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Mighty Peking Manx$2.98
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Sure to drive you wild, here's one of the funniest, most hysterically campy movies ever made: MIGHTY PEKING MAN! A powerful earthquake awakens a giant, apelike creature who descends from the mountains into the treacherous jungles of India. Later, an expedition of greedy showmen capture the fearsome beast, bringing him ... and the scantily clad blonde bombshell he protects ... back to civilization! But payback comes when the Mighty Peking Man breaks loose and begins to run amok in the heart of the city! An outrageous adventure that never takes itself too seriously -- treat yourself to a guilty pleasure that has entertained critics and late-night movie audiences everywhere!
What makes Mighty Peking Man such a trashy delight? It's not just the absurdly obvious special effects and atrocious dubbing--those are the easy laughs--it's the over-the-top romantic and dramatic moments that really push this movie into camp heaven. When a gigantic ape-man destroys a village in a remote jungle, a fiendish promoter decides to capture this prehistoric creature and put him on display. He hires Johnny (Danny Lee, who resembles current Canto-pop superstar Andy Lau), a heartbroken adventurer, to hunt Peking Man down. Hardly five minutes go by without some life-threatening danger; in just the first half-hour there's an earthquake, a tiger attack, and a fatal mountain-climbing accident, and that's in addition to the rampaging man-ape and bottle-blond jungle queen Samantha (the lovely Evelyne Kraft), who occasionally falls out of her already skimpy jungle attire. It seems that Samantha survived a plane crash that killed her parents and was kept alive by Peking Man--though where she finds her mascara is never explained. After falling in love with Johnny, she helps him bring Peking Man back to civilization. By the time Peking Man is unleashing devastation on downtown Hong Kong, the movie has reached a giddy delirium that defies all logic. Part soap opera, part monster madness, Mighty Peking Man is completely entertaining. --Bret Fetzer
MPN: D18285D - UPC: 717951004758
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So atrocious its an instant classic      By A2D5BGCNBZVN93 on 2001-08-04
Mighty Peking Man is literally a Hong Kong rip off of Dino DeLaurentis' own 76' remake of King Kong, making it a rip off of a rip off! It actually steals entire scenes from the movie! But who cares! The Sheena-like jungle girl is Playboy material HOT! And she is in danger the entire movie of losing her skimpy top! The Peking Man costume is bad, but certainly no worse than the multimillion dollar 40 foot tall Kong used in the 76' remake for all of 4 seconds, and the Peking man costume was made at a fraction of the cost. The fake helicopters and tanks, buildings, ect are no worse than anything in a Toho Godzilla flick. And the movie has a cheesy/sleazy 70's groove to it if you can dig, man. Worth the price of the DVD is the scene where "Sheena" and Johnny are falling in love in slow motion to a horrible "Mellow Gold" love song. If you though "Plan 9 from Outer Space" was the worst film ever, or the best of the "So bad they're great" watch the Peking Man with a bunch of intoxicated friends, and you will not be disappointed!
