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

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

The first must-see film of the year.

I have also wondered about this movie for a very long time. I saw it as a kid on TV, and only remember the plot about the giant sea turtle and the final scene with Carl Weather's character and the other trying in vain to cut through the cable tangled around Carl's ankle with a pocket knife... then being pulled to the depths by the giant creature. That last shot of Carl's character going deeper and deeper with a trail of bubbles above him... very haunting as a kid. And it has stayed with me all these years. Odd, for someone who has lived, worked and played on the ocean most of my life, this image have prevented me from learning to SCUBA dive when younger for fear of not being able to see past 50 feet or so while underwater (clearly, no, I've never considered learning in water that was more clear to see through!). Wow - never thought I would find the name of this movie again.

Like many of the rest of you, I thought this movie may have been a dream while I was a child. I saw it only once on TV and then never again. It was the best movie, thank god i remembered Carl Weathers or I'd never have known how to search it. All I could remember was the beach and the bubble which ended up bearing the turtle and the initials in his shell which i used to think were written in chalk! And of course Jenny's flowing dress in shreds with the giant harpoon hole in her side. this was a mystical movie that just brought kids into a completely different world and there were very few of these in the 70s and perhaps that is why it meant so much to so many. Please release this onto DVD. We should lobby whatever network this was broadcast on and beg to have it mass produced.

I have thought of this movie for 30 years, asking my parents if they remembered, but they didn't. I wondered for awhile if I dreamed the whole thing up, or if the movie was just a TV show, or an actual movie. I do know that it left such an impression that I have never forgotten it! My memories are sort of vague, but I remember that it involved some giant sea turtle or turtles and some sort of music that I loved. I thought I would never know the answers, but here I have found it after searching around just a little on this sight. I see that many people remember this movie and I am not alone! I am wondering how I would get a copy? I can't say really if I love it, hate it, I just REMEMBER it as a six-year-old and it has never left my mind. I find it very strange that it would stick with me as it has, and feel I MUST see it again!

I too saw this movie only once, at age 9 in 1978. Maybe twice, but it still lingers in my mind ever since. As a young boy, I thought Connie Selleca was beautiful, an angel in fact. Well, maybe more of a mermaid or sea nymph here. The giant turtle in the movie was pretty wild since Selleca as Jenny and her boyhood friend found this turtle, kept it as a pet I think, then released it to the sea where it grew to this enormous size. I think there was some mad scientist that genetically engineered the turtle to grow so big but I'm not sure. Typically, Carl Weathers was in the movie and he dies by being pulled under water by the giant turtle an drowning as he is attached to the turtle by a rope around his leg. It was a tragic love story. Pretty cheesy, but I'll give it a 7 for staying in my find for 30 years. Oh, the scientific name of a giant turtle is Archelon Ischyros.