You won't be disappointed!

the audience applauded

Sorry, this movie sucks

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I do not know why this got a 3.9. It is a 7. It is just very underrated. I think there are to many sciences fiction that underrated and this is one of them. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is very scary. It is scarier then The silence of lambs could ever be. This is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. This is scarier the Friday the 13th V a new beginning and that is not easy to do. This is scarier the Halloween resurrection could ever be. If you like monster movies then you should see this movie.

Wow. Sexism, racism, monsterism, ridiculism, this movie has it all.I've seen many Japanese "man-in-a-rubber-suit" monster movies. Yup, got hooked as a kid. And this is the worst I've seen. To be fair, I saw it on one of the late night Monster, Horror, Chiller Theater showings, and it was the English dubbed version that had been edited down to just over an hour, so I could be missing some of the more subtle points and nuance.But here are the parts I DID see- The little Japanese boy, playing a "native" that went through the entire movie in black face (a subtle touch I managed to catch).The female scientist, who spent the whole movie cold-shouldering her suitor in order to pursue her career, only to decide at the end to give it all up to go home, become a woman, and wash diapers (a wholesome family message I was happy to see).Monsters that can't decide how large they are. Are they 10 feet tall, 100 feet tall, 1000 feet tall? The answer is YES! The version I saw did not explain how these flying, swimming, fire breathing lizard-birds (called Gappa) came to be. It also made no mention how a scientist with no prior knowledge of Gappa's immediately knew they were hypersensitive to certain sounds. But I'm sure that was all explained in the unedited version of the movie. Oh, and at the end of the movie, as the monsters flew off into the sunset, they blew up (huh?).This is not the worst movie ever made (Can you say "Monster a-Go Go"?), but it IS a really bad movie. I'm not sure how MST3K missed it.

This turkey involves a wealthy Japanese man recovering a bird-like monster from an expedition. Combining the "King Kong" and "Gorgo" story lines, they take the creature home for fun and profit. It turns out to be a baby, so mother and father chicken do a ballistic "Godzilla" walk over Japan. There are a lot of unbelievably poor "special effects". Toys go crash! Bang! Boom! Re-titled "Monster from a Prehistoric Planet" for English speaking audiences; it's laughable in some respects, offensive in others. Unfortunately, it's more offensive than funny, and only a cut above washing diapers.* Daikyojû Gappa (1967) Haruyasu Noguchi ~ Tamio Kawaji, Yoko Yamamoto, Yuji Okada

Ignoring the warnings of natives that Gappa will punish them, an expedition takes a strange reptile which just hatched from a huge egg back home to Japan with them. It grows until it's a proper monster, and then its enraged parents come around to trash cities like Godzilla on a mild day, stepping slowly and carefully on buildings. I think it is the poor special FX that are good for laughs in the first place, not the intentional ingredients such as the script. Even though an inspiration by good old "King Kong" is obvious, "Gappa" tries to be somewhat original since it tells the story of a monster family instead of rivaling creatures. The naive scene of daddy giving junior a first flight lesson sticks to my mind. Bad? Yes! But funny enough not to regret the time I spent watching it.