The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

So, according to this movie, everyone in the early '70s was constantly drunk and/or stoned and goofing off, talked in a constant steam of consciousness even when alone, occasionally broke out in spontaneous comedy skits for no apparent reason, and nobody listened to anyone especially if they were screaming about death.The 'effects' of the titular creature start off pretty well with some deft use of reverse photography and goo wrangling, but later once it gets big enough to require expensive optical effects the characters constantly look behind the camera and describe what's going on in the hope we can imagine we saw it.It's god awful, I love it, why hasn't MST3K done this yet?

The original 1958 movie "The Blob" is well known and admired to this very day. However, this (belated) sequel is all but unknown to the general public more than 40 years after it was first released, and it does not take long upon watching it to determine why. Much of the blame has to fall upon the writing, which producer Jack H. Harris contributed to. There are a number of essential details that are either never revealed at all or are quickly glossed over, like how a piece of the original blob made it out of the Arctic in the first place. The biggest blunder the writers make, however, is to try and make this particular blob rampage humorous. Well, actually upon thinking about it, it might have worked with enough care taken with this. But under the direction of Larry Hagman, the comedy comes across as forced, annoying, endless, and not the least bit funny despite the once in a lifetime cast he had control over. To be fair to Hagman, he was obviously working with a really low budget handed to him by Harris. Hagman probably didn't have the resources or time to pull off the comedy well. He certainly didn't have the resources or time to pull off the horror sequences with the blob, which are incredibly cheap and amateurish. I wonder why Harris didn't use more of the large amount of money he made with the original movie to beef up this sequel's budget. Maybe he too saw that the writing for this movie (which I earlier said that he contributed to) doomed its chances for big box office success.

*Spoiler/plot- Beware! Of the Blob, 1972. ('Son of Blob') A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.*Special Stars- Robert Walker, Gwynne Gilford, Godfrey Cambridge, Carol Lindley, Shelley Berman, Richard Stahl, Larry Hagman, Richard Webb.*Theme- Some sequel are equal or better than the original if extra effort is exercised in production.*Trivia/location/goofs- Color. Film updated sequel to the 1953 Steve McQueen 'The Blob' movie. The enormous success of The Blob (1958) led producer Jack H. Harris to try to do a sequel, but the project had been shelved for many years. Larry Hagman, who owned the beach house next door to Harris, mentioned that he had never seen the original The Blob (1958). Harris showed Hagman his personal 16mm print of the film. Hagman showed such interest in doing a sequel that Harris resurrected the project. Hagman wound up directing this sequel and doing a small role in it as well. *Emotion- A good sci-fi sequel to the original film premise. The film with its updated special effects, great make-up and good casting make this film very watchable. This film's plot involving the proposed Alaskan pipeline of the time was clever and watchable. Very good comedic situations due to Larry Hagman's great comedic sense of humor. See it. *Based on- Outer Space alien and meteor fears.

The ending of the first 1958 movie made it very apparent that a sequel would be a possibility. Yet it wasn't until 14 years later that a sequel finally got done.The 1958 movie "The Blob" was a bit of a weird case. It was a '50's B-movie, in every way but yet it all came together just fine. It made it a very enjoyable and even somewhat original genre movie, that surprisingly worked out way better than it really should had. But how is it possible for a '70's movie to try and recreate the same sort of style of atmosphere that was the case with an '50's B-monster movie. It's part of the reason why this movie just doesn't work out well at all within its sort.This movie is insane. It's cheap looking and makes an unfinished impression, which is partly true since this movie got mostly shot without a real finished script. It must be also one of the reasons why some of the movie its sequences go on for far too long, while they also seem to add very little to the movie or its story. It even makes this movie at certain parts an annoying one to watch. Some characters pop up in this movie and than suddenly disappear out of it again, which make them incredibly redundant ones. This is just not a very good example of good film-making.The actual blob itself also shines far too little in this movie. There is never really a real sense of danger when the blob is involved and the movie does a bad job at handling its build up and tension. It's also all real predictable and all of the deaths are quite unimaginative.Good thing I can say about this movie is that it has some decent humor at it times. Obviously the movie is at parts attempting a more humorous approach to its story and concept, which has as a result a couple of entertaining moments and pieces of humorous dialog.But above all things the movie remains a bad one, a real bad one actually, even within its genre.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/