“12 to the Moon” is certainly not a very good sci-fi film, though with so many terrible sci-fi films made during this same era, at least it cannot be counted among them. Heck, at times the film almost is good…almost.

The film is about an international space flight to the moon with 12 astronauts from 9 different nations. Despite this, all of them sound pretty much like Americans…except for some of the astronauts from enemy nations–they are a bit like cartoon characters. It’s especially annoying when the Russian astronaut argues with the three Americans and talks about the joys of communism. It’s all a lot of Cold War hooey. Fortunately, this crappy dialog ends when they land on the moon. Unfortunately, the moon is inhabited by super- intelligent creatures that communicate to the crew telepathically and they warn them to get lost…which they promptly do. However, these nasty moon folk aren’t very nice and do all sorts of nasty things to prevent them from getting back and telling the rest of the human race about them. Ultimately, a really stupid plan is executed and the day is saved…or is it?

The biggest problem with the movie aren’t the silly sets but the dumb dialog…and the film too often sounds as if the film were rushed to completion. According to IMDb, that’s exactly what happened and the film was made in a paltry 8 days! Occasionally interesting…but not very.