A CAMP-TRASH CLASSIC!      By A1JKDKGYUG0MVH on 2000-08-15
As a fan of schlocky, "so bad they're good" films, I have seen quite a few that simply amaze with their ineptness, from classics such as "Plan 9" and "Robot Monster" to more recent howlers such as "Lake Placid". However, nothing - and I mean nothing - could have prepared me fully for the experience of finally seeing "Mighty Peking Man". This film is an absolute camp-trash GOLDMINE; a cinematic abomination so astonishingly bad that it defies rational explanation. It literally must be seen to be believed! This is not a criticism, however; but rather an endorsement: "Mighty Peking Man" is punishingly hilarious; an unintentional laugh-riot of lame acting, atrocious dubbing, and inarguably the worst - the WORST - optical effects I have ever witnessed in a professional (and that's stretching the word to its outer limits) motion picture. The movie goes so far over the top that it borders on the psychedelic; indeed, copious amounts of mind-altering substances are probably required to get the full "Peking Man" experience. The film's grade-Z pleasures are too numerous to list, but would certainly start with Peking Man himself: a moth-eaten, googly-eyed, rubber-mouthed gorilla suit, from all appearances rented from a local costume shop and about as convincing. Then there's Evelyne Kraft, the "heroine", who, despite living in the wild jungle for 20 years, sports a perfect 1970's-era Farrah Fawcett layered hairdo, mascara, and a seemingly endless supply of lip gloss. Throw in a romance between Kraft and "Johnny", the hero (complete with a wretchedly awful - and brutally funny - slow motion "running through the fields" sequence as they "fall in love", while all the while the out-of-tune orchestra warbles on) and the oblogitory final battle between Peking Man and woefully obvious model helicopters (the strings supporting them fully visible) and you have the stuff of which cult midnight-movie dreams are made. Kudos to Quentin Tarantino for resurrecting this trashy gem, in widescreen no less! For those of you out there who relish so-unbelievably-bad-they're-cool films, put "Showgirls" on hold and give this one a go; you won't regret it. Now, Quentin, how about a reissue of "KISS meets the Phantom of the Park"?
a Hong Kong-style Kaiju movie      By A2JZ2MVZA172D3 on 2004-02-26
When I bought this movie, I was surprised to see that this was actually a Shaw Brothers movie produced by the legendary, Runme Shaw. The Shaw Brothers produced some of the greatest martial art flicks of all time such as "Chinese Super Ninja," "5 Deadly Venoms," "The Crippled Avengers," etc. So I repeat, I was very surprised to see them fund a movie about a giant monster. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what kind of movie this really is. You could really just say this is a very bad rip-off of "King Kong." And it's a really bizarre movie to say the least. But since it features a giant monster, I'll grade it as a giant monster movie. As a giant monster flick, I can't give this movie a good grade, because the Monster scenes are very bad compared to a Toho film like "Godzilla." Yes, the monster scenes are hilarious, but if I were to compare the monster scenes to any other monster flick, this would probably be the worst of the lot. I'm going to say this primarily because of the filming techniques - and yes, I'm well-aware that Toho movies aren't exactly perfect examples of movie-making, but they do set the standard of movie-making when it comes to giant monsters. The biggest problems with the monster scenes is that the camera is constantly cutting back-and-forth at incredible speeds to show a single action. In a "Godzilla" movie, a lot of action is filmed without cutting to a new angle: for example, if Godzilla were to crush a building, the camera would show the Big G swinging into the edifice and crushing it all in a single take. But in "The Mighty Peking Man," the camera would first show the Peking Man's face, then cut to his arms going in the air, then cut to a new angle of the building, then cut back to show Peking Man crashing into the building. All of the cutting seems to be a little disorienting and detracts from the monster scene's impact. Another problem is that there are many scenes where human characters are looking at Peking Man, but the method used to show the humans and monster together is very bad. It looks like they're screaming at a t.v projection. FYI - The monster action featured here consists of Monster-Human Bonding, Monster Vs. Military, and of course, Monster Trashing City. Now for the Human Scenes - there is so much fun stuff happening here! You've got your horrible editing, horrendous voice-actors, over-acting galore, exploitation camera shots of Samantha, and other bizarre situations that totally defy all logic...you just have to see this movie to believe it! Let me just say that I really like the dubbing - very typical Shaw stuff here. My favourite part of the dubbing is when a character has a lot to say. It seems as if he takes one long breath, then spews out 2-3 lines without pausing between sentences. For example, Johnny is talking to his brother on the phone, and this is what the brother says: "You sound great right now I'm