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Release Date: 23 May, 2000 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Mighty Peking Man Reviews
Let's Not Get Crazy
I watched this movie on IFC or the Sundance Channel because I wondered why this movie would be on those channels. I guess Quentin Tarantino is a fan or there's a DVD of this movie with "Quentin Tarantino Presents" on it or something.
What does QT see in this? I don't know.
This is a terrible movie. Think of the worst American monster movie made in color on a $1.98 budget and then make it five times worse. Ed Wood would've turned this project down. I grew up loving Godzilla movies and I still didn't like this.
The only thing this movie has going for it is the stunningly-hot blonde running around in a skimpy outfit she can't keep on straight. The only drama, the only tension, the only interest I could maintain in this lame movie was what was going to pop out next on the native girl.
But is this so bad that it's good? I didn't think so. It's definitely not in the big leagues with GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER (the Big G fights a giant booger to the death) or the original HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (mutated salmon chases human women for some strange).
Maybe the folks at "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" could pull a classic episode out of this.
Mighty Entertaining!
If you are reviewing this film with a critical mind you are wasting your time and that of your reader. "The Mighty Peking Man" is pure Daikaiju (Giant Monster) fun from start to finish. If you see a "man in a suit" as many do, that's another obvious reason to avoid this film. Of course it's cheap and not as expensive as American films but it has some great moments worth mentioning. Many people tend to lump all Daikaiju films together because they don't get the concept so I can't read those reviews either. These are the same people that see Animae as being cartoons. Need I say more. Gamera & Godzilla are not in the same category as this film....next lesson.
You know the plot from ALL of the other reviews. Giant Ape and jungle girl meet with disaster in modern civilization. Twenty minutes into this film and you can see why The Shaw Brothers were brilliant Grindhouse film makers. It's no wonder Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures got it released. Many reviewers fail to see the connection between modern day cinematic homages to low budget films like this one. There was a style of producing/editing despite the obvious cheapness that makes this a pleasure to view.
Dramatic orchestra scores and funky soulful disco ballads collide with some nice sets and priceless dialog that you will not find in modern movies. I don't care what the Shaw Brothers intended, it's brilliant parody and fun to watch.
Don't be critical and miss the point. Compare this to APE being sold alongside this film. APE is SO BAD it's surrealistic. Who knows where the film producers were going with that movie. Call me crazy but this movie is a guilty pleasure and far more fun than most of modern Hollywood's CGI effect films. It's more fun than the seventies American remake of King Kong too.
Buy it, rent it, love it, it is what it is....entertaining and not to be reviewed as a landmark cinema classic, but rather a look back into the day when when we could go with our familys to drive-ins and not 20 unit stadium seating Cineplexes of doom! We watch these old movies because they remind of happy times...he said turning 40 in a month!
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