Scifi Movie About Giant Monster Looking for Baby
You see a monster. Information technology just sees lunch.
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When a remote Pacific island becomes the setting for a series of mysterious attacks, visiting scientist Adam Baldwin and son Emilio Hirsch discover that it's something more than the presumed shark assail. When Hirsch discovers a man sized babe lizard that looks like an overgrown gecko, he exist friends at and decides to hide it from the adults when they capture uneven bigger one, one that obviously has a huge appetite. So a boat out at dark doing some research discovers uneven bigger 1, and before y'all know it, it's a giant cadger feasting ground that leaves the tourists trapped.
This started off engaging but when y'all get to see the giant salamanders or mutated frogs or whatever these things are supposed to be, yous realize that this is every bit bad as the pre-"Jurassic Park" dino disaster "Baby" virtually a kidnapped baby brontosaurus. at least that film had the excuse that it was made before Spielberg'due south epic series but this i come up on five years after the first of the Jurassic films has none.
Typical plot devices that you see in pretty much every film likes this take over, and squabbles amongst the natives and foreigners who take settled in that location and Taurus become almost comical period at 1 point a eating house owner who has settled there from New Zealand refers to information technology has his isle, comically put downwards by a native who reminds him of what isle really is his. Not bad as a distraction and certainly ameliorate than the more recent Asylum films of like nature, but that is not proverb much.
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A Bad Clone of Godzila and ET With Poor Special Effects and Terrible Story
In a pocket-sized isle in Polynesia, the widow biologist Jack Ellway (Adam Baldwin) is developing some type of marine research. Meanwhile, some locals have disappeared and pretty before long, Jack realizes that a family of mutants lizards have escaped from an opening in the lesser of the sea and the male (`begetter') is trying to rescue its family. Jack and another scientists requite their best effort to salve the animals and return them to their environment. Wow, I did not believe in the rating of IMDB and take decided to cheque this movie. It is indeed a crap, being cheesy and corny. The monsters are clones of Godzila, and the baby lizard has the eyes of ET, recalling Sean Young's 1985 `Baby... Secret of the Lost Fable'. The story has some very ridiculous points. For instance, when the marines are chosen to salve the locals from the lizards. The marines basically destroy the island with their weapons, while the poor animal is only trying to get together its family. Therefore, the marines are indeed the greater menace for the persons and their possessions. When some soldiers are smashed by the foot or bitten by its teeth, nobody feels sorry for their deaths; however, when the female dies, there are many tears. Maybe children may like this predictable story. My vote is iv.
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Fear comes in dissimilar sizes and strength.
Twenty foot, nine human foot; size is not that important when it involves these freaks of nature effected by insecticides and angered by underwater earthquakes. The giant ocean creatures bring fear to a tiny Polynesian island and a marine biologist(Adam Baldwin) and his young son(Emile Hirsch)attempt to protect them from existence killed. Julie Carmen and Peter Adams also participate in this more than or less waste of fourth dimension.
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Entertaining & Funny
This was probably a peachy Goggle box picture in 1998, and was a horror or sci-fi feature which kept the audiences on the edge of their seats, simply in 2009 it is more than of a comedy.
The story revolves around a father who is a Marine Biologist and his son Brandon who are investigating diverse changes in the region around the Polynesian Island of Malau. There are also several killings of people in the waters, which also brings in the Marine Corp.
This film kept me laughing especially when it reminded me of a famous commercial we come across on Tv set today a "Greco". Some of the actors tried their all-time to play their different roles, but this film you tin really forget about and motion on.
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Right up there with Plan 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which was marginally improve!
Surely 1 of the worst productions in screen history, laying claim to be a serious movie - on second thoughts it COULDN'T take meant to be serious!
A subterranean rift releases a family unit of progressively bigger and more oafish plastic "blow-upwards" dinosaurs in the waters of Malau, a fictitious Polynesian Isle from some B-Grade scriptwriter'southward imagination. A few locals are "tugged" to decease by an unseen force, presumably to cutting down costs on unnecessary FX!
Baldwin (once an actor, in COHEN AND TATE, INDEPENDENCE Twenty-four hour period) plays a US Marine scientist on manus to study seismic activity in the expanse. He must surely have needed the money. Julie Carmen is all-time remembered equally stylish vampire queen Regina in FRIGHT NIGHT 2....this surely will have put paid to HER phone ever ringing again.
