Dr. Who and the Daleks

The film version of the long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who doesn't stick to the established mythology of the show at all and goes its own way. This time the Doctor is not an eccentric alien, but a kindly grandfatherly inventor. The reworked widescreen version from studio Amicus is more family-friendly, but still manages to entertain with a decent dose of infantile fun with tongue-in-cheek humour and a wacky production design that plunges you into a childish world where all you have to do is pull a single lever in a time machine and you’ll find yourself in a world of blinking, pepper-mill-shaped robots that shout at you in metallic voices, “Exterminate! Exterminate!”. (04/22/2005)