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14 out of 16 people found the following comment useful :-
Brings out the kid in me, 20 January 2004
Author: ubercommando from London
First saw it when I was 12 and it has a place in my heart still after all these years; unlike a lot of other movies I enjoyed as a kid but can't stand today like "Battle of the Bulge" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
Anyway, back to the movie. Today, it's the kitsch value that I really like, I mean, there's something incredibly cute and sexy about 60's women in futuristic garb. There is a conflict in the movie about the tone; is it a sci-fi thriller with action and danger, or a tongue in cheek effort (with Moonopoly even)? The effects are good in some areas and really poor in others; but apart from 2001 you can say that about most sci fi films of that era. It shares something else with 2001 that other more famous sci-fi movies don't and that's no sound in a vacuum. Full credit to the film makers that they paid attention to their science. In fact, the movie script has some basis in real science about conditions on the moon and in space (groovy sequence of a spacesuit puncture causing the crushing of a hired goon). So we have no noise in a vacuum, but do they give us just silence? No, they fill the soundtrack with what can be only described as the kind of music known as Porno-Jazz. No matter, I actually like that kind of stuff. C'mon everyone "Moooooooonnnnnn Zero Twooooo, let's all go to the Moon nowwwwwwwwwwwww, Mooooooooonnnnnnnn Zero Twoooooooooo".
10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
It May Not Be A Classic, But It's Fun!, 16 August 2003
Author: ClassixFan from USA
OK, I've read several reviews of this film in books, online and from sci-fi fans and usually the overall feeling of the film is split down the middle. I really enjoy this film, it has a very good cast; James Olson, Catherine Schell (Who would go on to star in the classic sci-fi series; Space: 1999), Adrienne Corri, Warren Mitchell, Michael Ripper (Hammer regular) and Sam Kydd, it had some great looking sets, a very capable director in Roy Ward Baker and the opening tune is one I can't get out of my head for days, after watching the film or listening to that track. Hailed as the first space-western, the film does it's best to combine a futuristic look with the ideals and wild ways of the old west. To sci-fi fans looking for something really serious and up on the technical feel of a straight-from-the-hip science fiction story, chances are you're going to be disappointed with the overall effort of the film, but if you like a film that can be serious at times and still poke fun at itself, then this is a film you're probably going to enjoy.....just don't go into viewing this in a serious mood! Have fun with it and relax.....the anti-gravity fight scene in the saloon is not to be missed!
11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Austin Powers set in space, 1 November 2003
Author: doctardis from New York, New York
I saw this movie once on TV years ago, and loved it. It has a good cast with sci-fi credentials like James Olson from the Andromeda Strain and Catherine Schell from Space:1999. It had a great over the top 1960's pop score. It was one of the first movies I saw that tried to turn space into a western except with women in miniskirts and everything in bright euro 60's colors. Olson plays a down and out astronaut who once was famous for commanding the first mission to mars. He and his Russian partner run a charter space ship business on the moon. Their space ship, moon zero two, is old and barely up to code. But Olson is an old hand on the moon. He accepts two jobs that turn out to be related. A beautiful woman from Earth wants him to find her brother who is missing from his mining claim. Second a rich bad guy with a plan to crash an asteroid into the moon. This movie more then anything else was fun with a great deal of style.
10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
Ignore the music, costumes and wigs and its not half bad., 15 October 2003
Author: Rob Taylor (Rob_Taylor) from London
This is not actually that bad a film, if you take away the stupid bits and ignore some of the wooden acting. But I'm afraid it hasn't stood the test of time that well, thanks largely to the awful music and costumes on show here. If you can ignore those, the story isn't too bad.
It's always interesting in these types of movies to do the "Hey! Isn't that...!" thing when the actors appear. Here we have Warren Mitchell as the bad guy.....who went on to play Alf Garnett in "Til Death do Us PArt" in the same year as this film, and for many years after. Also here is Catherine Schell, of Space 1999 fame. Of course the main star here, James Olsen, is probably more familiar from his roles in The Andromeda Strain a couple of years later, or the Arnie vehicle, Commando, some time later. Also present is that stalwart of Carry On movies, Bernard Bresslaw.
