Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

When I first heard of Gualtiero Jacopetti, I first decided to watch Africa Addio. Then, this movie caught my attention. Mondo Cane(Italian for Dog World) tells a definitive but shocking story of how royally screwed up the world is and may serve a purpose considered the fact that we live in the same screwed-up world today. The only two scenes that I couldn't bear to watch was the beginning of this movie and the scene where dogs were skinned and cooked at a Taiwanese restaurant(Mainly because I'm a dog lover myself). There are also other scenes that made me scratch my head and think "Is any of this stuff real?" such as the dedication of Rudolph Valentino at Italy, sailors going gah-gah over women in bikinis, bulls that are decapitated in Nepal, and many others. Like it or not, Mondo Cane is hard to avoid. I'd skip the scenes with the animals, but stay tuned to the others. PS, the music is enjoyable to listen to!

This planet which many humans believe is theirs, has so many mysterious aspects that when a cinematic camera and light are turned on it, are interestingly illuminated like the elusive creatures of the night. A world traveler may go seeking the strange, the unusual, the bizarre and occasionally the forbidden and often find much more than he bargained for. That is what the film "Mondo Cane" is all about. It is a black collection of the many unusual parts of our strange world. The film travels around the globe seeking out the odd customs of various people and offers them up as interesting fare to the ambivalent traveler, the timidly interested and the curiously morbid. In each country visited, we find that what one nation finds disgusting, another finds tolerable. One nation offers up unusual human sexual practices, which another country often finds offensive, tasteless and guttural. Animals in one country are revered, honored and treated as royalty. Yet in a neighboring nation, these same beasts are prepared as special delicacies fit for consumption. Women, boys and pain seeking parishioners are accepted as sacrificial fodder. Viewers are treated to the world's most primitive customs and often as not we see ourselves at the very depth of depravity and learn it is not polite to stare, which we do anyway. A frightening movie, but one which reveals more about us than we care to know. Still, one cannot turn away without wanting to see 'MORE' which happens to be the Theme Song of this same picture. ****

Watching "Mondo Cane" some 25 years after it originally shocked cinema audiences, I still found myself experiencing a variety of emotions. Despite the dated presentation (in many ways, this actually enhances the weirdness of the whole experience), the film still packs a mild punch, even to this jaded viewer.A combination of the amusing (would-be actors posing themselves for the camera and geriatric Hollywood residents working out on a variety of unusual equipment), the sad (turtles on a radioactive Bikini beach, having lost their ability to find water, head away from the sea and into the scorching sand and certain death) and the shocking (animal cruelty including bull fighting) results in a powerful cocktail.The cynical, xenophobic narrator delivers a witty commentary while the proceedings unfold on the screen.Superbly edited and scored, this is definitely a different viewing experience. A journey into bizarreville; 7 out of 10.

Etapic documentary.Necropsy of modern world.First shoot of shokumentary we can see at Dziga Vertov's "Chelovek s kino-apparatom"(1929).This film was manifesto for Truth in cinema(see outspoken frame of delivery in that movie).After more then thirteen years lessons of( ") truth (for 24frames in second" )not forgotten.Italian filmmakers made great invention to add horror to documentary .It was not only commercial movement for fashion but widening of expression's resources .On screen:mad from fat rich men eating the insects.Another madmen organized cemetery with crypts for there pets.Awful drunkards , crazy modern art , fanatics,death...And wild tribe, which bow to airplane - curved smile in the end of the film.