Just Imagine
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New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientis... (Full plot summary below)

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New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.

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EmanuelLevy.Com - 8/10 by Emanuel LevyVery esrly and strange sci-fi, and a musical at that, by director David Butler
rec.arts.movies.reviews - 4/10 by Mark R. LeeperMore of a curio of the science fiction film than a genuine entertainment experience. But visually it is very interesting
User Review - 10/10 by Jonathan SThis film is difficult to rate. It is a science fiction musical comedy. It is badly written. The acting is so so. The dialog is sappy. The music, except for one piece, is pretty bad. The special effects are okay. However it is an important film and the patina of age has given it a certain charm. The movie was made in 1930 imagining what the world would be like in 1980. The predicted future is a mildly dystopic one that no one questions. There are bits in this that seem to have inspired bits of Flash Gordon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars and Sleeper. I finally got this on DVD but it was obviously made from a well used print. It would be nice if 20th Century Fox would produce a restored version of this with sufficient extras to put it in its historical context. Either that or turn it over to Kino or Criterion. I think in its historical context this film is at least as important as Metropolis. (Edit) I watched it again recently. Between the last time I watched it and this time I watched some of Méliès' short films. I can see where some of this film may have been inspired by Méliès's work, particularly the fact that it has musical numbers in it. Though the Méliès films were silent many of them had dance numbers incorporated in them.Either that or the action was so well timed and choreographed that it seemed like dancing.
User Review - 10/10 by Sunny WMy favorite. A science fiction trip to mars in 1980 that is a musical! This is a must see absurd - trip if you can find a copy. Lovely, art deco sets. Futuristic guesses about the 80s ala 1930, including the hand dryer, the video phone, and the pill instead of dinner. And of course, everybody has their own airplane! Great pre-code fun.
User Review - 8/10 by Kevin M. WThe thing about sci-fi, predicting how technology will change our lives, hindsight being 20/20, is that it all looks so easy, like not so much of a thing, but its harder than it looks and here is a work in particular that proves that point exactly. A hackneyed convolution of cornball and greasy charm, they've literally thrown in everything and the kitchen sink in this look into the crystal ball. First they go back, 50 years back, before 1930, and are wistful about those halcyon days of yore. "Things were simpler then ..." Then we plunge into the future where all the architecture, interior design, and even the furniture is art deco (yeah, it looks old now, but when they made it, when it was hot, it was supposed to be "THE FUTURE!"). The government controls everything, folks have numbers instead of names and they eat little pills instead of real meals. Now there's a typical story here as well about boy gets girl, but it's of little importance beside the extravagances of speculation of what life will be like in the future. And its a musical too. Interesting about the film is not what they got wrong (and they do that easily 75% of the time) but what and how our grandparents, our great grandparents, and our great-great grandparents dreamed about what was to come. Some of the fantasies are wild and nutty, but most retain significant parts of the culture of their time, like they knew things were gonna change but kept their dreaming in a way they could still understand so that it didn't get far away from them. In one scene people blithely stand mere feet away from a rocket taking off. One central character is not only Jewish, but Jewish played for laffs no less (Woody Allen's Sleeper was only 43 years away), implying that in the future, in 50 years, racial hatred would be done away with (and this hope for the future only a couple of years away from the Holocaust) I loved this movie for that quality. On its own, its pretty hokey now, but at one time somebody saw this and was amazed at what the future could be like.
User Review - 8/10 by Louis PThe thing about sci-fi, predicting how technology will change our lives, hindsight being 20/20, is that it all looks so easy, like not so much of a thing, but its harder than it looks and here is a work in particular that proves that point exactly. A hackneyed convolution of cornball and greasy charm, they've literally thrown in everything and the kitchen sink in this look into the crystal ball. First they go back, 50 years back, before 1930, and are wistful about those halcyon days of yore. "Things were simpler then ..." Then we plunge into the future where all the architecture, interior design, and even the furniture is art deco (yeah, it looks old now, but when they made it, when it was hot, it was supposed to be "THE FUTURE!"). The government controls everything, folks have numbers instead of names and they eat little pills instead of real meals. Now there's a typical story here as well about boy gets girl, but it's of little importance beside the extravagances of speculation of what life will be like in the future. And its a musical too. Interesting about the film is not what they got wrong (and they do that easily 75% of the time) but what and how our grandparents, our great grandparents, and our great-great grandparents dreamed about what was to come. Some of the fantasies are wild and nutty, but most retain significant parts of the culture of their time, like they knew things were gonna change but kept their dreaming in a way they could still understand so that it didn't get far away from them. In one scene people blithely stand mere feet away from a rocket taking off. One central character is not only Jewish, but Jewish played for laffs no less (Woody Allen's Sleeper was only 43 years away), implying that in the future, in 50 years, racial hatred would be done away with (and this hope for the future only a couple of years away from the Holocaust) I loved this movie for that quality. On its own, its pretty hokey now, but at one time somebody saw this and was amazed at what the future could be like.
User Review - 6/10 by James HVery imaginative, but as it turned out, the filmmaker?s depiction of 1980 was quite inaccurate! Quite bizarre really. There aren?t too many classic sci-fi musicals out there! It?s certainly worth a look.
User Review - 6/10 by Joseph BTwo words to describe this film would be "camp" and "conservative." The SFX are excellent for 1930, the music is decent and the writing can either be solid or silly. The acting all belongs in a film set in 1930. The wardrobe is just contemporary wares made askew; they hardly tried. Of course, the film is also outdated. The film's poor view of women was archaic by the time of its release. Even though technology has advanced considerably, scientists have no sense of ethics, e.g. threatening to kill subjects for asking questions. As for stereotypes, Jews control [the aviation] business, the only job an Irishman can get is "street cop", and gays are sissy maries. A strange entry from early Hollywood.
User Review - 6/10 by Frederick vIf you're into the Orwellian futuristic concepts, you'll dig this movie. If you're into the history of film, you'll also dig this movie, for this is a perfect example of how filmmakers had a bit of a bumpy road transitioning from silent to sound. But aside from that, it's not very good. The acting, script and songs are 100% real corn, the best visuals taken from Fritz Lang and Georges Melies, and the production value mismanaged.
User Review - 4/10 by Craig CWhat "Just Imagine" lacked in acting and plot, it made up for in art direction. Three years after Metropolis, its art deco city scapes anticipate the Flash Gordon / Buck Rogers serials, while the Martian set resembles an Emerald City prototype for The Wizard of Oz and the dancing girls anticipate Busby Berkeley. The film's influence can be seen in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and the Chaotica episodes of Star Trek Voyager. For SF historians, a fascinating film.

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