Voyage to the Bottom of the AWESOME!

I was home sick yesterday and took advantage of some in-between-nap couch time to put another classic sci-fi notch in my belt w/ a viewing of 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'. Co-written, produced and directed by Irwin Allen (master of 'disaster' genre w/ films like 'Earthquake' and 'The Towering Inferno' AND the the man behind some of the coolest TV ever in 'Lost in Space', 'The Time Tunnel' and 'Land of the Giants'), this flick had a little bit of everything.

When I say everything, I mean it has meteors, sabotage, a minefield, a hostile submarine, a young/nubile Barbara Eden shimmying in the mess hall, a giant squid, a giant octopus, a near-mutiny, an atomic missile, a religious fanatic, a shark attack and even a chain smoking Peter Lorre! Throw in a theme song sung by Frankie Avalon, who also appears in the film and...whew, that's an action-packed hour and forty-six minutes.

Irwin also proves to be a bit of a cinematic Nostradamus, as the major plot line is centered around Meteors piercing the Van Allen radiation belt, causing it to catch fire and make the world's temperature rise alarmingly each day. Sounds familiar, except for the meteors and radiation belt. Granted, the vision of 'global warming' to the extent the sky actually catches fire and the proposed solution of blasting it away from the Earth w/ a missile presented in the film, is just a bit off mark.

Regardless, it was a really fun flick. While not as loopy as the previously reviewed 'Latitude Zero', it's still worth throwing it in your Netflix que for when there are no new releases ticking your fancy. Take a look for yourself ('YOU ARE THERE!')...