Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC

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Summary: OH MIGHTY GORGA...YOU HAVE ARRIVED ON DVD
Review: I am very happy to finally see this movie on DVD!!! If there was ever a movie to laugh at and have fun with it is this one. The gorilla suit is a plastic as can be and is never shown from the waist down!! Also, this is the ONLY movie in which plastic toy dinosaurs terrorize the hero. Tony Eisley stars as a circus owner on the verge of bankruptcy who seeks out a giant gorilla living in Africa. He travels there (actually Simi Valley, CA) and meets April, the owner of an animal farm there. After a fire is set by our villian (Scitt Brady) she has no choice but to accompany Tony on his expidition. Fun for all with plastic dinos and more flubbed lines than I have ever seen in a film before.
The second feature is One Million AC/DC written by Ed Wood!! Another pitiful movie that makes Gorga look like a classic well made film!! Wall to wall nudity and inane dialogue. My opinion on this is not good. I didn't really like this film and cannot understand why Something Weird Video put this R rated film on with the G rated Gorga.
Loaded with trailers and lots of extras, check this out if you want to see a couple of movies that will make your jaw drop. Highly Recommended!!

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Summary: Goofy ape movie is alot of fun!!
Review: I thought I've seen everything when it comes to bad movies,but "Mighty Gorga" is in a class by itself! Why?Well,the serious part of the movie where they're going to the island where Gorga lives isn't bad.You're lead to believe this is a serious adventure,but when Gorga shows up,you can't believe what you're seeing because it feels like it's from a different movie.Part of it is drama and the other part with Gorga is funny..Did the director do this on purpose?? And the so-called battle with Gorga and the T-Rex is like 2 kids going at it in bad Halloween costumes...Still worth the price though...The second feature "One Million AC/DC" is pretty boring,not unless you like no story,alot of nudity,bad jokes and even non-existant acting.Remember Ed Wood wrote this..The only bright spot is when the T-Rex shows up(looks like the one left over from Mighty Gorga)and maybe the horny gorilla,too.The extras are good,too.Worth getting if you want a good laugh.

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Summary: Serious and silly all in one....
Review: Mighty Gorga is a combination of 2 movies:first is a serious adventure,the other is a silly,campy ape comedy...I was getting involved in the serious part of the movie until Gorga showed up,then I thought "what is this?" Gorga is too silly to be taken seriously,what with all the goofy expressions,the cowlick and the "fight" with the T-Rex,but good for a laugh anyway...Notice that you don't see the bottom half of Gorga either... One Million AC/DC is a bore,except for the T-Rex showing up once in a while,but that's it..The extras are interesting....

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Summary: One Million AC/DC: Not Up To Ed Wood's Usual Quality
Review: Often overlooked on the DVD is a little piece of R-rated tripe called 'One Million AC/DC' a very bad and un-erotic sex comedy written by no other than Ed Wood. I actually don't really like this genre too much, and wish Something Weird had put something else on the disc. I do like Ed Wood though, so I watched it. Those were 65 painful minutes. The set of the cave looks like the jungle room and Graceland, as it features green shag carpet extensively. There is no plot to speak of, there's a virgin sacrifice (not what you think), guys fighting with rocks and clubs, and gratuitous hippie references. There is also a romantically involved ape in a very bad monkey suit that makes a sound like a buzz saw. There is a lot of black and white (tinted sepia, so we wouldn't notice...right) stock footage that any B-movie connoisseur will recognize of iguanas and gila monsters fighting. There is, unfortunately, also a tyrannosaurus rex, which, if you can believe this is even lamer than in 'Gorga.' I won't even speculate on what brand of child's toy it is. I especially love the scene when the toy eats a girl. Yum!

The film continues the theme on the DVD of annoying background music. Here it is composed for the unlikely quintet of harmonium, zither, bongos, doorbell, and spoons. (I wish it was as soothing as John Cage, but it is not.) There are typical caveman scenes: people lounging and eating grapes and BBQ ribs, cat fights, the old rubber lizard in a loincloth gag, and a chase scene that kind of looks like what would happen if Doris Wishman directed '10.' There are a couple of puns that will make you blanche, for instance "I'm off to see the lizard" (everyone knows that cavemen speak perfect English, occasionally with an Italian accent.) At the end the ape and his girlfriend are welcomed to the community of hominids with warm handshakes all around.

This is really below Ed Wood's normal level of quality and craftsmanship.

There are a lot of extras on the DVD as well, including some great trailers. Trailers of note include 'La Islas De Los Dinosauros" and the abysmal "Sound of Horror", a movie I saw on VHS and is the most pathetic dinosaur movie ever made.

Also featured is an amateur short so bad that I can't even bring myself to discuss it. It is called 'Nightmare', and I will say only that it gives claymation a bad name, and features the lamest prop newspaper ever seen.

There is also a short called 'Prehistoric Daze' featuring comedian Hank Henry (who?) in a hilarious henpecked stone-age romp. It is very embarrassing to everyone involved.

Finally, there is the single stupidest excuse for a short that I have ever seen, 'Diane the Jungle Girl and Jungle Girl and Her Gorilla of Love'. I won't even speculate on why anyone thought this was a good idea to spend money on.

Thanks, Something Weird! Another splendid job bringing us only the finest entertainment!

