The Naked Jungle
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Movie Reviews of The Naked Jungle
Movie Review: Worth watching for the ants
Summary: 3 Stars
This is an adaptation of the fabulous short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants." It was acceptable, but could have been amazing, if Charlton Heston's character in the movie hadn't been such a turn-off. I love Heston as an actor, but by the half-way point I really wanted his character to get eaten.Movie Review: Interesting Is it scfi?
Summary: 3 Stars
Charlton Heston's early days. Drama for the most part BUT having this magnificant ScFi type ending. The whole film hangs on the ending.
It shows how special effects can tell the story not be it.
On the whole an "interesting film".
Movie Review: Better than a Bite in the Eye from a Marabunta
Summary: 2 Stars
My parents took me to see this movie when I was six years old. For most of my life, I had vague recollections of people being horrifically devoured by ants in it, and I always wondered why my parents would want to see such a movie, much less take me along. So one day I searched around and found the movie as well as the short story that goes with it.
After all those years, the flick was a disappointment. It's scary only to six-year-olds. As to the plot... it was very fifties, an era when psychiatry was taken seriously, and all human behavior was readily explainable as repressed homosexuality (which was known to cause any sort of behavior).
My mother was undoubtedly the person who wanted to see Naked Jungle. She adored.. uh... strong male leads, and Charlton Heston is doing his very best Marlon Brando imitation in this one - an effort that nevertheless falls short. (Heston couldn't act his way out of a paper bag.)
The story on which the film is based, Leningen Versus the Ants, is very nice. Read that and skip this nonsense. It's only slightly better than a bite in the eye from a Marabunta.