The Verdict: This film was shot in four days on a budget of $16,000 – there was never any hope. Apparently the budget was so low they couldn’t afford to make a robot costume, so the director got his friend in a gorilla suit and stuck a space helmet on him. As if the destroyer of the earth isn’t pathetic enough already – he seems to have an obsession with bubbles! All of his advanced technological things seem to spurt out bubbles...damn this guy is scary. So how does an evil earth invader spend his days? Walking, yep a lot of walking. Who knows why but he just seems to lumber around the canyon this was filmed in all the time – maybe he enjoys the scenery. Robot Monster has some very bad dialogue, they tend to try and explain their feelings quite a lot and make sure you always know what they are thinking – such as Ro-Man when he decides to kill a human character “I will kill you”. When this crapfest was released in cinemas it was in 3D (I think this may be the reason for the bubbles). Despite being released in 3D, they used stock effects footage of dinosaurs from other films which were in 2D (it must have looked even more out of place when watching in 3D). This dinosaur footage is actually used twice, near the start and end – it makes more sense near the end, but the first time it is used it is completely unexplained why we just saw dinosaurs fighting.

This is one of those films so inept you wonder whether anyone making it ever thought it had a chance of being good. You’ll have a great time watching what is perhaps the most incompetent earth invader you’ll ever see.

(4 and a 1/2 Craptastic Stars)


Golden Craptastic Moment: The final shot. It was clearly just there for the 3D effect in cinemas and just to make sure the audiences get their 3D fix they play the final shot 3 times in a row.