Well this movie is called Godzilla of England and righfully so. 5 minutes in the movie a ship gets attacked by creature in the sea, that looks extremely like Godzila. then we see what looks like a preparation to leave int o sea by couple detectives and a hardcore captain. and their helper divers start dieing underwater. No, thier not detectives, they just want to dive there to find the same gold the dead guys did. and they see the monster themself as they dive after the dead bodies. but they decide that they dont want to talk about it later. they find out the hardcore captain doesnt have permit and decide to leave but its too late, the town is being attacked by a godzila like mosnter with red eyes. apperently spears manadge to get stuck inside his eye but does no damage, what does this guys eys are made of rubber or something? they soon find out however that bullets are totaly ineffective. the monster however is around 2 stories high, so its more like a godzilla baby. it screams similary, and tnhe just stnads there till they figure out that you have to throw fire inside his mouth for him to run. thats convenien, mosnter gives you time to defeat him.
so instead of runing they decide to get rid of the monster for a price. with no weapons to hit him thats nto really smart. so they decide to catch it with primitive submarine (sort of a metal box on a crane thing) and fishing nets. that has to be the worst plan to catch a monster ever. they soon find out the monster can aswell scream underwater and attempt to eat the metal pod. their crane gets stuck and the pod crushed. but the nets they dont forget. and apperently a mosnter that can bite though a heavy metal pod can be both trapped and raised in the fishing nets. its not like the underwater submarine crane failed to lift it at first or anything. so what do they do, they sell it in london. apperently they didnt care that irish authorities claimed it, they jsut wanted profit.
the stupid kid wants to let it free. why is it always kids do stupid decisions in movies? the monster attempts to breake loose, if you can call moving its take attempting. he manadges to kill one guy and then sort of just goes to sleep. They soon name it Gorgo and sell it to Circus. they tranqualize and transport it into the middle of london. another "smart" move. apperenly name gorgo came from gargoyle according to circus owner. i still dont see conenction of a sea godzilla child and mythincal stone monster. and then they just sort of gut it loose inside a circus backyard. WHAT THE HELL, WHY? lians and other big cars in circus seems to not like him either, they are smarter than humans here. it reigns trouble in the marking lot of circus and thne gets scared by flamethrowers and just walks into space confined by wooden fence that is half his size. and thats supposed to stop him? thats one weak monster.
5 shilings to see gorgo, thatsp retty darn cheap considering the trouble it has caused. and soon there is a huge amount of people that want to see it. he suddenly appears to be inside some sort of ditch surounded by seats for wievers pleasure and screems at the crowd. the professon figures out it is indeed a baby, i was right afterall. so we will be waiting for the real godzilla now.
And almsot instantly we see the good mom attacking the small town the kid was kidnapped from. now thats a monster.
Navy attacks the mommy and once again, altrough the gusn are bigger, so is the mosnter, and it fails. mosnter takes revenge this time and sinks a destroyer with one hit. then a captain gets drunk and attempts to let the baby loose, but is stopped. so they send yet another battleship to get sunk. this time we see mroe artillery fire and even concussion bombs, which i may add exploding so close to battleship would be suicidal. then submarine tries to torpeedo him (concussion bombs with submarine nearby, are they crazy?) but the creature just keps on going and ends up in London docks.
their plan this time is much better, fill whole bay with a shitload of petroleum and then just burn the bastard. all it does is annoys the monster so they try tanks next. to revenge, the monster breakes london bridge into pieces, bastard. all the general can come up with is "The power of this thing is fantastic". Up next - missiles. for this monster destroy london tower. as the mosnter attakcs the ity we seep eople runing jumping from windows, thowing thier wives from windows, og wiat throwing wives from windows? why woudl they do that? want to get wife dead and panic be your excuse? metros also collapse fom the weight of monster, it seems true to the japaneese godzilla. they try bombing and rocketing the creature from jets but that gives as much help as any other measure. eventually they figure out that if electricity worked on the baby, maybe it will work on the big one. so they decide to turn a power station into a big frying pan. the continue the fireworks, erm i mean missiles, because once you get mosnter closeup it has fireworks shooting into it filmed. so they jolt it with 4 million wolts. nothing. eventually it finds its child and rescues it. they both seem to slowly stroll outside.
Story: 5/10. a child is captured and mother comes to rescue, in a mosnter fashion.
Acting: 3/10. most acting done by a man in a rubber suit, still not good.
Sound: 0/10. whne people talk the mosnter screams queter then suddenly it goes twice the sound because somoen stopped talking and it really gets annoying. the effects are poor, the mosnter sounds like hees on lsd and people just cant deliver.
Sci factor: 2/10. 2 for there were 2 scinetific things: 1 - having to keep water on the monster for it to stay alive and 2 - for mother to trailing her young scent.
Lasting Appeal: 4/10. will remmeber it was godzilla of london, but not much else.
Overall rating: 3/10.
Subject: Drive-in Sci-Fi: Gorgo (1961) 
Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:57 pm
