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Mighty Gorga/One Million AC/DC [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Price: £4.66
Average customer rating: 1.0

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381118629
Label : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Release date : 2002-08-06
Title : Mighty Gorga/One Million AC/DC [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
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Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1969-01-01
Region code : 1
Running time : 150
Studio : Image Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1969

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review by: Adrian date: 2007-02-05 rating:

Oh dear...
Now this is poor. br / br /I've seen "A*P*E", so I know BAD monkey movies, but this is far worse than even that, in fact it makes "A*P*E" look like a blockbuster! A circus owner called Mark Remington needs a big draw to save his ailing business, so he treks to deepest Africa in search of a mythical giant ape to capture. You don't need much more plot than that to make a giant ape movie, so there isn't any. We are greeted with a drab start at a very lack-lustre animal show, as Mark Remington bemoans the loss of profits at his circus, so we wait impatiently through some dull dialogue until he hears about the legendary giant ape and jets off to Africa. Africa is modestly depicted by it's "airport" (some non-descript building's lobby with - look! - palm trees), and the road outside. Once there, Mark meets a lady big game hunter and she knows the whereabouts of the said mighty ape - a lofty rock plateau, deep in the African wilderness. So off they trek, into tropical jungles, which are represented by some very non-tropical looking back yard woodlands with about five metres of trickling muddy stream, which the cast are shown stepping through or over at least half a dozen times from different angles. The towering prehistoric plateau that they have to scale turns out to be a very gently sloping quarry. A constant barrage of jungle drums and cawing birds obliterate the soundtrack, to further try and convince the viewer that we are in Africa, but it doesn't really help! br / br /But if you think that's bad, wait until you see the Mighty Gorga himself! Only shown from the waist up - which saved on buying the legs of a costume - his most bizarre attribute is his stuck on plastic eyes which constantly stare in one fixed direction, and thats not even the same for both eyes! This gives him a constant alarmed /enraged expression, which isn't helped by some very unco-ordinated stomping and waving by the guy wearing the costume (oops, sorry, gave it away there!). He also has a rather wild mop of hair which tends to stick out wildly in some shots and then get nicely combed down again later on. br / br /The true highlight is when our heroes are menaced by a Tyrannosauras Rex glove puppet and only the intervention of Gorga allows them to escape. You really won't believe your eyes when this clash of the titans unfolds on the screen. You would think sights this bad would have to be a spoof - if not for the earnest (ie, hammy) acting of the cast and the awful, cumbersome script. Speaking of the acting, it's mostly forgettable, except on the occasions when the actors clearly mess their lines up and it's evident that no second take was deemed worth bothering with - now thats breath-takingly bad movie making. Shame of a different kind comes from the cameo of a giant lizard in a cave. This one's not a bad monster, but it's borrowed footage from another movie which is (believe it or not) run for a few frames and then reversed in quick succession, over and over, to keep the monster in one position, which gives it the ludicrously appearance of dancing on the spot. Then there's the fabulous "lost treasure hoard" which turns out to be a small box filled with white and pink PLASTIC children's beads (..."These must be worth a fortune!" the cast emote - they must not get out much). Things trundle on for a bit longer until around the 80 minute mark when the wretched thing comes to a feeble conclusion. br / br /If, somehow, you still want more, you get a second feature on the Something Weird DVD, but you'll need to be a serious masochist to manage more than a few minutes of "One Million AC/DC". It's a threadbare soft-porn flick that features people in fur loincloths pretending to be lusty cavemen and women romping in a cave. Well pretending is too strong a word, as nobody makes even the slightest pretence at acting. Apart from that, there's a T-Rex attack which uses the same puppet as featured in "Gorga" for close-ups, plus a plastic toy one being held up and waved about by hand for long shots, which truly insults the viewer's tolerance by not even trying to be realistic. There's nothing else to look at but ugly naked strippers rolling on the floor of a cave for a little over an hour. Do yourself a favour and don't even dignify this by watching it. br / br /Luckily the current Something Weird DVD is not expensive, and I'm grateful to them for offering us all the chance to see "The Mighty Gorga". It really does take the crown as the worst giant ape movie ever made, but along with the laughs comes a certain amount of boredom during all the padding, so bear that mind. And alongside "One Million AC/DC" it actually looks like a masterpiece, which just goes to show you that however bad something is, there is ALWAYS something even worse not too far behind it.

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