I had a feeling that making this my first Frankenstein movie was going to be a mistake and I was very right. The premise of a giant Frankenstein in Japan isn't too far fetched but the story is very weak and there's lots of plot holes. First of all, I have never seen a Frankenstein movie and I immediately recognize the monster but for some reason the people in the movie don't. They claim he's been running wild in Hiroshima for 15 years but all of a sudden he's very easy to catch. At first he's the size of a regular teenager but a day later he's 5 stories tall and he manages to escape. The guys sent to investigate how he got free decide that normal size handcuffs are too big for a 5 story monster.WHAT?!?!!?!? They employ all the usual Toho staples including using ancient camera tricks to get us to believe he's a giant, but he just looks like a scrawny teenager no matter what they do. To top it all off, they have one American and every one else is dubbed.Why?? My favorite part is that when the other monster shows up, people just call it "another monster". I always hated when a new monster showed up in Godzilla and all the people knew it's name. If you like Godzilla you will like this movie.
Review of Frankenstein vs. Baragon
