Fantastic Voyage Movie Review

Starring: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence

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"A defected Eastern bloc scientist has been sent into a coma by a blood clot in his brain. In order to save him and the knowledge that only he has, a team of five (two doctors, a female assistant, a security officer/frogman, and the inventor/pilot of the sub) agree to be miniaturized along with an experimental nuclear-powered submarine and injected into the scientist's body in order to find the clot and dissolve it with a laser. There are several complications: Miniaturization wears off quickly after 60 minutes, and a member of the team may be a saboteur. This 1966 movie bridges the gap between cheesey 1950s scifi and the sophisticated Star Wars and Star Trek films to follow. Visual effects are decent (the film won Oscars for this and for art direction), and despite plenty of technical and physiological implausibilities, the script and acting are admirably low key, with a minimum of cheap histrionics."
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 70%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact Yes
Explore plotlet: - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomenon
Technology/$$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - cure/disease

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - govt employee
Age: - 20's-30's
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium straight
Body type - muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - scientist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 80%
Hair color - bald
Hair style - (man) bald
Sense of humor? - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Average Intelligence
Physical condition - average physique
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th Century (1950-1970)
Spaceship setting: - primative (present, near future) human spaceship
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Takes place in spaceship? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Any profanity? - None

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