Jmorrissey5-1 Yes, yes, yes, it's a pallid remake of Beast From 20,000 Fathoms with a mixed bag of effects, but the commentary by special effects masters Dennis Murren and Phil Tippett is condescending in the extreme. Granted their focus was on the special effects - which in many cases are poor due to a low budget - but their absolute ignorance about some of the cast members was shocking. Most particularly they were sarcastically dismissive of the great Jack McGowan who's credits include "The Quiet Man" and "Lord Jim" to name just a few. They didn't even realize that he was in "The Exorcist" and in fact died while making that film. In future, Warner Brothers might be better served by including commentaries by film makers (or even fans) who are not so narrowly focused and who might contribute to one's enjoyment of the film rather than detract from it.

O2D This movie is hilarious even though it's not a comedy.It's supposed to take place in England and sometimes it looks like they might be there. The actors try to fake British accents and fail miserably.Sometimes they don't even try. The Behemoth is a radioactive monster that spends the first hour melting people by just looking at them(and we never see the behemoth). When he finally appears on screen,he flips a boat over and chases some very calm civilians. He totally forgets he can melt them. Then he decides to melt 4 or 5 people,then 4 army guys. US Army guys because it's England........ Apparently the US Army is England's army too. One time the phone rings and the army guy picks it up and says "I want to talk to....". They called him! WTF?!?!??!?!Two guys go out in a mini-submarine and the behemoth attacks it.It doesn't damage the outside but breaks some pipes inside. Guess what's in the pipes????? WATER!!! Yes,a mini-sub needs 3 or 4 large pipes carrying water.Makes perfect sense. It's a dumb movie but it's better than the first 5 Godzilla movies. If you like monsters and don't hate black & white,check it out.

Koosh_King01 The redundantly titled The Giant Behemoth (originally titled Behemoth, the Sea Monster) is a sub-par sci-fi potboiler from director Eugene Lourie and special effects maestro Willis O'Brien. It's loaded to the gills with padding, padding and more padding, and what stop-motion animation footage was done by O'Brien and his team is looped quite a bit during the Paleosaurus' initial London rampage. That said, for what it is, it isn't bad.Once one accepts that it's a B-movie it can be enjoyed. There's s'more stop-motion goodness to be had after the London walkabout, involving the Paleosaurus destroying some powerlines and then picking up a car with some people inside and tossing it into the Thames.Several scenes in the film pay homage to both Lourie's and O'Brien's earlier films. The Paleosaurus picking the car up is a nod to Beast from 20,000 Fathoms apparently, while the dinosaur causing a bridge to collapse with its weight, dumping itself unintentionally into the Thames, is a throwback to O'Brien's original 1925 special effects masterpiece, The Lost World. I also love that almost all of the screams used in the film are recycled from 1933's King Kong!

dougdoepke So what happened here—no 1950's busty babe to snuggle up to the hero while he saves the world from the latest mutant monster. Certainly, we teen boys expected some eye candy between fun special effects. Of course, the blue-collar middle-aged Gene Evans is not exactly the romantic type. But he sure knows how to deliver a nuclear warning that still makes a lot of sense, and may be the best thing about this 1959 installment of Godzilla stomps Tokyo. Except here, it's a radioactive lizard making a mess out of London. Nothing new or different about this drive-in special, just the usual squashed cars and screaming people. The lizard's okay, as these special effects go, but the toy cars could use some work. I'm just sorry one of those fast-buck Hollywood operators didn't get the epic first. Then we would get a busty babe, for sure, and us guys in the back row would have had something to cheer about.