Movies
Forbidden Planet
Habitually overpraised science-fiction classic, whose Freudian pretensions hope for intellectual stature on the basis of Walter Pidgeon's professorial windiness in expounding them. Robbie the Robot, with his rotating gizmos and flashing lights, may be ingratiating as robots go; and the amorphous transparent id is exciting; but the others in the cast are about as animated as tulips. Their frequent arrangement in straight rows across the Cinemascope screen underlines the similarity. With Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen; directed by Fred M. Wilcox. 1956.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: G
