Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

beetle-259-554148 Okay, Konga.... this is a great movie up until the last ten minutes. Then it's just shit.The story: Dr. Charles Decker (played by Michael Gough) returns home after a year in Africa after being presumed dead. He brings with him a small chimp affectionately named Konga which required a $25'000 fee (in 1961 by the way!) to RKO Pictures who made the original King Kong. He also brings back plants from Uganda and starts injecting Konga with a special serum (which not only makes him bigger but turns him from a lowly chimp into an APE!!!). This movie would have been KATTA had it not been for Charles shooting his wifes cat after it got a few mouthfuls of his serum.He gets into a very heated and loud argument with the dean of the university who threatens to have him fired should he continue his experiments. Enraged at his boss's thick head, he hypnotizes Konga and sends him/her/it to kill the Dean. Next in the Konga line is a rival scientist who discoveries were more far-striding and impressive than Dr. Deckers. This scientist was foolish enough to tell him that he lives in an isolated area and keeps his doors unlocked. Next, a handsome schoolboy whose girlfriend is being extremely subtley hit on by our main character/villain. This culminates in the boy attacking Decker while they are alone in a shed. He quickly realizes what he is doing and stops, horrified at what he did. Decker advises that they both forget about it. That night, said school boy is preparing for a date with this girl when, just as he's getting his Lambretta scooter started, he too is sadly killed by Konga in the driveway of his own home, his body found by not only his parents but his younger siblings!Skip past Dr. Decker forcing himself onto the bereaved girlfriend and his wife catching him, making Kinga grow huge, getting herself killed by Konga, the girl getting her arm caught in one of our mad scientist's man-eating plants (which presumably eats her alive) and Michael Gough carried off by Konga much like Fay Wray in the hands of a certain giant ape.As Michael Gough's cheeky acting is rapidly reduced shouting "Konga, put me down! Put me down, Konga!" and similar lines over and over, the armed forces fire upon Konga once he's in front of Big Ben and all of their bullets seem to be missing. I kept waiting for Konga to climb Big Ben with Decker in hand and swatting down planes while Charles begs Konga to hold onto him so he can't be shot but nope, nope! Decker is thrown to the ground and very unceremoniously killed by his creation. Konga is killed by the many many MANY bullets that were missing him. Upon death he goes from a Kong-sized ape to the lowly chimpanzee he was before. A disappointing and very underwhelming climax to an otherwise spectacular MST3K-worthy King Kong rip-off.

Scott LeBrun Well...at least producer Herman Cohen is right up front about what exactly he's ripping off here. However, there is a hook in that he's combining a King Kong type story with your typical "Frankenstein" type of cautionary tale. The demented scientist determined to play God in this instance is insane botanist Charles Decker (Michael Gough). Having crash landed in Africa and been missing in action for a year, Decker figured out the means of greatly increasing size in plant and animal matter. So he takes his newfound chimpanzee friend Konga, and injects him with his extra special new formula. The result is a great big man-in-a-gorilla-suit monster that eventually goes insane with rage.This *could* have been more of a campy delight, but too often it gets bogged down in story and becomes dull. There's not that much action here. Of course, considering just how *awful* the special effects are, that might have been for the best. The actors do their best, and due to the fact that they've got their own problems and aren't having to deal with Konga, they don't look *too* embarrassed. Margo Johns plays Margaret, Deckers' loyal assistant who's uncomfortable being party to things like murder, which Decker tries to dismiss as just "testing Kongas' loyalty". But she's willing to let it slide, provided that Decker marry her. But the gal that he's really got his eyes on is his vivacious, lovely student Sandra (Claire Gordon), whose boyfriend Bob (Jess Conrad) gets understandably upset. Also among those slumming away with this material are Austin Trevor, Jack Watson, George Pastell, Vanda Godsell, and Leonard Sachs. One worthy component is the music by Gerard Schurmann, but what really makes it watchable at all is Goughs' wonderful schlock movie hambone acting. As you can imagine, Decker is one of those "I'll show them! I'll show them all!" nut jobs in the classic tradition.A young Steven Berkoff has an early, uncredited role as a student.Five out of 10.

