The best thing to come out of Spain since the Armarda
16 June 2010
Warning: Spoilers
When all four of the two engines fail on a jet there's big problems. The tombstone toothed pilot and his incomprehensible Jamaican co-pilot request advice from their air command, which has the threatening codename "grandmother". Grandmother orders them to drop their nuclear bomb into the sea creating a large explosion of stock footage. As any scientist will tell you this can only mean one thing - a giant monster on the rampage around the coast of Spain. This is all done in code so it sounds like "Grandmother here, calling baby, drop the bottle in the sea and return to auntie via brother-in-law". Apparently the Russians have cracked their code but I doubt anyone in the audience could. You get the jist of it though, big explosion and big funny looking monster biting the top off lighthouses and generally being a danger to shipping.

A sea captain who is constantly being asked if he's drunk and some woman set out to prove it's real, which is tricky because it's clearly a big glove puppet. My favourite scene was the courtroom case involving a 25ft fishing boat where even the clerk of the court was an admiral.

Funny from the first line onwards with masterful dubbing I give it 19/10 with a bonus point for every exploding rowboat taking it up to a respectable 30/10. The ending is especially good, take that Africa - one giant monster coming your way! Not our problem any more.
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