Gargantua (1998)
Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Along with the local doctor Alyson Hart, they soon become caught up in the investigation of a series of recent drownings with unexpected results. As Jack explores the surrounding ocean for a mysterious marine creature, Brandon discovers and befriends a three-foot-long baby creature that is able to leave the ocean and walk on land. As more dangerous and giant creatures come onto the island, and the military begins to take offensive action, Jack must risk everything to save the creatures, the island and his son. Written by ADAM G. THOMAS
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Absolutely the worst movie.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Yup this was a special kind of movie.It was like Tvs Sinbad the pirate! They have lizards for monsters, but make them look bigger. That's just stupid.But hey, the movie gave me a good laugh;o)
Twenty foot, nine foot; size is not that important when it involves these freaks of nature effected by insecticides and angered by underwater earthquakes. The giant ocean creatures bring fear to a tiny Polynesian island and a marine biologist(Adam Baldwin) and his young son(Emile Hirsch)try to protect them from being killed. Julie Carmen and Peter Adams also participate in this more or less waste of time.
This movie was pretty awful but I must say that I've seen many movies that were much, much worse. Remember Jaws 4 where the shark actually ROARED?After reaing some of these reviews I was half expecting to see Bela Lugosi pop up and say "pull da string!" I'll give it a 4 out of 10.
Surely one of the worst productions in screen history, laying claim to be a serious movie - on second thoughts it COULDN'T have meant to be serious!A subterranean rift releases a family of progressively bigger and more oafish plastic "blow-up" dinosaurs in the waters of Malau, a fictitious Polynesian Island from some B-Grade scriptwriter's imagination. A few locals are "tugged" to death by an unseen force, presumably to cut down costs on unnecessary FX!Baldwin (once an actor, in COHEN AND TATE, INDEPENDENCE DAY) plays a US Marine scientist on hand to study seismic activity in the area. He must surely have needed the money. Julie Carmen is best remembered as stylish vampire queen Regina in FRIGHT NIGHT 2....this surely will have put paid to HER phone ever ringing again.About as scary as the chicken in the Toyota commercials, whoever was responsible for "Gargantua" (which for most of my childhood was the famous gorilla at London's Regent Park Zoo!) should be blacklisted from ever working in the industry again. Never has a creature looked more like an inflatable balloon made-over by four year olds face-painting. Ed Wood never came up with anything this bad!Appalling Oz accents abound (It WAS a joint Australia/US co-production) with a script at high-school level...no, make that pre-school! The flick never made theatrical release (except perhaps in Malau!) and gained only minimal coverage on cable. There IS nothing worse. Worthy of a health-warning, rather than a rating (negative as that would HAVE to be)