the original might have be great and a some people seem to suggest and but the american dubbed version look like it have be cut to ribbons the dialogue be risible represent they and and the others who be come and will form the crew . be an early example of english be horribly mangle to vaguely fit the mouth movement of the actor . the story ( a it survive ) be hardly original even in 1960 represent in 1985 a fragment of an extra terrestrial message be find in the gobi desert . somehow and ( there be an awful lot of unexplained somehow in this film ) this be connect with a suppose meteor that hit siberia 75 year before . lot of international scientist be give access to the world big computer ( and it be very big must be lot and lot of vacuum tube in there ) they manage to decipher some of the message but not all . we must renovate it . and cry one of the vaguely ethnic international scientist and we must soak it in a catalytic medium then subject it to radiation . very good idea and say another and not bother to ask why radiate a heat damage magnetic recording would do any good whatsoever . though i must remember that trick next time i accidentally erase one of my answer machine message . meanwhile and another scientist and who have big shiny hair and have work out that the trajectory of the alien ship mean it can only have be launch from venus . how . i mean how do he work that out 75 year after the event . find some 100 year old yak farmer who saw it crash and ask him which way it come from . a luck would have it the world league of super scientist have just finish build a pretty nifty look space ship that not only look like a stark lemon squeezer but have artificial gravity and a machine shop and a fully equip operate theatre . why and after go to all that effort and they do not manage shoehorn in a small kitchen somewhere be beyond me but if they have and the crew wouldn not have get to drink great science fiction chocolate flavour smoothy for the whole trip . wow . the future be so exciting . the crew and their cute robot and and ( gasp . ) a woman doctor . blast off for venus . suddenly there be an unexpected meteor shower do not these people ever see any crappy old sf film . there be always a sudden unexpected meteor shower . one of the crew go outside to fix something before they hit an even big slightly more expected meteor shower . he fix it ( apparently by let off a fire extinguisher in it general direction ) they swerve at the last moment and aren not doom any more . this whole sequence be deathly dull . one of the most boring unexpected meteor shower scene ever . after 45 day in space ( sick to the back teeth with chocolate smoothy ) and just three day away from venus they decipher the rest of the message which basically say all your base be belong to u mwahahahaha . eek . dilemma . go on . or go back and warn earth . they grimly go on . one of the crew go ahead to scout for a good landing site . he loose radio contact . he land . he get out to go for a walk and fall down a hole where he be attack by metal insect . ( note represent attack in this context mean a not very special effect guy up a stepladder bounce some totally non scary kid toy on thin elastic in front of the camera . ) his scout ship explodes . the big ship nearly land on top of him . everyone meet up . look and your ship explode because you park it on top of that buried power cable . it do not say anything about not park near power cable in the manual . who do i sue . they follow the power cable . it lead to a strange and ginormous glow ball . they follow it the other way . it lead to a strange and ginormous underground control centre place an entire planet to land on and they arrive at the venusian high command secret underground bunker . nice one . suddenly they be attack by a bezzillion ton of malevolent black porridge which chase them up a spiral ramp . trap at the top and one of them pull out his disintegrator ray and fire . the porridge run away but thing start happen . lighten flash . the strange and ginormous glow ball turn red and gravity start get strong . the spaceship can not take off . everyone rush back to the spaceship where they sit around and talk for age . the cute robot go berserk ( well and roll backwards and forward a bit ) and ( god know how ) manage somehow to seriously injure someone . the most asian member of the crew remember he catch a glimpse of a control panel down the bottom of a very deep hole back at the secret bunker and be convince he can reverse the process . he set off with the only black member of the crew and lower him down the very deep hole for some reason and before get a puncture in his space suit and die . suddenly ( again for no explained reason ) the whole process go into reverse . gravity reverse . energy be be convert into mass . now they be struggle to keep the ship on the ground . they fail . they be flung into space leave the black guy and and someone who go off to rescue him behind . they go home . sombrely they step from the ship and make little speech . big shiny haired scientist be reunite with someone who be cut out of the early part of the film . the lady doctor console someone else who be cut out of the early part of the film . i wonder who they be because we have see neither of them before . the original 130 minute version may well have be great but it 93 minute american version be just rubbish .