Fantastic Voyage (1966)

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80	Variety Fantastic Voyage is just that. The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space - the body of a man.
80	The New York Times Bosley Crowther All I can tell you is it is quite a trip. Fortunately, all of the voyaging is done in the northern hemisphere.
80	Los Angeles Times From our current vantage point, the film's appeal has less to do with surrealism than nostalgia. It's a movie that potently evokes bygone attitudes and aesthetics -- a relic of the age of pre-digital effects, a product of both Cold War paranoia and midcentury techno-utopianism. [03 Jun 2007, p.E19]
75	Chicago Reader Dave Kehr This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards.
75	TV Guide Magazine Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.
75	Orlando Sentinel A film taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy. [23 May 2004, p.8]
70	Time Out Very nearly a corking sci-fi lark.
60	Empire Ian Nathan The effects may have dated, as have the Cold War themes, but the almost real time adventure still has some tension to offer.
60	The New Yorker Pauline Kael It isn't terrible, just disappointing.

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