Fantastic Voyage

Name: Fantastic Voyage
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family
Released: August 24, 1966
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Arthur O'Connell, Barry Coe, Donald Pleasence, Edmond O'Brien

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Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: August 24, 1966 | PG

Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Arthur O'Connell, Barry Coe, Donald Pleasence, Edmond O'Brien, Jean Del Val, Ken Scott, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd, William Redfield

Summary: A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Director: Richard Fleischer

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 min

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Fantastic Voyage is just that. The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space - the body of a man. Read full review

Dennis Lim

From our current vantage point, the film's appeal has less to do with surrealism than nostalgia. It's a movie that potently evokes bygone attitudes and aesthetics -- a relic of the age of pre-digital effects, a product of both Cold War paranoia and midcentury techno-utopianism. [03 Jun 2007, p.E19]

Bosley Crowther

All I can tell you is it is quite a trip. Fortunately, all of the voyaging is done in the northern hemisphere. Read full review

Crosby Day

A film taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy. [23 May 2004, p.8]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era. Read full review

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Very nearly a corking sci-fi lark. Read full review

Pauline Kael

It isn't terrible, just disappointing.

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Kai82

Jul 1, 2022

A classical science fiction movie with an interesting premise and unique story. Sadly the special effects which were excellent back then did not age that well but it would be unfair to criticize this for a 1966 movie. The story is set in the Cold War time. The Soviet scientist Dr. Benes hasA classical science fiction movie with an interesting premise and unique story. Sadly the special effects which were excellent back then did not age that well but it would be unfair to criticize this for a 1966 movie. The story is set in the Cold War time. The Soviet scientist Dr. Benes has found a way to shrink objects to microscopic levels which is an incredible useful and dangerous technology. However Dr. Benes wants to defect to the USA but is injured at the attempt. He is in a comatose state as a blood clot is stuck in his brain. Even more it is in a place that makes a surgery impossible without killing him. So a plan is devised to use his shrinking technology to put a submarine with a team of specialist into his body to remove the blot clot but there is a time limit and it is also granted that the Soviets want to stop this. Here I stop to avoid spoilers. The movie grabbed me with the idea, its story and characters. I was entertained from start to finish and praise it. The unique set up, interesting situation and race against time work well. To be fair there is a huge (logical) error towards the end of the movie. I don't want to spoil it but think about what does not reappear. The special effects are really good for its time and as I watched it in my youth first the disparity was not that big. Today it is far out of date but like I said this cant be used against the movie. Also I am no expert if it is anatomically correct but this is no valid point for an entertainment movie. The actors are excellent. I praise the whole cast with director Richard Fleischer, writers Henry Kleiner / David Duncan and actors Stephen Boyd, Edmond O’Brien, Rachel Welch to name a few. While it was not a box office hit it inspired a lot of other movies / media to do similar things. In theory shrinking should also be possible in real life as 99,9% of the atom is empty space but I bet this would violate several laws of of physic a non physicist like me does not know. However the idea is entertaining. Overall I see this as forgotten classic and must see of its time. Its legacy is that it inspired countless other media to do the same.… Expand

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RyanG1130

Aug 27, 2021

It was a good movie, effects didn’t hold up too well and was a bit slow but overall good movie

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doebrei

Dec 18, 2022

Very fun sci-fi especially if you're a fan of seeing unique effects. There is a lul in the middle and some of the characters do things just solely to progress the plot in annoying ways but in total a good time.

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