Review of Gorgo

Gorgo (1961)
5/10
Been there, seen that.....
24 April 2017
Even though this is an obvious Godzilla rip-off,it's better and somehow worse at the same time. With Godzilla a lot of the dumbness is due to it being Japanese and dubbed,Gorgo uses all the typical American b-movie clichés but you see Gorgo a lot,Godzilla usually only shows up at the end.The best part is they advertise "Like nothing you've ever seen before!".I've seen lots of stuff like it. So some generic sailors break down in an Irish harbor.Of course there's a harbor master and wouldn't you know it,he has a little boy that isn't his son(this is getting weird).You know the harbor master is shady and that means he will clash with the sailors. Gorgo shows up and all of a sudden there are hundreds of people with an endless supply of torches to throw.Clearly torches are cheap and easy to make as they throw hundreds at a 60 foot tall monster who is standing in the ocean. The sailors easily capture Gorgo and what do you think they do?? You know what they do.....TO THE BIG CITY!!!!!! This time it's London and almost no one has a British accent. So they put him in a pit with an electric wire around it and charge people to see him,totally safe. It wouldn't be a movie if a scientist didn't instantly figure out that this isn't an adult,with absolutely no evidence or reason. You know where this is going. Not that bad.It's better than every Godzilla movie I've seen so far and that's quite a few.
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