SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

jacobjohntaylor1 I do not know why this got a 3.9. It is a 7. It is just very underrated. I think there are to many sciences fiction that underrated and this is one of them. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is very scary. It is scarier then The silence of lambs could ever be. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier the Friday the 13th V a new beginning and that is not easy to do. This is scarier the Halloween resurrection could ever be. If you like monster movies then you should see this movie.

Leofwine_draca Remember GORGO, that middling and often boring British 1960 giant monster movie in which scientists capture a baby monster and have to contend with the creature's rampaging parent? Well, this low-budget and often shoddy Japanese monster epic (for once NOT from Toho, but from a cheapie rival instead) is an unofficial remake of that movie, although for what reason I'm not sure, as it doesn't really improve things anymore. Instead what we have is a totally generic monster film with a predictable plot, stock and dull characters, and predictable action. On the plus side it has a fast pacing to it and lots of special effects, most of which are cheesy. This is a film to watch if you're in desperate need of a good laugh.We begin as our team of intrepid explorers (including the man with the most annoyingly dubbed voice in the world) explore a remote island and are bombarded by earthquakes, achieved by the shaking of the camera in an extremely irritating manner. The natives are restless, running around shouting "Gappa is angry" and are amusingly Japanese folk in blackface. The first "Gappa" is discovered, a hilariously misshapen monster which looks like a turkey crossed with a lizard and dropped off a cliff. Soon enough he's carted off back to Japan and experimented upon, and gets to wear a funny red helmet for his efforts.Meanwhile, the parent Gappa aren't too pleased with the kidnapping of their son, so fly to Japan to rescue him. The 'rescue attempt' consists of destroying lots of cheap model buildings in their quest for revenge. They also have the ability to fly, with wings which make them look like they're wearing capes. These costumes are some of the worst you will ever see, so bad that I actually felt sorry for the guys who were wearing them. A fight ensues with the military, or in reality lots of little miniature toy tanks which are quickly destroyed. The monsters also fight some model aircraft and breath a heatwave on them, before retreating into a lake, beaten for the time being.It's not long before those pesky scientists are bombarding the lake with sound waves, causing the creatures to fly out and cause yet more model destruction. Watch out for some really bad back projection effects here, folks. Also, the cheesiest, most obvious, superimposed tidal wave effect you're likely to witness in a movie. I would guess that the only people who ever have a chance of seeing this movie are those who know what they're letting themselves in for, so there's no real need for me to tell you how poorly put-together this film is, or how awful the special effects are. But, as I said before, it passes the time and is a pretty amusing entry in the Japanese kaiju series.

haildevilman Long thought to be missing but.......here it is. (Apologies to the Ramones.)This was a late comer to the U.S. video ranks because its script was hard to change to make it more 'American.' Japanese satire would be lost on anyone without a significant knowledge of the country. Most would see this as just another dude in a rubber suit burning Tokyo again.The monster itself was a bit different. Like Godzilla and Rodan hybridized. The usual happens. Military comes...fails...but this guy knows the secret.I have a Japanese video copy. It's the original version. But the DVD release was necessary. And the racist tag line never existed.

dbborroughs Easily one of the worst Japanese Giant Monster movies ever made this turkey really dull. Essentially a remake of Gorgo, with an expedition finding a baby monster on and island and taking it home. There it grows rapidly. Its also there that the parents arrive to get it. After 45 or 50 minutes of painfully slow and painfully stupid south sea island stuff the parents show up and we get painfully bad special effects and moments that that are really dumb-for example it take awhile before anyone realizes they big ones want the baby, then the stupid humans won't give it up. The faces (like the rest of the suits) are rigid and the eyes are clearly on pivots (This movie has nothing on the monster in that awful North Korean workers allegory who's name I've forgotten) The breath weapon more often then not seems to have been included as an after thought. I was howling at the adult gappa wandering around destroying the city with an octopus in its mouth. Its horrible.And racist, with the all of the islanders smeared with a brown or black shoe polish, I guess its the Japanese version of a minstrel show. I really hate this movie--- well mostly- the destruction scenes are goofy fun, but its a horror to watch from the start- which I did. Serves me right for wanting to see the films cheesy special effects in high def.