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.

I saw this when it came out and was enthralled with the scenes and sets of the "real" Uranus. The icicle trees, the frozen air that acted like quicksand, the frozen arm pulled back from the boundary wall and off course the monsters. When viewed 4o years later, however, it was a bit hard to take. I still liked the Uranian sets, but the preposterous beauty queens crow-barred into the "plot" (whatever it was), the terrible dubbing and wooden acting were things I obviously made absolutely no note of in my pre-adolescent phase. I still drag it out from time to time as a childhood reminiscence, but the recognition that it was unnecessarily bad still disappoints.

Filmed in 1962 this movie was clearly ahead of its time. Essentially, the United Nations is in control of the Earth and space exploration has gone all the way to Saturn. So it's up to the spaceship "Explorer 12" to scout out Uranus. Five men undertake the journey and land in a lush forest which isn't supposed to be there. Not only that, but several beautiful women are there as well. Realizing that their minds are being read they come to the conclusion that there is an alien presence on this planet and because of certain events they become hostile to it. Now, even though I personally like science-fiction films of this era, I think it's only fair to state that this film is very campy and the special effects are clearly not up to today's standards. Likewise, the acting was second-rate and the dialogue left much to be desired. But if a person has a little imagination I think they might enjoy it, all things considered.

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.