Of course, this movie has its bad points. The least of which is the music. It's just so 60's its almost criminal. Add to that, the PVC clothes which we all will apparently wear in the future, along with the garish, often lop-sided wigs (which must have been re-used in UFO, methinks) and you have a film which will always be dated to the time it was made.
Other bad points include the acting. I won't go into the many instances but at one point big Bernie Bresslaw (who plays a heavy) has to look bored and almost asleep during the plot exposition by the bad guy's scientist. He does this so well that you think he really is bored of the film, not the scene he's in.
The science isn't too bad for a film of this era. No one wandering about on the lunar surface without a helmet, for instance, or other foolishness.
But unfortunately, the costumes, wigs and music will always make this movie a bit of a chuckle. I suspect this was something of an experiment by Hammer, to see if they could break out of the horror genre. I don't know how well it went down at the time, but I guess it wasn't that well, as I can't recall any other Hammer sci-fi projects.
Anyway, a dated piece, but worth a look if there's nothing better on (or you just want to laugh at 60's fashions).
7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :-
Groovy SF/western from Hammer, 12 April 2001
Author: (jenkinsm@cch.com) from Chicago, Illinois
"Moon Zero Two" was the most expensive film ever produced by Hammer Studios and is one of the oddest they ever created: a psychedelic western set on the moon in 2021 complete with claim-jumping, gunfights, zero gravity bar fights, candy colored space suits and go-go dancers. SF fans will enjoy early appearances by James Olson ("The Andromeda Strain") and Catherine Schell ("Space 1999"). Also Hammer alumnae Warren Mitchell as the chief villain, Adrienne Corri as a cop (loved her boots), Bernard Bresslaw as a heavy and, of course, Michael Ripper scarfing up distilled rocket fuel at the saloon. The special effects are not that bad. Great '60s kitsch and fun if you don't take it seriously, "Austin Powers" fans may dig it.
When you see Eddie Murphy's upcoming "Pluto Nash" you'll be surprised just how many ideas were taken from this film.
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Loads of fun, sexy 60s outfits and hair styles, 11 July 2003
Author: roland-sinn from Sydney, Australia
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
I taped this film when I was still at school in 1990. I loved it then, and still haven't taped over it, though of course, the quality of the tape is degrading. The very day it comes out on DVD (please God) I'll be at my local outlet happy to pay full retail. Moon Zero Two has to contain some of the most Far-out-man!! Yeah-baby!! ladies fashion and hair sculptures of the late 60s. This point alone demands the film be brought back to life on DVD. The story itself is an adventurous romp (it doesn't try to be deep) and has been billed by many critics as being the first Space Western. What struck me the first time I saw MZ2, was the fact that all the actors appeared to really enjoy playing in this film. This is just one of many reasons why the film immediately endeared itself to me and continues to do so. As for the special effects?
POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD ...
Well, they're not too bad. There's a scene in a moon canyon where a moon buggy's driving along and it's obvious beyond reason the buggy's a Tonka Toy. But really, there's a lot of impressive attention to detail in this modest budget film. Some of the sets are truly fascinating.
Overall, I'm very surprised that this film has received such low ratings overall. MZ2 is a unique science fiction film which I believe would be included in serious sci-fi fans DVD collections (when it does come out on DVD, please God). The story is original (how many of todays sci-fi films can serious claim this??) and - I have to say it again - the ladies fashion and hair sculptures are so good they take on a life and personality of their own.
8 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
Curious space western which shows flashes of imagination, but is infuriatingly infantile most of the time., 19 January 2004
Author: Jonathon Dabell (barnaby.rudge@hotmail.co.uk) from Wakefield, England
1969 was a year for classic westerns, with such titles as True Grit, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and The Wild Bunch. It was also the year of the first space western. Moon Zero Two is a bizarre offering from Hammer studios, who evidently wanted to try out something a little different to their traditional horror fare. The film starts well with a genuinely likable cartoon credits sequence (a la Pink Panther), but then the real business actually starts and it's a downhill affair from there onwards. Classic western this most definitely ain't!
