Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

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

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Director Peter Bogdanovich had to start somewhere; following second unit work on Roger Corman's "The Wild Angels," Corman allowed the hardworking novice an opportunity to do a feature film utilizing the exact same Russian stock footage used by Curtis Harrington for his 1965 "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet," a 1962 entry titled "Planeta bur" (Planet of Storms). It's no stretch to assume that the first-time director just didn't have his heart in his work, as all of his newly shot footage features a dozen bikini-clad models not required to speak, everything narrated by Bogdanovich himself. There is no integration between the alien mermaids and the Russian characters, so the whole thing just sits there, aimlessly meandering from one crisis to another. Granted, I had just viewed Curtis Harrington's work on his "Voyage," so all the Soviet footage was already familiar to me, but at least Harrington had Basil Rathbone and Faith Domergue actually communicating with the Russian astronauts, their scenes already dubbed into English. The blame here simply lies with Roger Corman, who felt the need for another retread rather than something truly original. "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" carries a 1967 copyright, and at least Corman was satisfied enough to grant Bogdanovich the freedom to do a feature starring Boris Karloff, who supposedly owed Roger two days work on a previous contract; we can all be grateful that the result was the superlative "Targets," shot in Dec 1967, an achievement that even "The Last Picture Show" couldn't top (some may feel free to disagree). Pittsburgh's Chiller Theater aired "Prehistoric Planet" only 3 times, "Prehistoric Women" 4 times (maybe it was the bikinis), all from July 1969 to July 1972.

Humans decide to explore the planet Venus, something that looks like Earth on steam. They conclude the planet is "definitely prehistoric", which actually makes no sense, because it resembles early Earth, but with sexy singing women and rubber dinos.I've watched a bunch of old movies these days and I can tell you this one is a lot more entertaining, although probably inadvertently. The dialogue is cheesy and stereotyped, the scientific view of the world is ridiculous (actually, I am now beginning to understand that regular folks in the 60s and 70s were completely out of sync with what science means, even if they sent people to the Moon in the same period), the robot, something that was probably made of cardboard covered with metallic paint, was incredibly clumsy and the "functionality" was hilarious. I especially loved the scene where it requested help because he found a waterfall and its systems were in danger.Bottom line: I couldn't watch it till the end, but there are some scenes (ex: an eerie song is heard and one of the guys says "It sounds like a woman!" and the other guy says "Perhaps. A woman or a... monster") that are really funny. I don't know what they were thinking when they made the movie, probably that it could be good, only it resulted in a sort of Ed Wood thing.

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.

"A group of astronauts attempt to rescue a party stranded on the surface of Venus. In the process, they encounter numerous perils, including distinctly unfriendly prehistoric monsters. Their misadventures are watched from afar by a group of telepathic alien women who worship a pterosaur named Tera," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis. Director/narrator Peter Bogdanovich uses Andre Freneau (Gennadi Vernov) as story protagonist.This is the second bastardization of the Russian science-fiction film "Planeta Bur" (1962). There are some good visual effects, carried over from the original movie, especially the cosmonauts' airborne planet surface vehicle. But, as astronomers knew, by the 1960s, this film doesn't really depict how a landing on earth's neighboring Venus could possibly look - if they'd have picked another Solar System, they might have had a classic.The use of "Robot John" is one of several similarities to the TV show "Lost in Space" (appearing in 1965), especially the fourth and fifth episodes of that series. The Robinson family's "Robot" was intended to serve the same function; and, both teams of space travelers encountered "prehistoric" monsters, misguided robot helpers, spaceship weight problems, lost civilizations, and wildly unstable planetary climate changes.The U.S. poorly dubbed this "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women", and cheaply inserted footage featuring busty Mamie Van Doren and several other tightly-clad blondes. How these women came to be living on Venus is wisely left to the imagination. The idea is loosely based on the original film's appearance of a mysterious female figure. "Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" (1965) was the first, and better, American version.** Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968) Peter Bogdanovich, Pavel Klushantsev ~ Mamie Van Doren, Gennadi Vernov, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgi Zhzhyonov