It pleases me when filmmakers use a feature's opening titles as a first port of call to the ensuing drama and not just as another bland detailing of relevant names.
FMitM has the former, and what follows is pretty good too, but then there's a dramatic tonal shift into comedic territory, like a British comedy movie of the era (at times even bordering on becoming Carry On Scientist). It's fair to say that it's not what one might expect from screenwriter
Nigel Kneale. The pseudo-science is forgivable but I feel the diving suits were a mistake.
Incidentally, the same
H.G. Well's story that was the basis for the adaptation is believed to have been a direct influence on
Georges Méliès' famous
Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902). Not everyone enjoys silent films from 100+ years ago, but
Méliès' film has an enchanting nature that
FMitM lacks.
2 liberated geese out of 5
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