Destroy All Planets (1968)

Stand by for rubber carnage! Any movie that starts with a spaceship that looks like it’s escaped from Willy Wonka’s private bee farm is ok by us. Especially when the interior seems to be made of various plastic shapes, hula hoops, lights and kaleidoscopes, like an evil alien old-school children’s TV set. There always was something a bit off about those presenters… Usefully, these lit up shapes set the scene for us, telling us why they’re heading to Earth, basically it’s a mission of conquest because they want our nitrogen, while we look at said planet through a space window. These kind of voice-overs really are useful for bypassing such bothersome things as acting or storytelling. Next thing you know, the ship’s being munched by Gammera. Gammera, for those of you who don’t know is a badass rubberised space turtle. He’s like all four ninja turtles rolled into one, bitten by a werewolf and then spun until he’s really really dizzy for good measure by the rockets coming out of h