Drive In Sci-Fi: Voyage To The Prehistoric Planet (1965)

The year 2020 the moon has been colonized and they are sending people to Venus. they think that the physical conditions on venus are similar to earth. They send 3 spaceships, but one is destroyed by meteorite. They cant evade it even though they managed to colonize moon? The two other spaceships gets orders to orbit Venus till further notice. The crew decides to land anyway. The whole crew speaks like they are on downer drugs and the interesting choice of colors support this theory as well. Well it is a russian movie but dubbed for westerners, so that may explain the terrible dialogue acting. but it could be bad exposure as some scenes got a red-ish taint while others dont. They also got a robot that seems to be good at calculating landing but its also egoistic saying that at least one person should stay alive and its him. While landing they get permission to land from earth though so their goal is still official.
Upon landing they notice that it is prehistoric planet. they also seem to land on a body of water in there. They send in a help force to check out of the first group has survived the landing. They then explore the planet without leaving the ship. its realistic but it seems to drag a bit. they do however get outside eventually and if they had better dialogue it would have been fine Venus is earth desert on tilted camera with some smoke machines. yay. They go on collecting samples instead of searching for the missing crew. They also appear to find water.
As they get some contact on radar and they think its the missing ship they want to pack and start moving but they are attacked by a giant plant and one of them are almost eaten. well, actually all 3 of them almost get eaten as they run to rescue. at least this time it looks like the plant is really sucking them in. they take a photo of it and go back to the ship.
Meanwhile we see the original crew being attacked by what looks like some miniature t-rexes. they fend them off and fix thier robot and then just send it up front to distract them.
The rescue team assembles some car and fly it towards the lost crew, but they find a diplodocus on thier way and take its blood sample. best dialogue of the movie so far (while driving in rocky desert) "stop the car about here".
They also find that they have little oxygen left. because you dont take enough when you go to rescue right? They hear a sound that they compare to "girl singing". they then discuss that its a sound of human and want to find it. the rescue squad takes some breaks form searching to discuss whether they are in their right mind to explore the planet.
and as always the stupid lady on board decides to disobey instruction and land the whole spaceshuttle on venus to attempt to rescue both of the teams. meanwhile the robot helps the fist team out in moving forward while the second one is trapped underwater by a flying dinosaur and barely gets out alive. The second team is more determined to find the girl they hear singing than the first team. The volcano erupts and they use the robot to get away form lava but robot decides that they he needs to losoe weight and decides to throw them into lava. they manage to destroy the robots mechanisms before that and the second team shows up right at the same time.
as the team reunites it goes around joking and jerking around and then eventually go back to the spaceship of team 2. The last problem - they cant go back home because their spaceship landed somewhere they dont know due to the womans stupidity. but she manage to lift off again and they find thier way home.

Story: 5/10. well it had good basis, but poor execution.
Acting: 2/10. pretty bad acting from the russians this time.
Sound: 2/10. no better.
Sci factor: 8/10. they got this part pretty good. something that i see a bit tendency off in russian films of the era. they indeed seems to have been smarter than americans.
Lasting Appeal: 3/10. this is all.
Overall rating: 4/10.

Right after the American Civil War, a inventor gets a lot of scientists together in a large mansion to announce his new invention - power x and its ability to be used in rockets. his friends however are weapon inventors and want to profit from it by selling it to all earth countries. There is also a rival inventor, who believes that this power is insult to god, prays him for strength and wants to sabotage the thing. The two gets a duel of whether Power X penetrates the new armour. The way they handle it it seems a lot like the invention is atom bomb. It also blows up like an atom bomb, easily destroying the armour and half the mountain with it. Heck they even produce the thing in "plants".
The president calls him in and says not to shoot to the moon as other countries will consider it an act of war. yeah, what war if we are the only ones that have atom bomb. after he agrees people actually start to riot for him to shoot the rocket, or rather, to kill the guy.
but people move off and the rival gets called in to professors home. it turns out he find porcelain by accident, and they want to use a rocket covered in porcelain to reflect heat to fly people to the moon. there is use for Power X yay. in fact there were tries of using atom energy in various things. in rockets it did not succeed, in submarines it did. They build the rocket, name it Columbia, like we need another invader and slaughterer or locals right? The rivals daughter sneaks into the ship and goes off with them, and noone notices here come in even though they have armed guards in there. They even invent a tube to put conciousness away and sustain the launching shock. the aparatus works too, so its nice set. how about the girl that sneaked in though, she doesnt have such thin to save her during takeoff.
Soon they find out that their gyrostabilizer is not working as intended, and the old man starts preaching about ignorant god or something, theres a lot of noise. They find out about the sabotage and now as they stabilize they gyros gas starts leaking too. they notice the girl in costume, without conciousness. still alive though. The father gets really miserable as he just condemned his daughter to death. There is problem with engines too that they manage to take care of. the old man goes completely crazy by telling his daughter its going to be god that blows this thing up and that he is gods avenging hand. the girl also seems to be a bit nuts as she fantasizes of dieing like a star better than dieing in the bed at old age. a meteorite hits them as well. like they didnt ha enough trouble.
Eventually they somehow magically become close to earth again. This is not magic but bankruptcy. the original plan was they were to land on the moon, thats why the suits were there, but the company went bankrupt during the filming and they had to put this half-baked version to at least get their money back. How they got to earth is not interesting to them, what's more interesting is that all thier watches have stopped at the same time. They found out that the reactor they were overheating is actually overheating now. The crazy old man saves them by turning off the reactor and now they are drifting in space. woo. Appears the moon gravity has caught them and they are orbiting it now. so they decide to land on it, wait, werent they going back to earth? we see an overheating scene and they crashland the moon.

Story: 5/10. rushed. But its Jules Verne
Acting: 5/10. acting was better than usual.
Sound: 0/10. awful usage of sound.
Sci factor: 6/10. Bad times, bad costumes, but they got the explosion right.
Lasting Appeal: 3/10. no, its not good.
Overall rating: 4/10.