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What the hell is this movie!?!?!


"The Doctor" is not a Time Lord. He's a normal person.

In fact, he's an old fuddy-duddy grandfather who just "invents" a TIME TRAVELING SPACE SHIP in his backyard. For no reason, it looks like a police box. The interior of the Tardis looks like a low-budget version of the lab in the Absent Minded Professor.

The daleks are not deadly but rather bumbling robots that shoot harmless "stun-steam". They talk to each other as though there are creatures inside the daleks, as if daleks are a robot shell that some mutated creatures pilots... and then when the protagonists crack one open.. it's empty. But not so empty that one of the main characters can't hop inside and operate it.

I know this movie is old, etc. But I was at least hoping for it to be an actual "Doctor Who" movie, and not a movie *called* Doctor Who that is only loosely based on a few ideas inspired from the show. If I had seen this back in 1965 my jaw would have hit the floor... unless I was 11 years old or younger, which seems to be the target audience.

To put this in perspective, if you thought the recent Star Trek "reboot" was bad, imagine changing Star Trek so that Spock is boy wizard (from Earth) who has magical powers of witchcraft. Chekov is a vampire that sparkles. Kirk is a robot built by Spock. Uhura is a precocious 8 year old girl who stows away on the Enterprise, which is actually a magical airplane that can travel to the moon, built by Chekov's confused Grandfather Mr. Vulcan. On the moon they all discover a lovable "Klingon" who's sad because he's lost his herd of Moon-bears. The crew of the enterprise then reunite the Klingon with his bears. The End.

I think this movie's only saving grace are the undisguised lava-lamps.


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The film is very disappointing. i remember disliking it as a child because of all the changes - the dr and susan not being aliens, barbara being his grandaughter etc. and the story is just a retelling of the first dalek adventure from the Tv series.

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It's my first exposure to Dr Who. Man this is a cheap effort!

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