I will not further detract from the content of film, as other reviewers here have done so more than adequately. There is nothing in this film to indicate that Bogdoanovich would someday produce anything worth watching. A word about the story: we're supposed to believe that prehistoric women were telepathic; clever trick avoid the actresses having to memorize or recite any lines.I will devote my further remarks to the recording and the DVD medium.My DVD says it is the output of Estree Hill Entertainment, copyright 2010 Penwick Group Ltd., serial no. 763799. B&W, English only, no subtitles, no special features, no trailers.My first criticism is the sound track: very poor. One channel only; mono I don't mind, but through both speakers, please. Moreover, there is incessant noise in the background: rushing waves, crashing breakers on the shore, roaring rocket engines, beeping- whizzing-whirring machinery, howling wind--it is nervy and often obscures the dialog. Subtitles would have helped.Second criticism: the source film was badly scratched and blistered, none of which was 'digitally remastered' (not that I would have expected anyone to go to the trouble). I have seen better- preserved films from the 1930s.Third, many of the spliced-in shots of the Venusian mermaids were over- or under-exposed. Amateurish is the word.Don't pay more than a buck for this at a rummage sale. Maybe it looks better after three joints.

Well... where to begin? Any remarks about the bulk of this film's content, i've already made in my review for "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet", for in true no-budget tradition, Roger Corman and chums basically rereleased the same movie (which was in itself a redubbed cannibalisation of the Russian space opera "Storm Planet"), with some newly-shot additional footage.This new stuff entirely concerns the titular (in every sense!) women, the scrumptious Mamie Van Doren and assorted other leggy lovelies, lounging around the rocky shores of Venus in shell bikinis, eating raw fish, and emitting a curiously familiar siren song. If i were in a kinder - or drunker - mood, i might try to compare the way in which this film occurs 'in the wings' of the earlier movie to Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead". But i won't, for that way lies madness.This was all enjoyable enough, if very familiar apart from the half-baked clam-shelled clambake. However, i became unduly concerned towards the films conclusion when Ms. Van Doren psychically told her telepathic friends that their heretofore deity, the great dinosaur god Ptera, was no longer good enough, because "there is a greater god!". As they hurled stones and tore down their effigy of the late pteranodon lord, i got a sinking feeling. Surely brief exposure to human (Russian dubbed-as-American) spacemen hadn't suddenly converted the Venusians to the Judeo-Christian god? The idea of them "seeing the error of their ways" and becoming merely spaceborne Americans had me groaning internally. If they were to suddenly convert to an Earth religion, why not Buddhism, or Shintoism? Or, indeed, any at all?I need not have worried. As they pulled the magma-petrified remains of John the Robot from the mud and set him up as a shrine, i began to smile. One god's as good as another, after all. As another spaceborne robot, Marvin the Paranoid Android, said at the end of "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish":'You know... i think i'm quite happy about that'.

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women is set in the future year 1998(!) where space travel is no longer a barrier, a spaceship blasts off from Earth with two astronauts Captain Alfred Kern (Georgi Tejkh) & Howard Sherman (Yuri Sarantsev) heading for the distant planet of Venus. The spaceship crash lands on Venus & is damaged beyond repair, together with a large robot named John(!) the two astronauts explore the surface of Venus & find rough terrain, hostile monsters & adverse whether conditions. Back on Earth with no radio contact mission control prepare a rescue mission, another spaceship with three astronauts Commander William 'Billy' Lockhart (Vladimir Yemelyanov), Andrea Freneau (Gennadi Vernov) & Hans Walters (Georgi Zhzhyonov) leaves Earth & heads for Venus. Once their they also encounter monsters, hostile plants & erupting Volcanoes in their bid to find & save their stranded astronaut friends...This cheaply produced cut & paste job from Roger Corman was directed & narrated by Peter Bogdanovich who made this only a couple of years prior to his Oscar winning drama The Last Picture Show (1971), Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women was fourth film produced by Roger Corman that he made on the cheap by using special effects footage from various Russian sci-fi films which started with the Francis Ford Coppola flick Battle Beyond the Sun (1963), then came Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) before using effects shots in Queen of Blood (1966) & finally making this. This is an odd film to watch & rate, Bogdanovich probably only shot twenty odd minutes of new footage with the rest of the film entirely made up from the Russian sci-fi film footage. The 'Preshistoric Women' of the title never meet the astronauts (since they were filmed years apart, obviously) & it's hard to take them seriously anyway. They speak to each other using telepathy but otherwise just sunbathe on rock all the time wearing Sea Shell bras! The Russian footage is much, much better & is what ultimately saves Voyage to the Planet of Preshistoric Women from being a total flop. Much of the film is narrated & some of the Russian footage is used more than once but at just under 80 odd minutes long at least it's fairly short & there's enough going on to sustain ones interest.The original Russian films that Corman brought all have far superior production values to the Bogdanovich footage & American sci-fi in general at that period in time. The films used are called Nebo Zovyoy AKA The Heavens Call (1962) & Planeta Bur AKA Storm Planet (1962) while the narrated prologue footage from Coppola's film Battle Beyond the Sun was also used here, also as a prologue funnily enough. The Russian footage is quite good actually with better than usual model effects, a pretty good planet surface including an erupting volcano & some some decent props & costumes. The big robot John is just cool, I want one & what can I say about the flying futuristic car? Perpare to be amazed... No-one dies & it's not very scary or gory or violent although there is one scene in which a woman bites the head off a fish, it's more of a sci-fi adventure than sci-fi horror despite the monsters to be honest.The acting is poor in the newly shot American insert footage while all the Russian scenes were obviously dubbed & it's left to Bogdanovich the narrator to try & make a cohesive story out of it with his monologues.Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women is a strange mix of good Russian sci-fi film footage & cheap awful Roger Corman footage neither of which compliment each other particularly well. At least has plenty of robots, monsters, futuristic spaceships & scantily clad Venusian girls to keep one entertained. A bit of a patchwork mess but there's just about enough cheap sci-fi thrills here to keep one watching.

One of the goofiest cut'n'paste jobs ever foisted on Earthlings (or Vensusians). An old Russian film's footage was grabbed by B-movie king, Roger Corman. Newly shot footage is inexplicably created, and then all this stuff is mushed together. Such is the genesis of this lovable cheese fest, Planet of the Prehistoric Women. (A note: the original film, Planeta Burg, was re-edited twice in this manner; see Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet.)The new spliced-in nonsense is what makes this drive-in 2nd feature so memorably ridiculous. A bunch of platinum bleach blonds sleep on Venus's Malibu beach, talk in filtered ESP, and worship a rubber pterodactyl they call Ptera. What they're doing is completely disconnected from the plot of original footage; cosmonauts crash landing on Venus, and a second ship is sent to rescue them.There are a few glaring errors. Example: everybody knows that Venusian girls only wear bell-bottom hip-hugger jeans and sea-shell bras with designer labels, not cheap imitations from their local V-Mart. Also, who forgot to give them Cool-Ray sunglasses that every Venusian girl wears? There are other such goofs, and the director obviously did not research these facts.The original Russian footage is the stuff of good old fashioned sci-fi. Dino-men running around, the slow moving hover-craft, cool monsters, a loyal robot, the awful dubbing, etc. Good stuff. And Robot John gets a better fate in this version than the other versions.