Forbidden Planet - 50th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1956] | ![Forbidden Planet - 50th Anniversary 2 Disc Special Edition [1956]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61YegTsBtOL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Fred Mcleod Wilcox
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: £23.49
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 11395
Format: Box Set, Pal, Special Edition
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Parental Guidance
Region: 2
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321900669122
ASIN: B000O3HFYM
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW + FACTORY SEALED ORIGINAL SPECIAL EDITION UK REGION 2 DVD SET EXACTLY AS PICTURED. POSTED *1ST CLASS* WITHIN 24 HOURS.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Ahead of its time in many, many ways, Forbidden Planet has been cemented in its role as a science fiction classic over the past few decades, to the point where its 50th birthday is being marked with this special DVD release. What's more, the iconic film has never looked better. The print of Forbidden Planet has been buffed up to a terrific standard, and while it's a cliché to report that it's never looked better, we challenge anyone to disagree. The film too is just as compelling. Set in the 23rd century, on a far and distant star Professor Morbius, his daughter and Robby the Robot are seemingly alone, until a space craft from Earth arrives. This sets events in motion that bring a real human core to a genre where such a factor, right to this day, is often lacking. But it's not just that which makes Forbidden Planet continually worthy of attention. The special effects, for instance, are astounding given the era in which the film was made, while the ideas and ambition that underpin the production are equally of merit. At heart, though, it was and is an utterly compelling movie, which has had a long and profound influence on the genre as a whole. This 50th anniversary edition also comes armed with extra features, notably several documentaries. But after all these years, it's still the film that's the star, and you simply wouldn't wager against it enduring for another 50 years after this. --Jon Foster
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No like gresham uk who have no imagination July 21, 2008
Unimagative people are sad. (UK)
Forbidden Planet is an icon of Sci Fi, for people who have never seen it should watch it. No blood no guts no sex scenes, honest good imaginative sci fi. People like Gresham UK should be banned from their comments that give the whole plot away of a superb film. He/she has no imagination and feels that they should tell everybody the plot. A very sad person, it is a sign of the times that even on TV adverts for films they insist on showing the best bits of a film, and parts from the beginning, middle and the very ending of a film. It then makes no point in seeing a film, just as Gresham UK has done with the ill conceived review that they posted.
Excellent special edition June 25, 2008
Ralf Bader (Germany)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The transfer and sound are just great, lots of special features, among them the - mostly laughable and weird, but sometimes thrilling and visionary - full-length feature "The Invisible Boy" by Herman Hoffman. One 50-minutes-documentary is worth pointing out: "Watch the Skies!: Science Fiction, the 1950s and Us", containing in-depth-commentaries by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron.
A movie of many levels May 10, 2008
Egor (Australia)
Though this movie is from our past it portrays two possible futures. The civilisation that explores or the civilisation that fails through its own folly. This is a great film, nostalgic because it was made when it seemed we were destined to become that exploring civilisation. If you have ever wondered why project SETI has been unsuccessful then think about Ankor Wat, the Mayans, Babylon and the Krell. The film "Solyent Green" now seems prophetic.
See the start of Star Trek and more April 8, 2008
Mr. R. S. Hutton Mckee (Scotland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the Epic that gave the look to Star trek, Creatures from the ID and Robby the Robot. The story is basically Shakespear's The Tempest. In it a space ship comes to investigate what happened to a science team but they find a single suvivor and his daughter, I won't go into it too closly as it will just seem like a Star Trek episode but what makes it better than Star Trek is the FX the attack by the creature from the ID is brilliant and Robby the robot is great, there is action, comedy, romance and a great writter (shakespear). The best Star trek story ever made that came over a decade before star trek????
The special features are great and the DVD looks brilliant. One for all Sci-fi Fans, Star trek fans, classics movie fans, animation fans if not everybody. If you don't have this DVD then you are missing out.
 now with an extra 50s frisson January 28, 2008
Michael Scuffil (Germany)
I saw this film at the Lido cinema West Ealing when I was 11 (it had a U cert). At the time I had not heard of The Tempest or Freud, and enjoyed the film as an adventure. Knowledge of Shakespeare and the Id adds substance to the film, which is in no sense lightweight. Of course we today get an extra dimension, for this is a VERY 50s movie, reflected in all sorts of curious ways. The crew are not only all male, for a start, they are also all white. The mad scientist makes a point of citing his marriage credentials (ceremony performed on board ship!) to justify his shacking up with a woman on a distant planet. The supposedly nude (What's a swimsuit?) Anne Francis climbs out of a swimming pool wearing not just a flesh-coloured swimsuit, but a pretty voluminous flesh-coloured dress -- something that amused even the 11-year-old me at the time. (Poor editing there, actually.)
There is also some good photography and the effects are legendary: the first arrival of the robot vehicle is surreal; the cavernous underground works of the Krell are awesome, and the monster is pretty scary.
It IS a period piece, for sure, but there's more to it.
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