recording a t.v show listen it'll take another hour why don't you come right now." (notice there are no pauses in there) Oh, and about that monster... The title monster (Peking Man) is a giant ape who is infatuated with a bodacious blonde in animal skin, Samantha. It's funny that they call him the "Peking Man" since the real Peking Man (of the REAL world) probably looked more like a human than an ape, and he was probably around 5ft tall. In this movie, the Peking Man is an straight-out ape showing no physical similarities to a modern-day human (except that it stands upright like the 'Homo Erectus' should), and well, it's several stories tall. I'm no anthropologist, but I definitely know that this is no Peking Man! But he's certainly great fun! And as for that costume, it's probably worse than the King Kong suit worn in "King Kong vs. Godzilla" which makes things even more fun whenever the apeman makes an appearance. In any case, here are some hilarious situations that I remembered from the movie: SITUATION 1 While the Peking Man is trashing a village, the local militia start pelting the monster with a plethora of rocks. The Peking Man stands there for a minute or so getting hit by rocks, but soon enough, he decides to retaliate by picking up an incredibly huge boulder and flinging it towards the villagers. (yeah, they should've saw that coming) SITUATION 2 When the expeditionary team is paving its way through the jungle, a bengal tiger bites the leg off of one of the native escorts. As the native is crying in agony, the Chinese man in charge mysteriously shoots the man in the head just before they can administer aid. When Johnny questions him about it, the guy replies that he simply ended the native's suffering. He also mutters something about saving the medicine until they really need it (I suppose death wasn't a real emergency). SITUATION 3 This isn't really a situation, but a whole series of them. Ok, Samantha is a blonde bombshell, and she looks great! The director obviously exploited this to full-effect throughout the movie. During the movie, you'll see many shots of her rear, a nipple, and even a scene where this dude pours wine down her chest. And throughout the movie, Samantha sports her animal-skin attire which is very flattering for her figure. Overall, this wasn't a great monster movie due to the weak Monster Scenes. But don't get me wrong, I was totally entertained - just not in a Godzilla-kinda way. And that's why this movie doesn't get topmarks. But do yourself a favor, and watch this movie - you'll have a great time! MISCELLANEOUS INFO - Some of the instrumental music they play is recycled from previous Shaw movies (such as "Chinese Super Ninja").
mighty peking man      By A3C5GK1ZBIGPH3 on 2000-07-18
This is the big one. It's fun, romance, and adventure. Plus a great monster-in-the-city fick! It's so cheezy, it'll warm your heart, or clog it up! Requires many viewings. Add this to your collection. It may only have the depth of a moonbeam; but this is what to watch when Bergman, Kubrick or even Polanski can't satisfy the evening.
HYSTERICAL      By A3RB00R6GOWEK2 on 2000-06-25
Finally, a "Bad" movie that lives up to all it's hype! This is one absolutely hysterical trash epic that every cult movie fan needs to see. From the opening moments to the ridiculous finale, there are tons of laughs to be had in this Hong Kong "King Kong" rip-off --- the effects are atrocious, the melodrama is way over the top, the dialog is hilarious, the acting is terrible --- and it all comes together into one great package of stupidity! This is one truly godawful piece of junk that delivers the goods. Originally released in the 70's as "Goliathon", "Mighty Peking Man" is a true treasure trove of dumbness. Thank you Tarantino for resurrecting it! The DVD looks great --- the film is in panavison and includes the trailer (for the recent re-issue only). If you enjoy bad movies, this one is a hoot! Move over Godzilla!
- No love like this
     By AU6A4MAAI9WZ on 2008-10-24
I find the high-budget King Kong versions lack the "charm" or "love" of this D-grade counterpart, which is why I won't even own Peter Jackson's visual overkill (has no heart). To appreciate this one, you need to have a grasp of the heightened sense of drama, a caricature of its other lavish counterparts. Makes no sense that our hero Johnnie gets his heart broken when he catches his brother sleeping with his fiancee and then flies to India on a whim to find the Mighty Peking Man. Just like that. Like an extreme soap opera. But if you go with it, it makes a lot of sense. It's like the filmmakers are saying, "This is what comprises a hit movie." So with that formula, they also have the gorgeous Evelyn Kraft as Samantha the jungle girl. Apparently, in modern American pop culture, ANY blonde woman is considered beautiful, which is utter nonsense. Which is why it's rare to have this gorgeous blonde represent beauty. Major gripe for me though is that in the Hong Kong trailer (found on Youtube), there is nudity, but this Quentin Tarantino version is trimmed of it, down to a PG-13. Why didn't Quint just release it unrated, makes it more "underground"? Anyway, would have appreciated Evelyn Kraft's delights, but the movie's pretty fun either way.
