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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790731216
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790731215
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 02, 1997
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 5611
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 1956
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Old fashioned fun
Those looking for some sort of deep meaning underlying the film will likely be disappointed but if you are looking for a great evening of 1950's popcorn fare this is it. In fact despite some of its drawbacks it still has something that leaves one with the feeling that the whole film is a whole lot better than the sum of the parts - one of those that you can't quite place your finger on why you like it so much. Unfortunately, people tend to keep reviewing these films through the lens of today's high ... Read More
Rating:  - Dork Trek
A group of dorky-macho scientists winds up 500 years or so in the future, where it encounters all kinds of "Star Trek"-style nonsense. I refer to: skinny, carefully-spoken, pacifist leaders in goofy, uni-sex suits. Voluptuous women in cocktail outfits. D.W.-Griffith-style cavemen with twenty-word vocabularies (verbs and nouns only). Arty but cut-price sets. Multiple grave dangers that yield to redundant dialogue exchanges (followed by short bursts of contrived action). The world needs to be saved, and ... Read More
Rating: - Fairly good production values can't hide a trite story
WWE has several things going for it -
(1) It's in color
(2) The actors are a notch above the usual refugees from Central Casting
(3) The model effects and general production values are good.
HOWEVER,...
The story of a spaceship hurled 500 years into the future to land on a bombed-out Earth was old-hat when the movie was made almost 50 years ago. Why the normal humans in the underground city dress in outfits straight out of the Middle Ages while their environment is all straight ... Read More
Rating: - The years don�t erase the magic
WWE has been one of my favorites since I first saw it at the age of 12. When I saw it for the first time in a movie theater in 1956, it seemed awesome. Time has reduced this time-travel sci-fi movie to something a little less than awesome, but it's still a wonderful flick. Granted, the special effects and makeup are only average or somewhat less so and the acting sometimes falls short of credibility (as, for example, in the scene where Morees strikes Timic's daughter). But the magic is in the music. Somehow, the ... Read More
Rating: - WWE: The Magic of SF Still Works
I had not seen WWE for more than 25 years. I remember it as a SF movie that shook me to my core. Even then, most movies did not begin with a framing sequence, but this one had the audacity to place the upcoming action in centuries-jumping sequence that quickly and convincingly landed the actors in the far future of an earth ruined by atomic war. As a child, I had just read, Wells' 'The Time Machine' and I connected the similarities: the handsome travelers (one of whom,by the way, was Rod Taylor, star of the 1960 ... Read More
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