aren't? Read more
Published on April 7 2003 by T. Blikre
One classic, one not-so-classic
As is often the case with double-feature DVDs, there is usually one decent movie and one lousy one, the B-side being a movie which probably would not sell well on its own. Read more
Published on Mar 29 2003 by mrliteral
Two Voyages to the Top of Cheap, Fun Entertainment!
If you love sci-fi even a little bit, and especially if you came of age in the 60's and 70's, how could you possibly go wrong getting both of these movies in widescreen format for... Read more
Published on Mar 7 2003 by lighten_up_already2
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