Lack of good storyline.

hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Pretty terrible stuff. A caveman giant in the desert wilderness, surviving into the modern age due to an abundance of sulphur in his cave habitat, does...what? Scares a local girl, kidnaps her and her father, and then they just hang out. He does get a mean streak going when they try to escape, but there's no sci-fi involved; he's acts like just another rustic nut. His mummified ancestors are the scary presence. Maybe the sulphur water could've been put to better use by somehow reanimating them. There aren't really any memorable performances here. Richard Kiel is kind of a cool caveman. His better scenes occur when he makes his way to town; "Large man or giant creating disturbance" as the police dispatcher aptly puts it. The scene with the drunk is a good bit: he admits he's got to be pretty messed-up to see the likes of a 7'2" caveman. Eegah also makes a splash at the club; plus its buffet line has he-man portions.It might've been better to explore the comic possibilities of his fish-out-if-water situation. Instead that aspect is just hinted at. Given the more or less serious role he has, Eegah needs some menacing quality: a hideous mutation, possessing some superpower, something more. As big as he is, he's not even that convincing as a giant. James Arness was half a foot shorter than Kiel (ok, probably the same height with his elevator shoes), but was a frightening presence in The Thing. The only scene where Kiel truly looks gigantic is in his first appearance, where he's juxtaposed to Roxy, in her diminutive 'bug-eyed' Sprite. His relative normality increases after he's shaved. When townspeople freak out at his appearance, it's probably at least as much because of his obvious primitivism, than because of his size.It doesn't help that the owl-faced Tom has no charisma. The blending of rocking-and-rolling teens with monsters in 50s-60s sci-fi is infinitely better-handled in The Giant Gila Monster and The Blob. The lead in Gila Monster actually plays a cool character who can sing; Tom's a wannabee.In fact Eegah is a wannabee movie: it's got invited to the sci-fi party, but just couldn't swing.

This movie has everything.Forty year old people playing teens, pretending it's dark outside and splitting up to search.About a third of the movie is this kid singing.Even while laying on the ground in the desert alone at night, he still has a full band accompanying him.One time he decides he wants to dance so he just hands his guitar to a random guy and now that guy is in the band.Not to be out done, that guy hands it off to another guy and even he can just jump right into the song.Of course this kid can't shut up about his dune buggy, which is just a car with all the body panels missing.So the teen girl has seen a giant cave man and since her elderly father doesn't believe her, he immediately drops everything to go look for him by himself.You know he disappears and then the kids go looking for him and decide to split up.And you know what happens when people split up.For most of the movie it seems like the audio must be dubbed because it just doesn't really fit and that leads us to the best part of this movie.When the dung buggy gets stuck in the sand, the kid turns to his girlfriend and her dad(who are riding in it with him) and says "Get in!".WHAT?While not even close to being a good movie, this may be the best cave man movie I have seen.

I was bored with this film right from the start. I hit the fast-forward button then back to normal speed for the ending. I realize this film is something of a cult classic but right now I'm not "feeling it". I might try watching this film again in the future - maybe if I'm in one of my really dorky moods and want something stupid to watch but that might be a very long time from now.I bet Eegah is where Encino Man (1992) lifted it's idea from. A caveman in the current modern times. I got a few giggles out of Encino Man, but I didn't crack a tiny smile nor giggle to myself at Eegah. Eegah bored me and had me rolling my eyes at it.1/10

If there's a plot, there's no need to recap it.Dare I say it. The movie at times shows flashes of competence, but fortunately these pass quickly. Now, why our flimsy skirt girl prefers Pillsbury Doughboy Arch Hall Jr. to a guy who could make big bucks in pro-basketball is beyond me. The trouble is our lonely pre-historic man hasn't learned how to court a woman. Instead, he paws her like an awkward first date. Likely it's the flimsy dress she's wearing. Then too, introducing her to the folks is like a tour through an Egyptian mortuary. Still, she does eventually see advantages to his size. Probably that's because Hall Jr.'s hair-mop seems to be devouring his head. But, better an over-grown grunter than a 3rd-rate rock and roller who bleats out bad tunes. Poor Eegah. His worst mistake was wandering into civilization in pursuit of his ladylove. If only he had seen King Kong, he'd know better. Frankly, I was rooting for the Big Guy the whole time. Maybe that way, he would have kidnapped Hall Sr. and Jr., thereby sparing us further installments of home movies like this one.