MartinHafer The plot and special effects for this film are terrible--especially the special effects. However, despite being a completely terrible film, it isn't total garbage. Michael Gough's completely one-note and over the top performance actually makes the entire thing worth seeing, as this terrible over-acting is the only way they could have made this thing work at all.The film begins with Gough being discovered in the jingle a year after he was assumed to have died in a plane crash. He's in fine shape and excited about carrying on with botanical experiments based on what he learned while staying with Ugandans until his rescuers arrived. Apparently, a local witch doctor taught him a lot of cool things about genetic manipulation and mind control (little-known fact--most of the world's top geneticists are in fact witch doctors, with three recent Nobel Prize winners being witch doctors).It seems his research has to do with, get this, infusing plant DNA into animals in order to make them grow to huge proportions in a matter of minutes! My favorite experiment is one where he gave a cute little chimpanzee injections and it grew into a gorilla!! How the miracle drug caused the animal to not only grow but change species is beyond me!! And, for these scenes, there was of course the obligatory man in a gorilla suit! You'll love Michael Gough's performance as the doctor, as he manages to wonderfully create as mad a scientist as you can find on film. With such stock phrases like "you fools!" and "I'll show them!!", he's perfect for the part. And, like any self-respecting mad scientist, he's not above using his giant chimp/gorilla to settle some grudges. In fact, having the beast kill is sort of like eating potato chips--you can't stop with only one! By the end of the film, not only are several people dead, but Gough's jealous mistress decides to give the animal a HUGE injection--resulting in a 60 foot high creature. However, how big the animal is seems to change in each scene (the scale was NOT well established or maintained)! And eventually, when the "chorilla" takes Gough prisoner and while he's struggling in vain in the clutches of the animal, what does he repeatedly yell? Yep, "you fool, you fool"! The final scenes show the chorilla (with Gough) roaming the streets of London. Oddly, the beast does NOT go on a rampage but rather ambles about without causing any particular harm. In fact, much of the time he just stands there doing absolutely nothing! This made it easy for the military to attack it and in a less than thrilling finale, you see tracer bullets and bazooka shells consistently missing the creature--even though the folks are only about ten yards away!! These are supposedly trained soldiers and he's the size of a house...and yet they keep missing! It's actually pretty funny.Overall, the costumes and special effects are truly dreadful. The story is quite silly (but watchable in a cheesy sort of way) and Michael Gough does pretty much the same job acting as he did in most films he made during the 1960s and early 70s--an angry and superior sort of fella from start to finish. For bad movie fans who like laughing at inept films, this is a movie just for them. For anyone else, forget it--you can't help but do better picking another film.

Genevieve I don't even know where to begin.... First off, my uncle showed it to me when he came down for a visit, saying it was serious "Mystery Science Theater 3000" material. And, after seeing it, I agree. It was so bad, words fail me. Yet, it was so funny too. (*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*) First off, how does a chimp transform into a man in a gorilla suit? I don't think anyone could answer that, because it's scientifically impossible; but that is the case here. Doctor Decker injects cute lil Konga with a serum, and Konga becomes a man in a gorilla suit.And, speaking of Doctor Decker, he is such a friggin' psycho, why in the world didn't his assistant notify the police after she knew of how he was using Konga to kill people? Okay, yeah, she loved him, but she didn't like the way he was killing people. Yet, she's all like, "I'll keep it a secret until he cheats on me." Sounds *REAL* smart there ma'am.And cheating? Oh yes. Our piggish Doctor decides to lure a young blonde college co-ed to the greenhouse in order to attempt to have sex with her... and then, she gets eaten by his plants. The assistant gets killed by Konga. And Konga dies too. Dismal... isn't it? This film needs to be seen... because it sucks so bad. Believe me. The only plus side is that Decker the douche gets killed by Konga too.