Battle for the Lost Planet

Currently floating around as "Battle for the Planet" on Freeview streamer Tubi this is a Z-grade gem. Horrible effects, possibly the worst creature to ever grace a non-creature feature, schlock and enough double entendres to sink a battleship. And those are the highlights. But it's fun, doesn't take itself seriously and there's enough mid-80s hair and fashion that you just can't put it out of its misery by turning it off. Grab a beer, some mates and some weed, and enjoy. This is a film from the world before social media, review aggregators and decent CGI. Just laugh at it - it's all the movie wants from you.

While this film has some moments of great what-the-heckness, overall it just can't quite deliver the "so bad its good" vibe. Warning: synopsis/spoilers - (aka Galaxy & Galaxy Destroyer) A guy flees Earth in a stolen space shuttle while aliens invade. 5 years later he returns, teams up with Dana the British scientist (?), meets Mad Dog Kelly and his biker gang. The supposed good guys eventually use a machine which melts unrecognized DNA. They win...we lose.

Fascinating. And brilliantly funny, IF you have a decent sense of humor and can see the double entendre's and innuendo. Acting is quite good for a simple film as well. Thoroughly enjoyable from beginning to end. Yes you have to take quite a bit with a grain of salt but on the other hand, the older classic treasures wouldn't live without said salt. So grab a salt shaker, sit back, relax and prepare to be entertained.

This no-budget genre rollercoaster starts out as a futuristic heist movie, then turns into a space opera, then becomes an isolated man survival story and finally resolves into a post apocalyptic road movie. And there's stop motion aliens. Wow. The first half was a tough watch.. it feels like a student film that they are taking way too seriously and yet simultaneously don't realize it's not as funny as they think it is. Only the Hero character seems to have ANY acting experience. In the second half they seem to finally find the tone of their 'so bad it's good' movie and we get incredible dialogue such as: 'prison... it's not the character building experience they advertise' and my favorite: 'Oscar Wilde... for a fag he had some good ideas.' Along the way we meet a Zach Galafianakis style stoner woodsman and a Tom Savini biker lookalike. Recommended for only fans of creative film making with NO budget, ala Miami Connection or Dark Star.

The plot of the film seems like the late-night fantasies of a teenage boy. It is a fairly generic by-the-books sci-fi action film, navigated by a hero who never fails in any task. Elements of the production (particularly the special effects and costume design) are rather charming in how cheaply they appear to have been done.

The movie nearly put me to sleep. It seemed to droll on to each next scene even though there was some consistency. One review stated the the movie centered around Harry Trent and a scantily clad woman. A fully clothed woman is not scantily clad. None of the summaries of the movie fit entirely to the actual movie so that may have had an impact on my view of the movie too. I just did not enjoy this movie.

Sorry but there is no excuse I can dream up to give this movie any kind of credit. Its horrible. Not just because of the impossibly no-budget sets and effects and wonky acting, but because there is no redeeming film making on any level. No sleaze, no so bad its good, no story, no effects, wrist-slashing soundtrack.... Net zero on this one, unless you need a sleep aid. Way way better 80s trash sci fi to be had out there.

Thoroughly enjoyable. Relax and don't take it too seriously. Funny stuff. Fun to watch. Sorry, your review is too short. It needs to contain at least 150 characters.

This is the kind of sifi movie you are tempted to turn off after the first few minutes when you see how bad the special effects are, and how inane the plot seems, but it actually picks up. There is a lot of humor, and some good lines. The aliens are both ugly and stupid. Denice Coward is a tall attractive actress worth looking at, especially during an encounter was an alien creature, where her butt is fully exposed for your viewing pleasure. However, her Australian accent is out of place. The "genius scientist" is a nerd, who has worked on a solution to regain the Earth for a year, without success, until the "Mad Max" comic relief "Mad Dog" gives him a one line solution. The movie turns out to be entertaining, but they could have used a little more budget for special effects.

Super low-budget sci-fi film looks as cheap at the original "Evil Dead," but lacks the inventiveness of that film (although comparisons to Sam Raimi for inventiveness is probably not all that fair). A starship pilot returns to earth to find it under alien control. Don't expect any futuristic cities or big sets. This is a bunch of dudes in the forest fighting aliens in bad make-up. I did enjoy the spaceship special effects for the space sequences, the but earthbound scenes are pretty weak. Still, as badly written, directed (by Brett Piper), and acted by it's cast of no-name actors, the film has a charm to it and it does have an exuberant fun feel of a bunch of friends who got together to make a goofy movie. Taken on that level, you might enjoy this piece of bad cinema, but don't go into this film expecting anything actually good (not even at "Hell Comes to Frogtown" levels of competent filmmaking).