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Rating:  - I Hate Her! I Hate That Qveen!
Actually the queen isn't really all bad. She's just frustrated because none of the Earthmen want to make out with her.
What a treat. A true camp classic that's really entertaining. You can't go wrong with corny dialog, mini skirt clad women running around the jungle in high heels and Zsa Zsa Gabor working in a research lab arranging dried flowers. Welcome to the world of Venus, the female planet, in the distant future year of 1985!
I don't know why it took so long for this to come to DVD, but it was well worth the wait. The print, aside from some faint color fluctuations in the last reel, looks pristine. Seeing it in the widescreen format is a completely different experience over the pan and scan versions I've encountered on television and VHS. The audio commentary is entertaining too. Now my only question is, when is the Broadway Musical coming?
Rating: - Forget the Beta Disintegrater, Zsa Zsa is ze BOMB!
Oh you got to love this flick. What man wouldn't want to land on a planet inhabited by busty, mini-skirt wearing women? Three astronauts are on a routine mission with a scientist to dock with a 'space bus terminal'. However as they approach, it is blown up by a mysterious and animated laser beam. Whoever was working the controls of the weapon had not mastered Kentucky windage because the first dozen shots missed. The beam then hits our heros' ship and they crashland on the polar ice cap of a planet. However after a 20 second walk, they find themselves on a soundstage with artificial plantlife representing a forest. The scientist, who is ever wise, realizes they have landed on Venus.
Before I go any further, I have to say this movie runs for quite awhile before the opening credits or the title of the film even appear. Probably about 15 minutes.
Anyway, the men are lead to the man-hating, masked Queen who demands information on the 'battle plan'. She is convinced that the men are spies and are ready to report back to earth when a good time for the invasion would be.
Zsa Zsa is a scientist of some sort. She does numerous experiments on plant life while wearing top of the line evening gowns. She helps the men escape to a cave where a giant rubber cockroach lives. They are recaptured and head back to the Queen.
Well they try tio tie up the Queen and disguise Zsa Zsa as the new ruler, but one kick of a dressing curtain ruins that plan. The Queen finally fires up the Beta Disintergrater, but something goes wrong and she burns to a crisp. Then the men-loving woman revolt against the men-hating women. This is a fight you must see to believe. It looks more like a.... well I don't know what it looks like. You have to see it for yourself.
Anywho, Zsa Zsa becomes the new Queen, but all the men are in love. Zsa Zsa fixes that by contacting Earth. The colonal appears on a view screen and says that the astronaauts are stranded on Venus and should not try to come back on a broken spaceship. They must endure Venus for a year until help arrives.
Well Zsa Zsa is by far the best special effect in the movie. I lost track of how many gowns she wears. The Beta Disintegrater looks like a cardboard prop for a kindergarten play, and the best way to describe the sets are tacky. It looks like the whole movie was done by the 'Queer eye for the straight guy's' grandparents.
Everyone loves the "Ooh I hate Zat Queen" line. It is good, but my favorite dialogue is this.
Lieutenant 1 "Sir how could women possibly build an atomic death ray?"
Lietenant 2 "Yeah, and even if they did build it, how could they aim it? You know women drivers!"
Enjoy folks.
Rating: - #1 Rated Film of All Time
It was a show back east Million Dollar Movie on channel 9 that recycled the same movie each night and then 5 times on Saturday and Sunday. A lot of Abbot t and Costello, Loneliness of the long Distance Runner. "Stop watching that crap up there!" would yell our unsophisticated parents. None was better than Queen of Outer Space (QOOS), a 1958 look-ahead to 1984 when wise-cracking'
all male teams of astronauts would take off for Venus only to discover a masked, man-hating queen (not Zsa Zsa) and the queen's nemesis the beauteous
Chief Scientist Zsa Zsa seen cutting flowers in her lab. This film has hints of sex, leggy babes, the the tension of misogyny, interplanetary attacks and a good lesson in Vensian - "Botchino!" means get the hell going. And to you I say Botchino to go out and get your DVD of QOOS. I had
7 VHSs in case of an atomic war; now I must compulsively collect DVDS.
Rating:  - From my childhood.
I remember this movie on tv when I was a kid oh so long ago. I used to love it and I still do. It's so silly and crazy. ZaZa is a riot. Totally serious as is the evil queen. You will laugh when you see it. Of course it would be better with drag queens because if this isn't drag, nothing is!
Rating: - DARLING...SIT, DRINK, SURRENDER
QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE is a lot like make-up... it takes a combination of many parts to create the perfect face, and that's what we have here in this (at long last) DVD release of one of the best and most complete "B" movies ever made.
I discovered QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE while working at a video store. To pass the time I put in this preplexing film for store play and was won over right from the opening. It was garish, glossy, frothy, sultry and all toppped off with dashes of pepper, salt and gold dust. It's a fashion runway with a plot. It features I LOVE LUCY lite comdey mixed with tongue twisting mad schemes and jabs at the basic nature of women themselves. Their vanity, their driving skills and the fact that their hair-brained ideas are more hair (cut and styled to perfection) than brain. A day didn't go by when I played this in store that a woman wouldn't come up and demand to know what I was playing, and why. But, once I introduced them to the box, the film was rented the very next second. The QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE was something that had to be seen to be believed and here's your chance. I have to admit, I love this film. It's not perfect, it borrows heavily from other films for its effects and costumes, and there are times when the balance of comdey and drama lurch abruptly from one scene to the next... but, as a whole, it works and works very well.
While Zsa Zsa gets top billing, she is not the QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE, but the very model of a brilliant scientist with perfect taste in clothing and men. The QUEEN herself (Laurie Mitchell) is pure beast, yet still a beauty, just so long as you don't look at her face. You couldn't ask for a better pair for these roles... it's all snarling and darling and a riot from start to finish.
Commentary is included and hosted by one of all time favorites, Tom Weaver. And he brought with him the QUEEN herself, Laurie Mitchell, and while I can't say this is the best commentary done by Weaver (there are too many gaps and long stretches of silence durning the commentary, so long in fact that I thought my copy may have had a fault. I'm used to Weaver spilling information like a waterfall - endless and always rushing to fit it all in the time allowed - he's not like that here), it is still a fun and heartfelt commentary from both Weaver and Mitchell, and will learn you a thing or two... such as the family connection between Paris Hilton and Zsa Zsa Gabor, something I never knew.
Overall, QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE is a must have for any collector. It's a fun, funny and furious film that even a hundred years from now will still delight and entertain. So, don't pass this chance to have an audience with the QUEEN and enjoy.
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