“The photography, the dialogue, the acting, the script, the special effects and especially the props (such as a spaceship that looks like it would get a D in shop class) are all deliberately bad in the way that such films were bad when they were really being made. (…) The writer and director, Larry Blamire, who also plays the saner of the scientists, has the look so well mastered that if the movie had only been made in total ignorance 50 years ago, it might be recalled today as a classic...” (Roger Ebert, Sun Times)
“B-movie hommages are a dime a dozen, but the director's genre expertise sets this one far above the pack. Blamire's painstaking attention to detail is astonishing (…). Where other hands might simply tick off the various elements (stilted acting; redundant dialogue; constant redundancy; logical jumps; bad special effects), Blamire flirts with quality as he takes his ludicrous stereotypes and skilfully dovetails them with a simple structure that's as airtight as it is fluid. And the stop-start feeling that plagues more amateurish atomic-age spoofs is nowhere in evidence: the writer-director has plenty of tricks up his sleeve. Instead of just randomly shuffling the conventions, he's constantly goosing the action with embellishments.” (Travis Hoover, Filmfreakcentral.net)