Nigh every bit scary as the chicken in the Toyota commercials, whoever was responsible for "Gargantua" (which for most of my childhood was the famous gorilla at London's Regent Park Zoo!) should exist blacklisted from e'er working in the manufacture once again. Never has a fauna looked more like an inflatable balloon made-over by 4 year olds face-painting. Ed Forest never came up with annihilation this bad!
Bloodcurdling Oz accents abound (It WAS a articulation Commonwealth of australia/US co-production) with a script at high-school level...no, make that pre-schoolhouse! The movie never made theatrical release (except perchance in Malau!) and gained but minimal coverage on cablevision.
At that place IS nothing worse. Worthy of a wellness-warning, rather than a rating (negative as that would HAVE to be)
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Don't exist fooled by the box!
Information technology sounds like the long-lost sequel to WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1967) and comes in an ALIEN-manner video box, but this is really a lame kiddie-style tele-pic that debuted on Flim-flam.
Adam Baldwin is a widowed scientist on the Australian island of Malau with his depressed young son, where illegal Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane dumping results in a variety of mutant creatures. A cute babe salamander monster with big goo-goo optics makes friends with the son after he feeds him cheese balls. A not-so-overnice medium sized one with sharp teeth and horns follows, and a really mean giant mama monster comes searching for her babies and terrorizes the metropolis. Naturally, the military shows upward, deed as dense as they unremarkably do in these movies and blast the big 1. THEN the male parent shows up!
I suppose that kids may like information technology, but the lousy dialogue and nauseating family dramatics will exist a scrap much for adults to stomach. FX give new significant to the term "uneven"--the 2 smaller monsters (either animatronics or CG) aren't bad, only the larger ones are almost on the same level of those former Saturday Matinée GODZILLA flicks.
And the moral of the story hasn't inverse--be overnice to giant cadger monsters or they will stomp on yous!
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Better than I originally expected.
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And, what I expected was a poor human's hybrid of "Jaws" and "Godzilla," or even "E.T. MEETS GORGO.". *Ahrrr! At that place be spoilers ahead.* But, instead of one CGI sea monster, I GOT 4!!! A WHOLE Family unit!!!! In putting together several different sci-fi cliches, the product company behind this picture came up with something relatively new. And, surprisingly pleasant, to kick. Felt sad for the death of Large Mama. Just, it was kind of heart-warming to come across Big Daddy finish rampaging and head for domicile, one time the two kids had been recovered by him! In short, a nice Grade B-plus movie to while abroad a ho-hum rainy night.
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There giant SALAMANDERS, not LIZARDS!!!! permit's get it right, people!
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Mild spoilers below!
Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian isle of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic action on the surface area'due south marine life. Forth with the local md Alyson Hart, they before long become caught up in the investigation of a serial of recent drownings with unexpected results. As Jack explores the surrounding ocean for a mysterious marine fauna, Brandon discovers and befriends a three-foot-long baby animal that is able to leave the ocean and walk on land. As more dangerous and giant creatures come onto the island, and the military machine begins to take offensive action, Jack must adventure everything to salvage the creatures, the island and his son. Okay, "Gargantua" is cheesy and features third-rate special effects. Then what? I liked it. Being a Amphibian lover and breeder, information technology was dainty to finally encounter a movie where the brute's aren't giant lizards, simply are, in fact, salamanders. I also thought that the performances were really proficient. The writer conspicuously researched what he was doing, the simply truly annoying flaw being the fact one graphic symbol mentions that "Aquatic Salamanders breed in undersea caves..." That was just bad scientific discipline. No known Salamander lives (Or breed in for that matter) in table salt h2o. That aside, I thought the screen play was really strong. At that place was likewise some beautiful locations and photography. I'm distressing if i've bored you faithful readers with my above preaching, merely watch the movie and forgive the filmmakers for using muppets for the monsters. My rating for "Gargantua"--7/x.
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Unreal...really
Totally unreal - the monsters. Who'd think that in a year like 1998, we'd be expected to exist satisfied by a dinosaur-thing that looks more like something a 6-year-onetime fabricated in Arts and Craft! Of course, no 1 is expecting Jurassic Park-like monsters, but a piffling more than effort could have been made to engineer a more than realistic monster - that'south why we have computers. It's a shame - the movie had plot and character, and would take merited at least an above average 6 stars from me, if not for the imitation-looking Gargantua that is the focus and title of this movie.
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Y'all've gotta be kidding me....
This was a movie?
I'm really not sure what's worse....a hyped-up film that turns out to be a major flop or a TV flick that was quickly made to cash in on a hyped-up film that turned out to be a major flop.
