Perfect cast and a good story

Overrated

Fresh and Exciting

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The budget was about $1.99, probably spent mostly at garage sales.It's outrageously campy and just plain mindlessly fun. This is the stuff that drive-in "B-movie" classics are made of. The acting is at the utmost hammiest, the sets are in the director's back yard, the props (such as ray guns) are obviously from a toy-store, and the rubber costumes are probably from an "After-Halloween" clearance sale. Loved the '60's surf ballads, especially during the romantic motor scooter ride.Pick your favorite character: there's a lot of funny ones. My favs would include the 2nd-in-command alien guy (who has a white face and wears lipstick) that makes a pixie grin whenever he slowwwllyyyy a-nun-ci-ates lines like "The lucky ones are dead!" The princess femme fatale is comical too, as she drones on about how much she wants to slaughter Earthlings. Finally, the alien monster, even with a bobbing camera and low lighting trying to hide its cheap and phony appearance, still looks cheap and phony.A few aliens try to take over the world, using a space ship that looks like it's made out of tin with silver paint (in blast-off sequences, it looks suspiciously like Project Mercury newsreel footage). They capture a few models with big '60's hair, and try to take them back to space for (ready?) breeding stock. The Earthlings have a Frankenstein monster (formerly a pilot), and one comic scene leads to another until the hilarious monsters' fight scene. The alien guy's expression when he meets the kidnapped females is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.You've got to see this one to believe it.

The film involves a mission to Mars scheduled to be manned by a single crewmember, Capt. Frank Saunders. Like many a low-budget sci-fi film, NASA is run by two or three people at the most. In NASA's headquarters, which bears a striking resemblance to any given high school with a "John F. Kennedy Space Center" banner drapped over the entrance, Frank is unveiled in a press conference the day before the historic mission to no less than three, semi-attentive reporters. In the middle of the conference, Frank completely freezes, and is rushed off by two scientists. The reporters are curious, but quick thinking General Bowers offers them drinks, and their desire for a good story is outweighed by the urge to get some free booze.It turns out that our boy Frank is really a half-man robot (pronounced "robut" by his creator, Adam Steel), a sort of modern Frankenstein, if you will. Despite the fact that Frank has malfunctioned and become completely unresponsive two minutes into his unveiling at a press conference, he is sent out into space the next day as planned after some mild tweaking.Meanwhile, a malicious, insipid race of aliens is coming to Earth for a single purpose. It seems their planet has been destroyed by a nuclear holocaust, and these saps are the lone survivors. The aliens are led by, Princess Marcuzan (who, you would think would be queen now) and Dr. Nadir, who informs the crew: "We are extinct as a race, unless of course we can find some good breeding stock to repopulate the planet." Wow.The aliens mistake Frank's spaceship for an attack, and blow it up. Frank crashes somewhere in Puerto Rico, where he emerges damaged and begins to wander the countryside attacking random people. (Incidentally, Frank at no point resembles a classic Frankenstein or the guy on the cover of the DVD – he looks more like a bargain-basement version of Batman villain Two-Face than anything else.) The aliens also land in Puerto Rico, and start capturing girls that don't look Puerto Rican in the slightest.The film's idea of incorporating a Puerto Rican into the story comes when hero-scientist Adam Steel (love that name!) needs to make a phone call and struggles to communicate with a native. "Telephone?" Steel says, and the native is confused. Steel puts his hand to his ear in traditional phone-mime and says, "El telephono?" and the guy understands. Yikes. I'm one of the whitest white people alive and I'M offended.Fortunately for our evil alien friends, all the Earth girls are remarkably easy to capture, and beyond shrieking periodically they provide no resistance whatsoever. The first girl is caught while on a beach in a bikini, sees her boyfriend edited out of the movie before her eyes (I think it was implied that he was blown up via ray gun), and once on the ship is totally compliant and mute. She doesn't even get cheesy lines like, "Gee! Are you from outer space?" Instead, she just kind of stands there and does as she's told as the Princess and Dr. Nadir leer at her in creepy, exploitation movie fashion.It goes without saying that the aliens have themselves a monster locked up in a cage, which looks like a Mexican wrestler in an ornate costume.Naturally Steel and Karen find Frank in some isolated cave and calm him down a little, leading us to assume that his killing spree is over and he's somehow "good" again.Steel sends Karen off to get help, but she is nabbed by those pesky aliens and taken to their spaceship. Speaking of the spaceship, it's one of those cases where the exterior makes the ship appear no bigger than a one bedroom efficiency, but the interior seems to have endless room for cockpits, hallways, and holding cells. Then again, we're talking about Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster, so who am I to complain about such technicalities? The pulse-pounding chuckle-inducing conclusion sees Frank freeing the Earth girls and Karen, and fighting the spacemonster. This is where the title feels like false advertising, because Frank and the spacemonster do not meet, per se, as the title promises; they just start fighting. What a rip-off! One can only imagine the stimulating conversations these two might have, but instead they do some lackluster fighting that would have benefited from REAL Mexican wrestlers in those costumes. Frank finally gets a ray gun and starts firing randomly, until he blows up the whole idiotic alien race in what is intended to be a self-sacrificial moment.The special effects are pretty hideous even by B-movie standards. I know they had no budget, but the spaceship in flight appears to resemble a Christmas ornament leaking gas. The director intersplices stock footage of the military liberally, which only makes his sets and actors look all the more fake. To really put things in perspective, Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster was released in 1965. Four years later, Stanley Kubrick's epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was made, with special effects that hold up better than the "state of the art" digital effects in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.This cheap, exploitative schlockfest actually tries to deliver an anti-nuclear war message, a la a genuinely excellent science fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951). Sadly, such attempts are thwarted by the fact it is a dim-witted movie titled Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster. If you are a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan (like me), or if you enjoyed Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space (like me), you need to see this movie. For the rest of you: Stay very, very far away.–Daniel J. Roos (film.ispwn.com)

