Reptilicus

Rating:
Summary: What Can You Say?
Review: What can you say about a movie in which the tail of a prehistoric dinosaur is unearthed in Denmark and grows into a giant marionette that spews green vomit? It's unique! What can you say about a film in which the janitor provides the comic relief? Good help is hard to find! At one point in the film, the janitor looks into a tank with an electric eel in it and utters the immortal line, "Yup, everything around here runs on electricity!" Later on he sticks his hand in the tank and starts kicking his leg up and down, either conveying pain from an electric shock or doing a Danish dance. What can you say about an international production that doesn't even last an hour and a half, and yet pads out the film with footage of Copenhagen? It's the tourism board's favorite film! What can you say about a movie which included virtually the entire population of Copenhagen, as well as most of the Danish military? All I can say is, never have so many given so much to make a really cheesy creature feature!

Rating:
Summary: Silly monster flick
Review: When you think of silly monster flicks made around the 1950s and early 1960s, you think right away of those Japanese films where some monster attacks Tokyo. Reptilicus falls exactly in that same mould except for one major difference: the film is not Japanese at all, but Danish, with the help of American International (the same guys that later brought you those Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello films like Beach Party). Just imagine everything you expect from those Japanese flicks, but it's set in Denmark, and the monster, this time, a serpent/dragon like monster that regenerated from a tail that got dug up by an oil rig, that attacks metropolitan Copenhagen. With the exception of where this movie was filmed, it has everything you ever wanted from a Japanese monster flick: really poor special effects (lots of them looking like people standing next to a screen, or animation that obviously looks like it was drawn on frame by frame), bad acting, panicking crowds, what more could you ask for? Of course, since this was released by American Internation, AI wasn't exactly known for top quality films (I doubt there's a single soul out there who likes those Frankie and Annette beach films), and while I can't say Reptilicus is a quality film, but it deserves a four star because it has a lot of appeal, and I love how it's the biggest ripoff of those Japanese monster films coming from a non-Japanese film. By the way, it also has a plot too, and I was really surprised I was able to sit through it all, but I did. So if you want a cheesy film, give this a try.