4.7?


Is this even fair? I'm assuming most people rating this have only watched the butchered Mst3k version. Perhaps IMDb should create two different pages for foreign films that have been hacked up and dubbed. That would be more appropriate.

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I am sure adding more of the same goofy foreign arthouse nonsense back into this film will make it suck a whole lot less. The asymmetrical hair chin mole things will still be there, grossing me out.

Music was good. For 80's electronica from the commie side of the Iron Curtain.
Let's see who takes the bait.

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Well, I saw the complete version first back in the '80s when it was shown in two parts. IMDB says it was a total length of two hrs twenty-three minutes I am willing to believe each part was under an hour and a quarter, but they each felt like two hours or more. I have a shorter version now that runs a little under two hours and it still feels like nearer four. It does have value and it is only occasionally funny... The bit where the cosmonauts return the octopoid alien scientist to his home world by tipping him out of his tank into the ocean and waving bye-bye... I have to assume it was intended as a goofy scene.
The whole final act where our, now Star Trek like, cosmonauts heal the environment of the alien world that has been under the domination of capitalist exploiters who have been selling breathable air to the surviving populace... Feels like it was written with a hammer and delivered with a big, big trowel. (Perhaps a sickle was involved too.) - The first half is Earthbound and deals with an alien woman learning to understand human society. That feels like another film entirely and is not bad.
I appreciate the effort and I still like it but it is less impressive, overall, than most first season episodes of Star Trek TNG.

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