Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

best movie i've ever seen.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Early series of Dr. Who are renowned for their cheap sets and dodgy special effects but you'd think they might have made a bit more of an effort for the character's first big screen outing; although other reviews on IMDb claim that the film features better production values, I just don't see it, the use of a few lava lamps as decoration and a rotating plywood computer qualifying as rather crap in my book. Plywood (or possibly chipboard) also seems to feature rather heavily in the construction of the Dalek's city (sprayed gold to look alien, of course) and the inside of the Tardis, while the film's larger studio sets are completely lacking in atmosphere.In addition to the crap set design (seriously… lava lamps?), the film suffers from an incredibly dull script (the plot dumbed down for a younger audience), a baffling performance from the usually reliable Cushing who portrays the Doctor as a doddery old git, Dalek's that use fire extinguishers as weapons, a pathetic race of peaceful aliens, the males of which wear make-up reminiscent of Boy George circa his clubbing days, and a very silly ending that sees the Daleks counting down from 100 before using their most devastating weapon, giving the good guys plenty of time to spoil their plans. The less said about Roy Castle as comedy relief, the better. I only hope that the follow-up movie, Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., lives up to my fond childhood memories.

As this film opens it quickly becomes apparent that this incarnation of the doctor is very different from the television version; he is not a Time Lord but an elderly, human inventor living with his niece Barbara and his granddaughter Susan and his name is Dr. Who; not The Doctor. When Susan's new boyfriend, Ian, visits he is shown the latest invention; TARDIS; a machine capable of transporting to any time or place. Ian accidentally activates the machine and they fine themselves on a strange alien world. It appears to be long dead but as they look around they find a city. They return to TARDIS but it doesn't work; Dr. Who explains that a part is broken so they will have to go to the city to find the mercury it needs to work. Here they run into the Daleks and learn that there was a war between the Daleks and the Thals which left the planet a radioactive wasteland; the Thals have found an antidote to the radiation but the Daleks can't leave the city and must live in special protective machines. They hope to use the doctor and his travelling companions to lure the remaining Thals into the city so they can eliminate them once and for all.It took a while to accept this version of Dr. Who as he is so different to the television version; Peter Cushing did a good job in the role and Roy Castle was fun as comedy relief Ian; of the girls young Roberta Tovey seemed to perform better as Susan although Jennie Linden's Barbara didn't really have much to work with in her underwritten roll. The opening scene made it clear that this would be fairly tongue in cheek when we see the two girls reading science books and the elderly doctor is reading The Eagle (a comic). In common with most sci-fi of its time there is no explanation as to why creatures on an alien world would be speaking English just as there is no surprise on the part of the characters when this happens. Taking advantage of the fact that the film is in colour, unlike the TV show at the time, the Daleks come in a wide variety of colours; they weren't a particularly formidable opponent once the final battle came unfortunately; all the heroes had to do was grab the and turn them to face each other and let them kill each other! The Thal where aliens of the 'almost human' variety with little charisma; this meant they weren't interesting characters. Overall I was a bit disappointed with this; possibly because I was expecting something closer to the television version; it wasn't bad though and a laughed a few more times than I'd expected.

In order for a Dr. Who fan to enjoy this, they must first come to terms with the fact that the Doctor is made a human with the surname of Who. He also invented the TARDIS himself. It's not that hard to ignore, as once they leave Earth, the plot is pretty much exactly what one should expect from Who. He travels into space with a number of companions and must help a peaceful race stop those damn pesky Daleks. Cushing gives a rather decent performance, being absent minded but clever at the same time. Roy Castle is overused as a mumbling fool. He falls over when doors open, sits on things, runs into walls etc. But at least he has a slight arc as he overcomes his fears and becomes heroic. Linden is more of an excuse to have Castle come along, as she doesn't do much. Perhaps two guys and a little girl travelling in space together would have seemed too weird to some. Some of the writing is a bit rough, as it basically just wants to hurry along. When meeting his granddaughter's new boyfriend the first thing Who does is show him the time machine. Good score, decent enough effects, result in a movie that doesn't betray its television roots. With some clever writing this could easily be placed into The Doctor's timeline, but as it stands it is some cheesy sci-fi fun.

PLOT OUTLINE: While demonstrating his latest invention, a time machine, to his granddaughter's boyfriend, Dr. Who accidentally activates the machine, causing them to teleport to a distant planet where they battle radiation sickness & the Daleks.This is the first of two feature films to have been made from the groundbreaking classic TV series DOCTOR WHO. The show, originally designed to teach Britain's young audiences about history, morphed into some kind of space opera, with its main cast travelling across time & space, encountering numerous aliens & monsters & defending Earth from countless evil schemes & invasions. There have been comparisons with the series STAR TREK, but what sets them apart is the fact that while Star Trek, while bigger-budgeted than Doctor Who, was nothing more than lightweight sci-fi that was a bit low on ideas (all it did was visit a new civilisation each week & change it so they turn out like Earth), Doctor Who was an incredibly sophisticated science fiction series that had some truly mind-blowing concepts (the TARDIS, an alien spaceship / time machine that could take on any form, but ultimately ending up looking like a police telephone booth, is without doubt the most iconic time-travel machine ever) & having some memorable creatures.Which brings us to the Daleks. Appearing in the show's second adventure, a seven-part serial written by Terry Nation, the Daleks were a race of mutants that live inside tank-like cyborg bodies & whose nefarious schemes involve taking over every planet in the galaxy (or at least they did from their second appearance onwards). Here, Nation uses the alien race as a metaphor for the Nazis, with the peaceful Thals a stand-in for the Jews (the Thals don't make any return appearances for the rest of the series, except for the prequel adventure Genesis of the Daleks in the early 1970s).While the original adventure was a low-budget masterpiece, Dr Who and the Daleks is nothing more than a dumbed-down sci-fi flick that has wasted a novel concept & turned it into a lightweight children's film (to be fair, the show itself was aimed at children but it also catered for the adults), with Nation's script re-written so that the anti-war paranoia that the story had was removed & replaced with a militant pro-war stance. As a result, the film negates any cleverness that the original story had.That said, the film, while not as good as the original story, does work somewhat as a kid's film. The production values are top-notch but ultimately lapse into being pointlessly flashy – the show had values that would make Ed Wood blush but compensated by having a script that was very intelligent – here the film is reduced to resembling one of Irwin Allen's TV shows (for the uninitiated, Irwin Allen was a producer who made shows that claimed to be sci-fi but which were so lacking in basic science that they ended up insulting the viewer – LOST IN SPACE was one example). Even with this in mind, the film does manage to entertain, with the Daleks looking fearsome, moving around their (poorly designed) metal city & squawking "EXTERMINATE" while firing lethal smoke at their victims.The acting is very mixed. Peter Cushing, who has made a career out of playing gentlemen scientists, is right at home here playing the titular hero (which has been changed from an alien exile to a human scientist). He makes a valiant effort to give life to the role but ultimately loses due to Subotsky's poorly written script. On the other side of the coin is Roy Castle, who is a real pain to watch – his clowning skills might make children laugh but it proves to be so irritating that his performance really drags the film down the gurgler. The supporting cast, most notably young Roberta Tovey, is passable.