- bombdest movie ever
     By A1AZV3EYPCBS0A on 2007-08-04
this junk was sooooo poorly made that it's become one of the greatest comedies ever. scenes are reapeated, obvious minitures were used, scences were done in reverse. im tired of typing now.
- Mighty Entertaining!
     By A81EVHPRUFUB3 on 2006-05-03
If you are reviewing this film with a critical mind you are wasting your time and that of your reader. "The Mighty Peking Man" is pure Daikaiju (Giant Monster) fun from start to finish. If you see a "man in a suit" as many do, that's another obvious reason to avoid this film. Of course it's cheap and not as expensive as American films but it has some great moments worth mentioning. Many people tend to lump all Daikaiju films together because they don't get the concept so I can't read those reviews either. These are the same people that see Animae as being cartoons. Need I say more. Gamera & Godzilla are not in the same category as this film....next lesson.
You know the plot from ALL of the other reviews. Giant Ape and jungle girl meet with disaster in modern civilization. Twenty minutes into this film and you can see why The Shaw Brothers were brilliant Grindhouse film makers. It's no wonder Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures got it released. Many reviewers fail to see the connection between modern day cinematic homages to low budget films like this one. There was a style of producing/editing despite the obvious cheapness that makes this a pleasure to view.
Dramatic orchestra scores and funky soulful disco ballads collide with some nice sets and priceless dialog that you will not find in modern movies. I don't care what the Shaw Brothers intended, it's brilliant parody and fun to watch.
Don't be critical and miss the point. Compare this to APE being sold alongside this film. APE is SO BAD it's surrealistic. Who knows where the film producers were going with that movie. Call me crazy but this movie is a guilty pleasure and far more fun than most of modern Hollywood's CGI effect films. It's more fun than the seventies American remake of King Kong too.
Buy it, rent it, love it, it is what it is....entertaining and not to be reviewed as a landmark cinema classic, but rather a look back into the day when when we could go with our familys to drive-ins and not 20 unit stadium seating Cineplexes of doom! We watch these old movies because they remind of happy times...he said turning 40 in a month!
- an interesting king kong ripoff
     By A380A4DT9OAM8L on 2006-03-24
after dino de laurentiies scored reasonably well with his remake of king kong in 1976 (still overall box office returns of more than 50 mio. us dollar in north america only) it prompted the shaw brothers to produce a 'chinese' version of the story. what is interesting here is to compare the special effects and the way of acting with the japanese toho produced godzilla movies that we are much more used to. certainly the japanese producer tomuyiki tanaka had a lot more experience in making those films, so in comparison, the mighty peking man does not stand up well. on a passionate view, in the end neither the ape, nor the girl actually make it.
if you do travel to hong kong frequently, you will be amused to see how much this city has changed over the last 3 decades. overall an amusing time killer for 90 minutes.
As for the dvd itselve, sound and picture quality are average only. there are a few specials but nothing really exciting. recommended for collectors and real 'monster buffs'
- Horrible...but in a good way
     By AIF7NJD830P0R on 2006-02-18
A blatant King Kong ripoff, down to the giant ape climbing atop the highest building in Hong Kong.
The best part, though, has to be the cheesy 70s music and the scene in which Johnny and Samantha skip during the jungle, all under the watchful eye of the Mighty Peking Man. Priceless. And how did Samantha manage to get that clasp on her bra without ever leaving the jungle??
- "Everybody on Earth will pay to see it!"