Kemp (James Olson) and Karminski (Ori Levy) are a couple of space pilots who eke out an existence by collecting floating space junk and ferrying passengers aboard their battered old space shuttle Moon Zero Two. In between jobs, they while away their time at the bar in Moon City (it's 2021, you see, and the moon has been extensively colonised). A wealthy businessman, J.J. Hubbard (Warren Mitchell), approaches the Moon Zero Two pilots asking them to help him to intercept and divert a geologically valuable asteroid so that it will crash land on the dark side of the moon. But is there more to his request than meets the eye?
What's most dismaying about Moon Zero Two is that occasionally it displays some genuinely ingenious flashes of imagination but does nothing with them. Just look at the crazy drinks served at the bar; the high-speed train from settlement to settlement; the inter-planetary space shuttle service; and even some of the interestingly designed costumes. Yet the film refuses to pursue any of these fascinating ideas. Instead, it is perfectly happy to plod along with its painfully conventional (not to mention juvenile) plot and dialogue, and its dismally inadequate special effects. There's something ultimately infuriating about the way that every intriguing idea in this film is counter-balanced by an equally predictable or banal one. In the end, Moon Zero Two emerges as a poor-to-mediocre affair, but it could've been oh so much more.
10 out of 15 people found the following comment useful :-
A Hammer SF Horror Movie?, 22 August 2003
Author: Michael Jacobs (michael@jacobsworld.com) from London, England
Yes, it's credited to Hammer, who gave us all those wonderfully poor horror movies made on a budget of three shillings tuppence happenny back in the 1960s. It's not meant to be Star Wars, and it isn't. But for its time (and we have to kind about such films) it's actually technically very accurate (no sound in space, etc.) and if you can ignore the kitsch design and costumes, it's actually quite good fun. I can imagine that the Moon of Moon Zero Two was a realistic and plausible view of human colonies on the Moon as seen from 1969, and why it might be a lot like the wild west. Every plot element of the film is lifted from cheap westerns, but it's a favourite of mine, perhaps because I was a child when I first saw it.
Just remember, it's actually more intelligent than many of the brainless (and plotless) movies which people seem to accept today without question!
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Western in outer space, 29 September 2003
Author: lorenellroy from United Kingdom
Moon Zero Two boasts a standard Western movie plot-a battle over mining rights -and simply transposes the story to the Moon .You can even see the main character ,Captain Kemp as a variation on the archetypal drifting cowboy,except that it is the deep range of space rather than the prairie that forms his environment. He is engaged by multi- billionaire J J Hubbard (Warren Mitchell )to bring back a rogue asteroid made from pure sapphire and land it on a remote part of the moon.He is also assisting the bewitching Clementine -fetchingly portrayed by Catherine Von Schell-to locate her brother who has gone missing on the moon .The plot strands are linked when it is revealed that he has been killed by Hubbard's minions as Hubbard needs the area of the claim to land the asteroid on.
The look and feel of the movie are very late 60's -bright colours;"dolly girl "hairdos and clothes for the women, and the "swinging" muzak like noise that passed for soundtrack music in the lesser movies of the day. The action scenes are awful-a bar room brawl is about the worst committed to celluloid ,and a shoot out with the bad guys on the abandoned mining site is stupendously lacking in excitement or pace. Add some poor acting in most of the roles --I except Warren Mitchell and Schell -and the result is tiresome and lacking in flair or pace
Treasure Hammer Movies for the horror movies they did and forgive them this misfire
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
A unique SiFi movie, 29 June 2002
Author: (bielatpj@aol.com) from Arlington Heights, Illinois, USA
The storyline was a realistic tale about mining on the moon. Why else would people go there and live long-term?
The things I look for in a SiFi movie are unique concepts not presented by other films. This movie is filled with unique concepts. My favorite part in this film is the bit where James Olson and Catherina Von Schell travel across the moon surface by bug (moon car) to investigate what happened at a remote mine. During the trip, cold from the dark, heat from the sun, and worry about loosing environmantal systems were realistic. Also other unique items included a moon city with periodic shuttle flights from Earth, moon bar with dancers for entertainment, quick trips into space in a lunner lander space ferry, gun fights in space, and ultimatelly attempting to fly an asteroid made of sapphire to the moon surface where it could be mined. In 1969 there was limited technology available to implement special effects and the technical details of this space western plot of May 9 2021. The calculator (box) was adding machine like, and ship controls were simplistic.
It would be interesting to see plot enhanced with new technology.
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