 "Harrison's Reports" called the film "weird but fascinating and exciting," with "highly imaginative" production.Philip K. Scheuer of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote that the film was "more than another science-fiction movie, with the emphasis on fiction; it is a genuinely thought-through concept of the future, and the production MGM has bestowed on it gives new breadth and dimension to that time-worn phrase, 'out of this world.