     By A25ZVI6RH1KA5L on 2004-04-16
The Mighty Peking Man (1977), aka Colossus of the Congo, aka Goliathon has to be one of the worst Chinese giant ape run amok in the big city films I've ever seen...okay, it's the only one I've ever seen, but still...back in the mid 90's, after great successes at the box office, Quentin Tarantino founded Rolling Thunders Pictures, with the notion of bringing to light rare and independent films that might not have gotten the attention they deserved within the American public, highlighting on exploitation films. Mighty Peking Man was one of a handful of releases before Rolling Thunder closed shop in 1997.So what about the movie? Okay, here it goes...the film starts off in Hong Kong, and shows some Chinese guys talking over a newspaper reporting on a giant footprint found in the Himalayas. They seem awful excited, as they have dreams of fame, fortune, and pennywhistles dancing in their heads if they could ever capture the creature that made this footprint, and bring it back to Hong Kong. Cutting to what I am assuming is some sort of flashback, we see a primitive jungle village (okay, a cheesy looking miniature of a primitive jungle village), all peaceful and calm, suddenly torn apart by a violent earthquake. The quake not only shakes up the villagers and such, but awakens Mighty Peking Man, who happened to be sleeping, or frozen into, a nearby mountainside. He proceeds to trash the village, and we get to see a whole lot of crummy blue screen work as natives run to and fro, shrieking and getting squashed by flying debris, as they're oft to do...after cutting back to the Chinese men, they decide to mount an expedition to capture the monster, and enlist the aid of Johnny, another Chinese man, one who agrees readily to lead them as he just had a falling out with his girlfriend, told through a tedious and particularly nauseating flashback later in the film, and is willing to risk life and limb just to get out of town. As the men travel to where they think the Mighty Peking Man might be, they encounter all kinds of jungle dangers, stuck carts in shallow rivers, stampeding herds of elephants (yeah, keep shooting that .38 revolver at them, I am sure that will do the trick), man hungry leopards, quicksand, and precarious cliffs. Just to give you an idea how `professional' this expedition actually is, the men scale the particularly steep cliff using a grappling hook. Needless to say, various pack-bearing natives are lost through all these encounters. After finding some giant footy prints, they decide to follow them, and then set up camp. During the night, the remaining members decide to leave, all the bad stuff that has happened up until this point has them discouraged, I guess, so they sneak out and leave Johnny, who awakes the next morning to find himself alone. While wandering around, looking for the rest of his party, he gets scooped up by Mighty Peking Man (Johnny seems painfully disconnected to his surroundings, or Mighty Peking Man is awful stealthy, given that he's like 60 some feet tall) and also meets a blonde jungle girl named Samantha, who seems to have control over Mighty Peking Man, along with many other jungle creatures. The Johnny and the jungle girl, who is sporting barely there animal skins, develop a relationship, and Johnny convinces her to get Mighty Peking Man to take them to civilization. This sets up for one of the men, the greedy capitalist and leader of the group who was on the expedition originally, to make Johnny adhere to the deal and Mighty Peking Man is soon chained on the forward deck of a steamship. On arriving at Hong Kong, Mighty Peking Man is put on display at what appears to be a monster truck rally, and Samantha is beginning to regret her decision about leaving the jungle. Oh yeah, she continues to run around in her skimpy animal skins. The evil capitalist exploits Mighty Peking Man in rather cruel fashion, and even attacks the blonde in a lusty manner (yuck) which cause Mighty Peking Man to go insane in the membrane, breaking free of his chains and cage and run amok in Hong Kong, which seems rather scarcely populated...maybe it's the off season. He smashes empty buildings and stomps on cars filled with jet fuel, based on the explosive reaction after said cars get stomped on...he also squishes a number of fleeing pedestrians, in less than realistic fashion. This sets up the final