Some movies defy expectations, and then some movies defy basic comprehension. Pinocchio in Outer Space falls squarely into the latter category. This baffling Belgian-American animated sci-fi morality tale asks, “What if Carlo Collodi’s wooden boy tangled with giant alien crabs on Mars?”
Tag: Martians
The Angry Red Planet (1959) – Review
Since H.G. Wells penned the classic tale of the War of the Worlds back in 1897 the planet Mars has continually been seen as a threat to the planet Earth, either by launching invasions or attacking astronaut interlopers, and this idea had really come to the fore by the end of the 1950s with a…
Rocketship X-M (1950) – Review
In 1950 two science fiction films sent cinemagoers venturing off into space, one was George Pal’s seminal classic Destination Moon and the other being Kurt Neumann’s Rocketship X-M, but where George Pal’s film was attempting to depict a nuts and bolts representation of a trip to the Moon, with at least some attempt at scientific…