GARGANTUA is in the latter category, created as the FOX network's answer to GODZILLA, and there'due south really cypher proficient I can say near it. The acting was bad (salve Baldwin....no relation to the Baldwin brothers), the special effects were bad (information technology was a good thing that daddy dragon was only in it for nearly twenty seconds of screentime....he was a joke), the storyline was miserably cliched and boring (even downwardly to the Australian villian...oooooh....), and even the music by J. Peter Robinson, who's usually pretty good, is disappointing.
The plot...near a small son finding a baby dinosaur and its increasingly bigger family who searching for it....is probably the worst Goggle box movie thought ever established for the nineties. In fact, the premise sets itself upwards as a [bad] episode of the Twilight Zone, and keeps going for an 60 minutes and a half. It fifty-fifty ends upwards rooting for the monsters and defending their actions, even after they thrash some cities and eat some people (I'm sorry...simply if a giant dinosaur was stepping on my business firm, I'D shoot him with a rocket launcher....Was there a Greenpeace fellow member behind this thing?). By the time the picture show was over, I was ready to quit the film-reviewing business, and I couldn't figure out how in the earth they e'er allowed this thing to be made.
All in all, terrible. Go rent Male monarch Kong vs. Godzilla if you desire some existent, smashing-buildings fun.
ane/two out of ****
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Information technology's a Kid's Picture show!
Gargantua really isn't a bad motion picture at all, once you understand that it is really designed for kids. It doesn't follow the standard rampaging monster moving picture formula; and it is definitely not an old fashioned "D" monster movie. It is an adventurous morality tale with modern ecological elements for kids, and the young at heart, to enjoy.
The monsters are non cruel; they are merely trying to protect themselves equally a family. In that location is a clear parallel between them and the immature male child who has lost is mother and clings so desperately to his father, the scientist in the times of danger. A skilful monster picture always has a scientist to explicate the obvious to us. This ane has a science hero who is a conservationist, adamant to save the monsters if possible. The motion-picture show has many elements with which children will quickly identify. It is actually produced on that plane. I love a good monster flick of whatsoever kind and I can appreciate Gargantua on the level.
The production values of Gargantua are quite good. The camera work and the body of water-going adventure scenes are quiet well washed. The acting is superior and the plot is cohesive. Let the film thrill the kids and realize that it's not really made for jaded, overly-critical adults. It certain beats the pants off of the spate of formula serpent movies and genetic mutation muddles I've seen of late. Let the kids have their fun with Gargantua, and go pick on "Boa", or Pythons two, quagmires truly worthy of disdain.
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Not to be taken seriously
If you expect an activeness-packed monster horror picture show, don't watch this. Y'all won't similar it. Information technology's terrible.
If, on the other mitt, you are a connoisseur of really bad movies, this one is right up your street.
Imagine Jaws VIII, Godzilla VI, and E.T. Iv mixed up together. The only matter wrong with this film is that it wasn't directed by Edward D Woods, Jr.
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Recipe for Enviro-Wacktovist Stew
Take one pound of stale hippie.
Liberally add elements of E.T., Jurassic Park, Godzilla, and the Courtship of Eddie's Begetter.
Add a Baldwin for flavour, does not demand to be a Baldwin Brother.
Simmer for two hours over basic cable.
Illegally dump off-shore.
Mutates 3.
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We need negative numbers in the voting choices!
I gave this piece of garbage 1 considering that is the lowest there was. It deserved less.
The "creature" effects were terrible. The "baby" moved like a cheap shop dummy badly in need of lubrication. About the only good thing I can say for the result of the adult creatures is that at least you couldn't see through them. I would advise that adjacent time the "script writers" come up with a cause for the mutation, they show some logic in the manner they testify it on screen. Hint: I would very much doubtable that DDT does not glow luminescent light-green a few thousand anxiety under the water!
There was at faint glow of promise. At one point in the movie the Internet gets mentioned. When they showed someone using a reckoner to look at something, they didn't have one of those ridiculously pathetic GUIs where every key press was accompanied with loud clicking.
To paraphrase Monty Pythons The Holy Grail, when you see this one coming "RUN Abroad!"
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An experience never to be repeated !
