Really Surprised!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Blistering performances.

This movie is pretty much what I was expecting, middle-aged men and women pretending to be teens and lame special effects.It starts with a car crash and about ten people pile out of the car and dance to imaginary music.You can tell from that opening scene that this is no master piece.Then they see a sign for a town and decide to walk there and then just force themselves on the locals and decide they are going to stay there.Meanwhile, Ron Howard has accidentally invented a potion that can turn living things into giants.His brother immediately decides it belongs to him and he's going to sell it(pay no attention to the fact that they don't have parents).They make some giant ducks and the ducks show up at a party and no one is shocked or scared, they just dance with the ducks.Then magically, the new kids know where Ron and his brother live and where they have hidden the new potion.As dumb as it all is, the worst part is all the terrible music.It's not background music, they are always dancing to it.The good points are that I never saw the end coming and the movie isn't boring.Four stars.

Village of the Giants (1965)* (out of 4)Incredibly bad "giant" movie from Bert I. Gordon about a boy named Genius (Ron Howard) who creates a formula that turns things huge. At first this formula is tested on some ducks and a dog but then an annoying group of teenagers get their hands on it. Once the teenagers are giants, they take over the city and lay down their own form of the law.Gordon's VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS is without question one of the director's worst movies if not the very worst. There's no doubt that Gordon made a lot of bad movies throughout his career but thankfully most of them at least had some charm to them that made them entertaining and worth watching. That's certainly not the case with this movie, which is pretty annoying from the opening scene to the very last. Worst of all is that the film is very confused as to what it wants to be.I say this because the film seems to be a mix between the director's "giant" movies and those BEACH PARTY films. This film kicks off with one of the dumbest dance scenes in the history of cinema as the annoying teens get out in the rain, dance and roll around in the mud. Things get even worse once they become giants because the material is just too silly to be taken serious. There certainly aren't any scares to be had with how silly everything is and the "silly" aspects are just as bad because the teenagers are annoying and they ask for dumb things like the adults having a curfew.Then there are the special effects, which are the worst you're going to see in any movie from Gordon. The giant effects are just so downright awful that you can't believe the producers allowed them to be used. Just take a look at the sequence where the people in town are turning over their guns while a "giant" watches them. Not only is the special effect bad but the director obviously didn't even bother to tell the extra to "look" at this giant. I mean, if dozens of people were lined up with a giant next to them, don't you think they'd look over at that giant? VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS is what some might call innocent fun but there's no fun to be had here no matter what.

This completely ridiculous tongue-in-cheek adolescent sci-fi comedy romp represents 60's kitsch at its most delightfully dumb and inoffensive. The plot alone is pure silliness: A precocious little squirt scientific genius named -- what else? -- Genius (none other than future "Happy Days" TV show star and mainstream feature director Ron Howard!) creates a special formula called goo that causes both people and animals to growth substantially in size. Of course, a no-count band of rowdy rebellious teenagers led by the suave Fred (an embarrassingly bad turn by Beau Bridges) eat the goo and become evil tyrant towering behemoths who take over the town. It's up to nice guy Mike (former Disney movie star Tommy Kirk) to stop them. Boy, does this hilariously ludicrous honey deliver the campy goods with a gut-busting vengeance: we've got fumbling (mis)direction by the ever-inept Bert I. Gordon, uproariously poor and unconvincing (not so) special effects (the huge wooden legs are especially laughable), extremely variable acting, a pair of giant dancing ducks, hopelessly dated "hip" slang (favorite line: "Dig that nitty gritty"), a cheerfully silly tone, blithely lewd and idiotic humor (one dude hangs off the breasts of a busty lady giant!), an excellent rock soundtrack, and more insanely groovy dancing than you can shake a tail feather at (the lengthy sequence with the over-sized teens dancing up a storm is positively sidesplitting!). Better still, Jack Nizsche supplies a terrific catchy score (the rumbling instrumental tune "The Last Race" is simply fantastic), both Freddy Cannon and the Beau Brummels make special guest musical appearances, and such hot babes as Joy Harmon (the buxom blonde car wash girl in "Cool Hand Luke"), Tisha Sterling, and Toni Basil provide a plethora of delicious distaff eye candy. Stanley Kubrick film regular Joe Turkel plays the no-nonsense sheriff and Rance Howard even briefly pops up as a deputy. All in all, this infectiously inane stupidity sizes up as a total goofy hoot.

As mentioned in the summary line, "Village Of The Giants" has many of the elements of the live action Disney comedies of the early 60's: mildly bemused humor with a 'way out' attitude, safely toned down for the kiddies ("The Barefoot Executive"); teen gang dynamics romance, and dancing ("The Monkey's Uncle"); a magical chemical substance that breaks the laws of physics via cheesy process shots ("Flubber"); a juvenile genius ("The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes") and even Tommy Kirk (ex-Mousketeer and juvenile lead from many of the old Disney movies, by then in exile from The Magic Kingdom). My guess is that Bert I. Gordon, who tried his hand at many different genres (including fantasy, horror, and film noir)(all badly) decided to make a Disney film - only slightly hipper (music by the Beau Brummels, blonds in bikinis, drug jokes, etc) racier by 60's standards) and campier."Village" is intentionally camp and cheesy, all right. And it's even vaguely funny. Not "ha-ha" funny, but pothead funny - if you were stoned or drunk, you might get a mild chuckle out of the proceedings.In its favor, "Giants" features some pretty nice eye candy in the form of the blond girl members of the 'bad' teen gang that comes to town to make trouble for "our" wholesome, law abiding teen gang. (This is speaking as a male, of course). They're pretty hot, if you like the Pam Anderson platinum blond go-go dancer type. They also dance real good. And the Beau Brummels contribute a couple of nice, lively pop songs that are much rawer and funkier than anything you would hear in a Disney film from that time.Against: practically everything else. Beau Bridges eventually matured into a fine actor, but the movie tries to peddle him as a cool guy and a teen idol, which is ridiculous given his mole-like, opaque features, constipated expression and pale, flabby body. He has great hair and complexion, and that's it. Poor Tommy Kirk tries his best to carry the film as the teen 'hero' of the town, but at this point in his career, it was basically over for him. As a result, he tries too way hard and the movie makes him such a goody two shoes that you can't help but cheer when giant Beau backhands him for a loop. The special effects range from barely acceptable (a couple nice shots of the giant kids gathered on a theater stage) to ludicrously bad (the giant mannequin legs that Tommy breaks a chair against). The screenplay is completely brain dead even as it tries to veer from heavy handed irony to action to comedy, managing to be none of those things...not even good camp. I don't want to pick on the supporting cast, though, because the screenplay called for cardboard cutouts to go through the motions and allows none of the 'minor' members of the cast any room for something as evocative as actual 'acting'. BTW, what was the deal with the red headed go-go dancer? Was it supposed to be sexy when she vibrates all over like a blender set on 'puree'? Was she supposed to be shaking her 'bippy'? It wasn't a go-go dance, it was a muscle control exhibition...! Wait, stop, take a breath. (Whoofa, whoofa, whoofa. OMMMMMmmmmmm...)OK, the movie is basically harmless. It's just really stupid, so stupid as to nullify even the 'camp' entertainment value. MST3K covered it in one of their later 'Sci-Fi' channel episodes, which is pretty funny. Go watch that one if you can, or don't. You won't be missing much.