climatic fight scene with Mighty Peking Man on top of a tall building, battling helicopters (I know I've seen this somewhere before), and his eventual flaming, crashing, demise (big surprise). I really loved how the authorities dealt with the creature, and how little regard they had for the surrounding public they were trying to protect. Yeah, The Mighty Peking Man is an obvious rip-off of King Kong (1933) and Mighty Joe Young (1949), one that lacks even the most basic shred of likeability of those two films. The monkey suit looks about as good as costumes donned in a Toho Godzilla release. The dubbing is exceptional bad throughout the film, and the miniatures are all that great, either. The extra poor treatment of Mighty Peking Man by his captors, beating his feet with bamboo sticks and such, meant to make us feel sorry for him, was so obviously blatant as all it did was illuminated the stupidity of the makers of this film, and their incredibly lame efforts to try and garner emotion from the audience. Given the unresponsive nature of the man in the rubber monkey suit, this was certainly a difficult task The wide screen print does look pretty good, and special features include a theatrical trailer for The Mighty Peking Man along with trailers for Switchblade Sisters (1975) and From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000). Cookieman108
- KING KONG meets SHEENA
     By A2O6KLIFWEKL51 on 2004-05-06
I'm honestly not sure whether to give this film one star because it's so poorly made or five stars just for it's sheer entertainment value. So I'm settling on four. Here's the story: Hong Kong explorer Johnney is depressed ever since he found his girlfriend in bed with his brother. (If this happened today, they'd go on Jerry Springer.) He is hired by a rich tycoon to go to a jungle and find a giant ape-god. Johnney goes to the jungle with some aides and soon after arriving they are beset upon by all sorts of perils. I know jungles aren't normally regarded as the safest of places, but this one seems especially dangerous. The extras get killed off left and right, making you wonder if it's the world's deadliest jungle, if these guys lack any kind of explorer training or experience whatsoever, or if exploring a jungle is like going off to war, where casualties are ineveitable. Eventually the survivors try to convince Johnney to give up and go home, but Johnney won't go until he's found what he's looking for. So during the night the others pack up and sneak off while he's asleep, in one of the film's few logical moments. The next morning Johnney wakes up and finds himself alone. Then, in one of the movie's greatest moments, the title beast manages to sneak up on him and grab him from behind without him noticing! The monster is like 50 ft. tall, it's broad daylight, and Johnney's wide awake, yet somehow he didn't notice the creature was right behind him the whole time! Later Johnney meets Samantha, a white woman whose plane crashed in the jungle when she was like 5 or 6 and whose parents were killed in the crash. Sam is now a grown woman in a jungle bikini who is friends with Peking Man. Natrually she and Johnney fall in love, and then he convinces her to take Peking Man and go back with him to Hong Kong. You can probably guess what happens from here. If you happen to already own PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE and THE MIGHTY GORGA, put this one in your video collection alongside those two.
- Fun
     By A1PID2MT8MMPAF on 2007-01-29
This is a really goofy giant ape movie, and after watching both A*P*E and the Mighty Gorga I was well prpared to pull this one to bits as well, but I have to say that although it's not a particularly good film, it does at least have a lot more going for it that those two pitiful efforts. "Mighty Peking Man" barely wanders from the well worn path that most King Kong imitators follow. Suffice to say that a giant ape-man awakens during an earthquake and breifly terrorizes a jungle village before getting hunted and captured by mean and greedy big city people. After being put on display and humiliated, the ape-man escapes and runs amok, causing much destruction before climbing a tall building and is being finally shot down by the armed forces. You have to admire the gall of the makers of this film, they couldn't have slavishly copied the plot of the original much more closely than this!
