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Planet Terror
- Review Date: October 26, 2007
- NR
- Genre: Horror
- 2007
Common Sense Media says
Rodriguez's gory zombie Grindhouse tale.
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that this tongue-in-cheek zombie gorefest celebrates and partially re-creates the brutal sex-and-action "exploitation" movies that played in bad-neighborhood theaters from the 1960s through the '80s. That means it luxuriates in blood-soaked violence and sexually suggestive sleaze and has loads of swearing, carnage, and erotica (though actual nudity is brief). It's a campy takeoff, but the humor is quite gruesome, not the goofy silliness found in Scary Movie-type parodies.
What's the story?
PLANET TERROR is set in Texas, where a group of military men under the command of Bruce Willis try to steal some kind of gas bio-weapon, which is released into the air. People all over town wind up infected and crowded into a hospital, where they mutate into pus-oozing, cannibalistic, zombie-like psychopaths, while a number of untainted civilians come to fore as the main characters -- chiefly a tow-truck driver named Wray (Freddy Rodriguez), who's actually some sort of legendary commando-gunfighter living under an alias; his foulmouthed, estranged lover Cherry (Rose McGowan); Dr. Bill Block (Josh Brolin), the hospital's nasty chief surgeon; and his medic-wife Dakota (Marley Shelton).
Is it any good?
Planet Terror originally visited theaters in a two-part concoction called Grindhouse that was an attempt by directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez to re-create a double-bill of the shabby exploitation movies of bygone days. Planet Terror is Rodriguez's contribution, a campy tribute to zombie-horror gorefests of the 1970s and early 1980s. Though shot digitally, Planet Terror re-creates the look of ultra-cheap, mismatched, faded film stock; emulsion scratches; bad splices; and missing footage.
Rodriguez puts his typical high energy into the exercise, as well as indulging in what makes grindhouse movies so fascinating to their adherents. Lots of people die in excruciating and tasteless fashion. Pets die. Children die. (In his DVD commentary, Rodriguez states that exploitation filmmakers would do anything to get a reaction from their audience, chucking out all sense of right and wrong in the process.)
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the movie's intentionally shocking material. Why would the ultra-violence and butchery of this film be considered entertaining? At what point do viewers become desensitized to this type of barrage of violence and gore? Is the excess meant to be funny? Do you think films like this one only appeal to a certain audience? Who is that audience, and why are they drawn to material like this? Are the vintage '60s and '70s exploitation movies that this one was inspired by still relevant today? How would you characterize the women in the movie? Are they victims or heroines? How does their sexuality work for and against them?
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Robert you cool-cat!
WE LOOOOOOOOOOVE THIS FILM!!! me and my 13 yearold watched it, and we are amazed on how good it is! i might show it to my ten yearold, but it does contain extremely, brutal, graphic, gross-out violence involving alot of blood spurting from wounds, hands breaking, decapitated heads, and guts!
not to much sex or nudity, there is a few really really brief nudity involving a fake trailer called machete where we some boobs and nipples for like 5 seconds! and another pair of boobs that if you blink you will miss them, so tell your children to blink when a go-go dancer is done dancing! Oh yea! and you see a girl dance sexually in the opening credits for kinda a long period of time (no nudity is show), there is also one scene when is a girl is about to get raped, but is saved! and a really short sex scene with no nudity!this is defenently a guy movie! but this film is a great zombie film! watch it with your buddies and your kids, but make sure to be next to them to tell them to close their eyes through some scenes. GREAT FILM!
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Planet Terror
Easily the funniest horror film ever made, Planet Terror is an absolutely crazy and entertaining ride. I totally disagree with CSM's review of this film...yes, there's a LOT of blood and gore to be found here, but it's all so incredibly over-the-top and silly that at a point it's not even gross anymore.
Undoubtedly not everyone will enjoy this zombie flick, but I loved it. I'd also highly recommend Death Proof, the other half of Grindhouse.
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One of goriest and worst movies I ever saw, just plain yuck.
I don't remember much of this movie, but the characters acted plain stupid, as if their brains had been eaten before the zombies had gotten to them, and it was such a bloody gore feast, that I could barely stand to look through most of it.
You won't be missing anything by avoiding this movie, in fact, its probably best that you don't even hint its existence.
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I remember seeing this as a double feature along with Death Proof in theaters and i remember it being probaly the best theater experinces i ever had! Out of the 2 films this one is deffintly the better one. As fake as it is, it's deffintly one of the goriest movies i've ever seen. There is loads of bloody violence including graphic shootings, muitalations (including one graphic one where a mans testicals are cut off and we later see what it looks like afterwords), stabbings etc etc. There is also some sexual content including nudity and a breif sex scene that isnt too graphic and is cut off half way through as a joke. There is some strong language too. There is also a fake trailer before the movie called Machete that shows some bloody violence and breif nudity in it. While you cant get the double feature on DVD you can watch it on some prenium movie channels on T.V. such as Starz and Encore and its also on Netflix. If you dont get either of those i deffintly reccomend checking this out if you like zombie or action horror movies. And if you do see it as a double feature do be prepared to see some more graphic violence and nudity in the 3 other fake trailers that play before Death Proof pertically in the funny but rather disturbing Thanksgiving trailer.
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For adults
It's good for older audiences. Stop commenting saying it's not for kids. Of course it's not, it's a zombie movie.
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Spectacular zombie flick is fine for teens
This movie is very very good, it has a good plot, awsome action, and an alstar cast, it has some issues though:
1. Lots of blood and guts, but it's sooooo fake that the only one who ould think it's real is an 8 year old, humans and zombies are shot, stabed, beheaded and more,
a boy shoots himself acidentily, peoples balls are cut off (off screen).
2. The opening credits are cherry doing a ver exotic and sugustive dance, brief nudity, a sex scene is inturuted by a missing reel.
3. F--k and S--t are utered as well as others, but not nearly as much as in "Death proof".
SO overall this is a fun action movie for teens.
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The BEST movie I have seen in ALL my Life! (Not Joking.)
This movie is clearly excellent. I really thought that Quentin was gonna make the better movie with "Planet Terror" but it was totally the opposite! I really would give "Planet Terror" 10 stars if there was. GREAT movie for mature teens and adults.
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Gore drenched spoof zombie horror with tongue in cheek deadpan humour.
Really gory movie however pretty funny but you must be sure that you can handle the level of gore in planet terror!
the sex scenes were ok but the gore was just too overrated :D
however if you like shaun of the dead or left 4 dead i think you will like this movie. I recommend that ppl below age of 16 dont watch this film
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cockass
i liked this movie a lot!! atleast it had the machette trailer.that was funny! i liked the movie because it was action packed and filled with blood.but it got me hungry seeing his ribs.they looked tasty! i thought it was weird that the mexican guy carries people balls. eewwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Studio: | Dimension |
| Director: | Robert Rodriguez |
| Cast: | Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Rose McGowan |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Run time: | 105 minutes |
| Theatrical release date: | May 31, 2007 |
| DVD release date: | October 16, 2007 |
| MPAA rating: | NR |
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