Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.
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A brilliant film that helped define a genre
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
This film was a treat! There was lots of innovative features. Landing during Mardis Gras was brilliant where A & C believed it was Mars due to all the creative costumes taken to be Martians. I don't think they have such unusual outfits today.I don't understand other reviewers taking issue with them not actually going to Mars; they were headed there; they were going there; they thought they arrived there and the men left from there. The title was just a metaphor for going crazy.Onto Venus where low budget special effects made future aspects looked remarkably advanced even by today's standards. There were clever foreshadowing tributes to later science fiction classics. However the giant dog was uninspired.Having only women on the planet borrowed from the future "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus". I laughed out loud more often than their earlier classics in scenes such as when the Queen made the King sit on the truth throne and asked him questions.Has anyone else noticed how Derek Waters (Drunk History) looks like Costello?
Abbott & Costello play Lester & Orville, who somehow are on a top secret rocket-ship project. They accidentally launch it and wind up not going to Mars, but to Mardi Gras here on Earth(which they think is Mars). Two equally bumbling bank robbers named Mugsy & Harry force their way on board the ship, which does take off for outer space, though Venus, not Mars, which is inhabited by beautiful women who have banished the men, making these four guys both feared but welcome. Utterly inept and entirely unfunny farce is the team's worst; they look bored and indifferent the whole time, and there is no energy or point to this farrago at all. Just dreadful.
Not Abbott and Costello's very best but a funny enough one any way. Of course I don't see how the whole premise of two buffoons accidentally could happen in real life but this is not real life. When the two land near New Orleans during Mardi Gras they start seeing the people in the strange costumes that are typical for the time. They then belief they are on Mars. When two cons on the run show up and make them take off again they end up on Venus. Of course Venus has only women since all men were exiled. How they reproduced is not really covered, cloning? The men then show some of the Venusian girls what they have been missing. Not graphically but just some romantic by play.
this is another great bud Abbott and Lou Costello movie and because of all the same reasons it has great comedy in it it has good acting in it the actors in it are good it has a good story line to it everything in it is good. so i'm sure that you will not be disappointed with bud Abbott and Lou Costello go to mars. so make sure that you rent or buy bud Abbott and Lou Costello go to mars because it is really good. and i'm sure that you will have a good time watching it and you will watch it over and over again.overall score ******** out of ********** ***1/2 out of *****