I'm kind of torn between laughing at this film and actually enjoying it on it's own merits at the same time. So I'll give you my summary of how it works on both levels. First off, as a "so bad it's good" movie, the film scores highly. The film uses A LOT of miniature model sets in the scenes of Peking Man (this is how he is referred to in the movie) rampaging about, and these are nearly always pretty awful. The model village that gets destroyed by earthquake right at the start is dire, it really does look like a load of 6-inch high toy huts that someone is throwing handfuls of dirt over. The shockingly poor rear projection special effects don't help much, either. As for Peking Man himself, well at least the monkey costume is a lot better than the ones in A*P*E (that one didn't even fit properly) and "The Mighty Gorga" (worst ever -and they only showed the top half). In this movie, we see lots of shots of giant ape hands grabbing the cast, and they look quite good, as do his big monkey feet when he stomps on people. There appears to be a model prop head used for extreme close ups of Peking Man snarling or otherwise emoting, and this looks kind of...monsterish. Shame it doesn't really match the costumed actor's gorilla mask, but I quite liked it. OK, next off, the acting is generally pretty poor, plus the English dubbing is appalling. In fact the soundtrack in general is quite bad, most noticably in the noises that Peking Man himself makes - his roar sounds like a woman's scream mixed in with various bird noises and a cement mixer!
So as a spectacular monster show, the film falls a bit flat, due to all the bad special effects. But here's what goes some way to make up for this - the film has definitely got gusto - all the onscreen mayhem is churned out almost non-stop, and it hardly ever lets up. As long as Peking Man is onscreen, there's always something being destroyed or exploding, and although the effects are poor, there are loads and loads of them, so it's hard to complain of boredom, which is one thing that stops most bad films in their tracks. Secondly, the film really does have a heart. Peking Man's love interest in this story is a beautiful blonde girl who has grown up in the jungle after being the sole survivor of a plane crash as a child. He is very attached to her, and actually allows himself to be taken from the jungle and put on display on her request (she has fallen in love with the hunter who came in search of the monster). Now the actress playing Samantha the jungle girl is not great, but she makes an appealing alternative to the usual city dame heroine type, because she starts the film as the ape-man's friend, with his well-being already on her agenda. And even Peking Man himself has character, with the monkey-suit actor actually managing to portray some semblance of emotion without looking totally daft, and the scenes between him and Samantha can be quite sweet, even if the pathos is laid on with a trowel.
The trouble is that so much of the film is such baloney that any good aspects get swamped. There's too much time spent on rubbish special effects and miniature sets which are always totally deserted, or scenes with Samantha running around Hong Kong in her fur bikini and bare feet without attracting the slightest interest, or the awful "love scenes" of Johnny the hunter and his ex - in fact that entire sub-plot is terrible. The list goes on, and these things just disable the film's otherwise commendable efforts at being a good piece of entertainment. Still at least this is one "bad" movie you can watch for laughs and still come away from NOT feeling that you have just totally wasted 90 minutes of your life. I thought it was a lot of fun.
- Let's Not Get Crazy
     By A5TZXWU8AALIC on 2006-07-25
I watched this movie on IFC or the Sundance Channel because I wondered why this movie would be on those channels. I guess Quentin Tarantino is a fan or there's a DVD of this movie with "Quentin Tarantino Presents" on it or something.
What does QT see in this? I don't know.
This is a terrible movie. Think of the worst American monster movie made in color on a $1.98 budget and then make it five times worse. Ed Wood would've turned this project down. I grew up loving Godzilla movies and I still didn't like this.
The only thing this movie has going for it is the stunningly-hot blonde running around in a skimpy outfit she can't keep on straight. The only drama, the only tension, the only interest I could maintain in this lame movie was what was going to pop out next on the native girl.
But is this so bad that it's good? I didn't think so. It's definitely not in the big leagues with GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER (the Big G fights a giant booger to the death) or the original HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (mutated salmon chases human women for some strange).
Maybe the folks at "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" could pull a classic episode out of this.
- So bad you can't look past it
     By on 2000-07-10
I know this movie is not to be taken seriously. If you appreciate the humor in cheezy monster movies, then you might like this for a little while. After the novelty wears off, the movie grates on your nerves. This movie is to be viewed under heavy stupefying intoxication. Down a half case of beer and turn it on for a good laugh. If you watch it sober, you will have to resort to alchohol to finish it. Truly terrible.
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