As you can tell by my summary, this isn't among the finest films ever seen! However, I just couldn't give it a score of 1 because there are just so many terrible films that are even more terrible than FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACEMONSTER. In fact, the worst thing about this silly film is probably the title--as there is no Frankenstein in the film at all!! Of course, the over-use of grainy and pointless stock military footage didn't do a lot to make this a film worth seeing, nor did the horrid makeup on the alien men.These horny men have extremely cheesy makeup (complete with bald wigs with obvious seams and ears made of cardboard) but at least they are smarter than the usual aliens in films. They have come to Earth to steal pretty women for use as sex slaves since the only woman they seem to have left is their leader, Marilyn Hanold (who was the Playboy Playmate of the Year in 1959). Plus, this is a much better use of people than the usual anal probing, so as I said, these aliens aren't so dumb (just dumb looking).At about the same time these aliens land in Puerto Rico (yes, I did say 'Puerto Rico'), NASA sent a rocket to Mars that was piloted by a super-realistic looking robot (who the press and the rest of the world think is a real man). When the aliens make this ship crash, the astronaut is still functional but his face is severely burned--hence the name 'Frankenstein'--though he in no way acts like the monster and looks less like Franky but more like a cheesy actor with glop dumped on half his face. In the end, the cybernetic astronaut and a monster that the aliens have brought aboard their ship have a big fist fight and everything ends happily ever after for the Earth.By the way, there are a few things to look for in this film. First, the amazing acting ability of most of the women kidnapped by the horny aliens. Most of these ladies do great imitations of pieces of lint, though they have less charisma or acting talent. Second, the crappy alien spaceship (you've got to see it to believe it) is about 20 times bigger inside than outside! I guess it's like a Tardis (from "Dr. Who") or maybe it's just due to lousy production values (I'll let you decide). Third, while most everyone in this film were no-name actors, Jame Karen was in one of the leading roles. While his is not a household name, he has a face most will immediately recognize from other films and television--so apparently this terrible film didn't ruin his career!! Fourth, for anyone who is a fan of Disney World, extensive clips from this film are shown to patrons while they eat at the Disney-MGM park's restaurant, Sci-Fi Dine-In. So it's a bad film, but one not so bad that it will ruin your appetite or induce vomiting!

(Some Spoilers) Updated and modernized version of Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" where the monster is a NASA constructed astronaut named Frank Saunders,Robert Reilly.Frank is slated to be the first "Man" to both travel and land on Mars but things get a bit haywire for him when his rocket is shot down by an alien craft outside the earth's atmosphere. The alien craft contains the last remnants of the Martian civilization that was destroyed in an atomic war. The captain of the craft is Princess Marcuzan, Marilyn Hanold, who's the only surviving woman of the Martain race. With her is the cue-ball headed and giggling Doctor Nadir, Lou Cutell, who's the mastermind in the Princess' plan to kidnap scores of sexy shapely and child-bearing earth women and use them, with the help of the surviving Martians males, to replenish the dying Martian race.Crash landing in Puerto Rico Frank is attacked by a number of Martian spacemen trying to take him captive. Escaping from the Martians with the left side of his head blown away Frank mindlessly roams the Puerto Rican beaches and countryside trying to get help only to scare to death anyone he runs into. Meanwhile the Martians are quickly grabbing, on the beaches and from tourist hotel swimming pools, dozens of sexy and bikini clad young women to take back home for breeding purposes.It when Frank's creator NASA engineer Dr. Adam Steele, and Frank's human girlfriend also a Nasa employee Karen Grant, Nancy Marshall, track down the confused and frightened brain damaged astronaut that they set him straight. It's then when Dr. Steele reconnects Franks damaged electoral circuit's, that he finally get his act and head together.The highlight of the movie is when Frank in his attempt to save the kidnapped young women is confronted, as a last resort by the Martians, by the space monster a hairy looking creature with what looks like crab or lobster claws. The fight between Frank and the space monster goes on unabated as the women, that includes Karen, make their escape from the spaceship. Grabbing a ray gun from one of the Martian crew members Frank breaks into the captains quarters and finishes off both Princess Marcuzan and Doctor Nadir who are desperately trying to get back to the safety of their home planet Mars. In the end Frank like selfless and brave hero that he is gives up his life by blowing the Martian spacecraft to pieces and thus prevent another Martian invasion of earth in the not so distance future.This is the first and only movie that I can remember where the Frankenstein Monster, Captain Frank Saunders, was actually shown in a positive light where he ends up saving lives instead of taking them. Frank, before he got his head almost blown off, was unlike in the previous Frankenstein movies a fairly good looking guy not the tall nut bolted Golem that were used to seeing since he made his inaugural appearance back in 1931. It's just too bad that in "Frankenstein meets the Spacemonster" like in all the other "Frankenstein" movies the big guy had to be killed off at the conclusion of the film. It would have been a far better ending if he, after getting his damaged head fixed, would have ended up marrying Karen, thus she becoming the Bride of Frank or Frankenstein, and live happily ever after.