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Apparently, aliens are already on earth and are committing acts of
sabotage. And apparently, the aliens look just like us, which makes it
hard to spot them, right? So professor Daniel Wolf (Guillermo Murray)
suggests to have eccentric professor Walter (Mario Orea) to build a
rocketship to fly to the galaxy of Romania and fight the aliens on their
home turf. Professor Walter is killed though before he can oblige, but
somehow he has a rocketship built anyhow. Alien assassins though want to
get their hands on the blueprints of the rocketship, even though they have
clearly mastered the art of interplanetary travel. Daniel on the other
hand has no idea where the galaxy of Romania is, otherwise he'd fly there
right away ... so he figures he poses as a gambling scientist in desparate
need for money to baid the aliens - and soon enough, he has really
attracted the attention of Mara (Jacqueline Fellay), a pretty alien girl
who tries to charm the hell out of him ... but he uses her to get his
hands on an alien homing device, and then it's off to the galaxy of
Romania, together with cheating boxer Marcos (Rogelio Guerra) and his
manager (José Ángel Espinosa 'Ferrusquilla'), who have replaced the real
astronauts while on the run from their audience, and of course Daniel's
own girlfriend Silvia (Adriana Roel), who has joined the expedition
against his will. On the home planet of the aliens, our heroes meet
"the Guardian" (José Gálvez), an intergalactic dictator who
has set his sight on earth. Weirdly enough, he has a disintegrator gun
that could wipe all of humankind off our planet, a fleet of UFOs, and
plenty of spies on earth, but he still needs the blueprints of professor
Walter's rocketship ... which Daniel for some weird reason finds aboard
the rocketship, and not even well-hidden. Now Daniel pretends to sell the
fate of humankind for his own sake, but there are plenty of rebels on the
planet who look through his pretense, and they gang up with our
earthpeople to topple the tyrant ... but are all found out and
incarcerated - all but boxer Marcos, who has fallen in love with an alien
girl (Irma Lozano), and together the two manage to free their friends and
sabotage the Guardian's ultimate attack in the nick of time. And after the
Guardian is incarcerated, the planet's taken over by its rightful
benevolent ruler (Daniel Villaran), who promises everlasting peace with
earth ... There's plenty to like about this film in a
so-bad-it's-good way, including fun miniature effects, hilarious spaceship
interiors, and of course totally out of place ancient Greece-style
architecture on the alien planet - plus many irresistible pulp mainstays
driving the story throughout. And yet, Planetary Giants is a definitely
less than perfect piece of schlock, it's story is just too harmless, not
wild enough to keep the audience interested for too long, too far fetched
to really engage the viewers, and also not particularly well-paced. And
some plotholes are just too big to even be considered as amusing. Well,
not a total loss, there's still plenty to laugh at, but definitely less
than a trash gem.
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