Mars Needs Women (1967) (TV)

What Mars really needs is something more exciting than this!, 23 August 2007

The message coming from space is clear – Mars Needs Women! A genetic malfunction has lead to a shortage of Martian women capable of producing offspring. An exploratory force is sent to Earth to collect a few suitable specimens to be used in reproductive experiments on Mars. The Martian scheme is going as planned until the Martian leader named Dop begins to fall for an Earth woman. His infatuation with the woman puts the entire Martian plan in question.

Those crazy days of political incorrectness that were the 60s. It was a time when a movie about the abduction and rape of a group of women could be considered "family" entertainment. It was a time when a doctor specializing in space medicine was known first and foremost as a "stunning brunette". She even insists on calling herself a "pretty girl with a PhD". It certainly was a very different age.

For a movie that stars Tommy Kirk and Yvonne Craig, I was expecting something along the lines of an intergalactic beach movie. I expected something light-hearted and fun. Mars Needs Women couldn't be much further from fun if it tried. It's too serious for its own good. So instead of fun, the movie dishes up a heaping helping of boredom. The whole concept behind the movie is too silly to attempt to play it this straight. Everyone involved needed to lighten up. Had they done so, Mars Needs Women might not have been so terribly dull – and bad.

3/10