This movie about a crew of couples and children being sent to another planet in hopes of colonization is barely watchable. There is some science fiction that is so bad that it's funny. This is NOT one of those movies. Spaceflight IC-1 doesn't even qualify as watchable "schlock." The spaceship's (and I use the word 'spacechip' loosely) interior looks like a small, converted, second-rate office building. The characters' uniform insignia denotes their job aboard ship, but there's little mystery there, because of the little sewn tags on their uniforms, such as Captain, Doctor, Teacher, Engineer, etc. Thank you, Captain Obvious. The dialog was stilted, amateurish and generally badly delivered. The only redeeming feature was the dialog delivered at the funerals of two crew members - and that was from the Bible.

I saw the title and brief description and thought this might be good. I could not have been more in error. Virtually nothing but talking heads, trying to be oh-so British while the non-existent plot labours forward. The alleged motivation for forming a new human colony on a distant planet fails to take into account that with a start-up population of four couples (along with three young boys and four unfortunates in suspended animation) there will be very little genetic variation in coming generations. There is a mutiny when the Captain (and we know this because he has his job title emblazoned on his chest, along with everyone else on the crew) forbids the other couples from "adding to their population". The aforementioned boys seem to be acting more like kids at a sleep-away camp than interplanetary explorers (even though they do have some kind of ESP powers). Their acting skills rank someplace south of a dead mouse. In the end, the Captain gets it by a berserk re-animate and our poor fish-bowl-headed cyborg just stands and rolls his eyes. 93 minutes that would have been better spent getting a tooth extracted.

Here's a soap opera in space, obviously made on the cheap, using a few cramped sets and some of the poorest special effects ever seen. There are no space dangers to speak of. Instead, a few whiskery shots of a model rocket bursting through a cardboard backdrop, are used to divide various sequences of fake emotional drama. Only in the brief episode involving a berserk, re-animated man does the movie offer any action to make this soap opera more palatable.With the exception of an earnest portrayal of megalomania by Bill Williams, the acting is as colorless as the cast. The pre-credits sequence is even mouthed by an actor reading his lines from an obvious idiot board.The "direction" (if you can call it that) by Bernard Knowles is as routine as can be, using a plethora of dull, uninspired, TV-style close-ups. Even the photography by Geoffrey Faithful (of all people!) is flat and featureless.

A spaceship on the way to populate the new world "Earth 2" endures a mutiny when the tyrannical leader tells a woman with a critical disease that she can't have a second child. People argue a lot. There is a "closed circuit man" (a head in a glass case) and people whose bodies have been frozen (to later be revived upon arrival). Not much to entertain or surprise here and almost what I would call a "non-ending". The most recognizable cast member to me was child actor Mark Lester.