I was guilty of a gross error of judgement when I tuned in to 'Gargantua' (on satellite television) in an unguarded moment. I viewed with increasing disbelief as this cinematic aberration unfolded, unmatched in sheer awfulness by any contemporary sci-fi film which I have seen over the last 2 years. The 'design' of the 'monsters' must surely have been the product of individuals who suffered from a combination of colour-blindess and acute myopia and were in obvious need of psychiatric aid. Add to this a generous helping of acting in a style which would make a cigar-store Indian seem animated,a storyline consisting of sentimentalised nonsense, a script which gives a whole new meaning to the give-and-take 'mediocre', together with special effects which appeared to pre-date Harryhausen on a bad day, and then the sum total constitutes an experience never to be repeated ! I cannot believe that whatsoever rational person would exist prepared to pay coin to come across this junk - certainly this is one to miss.
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Awful and Painful
I saw nearly the first 20 minutes of this turkey and it was painful. Adam Baldwin is NOT a good actor, merely the kid was worse. In twenty minutes I figured out the plot -- something similar the kid befriending the "monster" a la ET and then the monster's mother chasing after the kid monster. From what I saw, this flick rips off 'Jaws', 'Godzilla', 'ET', 'Gamera', and 'Jurassic Park'. And that'due south the offset twenty minutes!
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Goobledygook
foiwehfoightu wekjfhwdfgiousdy89234osdfjwefiou tju roitj39857t neioujhu weoiwut9348ru n. At that place. That makes more sense than this trashy movie which is near giant salamanders which can magically tolerate salt water. Information technology reminds me of the time my friend Annie Bananie was using frogs for a science project at school. Her mother kept cleaning the terrarium with Windex. This gave the frogs brain impairment and ruined all of Annie's data. Annie Bananie's dad had to have the frogs out back and cut their heads off with pinking shears to put them out of their misery. I wish he had lopped MY head off earlier I watched this waste of celluloid. If "Gargantua" had been made in the 50'southward, even American International or Allied Artists wouldn't have released it-- it'due south that bad.
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Gargantuan Movie!
I dearest Adam Baldwin, so of form I've watched this many times. The story was absurd, fifty-fifty touching in places, then what if the furnishings were subpar? Are they any ameliorate today on SyFy aqueduct movies? Not on your life. And the stories and acting today are beyond dismal. In this I could tell Emile Hirsch was going to be a cracking actor and the unabridged cast here was competent and believable.
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Delightfully bad!
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What can I say? This is another example of a motion-picture show so bad that it's good. The plastic monsters are shameful, the characters are less than i-dimensional, the science is flawed beyond belief (as a scientist I take depression expectations of movies, merely this was ridiculous - how exactly are they taking soil samples from an oceanic trench?!) and the emotionally charged sub-plot as boy and monster both face up the loss of their mothers, well, breathtaking...
The nearly remarkable thing nigh this movie, barring the surreal way that the slimy Australian skipper is attributed to be a New Zealander, is the sheer corporeality of effort the actors put in. The scene where Adam Baldwin mourns the expiry of the plastic monster is spectacular and Bobby Hosea throws his heart and soul into the role as the understanding and competent marine colonel. It's always so comforting when such rubbish is presented with that much enthusiasm.
Go some friends together, get some alcohol and treat this as a comedy but whatever happens, don't effort to watch it seriously!
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Disappointed, expected a lot more!
I saw this film expecting it to be quite practiced, but I was shocked! The effects of the jeeps spinning upside down and the explosions was first-class but the quality and furnishings of the mosters was pathetic!!!!!! I was highly disappointed and I don't recommend anyone to ever lookout man this!!!
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As Cheesy as it gets . . .
I didn't similar this movie, I thought information technology would be good, simply I was wrong. the creature was obviously a cheesy creation made out of paper mache and green paint. Nada more. Bad acting AND no notable stars.
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Truthful Blue!
Yup this was a special kind of movie.
It was like Tvs Sinbad the pirate! They have lizards for monsters, but brand them wait bigger. That's just stupid.
Only hey, the motion-picture show gave me a skilful laugh;o)
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bad just non the worst
This moving picture was pretty awful merely I must say that I've seen many movies that were much, much worse. Recall Jaws four where the shark really ROARED?
After reaing some of these reviews I was half expecting to run into Bela Lugosi pop upward and say "pull da string!" I'll requite it a 4 out of 10.
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Hehehehe
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I give this movie a 9 out of ten. Information technology's so bad it'south great (kinda like "Kung Pow").
The monsters are laughable, and the story line is oh-so-predictable and sappy in the extreme. I love it. Well, except for the sappiness.
I only watched information technology considering of Adam Baldwin *sigh* and kept going because I was honestly entertained. Just one thing: everyone who says the villain is Australian: he'southward KIWI!! (From New Zealand. Information technology's a dissever country).
I gotta admit, though - the infant was cute.
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