4/10
A Jerky Turkey--DON'T MISS IT!!!
23 August 2002
Warning: Spoilers
**May Contain Spoilers**

As originally scripted, this was going to be a sequel to FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD but extensive rewriting turned it into a turkey in it's own right. The two gargantuas look like giant sasquatches. The brown one is benevolent until pushed into violence. The green one, an accidental clone of the other, is lots more fun. He stomps on cars, eats humans raw and spits out their clothing, picks up army tanks and throws them into buildings and in general makes a nuisance of himself. The authorities try to destroy him with rockets fired from toy tanks with obvious model soldiers looking out of the hatches. They also lure him with food–a truck full of squealing pigs–and open up on him with laser rays, destroying most of a lush forest in the process. Taking a cue from the humans in the overkill department, the two gargantuas flatten half a city during their obligatory last battle. The action is frequent, fast and furious and the rare slow spots are redeemed by entertaining dialogue, as when one character asks egghead scientist Russ Tamblyn why the green gargantua takes to the ocean and the hero sagely replies "I dunno–maybe he fell in love with a whale!" If you can only see one post-Godzilla monster flick in your lifetime, this howler should be it.
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