Product Details

• Actors: Antonio Sabato, Yanti Somer, Malisa Longo, Patrizia Gori, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
• Directors: Alfonso Brescia
• Writers: Alfonso Brescia, Aldo Crudo, Giacomo Mazzocchi, Massimo Lo Jacono
• Producers: Doro Vlado Hreljanovic, Luigi Alessi
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Retro Media
• DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000714DG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #124,816 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "War of the Planets/War of the Robots" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 stars for bad quality, February 1, 2007

By	Michael Kramer (Menominee, Mi.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Every week, my son and I have "bad movie" night, and this particular night was spent watching, "War Of The Planets." It is unknown to me what the other reviewers were expecting when they bought and viewed this Italian "epic" but with the general tone of disappointment, I'd say they expected waaaay too much.
We sat there for the 90 minutes enjoying one of the worst movies ever made. Furthermore, we EXPECTED it to be bad and not the second coming of 2001: A Space Odyssey! Probably the funniest thing about this so-called movie is the fact that the makers of this film probably thought they had a hit on their hands, since it came out around the same time as Star Wars. Well, obviously this flick is terrible to the point of being rediculous and, not surprisingly ended up being a dud.
My adviced to you is simple: for one night, go ahead and pretend you're dumb, put in this dvd, and enjoy some of the best bad film making ever to hit no one's screen!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An embarrassment, even for Italian sci-fi, February 15, 2004

By	ACS (ARIZONA USA) - See all my reviews

WAR OF THE PLANETS (1977) John Richardson, Yanti Sommer, West Buchanan, Ely King. In this film by Alfonso Brescia (as "Al Bradley"), astronauts land on an alien planet and agree to help its humanoid inhabitants battle a super-computer that has taken over the planet. Even by 1977 standards, the sets, costumes and special effects look badly dated, the dialogue is often incomprehensible and the performances are uniformly languid. The theme of the film--that man shouldn't become too heavily dependent on machines--simply gets lost in the muck. The Italians were never that good at sci-fi to begin with, but this movie is truly an embarrassment.

One star out of five.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What's not to like?, November 11, 2005

By	Dan Dare (outer space) - See all my reviews

"badly dated" - Yes!

"dialogue is often incomprehensible" - Yes!

"and the performances are uniformly languid" - Yes! and No!...

(occasional manic jabbering - Yes!)
(occasional fighting with space zombies - Yes!)

Moreover: great spaceship sets and the great spaceship fashions which characterise Brescia and Bava's finest 70s spaceship nonsense. So these films are in fact wonderful. Unfortunately I've had two different copies of this particular box set, and neither of them would play on any of my machines, so I suspect that the factory/distributor messed up badly. Get these films, but get them elsewhere.