hikethegizz This film gets some undeservedly bad reviews on this site. I don't know why; it holds up remarkably well even when compared with, say, 2001, which is considered a classic. The acting is uniformly excellent, the effects are terrific, the story moves along well, and the robots...well, okay, they lose some points for the robots, which are kinda silly looking. But hey, this is a Disney movie, and kids are supposed to be a good part of the audience. And there's nothing wrong with Roddy McDowell or Slim Pickens' voicing. It's just a little...hinky, I guess. But after "Silent Running" and Huey Louie and Dewey, or "Star Wars" and its droids, anything was going to look cheap.All that considered, there is still Maximillian. Maximillian the ominous, even frightening presence. And the drones, which are just WEIRD. And Reinhardt tries to turn Kate into a drone! Yvette Mimieux as Kate, and the villain is trying to HARM HER! I was so mad for Yvette Mimieux...how dare they! She is wonderful in her empath role which predates Deanna Troi by many, many years. Ernest Borgnine is wonderful as the slimy reporter, Robert Forster is appropriately commanding, and Anthony Perkins is wonderful in everything he does. And then there is the other Maximilian...Schell. A perfect mad scientist character! He and his robot henchman make a perfect team.What makes it all work though, I think. is John Barry's scoring. Wow! It's one of the few movie scores I felt was worth buying and it still works all these years later.Is it a great kid flick? Maybe not...some scenes are a bit intense. But older kids and young adults will love it, and just plain folk will eat it up. Sci-Fi snobs will find lots to fault, but if you just sit back and enjoy it, you can't help but have fun. Enjoy!

meren The toy line from this film was great as well. The Special effects were great. also Roddy McDowell as the voice of Vincent for some reason some of the toys were only available in Canada or Italy Such as S.T.A.R. and the Crew of the Ship. The film also had some Religious aspects to it. The Idea of Heaven and Hell. I remember seeing this Film when I was a kid at the Drive in. I watched it time and time again when it would be on TV. It has a Cult following, and a Very Strong Cast. Anthony Perkins, Robert Forester, Maximillian Schell, The relationship between Dr. Reinhardt and the Robot Maximillian is a very interesting one. People always call for Remakes of Movies I see no reason to remake this film. It stands the test of Time. I am one who is tired of all the Remakes. I don't mind that George Lucas went back and added a few things in the original Star Wars films and Remastered them. You don't remake classic films. Some can be better then the original in some ways. But to me most of the remakes are busts. Some Movies have been remade 2 or 3 times over, even more in some cases. Death Wish is being remade, the Beguiled, when the originals were so good to begin with starring Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood Respectively. This movie is highly under rated, if anything it deserves a Sequel. But its too late for that as key actors from the original have passed away. It was ahead of its time like so many other Sci Fi films from around that era before and after Star Wars a New Hope came out.

rudge49 ..and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea for special effects, cinematography, story, acting, dialog. Like those two it is an adventure movie, people who find themselves swept into something beyond their comprehension and like nothing they expected. Like the first two movies its ending is somewhat ambiguous, I still haven't figured out the end to 2001 and 20,000 Leagues ends with Vulcania going up in a mushroom shaped cloud and our heroes in a small boat in the vastness of the Pacific. IMHO the special effects hold up, I note the movie has a film noir feel to it, the blackness of space means so much of the action takes place in darkness or shadows and has a claustrophobic feel to it. Reinhardt is Captain Nemo in space-the two actors even resemble each other. Brilliant gifted men who have gone over the edge, think the rules of human conduct no longer apply to them, and have their obsession. Nemo had "that hated nation", Reinhardt the Black Hole, Nemo has his henchman the Mate, Reinhardt Maxximilian. And like Morbius in Forbidden Planet they have lived away from society so long that while they can still follow the form of civility you get the feeling they deeply resent intrusions into their private realms. The movies contains some of my favorite lines. When Harry Booth (Ernest Borgnine) is asked "Didn't you meet Dr. Reinhardt he replies "Collided with him is more like it !" And when Booth meets Reinhardt on the Cyngus, far from being awed by him he notes how Reinhardt conned the space agency into spending vast sums on what seemed to be a fiasco and a boondoggle.

crash21 I call "The Black Hole" Disney's best sci-fi movie so far, and it's rather sad for Disney, since the movie was made back in 1979. The movie has a good story, and some really good special effects, considering when it was made.The only thing I didn't really care for was The Black Hole's more friendly robot from the original ship. You could really tell that the robot had Disney's sweet effect.I also have to ask, since the group got through a black hole, had the black hole really been a wormhole the crew had experienced going through? Oh well, I can still watch this movie today and see it listed somewhere up in the classic sci-fi movies (like the original Star Wars trilogy).