You've never seen another film quite like Rehla ilal kamar (Journey to the Moon). The film starts out as a standard silly Ismael Yassin comedy, takes a trip into territory previously occupied by Cat-Women of the Moon, and then swerves into a bizarre tribute of sorts to Island of Lost Souls. There's dancing, romance, slapstick humor, and hideous mutants in this tale of three Earthlings sent to the moon, where they meet a 'mad' scientist, his beautiful daughters (not clear on this point, but the ladies must have come from somewhere), and the survivors of an atomic war who will help our protagonists return home. Completely wacky and thoroughly entertaining.
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Egyptian Sci-Fi?
henri sauvage19 December 2017
Since I don't speak Arabic, and the film wasn't subtitled, you'll have to excuse me if I may have missed some of the subtler points about "Journey to the Moon". Nonetheless, I believe I've caught the gist of the thing. It's basically a remake of "Cat Women of the Moon" featuring entirely too much of the antics of famous comedian Ismail Yassin.
This guy makes Jerry Lewis (when he was teamed with Dean Martin) look positively dignified, although it gives you some idea of how exponentially more annoying Lewis would have been if he'd delivered his lines in Arabic. And if his entire shtick were to consist of doing something idiotic and then blubbering interminably about it. It took only about ten minutes before I wanted to see this man-child offed, preferably painfully.
Otherwise, the film is standard stuff: Astronauts go to the Moon, where they find a bevy of stunning young women who -- judging from their costumes -- while away the lonely hours playing tennis. (All their men seem to have been killed or horribly maimed in some silly old war.) The romantic lead falls in love with one of the moon-ladies, there's some complications and a robot, and then everyone goes back to the Earth.
Of some slight interest, if your hobby is obscure sci-fi flicks.
This guy makes Jerry Lewis (when he was teamed with Dean Martin) look positively dignified, although it gives you some idea of how exponentially more annoying Lewis would have been if he'd delivered his lines in Arabic. And if his entire shtick were to consist of doing something idiotic and then blubbering interminably about it. It took only about ten minutes before I wanted to see this man-child offed, preferably painfully.
Otherwise, the film is standard stuff: Astronauts go to the Moon, where they find a bevy of stunning young women who -- judging from their costumes -- while away the lonely hours playing tennis. (All their men seem to have been killed or horribly maimed in some silly old war.) The romantic lead falls in love with one of the moon-ladies, there's some complications and a robot, and then everyone goes back to the Earth.
Of some slight interest, if your hobby is obscure sci-fi flicks.
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