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Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Robert Paige
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Abbott and Costello Go to Mars |
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Lester and Orville are simple-minded maintenance men who accidentally blast off in an experimental rocket. It doesn't go to Mars; first it goes to the bayou country near New Orleans, where the two morons debark in spacesuits and think they are on Mars because they find themselves in the middle of Mardi Gras (and pick up two escaped convict stowaways), and then it goes to Venus! That planet turns out to be populated by beautiful Amazonian women in gold lame bathing suit outfits with bare midriffs (played by gorgeous Mari Blanchard, more than half a dozen Miss Universe contestants, and Anita Ekberg -- fresh from her victory as Miss Sweden) who have gotten rid of men and discovered the secret of immortal life. Even these bums look good to some of the women, and Orville steals a few illicit kisses and briefly gets crowned king. This is a very stupid movie, where rocket ships and planet surfaces look straight off a pulp magazine cover (sets and props were borrowed from other recent films like "It Came From Outer Space" and "This Island Earth"), a rocket manned by morons can fly straight through the Lincoln Tunnel (TWICE!), a serious scientist calculates on a slide rule that the ship is headed to Venus instead of Mars, earthlocked scientists can watch the progress of the ship's entire voyage on a telescreen, and "Venusian balloons developed in our laboratory of cybernetics ... possess extrasensory perception" and explode the minute the man holding them thinks of a woman. In the right mood (or after ingesting some sense-altering substances), it might hit the spot now and then. (The Statue of Liberty ducking to avoid the rocket did it for me.) And the girls look great.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
**Fantasy or Science Fiction?**
- science fiction story
Explore/1st contact
Yes
Explore plotlet:
- exploring a wondrous planet or phenomenon
Parody movie?
Yes
Generally friendly 1st contact with aliens?
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- deluded
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Body type
- fat (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity
- White
Intelligence
- Ordinary Dumb
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
A substantial portion of this movie takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a futuristic society
- inhabited by friendly aliens
- empty, or nearly empty world
- very controlled society
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Planet outside our solar system?
Yes
Takes place in spaceship?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Tone of movie
- funny
Comedy or somewhat funny movie?
Yes
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Kinds of F/X
- exotic aliens
- exotic alien landscape
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