Anders Twetman What we have here, is an old Japanese movie about alien invaders, that has been (poorly) dubbed to English. This is an excellent premise for a so-bad-it's-funny movie, which indeed turned out to be the case.Prince of Space is a delightfully silly film about men in tight cloths (seemingly without underwear) and silly hats who land on earth with the purpose of obtaining some space ship fuel that we have on earth. The slightly less silly looking Prince of Space comes to our aid, skipping joyfully into battle. The plot is rather simplistic and boring at times, especially when it just concerns the people of earth (a bunch of Japanese with very American sounding names like Walley and Mickey). However, as soon as the Evil Phantom of Krankor and the Prince face off, it immediately becomes hilarious. The Phantom laughs like a cartoon villain, while the prince proclaims that the phantoms weapons can not harm him, poorly choreographed fight ensues, repeat.

monoceros4 I've seen the PRINCE OF SPACE MST3K episode many times and, every time I do, I hate those children more and more. They are more than just merely annoying whiners, like the kids in the Gamera movies (excepting the first one, where the child goes way past annoying into psychotic.) They are intolerably selfish, interfering, unappetizing little rugrats. The leader of the pack, Whatsisname, repeatedly insults Wally and calls him a coward ("nya nya nya you's too scared!"); of course this is supposed to be ironic, considering that Wally is really the hero, but instead it leaves you wondering why the Prince bothers to save the little snots who put him down all the time. Whatsisname demonstrates his own courage by screaming for the Prince's help every ten seconds and by preparing to summon the Prince (who gave Whatsisname Jimmy Olson's watch) just for the hell of it even though the spoiled brat himself admits there's no sign of trouble. (Yet.)Still, the movie is a hoot to watch, and perfect fodder for MST3K for that reason; the show's formula really works only for movies that are tolerably entertaining on their own. Compare the episode featuring the superficially simpler INVASION OF THE NEPTUNE MEN: the MST3K episode is dull and colorless because the movie is dull and colorless, a grey slog through wads of stock footage and padding. Mind you, PRINCE OF SPACE has its own form of padding: since every single goddamn human in the movie reacts to every situation with baffled interrogatives ("huh? what? what's that? what'd you say?") PRINCE OF SPACE gets to repeat a lot of its dialogue twice or even three times. This is especially bad in the little scene where a fighter pilot is sent to investigate the disappearance of a passenger jet: the last human words that the doomed pilot hears are approximately the following:"What's the matter? What's the matter? Can you read me? What's the matter? What's the matter? What? What do you say?"Poor guy.

mikelcat Extremely funny Japanese sci-fi circa 1950s with the usual bad dubbing and Japanese kids leading the way .The chief antagonist is one Phantom of Krankor , he and all his kind wear fake chicken beak noses and he laughs like and old Jewish guy with a cigar , he does this often .However there is the Prince of Space to save the kids , the earth and most importantly Japan .After all professor Makin has invented a new rocket fuel that is revoloutionary so therefore Japan must be saved .The Krankorians have devastating weapons that destroy everything except guns and helmets .Thankfully the Prince is also immune to there weapons , Thank God !!!!! Harmless fun but see on MSTK.

Diana (spoilers) "he has no powers, but he can skip reasonably well!" The hero of this crappy Japanese film is one of the most effeminate that I have ever seen. He skips, he prances, he laughs in a high, girlish voice; he wears a skin tight white leotard as part of his superhero costume, and what looks like the top half of an Arab woman's head dress. His evil nemesis, 'the Phantom of Krankor', wears gauzy ruffles and appears at all times to be trying to pick up a Dodgers game on the antennae in his helmet. The costumes in this movie are just amazingly bad. The 'knee goiters' all the bad guys sport, the fact that none of them appear to be wearing underwear, and the glittery numbers sewn onto the henchmen's chest(why Z1-7? Are they prototypes of some kind?) combine to make up what has to be the worst costuming efforts ever shown on screen. The space ships are really bad, too-from Krankor's TurkeyMobile to the Prince of Space's electric flying shaver, these are the least convincing models ever. The plot of this movie is almost incomprehensible, since someone who has achieved space flight most definitely wouldn't need to steal a human scientist's recipe for rocket fuel. The kids in the movie are really annoying little creeps, who you sincerely wish that Phantom had wiped out any of the times that he held them hostage. And the most annoying bit of all-the endless repetitions by the Prince of Space to Phantom and his henchmen about how their weapons won't work against him-to which they listen not at all. They continue to fire at him long after it would be obvious to the most brain dead moron in the world that it's a useless activity. If Phantom had stopped laughing for even five seconds, he might have figured that out and had his men sneak up on the Prince and stab him to death instead.