Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I am giving this movie a generous 8 out of 10 simply because it really seems to be a forerunner of the ideology that formed Star Trek. It starts out with an optimistic view of humanity unified and at peace. War is behind us, and the focus has become the peaceful exploration of space. It originally presents ideas and scenarios that Star Trek later seems to copy. The similarities between this plot and the "Shore Leave" episode from Star Trek are more than coincidental in my view. The alien here seems to be even more complex though. It loses points when the alien intelligence and the plot seem to get muddled. Rather than a consistently evil enemy, this alien more often than not seems to be as much a powerful benefactor as anything, and their rush toward destruction seems counter to the original premise of a peaceful humanity.

This slow moving mess has stilted dialogue, bad acting, and some of the most incomprehensible motivations ever. First of all, what an embarrassment is John Agar. He was thought to be the next Cary Grant at one time, but good looks didn't do it for him. He spent most of his time doing these cheesy horror/science fiction movies. In this one he plays a man with a reputation for jumping anything with skirts. While these guys find themselves on a kind of isolated patch on Uranus, they guess that there is some kind of force that they must deal with. What do they do? The thing reads their imaginations and apparently the whole crew has the hormones of an eighth grader. They are constantly accosted by these babes and fall for their charms any time the force that is acting on them desires. There is also this endless exploration of the little bit of heaven they are on and they never seem to get anywhere. There is a German guy named Karl who gets his arm frozen (though thaws out), falls in a kind of ammonia quicksand, and is eaten by some unfriendly maw. He is stupid and impulsive but never changes. There is this ridiculous voice that keeps telling us that these people are stupid and he will eventually kill them. He is apparently studying them so he can go to earth later and take over. How these guys could tie their shoes let along travel through space is beyond me. There are some decent special effects and a nice use of sound, but the story just doesn't make it.

*Spoiler/plot- Journey to the Seventh Planet, 1962, Trip to Uranus in 2001, the UN has sent a special team of scientist to explore. What the crew discovers is a planet not unlike Earth, complete with a Danish village filled with voluptuous women from their past! The Utopian veneer is a strange force so powerful and so dangerous it threatens the crew's safety and lives. An alien is reading their inner thoughts and fooling them into being unsafe. They must conquer the planetary being to get home.*Special Stars- Jon Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann Smyer, Mimi Heinrich. Director: Sidney Pink and Ib Melchior.*Theme- The human mind can contain all the delights and dangers in the universe. Care should be exercised.*Trivia/location/goofs- Danish, Most cast is dubbed to English due to European actors. Film was cannibalized in US post production due to poor monster and production effects. Geta Thyssen was Miss Denmark 1951 and of the same film 'casting' as fellow 'bombshells' like Jane Mansfield, Marilynn Monroe, and Briget Bardot.*Emotion- Tries to be a psychological thriller with the alien element that can transform matter in a planet to fit the experience of the Earth astronauts. Similar plot to a vintage Twilight Zone and better done there. But, an interesting plot idea with well executed special effect scenes for it's time. A large dose of European 'cheesecake' babe roles helps the watch ability with Jon Agar's strong role as mission co-commander. The rest of the European male spaceship crew actors are weak against Agar's screen gravitas from the USA. This film is entertaining and watchable, better than average in many elements. Nice to see how a European made film compares to American B-Movie examples.

If you don't know by now, this science fiction adventure is one of the original "mind benders", an outer space flick in which aliens use mind control.And against this kind of mind control, what can one do? If a character is powerful enough to warp your sense of Reality, then how can you truly fight it? We get a full throttle effect by showing a full length movie in which the outcome is really decided immediately, only no one knows it.The super formidable enemy, the one you must rely solely on God's graces, or luck, to beat, is the one who controls all you perceive and conceive, the one whose control over what you see, hear, sense, is completely contrived by this foe.We go through a series of adventures, and the characters seem totally out of control, but that's because they have no idea what Reality is any more. They go through total Chaos.And the ending, which I won't spoil, leaves the audience in total Chaos, but also explains that indeed, there is nothing to be done but rely on luck if your perceptions are out of your control.Overlooked film. It actually is better than many of the later ripoff versions which tried to be too contrived in modernism, by that I mean that the later films wanted to establish that SOME humans were superior enough to overcome this obstacle, which is flat out silly. If you have no direction and no vector, you are totally helpless to change your situation. This film goes under the old school of Credibility premise instead of the 1970s contrived "Man is God" premise.