2001 : a space odyssey review

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Value for Money	6.3/10
Overall rating	6.3/10

33% Recommended1 out of 3 Reviews

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By howardtuttleman on 25th Jun 2005

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Where Did You See It?	DVD
Value for money	1/10
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howardtuttleman's recommendation

Good Points

If you enjoy monkey antics, then you will really love the opening of the movie.

Bad Points

They were trying WAY too hard to be ahead of their time and it wasn't realistic AT ALL.

General Comments

Rented this one just to laugh at how moviemakers in the 50's and 60's thought the world was going to look in the year 2001. I figured we would see ridiculous flying cars, jet packs, meal in a pill, talking robots, etc. Then I figured I was gonna write a review here talking about how wrong they were (since the year 2001 has already happened and it was nothing like that)and recommend it just for a laugh. Here's how it really went. I popped it in the player and to my surprise it just looked like a fake documentary about monkeys with a couple of guys in really fake looking monkey costumes. Kind of like Planet of the Apes. 5 minutes in: Still monkeys (no narraration or anything either). 10 minutes in I asked myself "How are they going to stretch this out for a whole stupid movie?!" I will never know. Because when a monkey threw a bone up in the air so high that it went into space and morphed into a rocket-ship I was done with this garbage. Who on earth would predict the year 2001 would be like that!? I returned it shortly after that and rented Mortal Kombat 2 which was way more realistic with better fighting. In conclusion, you would be much better off renting a documentary about apes, or even Gorillas in the Mist, or maybe Planet of the Apes which this movie is trying to be. AVOID!! Later.

Total Respect: +1