Fantastic Voyage
A Fantastic and Spectacular Voyage... Through the Human Body... Into the Brain.
1966 • 101 min • Science Fiction · Adventure
Synopsis
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
Our family guide
Best from age 8- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 67 Audience · 505 · 47%
A miniature submarine and its crew are injected into a dying scientist's body to perform life-saving surgery from within. They face dangerous biological obstacles and a race against time before they return to normal size. It's a thrilling journey through the human body.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Claustrophobic moments inside the body
- Some intense medical procedures
- A tense plot with a double-cross
What it models well
- Teamwork and cooperation
- Scientific discovery and ingenuity
- Sacrifice for the greater good
Talk about it after
- How does the human body protect itself from invaders?
- The importance of quick thinking in a crisis
- What does it mean to be a hero?
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Top billed cast
Director: Richard Fleischer • Crew: Otto Klement, Jerome Bixby, Harry Kleiner
Trailers & clips
TBT Trailer
Fantastic Voyage Wins Special Visual Effects: 1967 Oscars
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Fantastic Voyage Win Art Direction: 1967 Oscars
Reviewer notes
RecommendedBack in the days of three-channel telly in Britain, this was one of the regular sci-fi staples that I really quite enjoyed as I grew up. It features “Messala” himself - Stephen Boyd, only this time he is being placed into a submarine with “Cora” (Raquel Welch) and “Michaels” (Donald Pleasence) and then shrunk.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersI remember I really liked this movie when I was a teenager, along with the novel by Isaac Asimov that was based on the screenplay. (I never read the original story they based the screenplay on.) It was adventurous fun. I don’t recall if I was titillated by the presence on the cast of Raquel Welch, though they showed great restraint in having her covered up most of the time by the special submarine suit.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersCombined Miniature Deterrent Forces A medical and science crew board a submarine and are miniaturised and injected into an important foreign scientist's body. The mission is to remove a blood clot on his brain that was suffered during an assassination attempt. Once shrunk and in their new bodily world, the team must battle the body's defence systems as well as avoiding trouble with the major organs.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.7/10 (505)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5,115,000
- Box office
- $12,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0060397
