With the considerable budget of $1.1 million, a futuristic world of social and technological advances is enveloped in contemporary song- and-dance numbers. The story is simple and follows the familiar "boy meets girl, boy can't have girl, boy gets girl in the end" formula. Silly side-plot involves 1930 accident victim brought back to life in 1980 by pioneering scientists. Almost a century later, and decades after the "future" envisioned here, the entire production could be viewed as "camp" like the 1936 "Refer Madness" or similar completely discredited "careful-what-you- wish- for" public service documentaries. Seeing a love-struck young man sing about "a good old-fashioned girl" (just like Grandma) may have been the ideal back in 1930 (or 50 years before that), but in 2017 such musings are more likely to cause laugh riots.The efforts made with visual effect are impressive, as there has been little precedent. We may snicker to see that airplanes haven't changed much from 1930 to 1980, still operating with single propellers, yet be impressed by air dryers replacing hand-towels and bathroom sinks conveniently and automatically disappearing into the wall after use. The ideas were advanced beyond 1980, even if the designs were stuck in 1930.I enjoyed this film for it's novelty. True fans of the Science Fiction genre may want to skip this one, it's a curiosity, not much more. The acting is B-movie caliber, but the elaborate musical numbers are worthwhile. It's a mixed bag of jumbled goodies, probably something for most film buffs.

This movie is one of the most unique films of the early talkie era. It seems to cross the boundaries of every genre of film. A science-fiction-musical-romantic comedy for the ages. There are fantastic settings and ideas put forth in this. This film cost over one million dollars to make in 1930 dollars. Some of the humor is surprisingly frank for the time. Best line in the film comes when El Brendel meets first the queen of Mars and then her male second in command. After the latter flirts with him, El Brendel says: "She's not the queen, he is!" There are several musical numbers, most notably a strange modernistic dance on Mars with writhing dancing girls in the arms of a giant idol. Some of this footage along with the space ship used wound up in the "Flash Gordon" serials from Universal which came out a few years later. Once you've seen this amazing film, you won't forget it.

This is positively, without a trace of doubt, the most ridiculous bad movie I've ever seen! It's so bad it's physically painful to watch it! I got a copy only to see Marjorie White, and she only plays a secondary to Maureen O'Sullivan, but that's irrelevant. The storyline makes no sense whatsoever, scientists wake up a guy who's been dead 50 years, they don't explain why, Two guys & a stowaway flying a rocket to Mars, again no explanation why, when they arrive, they're greeted by a chorus line of dancing monkeys, COME ON!! They return in time for the lead guy to get married, but El Brendel brings back the Martian hulk to show in the courtroom they've been there, that's why they're late, then takes the guy down by pinching his ear, all live happily ever after.COME ON!! Even in 1930, with a 1930 mentality & view of the future, it's not 1980, it's still 1930. It's just plain STUPID! I read somewhere this film played 3 days at a theater in Milwaukee before shutting down, the movie patrons virtually all demanding their money back for this lousy, cheesy, silly dumb film! Even the few lines of alleged "comic relief" ("We're going to Mars"! "Take me with you, I'd love to meet your mother"!) El Brendel's pathetic imitation Swede isn't even Vaudeville funny, just lame & dumb! Forget this one, it can't even be classed as "so bad it's good", it doesn't even fit that category! Even Perky Marjorie White, with all her spunk, gets to play a silly, ditzy girl with no substance to her character at all. The people responsible for garbage like this had to go home at the end of the day to their family & neighbors, how could they possibly not be ashamed to show their faces in public? What a travesty to call this thing a "motion picture"! If there's a top 10 list, there should be a BOTTOM 100 list, this one would be -100!

I have to say, this movie was so bad that if Ed Wood saw it, it's no wonder that he thought he could make movies. Like 50 years later when Sylvester Stallone first put pen to paper, assuming he couldn't possibly write anything worse than "Easy Rider." I kept watching, since if Maureen O'Sullivan was in it, it couldn't be that dreadful.The hero was an offensive stereotypical Jewish man who spoke with a horrible dialect. The men and women on Mars were all born as twins, one good and one bad and one of the characters on Mars, a woman, spoke entirely in hyena-like laughter. It was.