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  • 1966
  • PG
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1966
  • PG
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Directed By: Richard Fleischer

Written By: Harry Kleiner, David Duncan, Otto Klement, Jerome Bixby

  • 1966
  • PG
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 1966
  • PG
  • Twentieth Century Fox
  • 1 h 40 m

Fantastic Voyage

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
72
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 14 User Ratings
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Summary A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Directed By: Richard Fleischer

Written By: Harry Kleiner, David Duncan, Otto Klement, Jerome Bixby

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From our current vantage point, the film's appeal has less to do with surrealism than nostalgia. It's a movie that potently evokes bygone attitudes and aesthetics -- a relic of the age of pre-digital effects, a product of both Cold War paranoia and midcentury techno-utopianism. [03 Jun 2007, p.E19]
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80
All I can tell you is it is quite a trip. Fortunately, all of the voyaging is done in the northern hemisphere.
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75
A film taut with cold-war tensions and cloak-and-dagger secrecy. [23 May 2004, p.8]
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75
Their voyage through the body's bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.
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75
This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
60
It isn't terrible, just disappointing.
By Pauline Kael FULL REVIEW
60
The effects may have dated, as have the Cold War themes, but the almost real time adventure still has some tension to offer.
By Ian Nathan FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Twentieth Century Fox
Release Date Aug 24, 1966
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating PG
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Tagline The screen's most fantastic voyage
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
American Cinema Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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