Too Many Hissy-Fit Subplots

I like the film: the sets, the flying sub at the start, the doomsday story, some of the cast, the music score...but you said it: TOO MANY HISSY FITS.

This really does bring the film down, thankfully, a few years later, producer Irwin Allen would go back to the sea with Captain Nemo (1978)...no hissy fits in that one!

A lot of IA's stuff is characterized by adults acting like idiotic kids.

Watch the film version of VTTBOTS, IA's version of Lost World, Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, or even IA's masterpiece, Poseidon Adventure.

Silly, pointless chewing of scenery. But it's 'dramatic' and fills screen time.

The movie was not helped with everyone seem to be behaving as having their nose put of joint.

It's that man again!!

Should such people populate and operated the world's first city beneath the sea? Hmmm