WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951) ** Good sci-fi concepts mixed with an abysmal grasp of science, with pseudo-religious connotations as an afterthought. It leaves you more than enough room to wonder, whilst the action is going elsewhere, "Wow, if the world was really going to end in five days...imagine the sales!" But I digress, where maybe the film should have. We've seen all of these concepts done better several times since, but this may be the first time that they were clustered together from the sci-fi coffee shop oral tradition. The metaphor about the worlds of individuals colliding at the same time as a star engulfs the earth should be worth at least a C for junior high students. String in a third metaphor about eros (and depict it, for the literately challenged), and you probably got a big budget remake. Entertaining enough for a Sunday afternoon, without being genuinely engaging; imaginative without being challenging; moderately charming olden-tyme effects. It's based on a novel so, you know, give some respect. Lots of coffee or whiskey probably went into this. I'm guessing coffee.
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