Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

  • 92% of critics liked it
    (25 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (6,428 ratings)

Stephen Boyd heads a team of scientists sent on a bizarre experimental mission. Through a revolutionary and as-yet-untested process, the scientists and their special motorized vehicle are miniaturized, then injected into the blood stream of a near-death scientist (Jean del Val). Their mission is to… More

In Theaters
Aug 24, 1966 Wide
On DVD
Jun 4, 2007

Critic Reviews

  • , Variety

    The lavish production, boasting some brilliant special effects and superior creative efforts, is an entertaining, enlightening excursion through inner space -- the body of a man.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    This special effects extravaganza from 1966 has proved surprisingly enduring, despite a technical quality crude by contemporary standards; perhaps it's the screwball poetry of the plot.

  • , Time Out

    An opportunity missed, therefore -- especially as the imaginative sets are slightly tackily realised -- but fun all the same.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    All I can tell you is it is quite a trip.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Half planetarium, half lava lamp

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Sergio G


    Back in the 60's this probably was an amazing movie. A scifi classic. The story is original and I loved the initial credits. Unfortunately is out of date. The FX are good but everything seems too static to represent the inner space. However is a good scfi story with a semi-slow… More

  • AJ V


    I know a lot of people today think that the special effects in this movie were too silly or fake looking, but to me they were too realistic, they creeped me out. The story is interesting, but a bit slow and sometimes really boring. It's pretty good, though it could have been… More

  • El Hombre I


    An ideal way to spend a sunday afternoon on the couch. Fantastic Voyage falls right in between the earlier hokey sci-fi films of the 50's and the brainier sci-fi films of the 70's. Even to the point of two doctors debating creation being credited to a higher being or good… More

  • Cassandra M


    To enjoy this movie one must turn off their brain as soon as the theme tune of 20th Century Fox starts . The whole set up is very hard to swallow - A scientist who know the secret of miniaturization is injured by commie assassins and now lies in a coma due to a blood clot on the brain… More

  • Anthony L


    Classic adventure Sci/Fi from the 60's. Donald Pleasence rules!

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