Charming and brutal

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This film is not cool, it's boring. I suspect that the typical Soviet film lovers are inflating it's rating as they often do on IMDb. It's one star above an East German film from around the same time "First Spaceship on Venus" that film was unwatchable (I give it 2 stars) it was so boring. You might say that this is a butchered Corman version with spliced in scenes that make little sense and that the original is much better, that's fine, but I doubt I would enjoy the original either. It's just so boring. One big redeeming factor though is Joe the robot, the communist's answer to our capitalistic bourbon making Robbie, he's pretty cool and will even destroy humans to self preserve itself! I would never attempt to watch this film straight on it's own, I watched it via horror host Mr Lobo and his Cinema Insomnia show. As a Mr Lobo hosted version I give it 7 stars, there are some funny skits with him and a trash can robot that asks some funny tough questions about it's purpose in life other then being a slave to Mr Lobo. One thing about the Mr Lobo version I watched though is he's advertising some bloody grindhouse trash films, I had to fast forward past those, disgusting. The retro commercials are fun though as is a fake commercial for a skateboard lawyer, Rad Abrams. If you are a lover of MST3K and are looking for more material to watch that's free online you will enjoy the Mr Lobo episodes like this one.

A pair of cosmonauts aided by a robot crash lands on Venus prompting their support crew to make a treacherous search and recovery effort. Both crews discover that Venus is inhabited by unwelcoming lizard-like creatures, and the constant vocal apparition of a woman, prompting them to search for signs of a prehistoric life above and below its surface.Re-edited Russian film features Rathbone and Domergue in unconnected footage as space station transmittance, while the original Russian cast do all the grunt work on the surface of Venus, aided by the "Robbie the Robot" esque "John". There's a couple of reasonable action sequences with prehistoric lizard beasts, some impressive scenery and moment or two of genuine intrigue as the cosmonauts are haunted by the possibility of life existing on the planet, but unable to make substantive contact.The film's climax and conclusion fit the somewhat sombre tone and while potentially not an audience-pleaser, is still passable. The original Russian movie "Planet of Storms" looks to be a competent sci-fi film in itself (forgiving some crude special effects, e.g. the aquarium footage), the US-shot inserts of Rathbone and Domergue, while adding some marquee quality, aren't really needed to bolster the original format. A bit ponderous at times with the laboured 'are we alone' dialogue, it's more coherent than its second revision, Peter Bogdanovich's abysmal "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" a second attempt to re-edit the original, and an abject mess.

This movie plodded along more like a modern movie than one of the action packed old time sci fi movies of the fifties and sixties.It involves astronauts finding "prehistoric" life on Venus. So even at the time, it wasn't meant to be taken too seriously. It was an avenue for some excellent photography and camera work. We are treated to visual artistry, which is one of the main reason for producing an action oriented movie.It does do the Raymond Burr bit, though not as obvious as "Godzilla". Still, it becomes apparent about the American add ins. They don't detract from the movie, and work much better than Steve Martin in "Godzilla." It gives the movie the balance needed between scenery and science, giving what is known as "atmosphere." Though it starts very slow and plodding, the last half is full of some well written banter, which includes showing a sense of humor and humanity among the astronauts.Not as fast paced or exciting as most sci fi movies from that era, but that should go well with fans of the dull plodding science fiction of today.Between hard to swallow science and scientist, the dull start,and the postives-the banter, atmosphere, and scenery, I gave this a 4, but see this as a film people will usually rate anywhere from 2 through 7.

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7 to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman (Basil Rathbone), but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern (Georg Tejkh) and Sherman (Yuri Sarantsev) with the robot John (John Bix) to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans (Faith Domergue) in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart (Vladimir Yemelyanov), Andre Ferneau (Robert Chantal) and Hans Walter (Georgi Zhzhyonov) explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land."Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet" is so cheesy and silly that becomes funny. The effects are awful even for a 1965 movie, and the dialogs are very poor. Maybe the director and writer wrote this story and these lines in the elementary school so ridicule they are, specially the lines spoken by scientists. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Planeta Pré-Histórico" ("The Prehistoric Planet")