What a waste of my time!!!

The greatest movie ever!

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

And, what I expected was a poor man's hybrid of "Jaws" and "Godzilla," or even "E.T. MEETS GORGO.". *Ahrrr! There be spoilers ahead.* But, instead of one CGI sea monster, I GOT FOUR!!! A WHOLE FAMILY!!!! In putting together several different sci-fi cliches, the production company behind this movie came up with something relatively new. And, surprisingly pleasant, to boot. Felt sorry for the death of Big Mama. But, it was kind of heart-warming to see Big Daddy stop rampaging and head for home, once the two kids had been recovered by him! In short, a nice Grade B-plus movie to while away a boring rainy night.

It sounds like the long-lost sequel to WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1967) and comes in an ALIEN-style video box, but this is actually a lame kiddie-style tele-movie that debuted on Fox.Adam Baldwin is a widowed scientist on the Australian island of Malau with his depressed young son, where illegal DDT dumping results in a variety of mutant creatures. A cute baby salamander monster with big goo-goo eyes makes friends with the son after he feeds him cheese balls. A not-so-nice medium sized one with sharp teeth and horns follows, and a really mean giant mama monster comes searching for her babies and terrorizes the city. Naturally, the military shows up, act as dense as they usually do in these movies and blast the big one. THEN the father shows up!I suppose that kids may like it, but the lousy dialogue and nauseating family dramatics will be a bit much for adults to stomach. FX give new meaning to the term "uneven"--the two smaller monsters (either animatronics or CG) aren't bad, but the larger ones are almost on the same level of those old Saturday Matinée GODZILLA flicks.And the moral of the story hasn't changed--be nice to giant lizard monsters or they will stomp on you!

This is absolutely the best movie I've ever seen, and it's packed with high-tech special effects and top-notch acting. They really succeded in making the lizards movement look natural, especially with the smallest one (just look when it dives into the water, beautiful!)...I hope Spider-man is as good as this!

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)