Clevercell Very disappointing...

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

poe-48833 The surprisingly cerebral (and heretofore mostly unsung) sci-fi classic THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS posits some profound questions, offering plenty of food for thought. "Mankind is a state of mind." In THIS day and age, with Artificial Intelligence scratching at the door, that's something to ponder. "We're in a headlong race to disappearance," Cragis warns: "Exit Humanity..." Like MAGNUS, ROBOT FIGHTER (brilliantly rendered by Russ Manning), Cragis would try to stem the coming Tide. He sums up what he believes to be Man's greatest Distinction: "I can HATE. And I can KILL. I'm a Man." How's THAT for an Epitaph...? THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS goes much further than other movies of the period when the question of SEX is broached. As in Richard Corben's brilliant black and white take off on MAGNUS, titled MANGLE, ROBOT MANGLER, the Female of the Species seems more than satisfied with the Artificial Man... The sets are minimal but just as well-designed as those in teleshows like THE OUTER LIMITS and STAR TREK, and the music is eerie (and effective), indeed. This is Thinking Man's Science Fiction and not just another wannabe knockoff.

grafxman You got your humans and robotic humanoids. There is a faction of humans that hates the humanoids. They derisively refer to them as clickers. All you have to do is think of the clickers as black folk and those against them as racists. Once you get that mind set, this movie ROCKS! Think about the rule that one drop of Negro blood makes you black. Suddenly the game becomes who's black and who isn't. Add all that together and this futuristic cerebral SciFi flick becomes absolutely terrific and unique. Be sure to watch the very last few seconds. Beware though, your head may explode. ;-O) Unfortunately this is a cheapo flick but don't let that put you off watching it. It's a very worthwhile film.

Michael_Elliott Creation of the Humanoids, The (1962) BOMB (out of 4) There seems to be a lot of debate over whether this film is downright horrid or way ahead of its time. Needless to say but I'm one who thinks it is horrid. The movie takes place years after a nuclear bomb has gone off and pretty much destroyed civilization. One human (Don Megowan) wants all the robots killed after one of them kills a popular doctor but the robots feel that they have much more to offer in the world. Soon the two sides are discussing their options and what might be best for the future. To say this movie is talky would be an understatement but it should come as no shock that this was apparently one of Andy Warhol's favorite movies. This movie might have a good idea hiding somewhere behind the badness and there's no question that this movie would influence upcoming films about human-robots but that doesn't take away from the fact that this thing looks incredibly cheap, has horrible acting, bad directing and goes on way too long. It's funny that one would say a 75-minute goes on too long but that's pretty much the case here because we get one long dialogue sequence after another and nothing being said is the least bit interesting. We have the robots talking about why they're important. We have the humans talking about why the robots should be destroyed. We have the robots explaining that they worship the same God that humans do. This talk is pretty much the entire movie and it gets boring within the first five minutes. Megowan played the Gil Man in THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US and even the Gil Man would be embarrassed by the performance here. We also have Dudley Manlove from PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which is a classic compared to this thing. The robots look pretty cheap but the make up was done by Universal legend Jack Pierce and what a shame his talents were being used in movies like this. It seems this film has gathered a nice cult following over the years but the nice ideas behind some of the things in the movie isn't enough to make it good. You really can't overlook all the badness this film has to offer and especially how incredibly boring it all is.

junk-monkey What a peculiar, flawed little gem! Judged by any criterion this film shouldn't work at all. The script is insanely wordy and there is hardly action to speak of, for 75 minutes people just stand in a row across the screen and woodenly deliver screeds of expositional dialogue towards each other, often without any cuts or camera movements - sometimes, when there are cuts, the off screen dialogue is delivered by the other actor/s so straight and flat (almost as if they were just prompting) that it appears the editors either had no idea about sound editing or the director had given them nothing to edit together. The sets are minimal and flat, the costuming cheap, the score electronic 'Space Age' ooooeeeness seemingly unrelated to anything happening on screen.So far, so what? Sounds like every other cruddy 1950s / 60s lo no budget SF movie - it even starts with a montage of stock footage nuclear explosions. But what actually arrives on screen is an odd mix of genuinely novel SF ideas (I particularly liked the Human / Robot 'marriage' idea that sees one of the characters transferring aspects of her personality to a robot and then falling in love with the refection of herself) and a stream of philosophical ponderings and anti-prejudice messages that must have been mind-blowing to a teenage drive in audience of the time (if they had managed to stay awake long enough to see them). The plot has our central anti-hero character (an anti-hero in a cheap 60s SF movie in itself is a major oddity) is one of the leaders of a quasi-militaristic, group with growing influence over the police and government, dedicated to the preservation of MAN in a world where the already tiny population of a post holocaust Earth is declining due to radiation induced mutations and sterility. The group sees the ever more sophisticated Robots as a threat and agitates against them (think Brownshirts and Jews). Our 'hero' discovers a robot disguised as a human being and suspects a plot to replace real humans with replicas, then is told his sister is living openly with a robot she is in love with. He goes to visit her to put a stop to that sort of disgusting behaviour and meets a friend of hers. There is an immediate bond and the two fall in love - we discover (before they do) that both he and the girl are robot replacements implanted with false memories (this film was made in 1962, six years before Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published), and the final shots hold out hope that the human race will allow themselves to be resurrected, one by one, in near indestructible robot form and that robots will soon have the ability to reproduce much in the same was as humans do now... cue end title...It's all pretty woodenly done and some of the writing is dreadfully dull but there are more SF ideas thrown out, and assumptions made, in this movie than in any dozen other more mainstream SF movies of the period. The film is unsurprisingly (but amazingly) adapted from a novel by Jack Williamson (at the time - as now - it was rare for Hollywood SF movies to be based on existing works). The movies main problem is that it looks just like it. A novel filmed.Apparently this was one of Andy Wahol's favourite films. It'll stand another watching.