** 1/2 It's Big, It's Bad, It's a Behemoth!

After years of atomically created monster movies, the British try their luck at it. They make a movie featuring a monster that is both giant, and a behemoth. Now that's big! It's of biblical proportions, because it was based on the bible or something.

By now, it is generic. Strange occurrences happen. Scientists come in, do experiments, and discover that it is a giant monster right before it attacks the nearest city. The monster destroys the city, walks off, and is destroyed by a special plan. The movie follows this format with a creature that is sort of like a brachasaurus, that got hit by an atomic bomb, and is know highly radioactive. That combined with its electrical field make it able to project radioactivity rays and fry people. Sounds nuts? It is.

The plot gets rather far fetched at times, but it is actually pretty good. It is interesting to watch, so it isn't too boring the first time around. It involves silly physics, and ironically portrays scientists in a realistic way. However, science in its true format is rather boring at times. However, there is this one paleontologist guy who is not very-scientist like, but goofy, crazed, and funny. The acting is pretty good, and only seems bad because of culture clash (hey, this is Britain we're talking about, acting isn't bad, it's just weird). But, I've seen worse, and I can tell that it isn't that bad in comparison.

The special effects were created by Willis O'Brien (you know, the guy who did the original "King Kong"), so the stop motion effects are pretty good, when they decide to use them. When they don't, it's pathetically stupid. However, it may be good, but not if they show it over and over again. I heard that the same car is stepped on three times! Not only that, but they show the creature's head a few too many times in the first attack wave. Still, I've seen worse here too.

As a whole, pretty generic, but it has nougat bad parts to bump it down a little. Still, not a bad watch, fairly fun, and very "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms"-ish (after all, it's the same director). A little warning for the squeamish: you see a lot of radioactivity burns and dead fish in this movie. Luckily it's in black and white. But, as a whole, it's a basic generic stop-motion dinosaur on-the-loose movie. It looks like a mix between "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" and the last scene of the original "The Lost World". So, don't expect originality, just expects what you already seen, in a British-like atmosphere, and not much else.

Good plot

Good special effects

Realistic scientist format

You can't help liking the paleontologist guy

Generic, but alone, the stuff it ripped-off was good

However, you can't leave it alone, and it is a rip-off!

Lame effects at times

A bit dull at times

Far-fetched and off the physics scale

Since when do dinosaurs have electrical fields anyways?

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