It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This film follows a pretty well worn trail, for the 50's and 60's low budget science fiction in outer space. But for an outside of the US film it holds up fairly well against films like it of the time. Now this is very low budget stuff but capably directed by a veteran with a sparse but effectively strange music score. There is one token scene with Mexican boxers--not wrestlers.The space ship interior has a unique design the special effects of space and a blaster gun aren't great but you've seen worse.The alien planet buildings are made up of what looks like parts from a Roman movie and occasionally resorts to still photos for backgrounds. You have to accept this part of the movie as you would a Star Trek episode from the same era. If you can ignore the Flash Gordon type costumes the acting isn't bad.There is some political intrigue and counter culture alien society elements that figure into the plot.You have to be interested and tolerant to see this--and the copy I saw was pretty bad--but if you are interested and tolerant...

In 1967, Mr Crevenna directed GIGANTES PLANETARIOS, where Daniel Wolf (Guillermo Murray), scientist with a brand new rocket ship and a girlfriend/secretary (Gabriela Roel) is sent to 'the planet of the eternal night' to fight the guy who has threatened earth. He supposed to go alone, but his assistant sneaks in the ship somehow, along with other two guys (Rogelio Guerra/Ferrusquilla (taquito), running away from the law, so, with no previous preparation, three more people go to outer space without problem. Jose Galvez, ruler of the planet, tries to use his necroluminic ray to kill all life on earth (and like in any other movie, the African is the first to die). Thanks to the Mr. Wolf and the stowaways good triumphs over evil and earth don't gets destroyed. They promise the natives to come back some other time, which is not true since this same ship and crew end up going toEL PLANETA DE LAS MUJERES INVASORAS