- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Subtitles: Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 2
- Classification: U
- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- DVD Release Date: 2 Jun 2003
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00007JGCU
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- #36 in Film & TV > Classics > Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Irwin Allen's visually impressive but scientifically silly Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea updates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as the world's most advanced experimental submarine manoeuvres under the North Pole while the Van Allen radiation belt catches fire, giving the concept "global warming" an entirely new dimension. As the Earth broils in temperatures approaching 170 degrees F, Walter Pidgeon's maniacally driven Admiral Nelson hijacks the Seaview sub and plays tag with the world's combined naval forces on a race to the South Pacific, where he plans to extinguish the interstellar fire with a well-placed nuclear missile. But first he has to fight a mutinous crew, an alarmingly effective saboteur, not one but two giant squid attacks and a host of design flaws that nearly cripple the mission (note to Nelson: think backup generators). Barbara Eden shimmies to Frankie Avalon's trumpet solos in the most form-fitting naval uniform you've ever seen; fish-loving Peter Lorre plays in the shark tank; gloomy religious fanatic Michael Ansara preaches Armageddon; and Joan Fontaine looks very uncomfortable playing an armchair psychoanalyst. It's all pretty absurd, but Allen pumps it up with larger-than-life spectacle and lovely miniature work.
Fantastic Voyage is the original psychedelic inner-space adventure. When a brilliant scientist falls into a coma with an inoperable blood clot in the brain, a surgical team embarks on a top-secret journey to the centre of the mind in a high-tech military submarine shrunk to microbial dimensions. Stephen Boyd stars as a colourless commander sent to keep an eye on things (though his eyes stay mostly on shapely medical assistant Raquel Welch), while Donald Pleasence is suitably twitchy as the claustrophobic medical consultant. The science is shaky at best, but the imaginative spectacle is marvellous: scuba-diving surgeons battle white blood cells, tap the lungs to replenish the oxygen supply and shoot the aorta like daredevil surfers. The film took home a well-deserved Oscar for Best Visual Effects. Director Richard Fleischer, who had previously turned Disney's 1954 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea into one of the most riveting submarine adventures of all time, creates a picture so taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy that niggling scientific contradictions (such as, how do miniaturised humans breathe full-sized air molecules?) seem moot. --Sean Axmaker
Special Features
- Fantastic Voyage theatrical trailer
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea theatrical trailer
- Scene access
- Interactive menus
DVD Technical Information:
- Language: English 4.0, English 2.0 surround
- Subtitles: Croatian (on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea only), Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese, Swedish, Turkish, English for the hearing impaired
- Widescreen version 16:9
- Video Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Region Code: 2
- PAL
- Running Time:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - 100 minutes
Fantastic Voyage - 96 minutes - Disc Format: Dual layer single sided disc DVD9
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
2 Great Films Together,
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This review is from: Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea [DVD] (DVD)
2 Great Films for the price of one. Neither is much like I remember them from my childhood, but still both are outstanding!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Super nostalgic movie!,
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This review is from: Fantastic Voyage/Voyage to Bottom of the Sea [DVD] (DVD)
PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW IS FOR 'FANTASIC VOYAGE' ONLY: This is a movie that has played tricks in my memory over the years. I first saw this when I was a child, and for some reason recall a much more exciting journey with lots more happenings, including a much longer passing through a beating heart - which doesn't actually happen at all, and so I guess the memory really does play some giant tricks with the passage of time! I guess many young people may be very critical of this film, since nowadays there are so many much more advanced and sophisticated special effects. However, for its day, this was quite brilliant! A group of Experts climb into a submarine and are 'miniaturised' and sent on a mission inside a human body to repair some damage to the patient's brain - a fantastic voyage indeed! Of course the team meet with all kinds of 'natural' perils that are within the human body along the way. There are some 'silent' points in this movie pretty early on which have impact. Stars Donald Pleasence and Raquel Welch. This has been re-mastered to a very high degree.
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