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.
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The review of this Movie prepared by David Loftus