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Summary: One Million AC/DC: Not Up To Ed Wood's Usual Quality
Review: Often overlooked on this DVD is a little piece of R-rated tripe called 'One Million AC/DC,' a very bad and un-erotic sex comedy written by no other than Ed Wood. I actually don't really like this genre too much, and wish Something Weird had put something else on the disc. I do like Ed Wood though, so I watched it. Those were 65 painful minutes. The set of the cave looks like the jungle room and Graceland, as it features green shag carpet extensively. There is no plot to speak of, there's a virgin sacrifice (not what you think), guys fighting with rocks and clubs, a peeping tom, and gratuitous hippie references. There is also a romantically involved ape in a very bad monkey suit that makes a sound like a dog using a buzz saw. There is a lot of black and white (tinted sepia, so we wouldn't notice...right) stock footage (that any B-movie connoisseur will recognize) of iguanas and gila monsters fighting. There is, unfortunately, also a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which, if you can believe this is even lamer than in 'Gorga.' I won't even speculate on what brand of child's toy it is. I especially love the scene when the toy eats a girl. Yum!

The film continues the theme on this DVD of annoying background music. Here it is composed for the unlikely quintet of harmonium, zither, bongos, doorbell, and spoons. (I wish it was as soothing as John Cage, but it is not.) There are typical caveman scenes: people lounging and eating grapes and BBQ ribs, cat fights, the old rubber lizard in a loincloth gag, and a chase scene that kind of looks like what would happen if Doris Wishman directed '10.' There are a couple of puns that will make you blanche, for instance: "I'm off to see the lizard" (everyone knows that cavemen speak perfect English, occasionally with an Italian accent.) At the end the ape and his girlfriend are welcomed to the community of hominids with warm handshakes all around.

This is really below Ed Wood's normal level of quality and craftsmanship.

There are a lot of extras on the DVD as well, including some great trailers. Trailers of note include 'La Islas De Los Dinosauros" and the abysmal "Sound of Horror", a movie I saw on VHS and still ranks as the most pathetic dinosaur movie ever made.

Also featured is an amateur short so bad that I can't even bring myself to discuss it. It is called 'Nightmare', and I will say only that it gives claymation a bad name, and features the lamest prop newspaper ever seen.

There is also a short called 'Prehistoric Daze' featuring comedian Hank Henry (who?) in a hilarious henpecked stone-age romp. It is very embarrassing to everyone involved.

Finally, there is the single stupidest excuse for a short that I have ever seen, 'Diane the Jungle Girl and Jungle Girl and Her Gorilla of Love'. I won't even speculate on why anyone thought this was a good idea to spend money on.

Thanks, Something Weird! Another splendid job bringing us only the finest entertainment!

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Summary: "How Do You Thank A Gorilla For Saving Your Life?"
Review: Something Weird really outdid themselves here. The theme of this DVD is 'apes', and you will wish that they meant 'King Kong', but they most certainly do not. 'Mighty Gorga' is about Mark Remington, a circus owner who is about to be foreclosed on searching for a legendary giant ape in the Congo to be his new feature attraction. This film is just teeming with all the bad 'jungle movie cliches', like extremely bad 'Swahili' spoken by Bushmen, characters with names like 'Tonga Jack' and evil bounty hunters. Of course Remington must take a beautiful woman on the journey with him (you don't think there will be any romantic interest do you?) to the prehistoric plateau where Gorga lives along with other giant things like roses and mushrooms of disquieting size. Here is the first major issue I had with the execution of the film: the two of them go looking for this 30 foot tall gorilla by themselves with nothing but rifles and their backpacks. At one point they even fell him with a tranquilizer but only then do they realize that they have no clue or plan to get him out of the jungle. Even 'A*P*E' demonstrated more foresight than these two.

Most of the movie actually features endless shots of people walking in the woods spliced together with stock footage of every type of zoo animal known to man. This wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the grating 'music for walking around' featured during these scenes and composed for the very incongruous trio of instruments, the xylophone, timpani, and harpsichord. This will really get old fast: trust me.

We finally see Gorga when he is summoned by the wackiest witch doctor ever on screen and Gorga sports the worst ape suit ever seen in movie history, and in making that statement I am including 'A*P*E', and 'Queen Kong', my two previous nominees for that title. Gorga is a lame cross-eyed monkey with tusks (!) and out of control hair issues. Gorga is mostly seen from the waist up, no doubt for budgetary reasons, because it could not be for artistic reasons. Gorga is also a pretty lame beast: at one point the humans defeat him by throwing an egg at him. (OK, so it is a big, prehistoric egg, but still...) The action sequences are quite magnificent throughout (needless to say), but nothing will prepare you for the majesty of watching Gorga fight a Tyrannosaurus Rex. In keeping with the costuming motif, this is easily far and away the lamest monster in screen history (at least until the next feature, anyway). It is the stupidest looking thing I have ever seen. This dinosaur makes "Grumpy" on 'Land of the Lost' look genuinely frightening, and I am not kidding. Despite being defeated by a guy with and egg, Gorga easily dispatches the dinosaur.

Ultimately the two adventurers are captured by tribesmen and taken to the witch doctor, where they meet up with the girl's father. Ultimately they escape through a supposedly dormant volcano, where they find a bunch of crappy costume jewelry (which they claim is King Solomon's treasure), and a big stupid claymation dragon, when suddenly the volcano comes to life via the magic of stock footage from Hawaii. The three adventurers find a way out in the nick of time, as does Gorga, but all the tribesmen are killed. (We don't know how they know this, but we just have to take their word for it.) Ultimately they thank Gorga for saving them from death (I won't tell you how, but it's pretty realistic, you can be sure) by letting him go (not that they ever captured him, anyhow.) 'Mighty Gorga' is a fun, G-rated camp classic. It has everything going for it: bad acting; lame script; really dumb monsters; and a pretty girl. It is an outstanding big ape movie that bad movie aficionados will be sure to appreciate.