Village of the Giants
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Movie Reviews of Village of the Giants
Movie Review: It took a village to raise these damn idiots
Summary: 4 Stars
Very loose adaption of "Food of the Gods", as if HG Wells had adapted his work for one of those AIP Beach movies. In this one, a group of cardigan wearing bad-teens led by the evil Beau Bridges descend on a California town, not knowing that the town's resident genius (known as "Genius" and played by Ron Howard) has developed something called goo which causes super-growth. A couple of geese try the stuff and grow to a size slightly smaller than a BMW, amusing and amazing the town before ending up as the guests of honor at a BBQ for a town full of kids who can't spell FDA. In a classic scene, the evil Bridges gang steals the goo and, too delinquent to just sell the stuff to the highest bidder, they eat it. Growing to monstrous size (which is anything bigger than their clothes can stand before tearing off - a logical detail actually working for the plot for once), they take over the town and force its citizens to watch them engage in slow motion dancing (how hard did they have to fight for this town). Led by Tommy Kirk, the good teens try to keep the bad teens at bay until Genius can create a "cure" for the goo. At its worst, the flick is bald exploitation, and good clean fun at best. Most critics slam this as an exploitative version of the Wells book - why the connection was ever made is a mystery to me. The problem is that the producers take this stuff much to seriously - if they had Russ Meyer do it (a guy whose pretty honest of his intentions) it would have been a big cult hit.Movie Review: Town of the Overgrown young adults and very chessy effects!
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is about a two groups of young adults.First we have the bad young adults lead by the a very (I'd say 20-30ish Beau Bridges,judging by the amount of chest hair on him when he grows up to be a giant!) and the good young people lead by Tommy Kirk(Babes in Toyland). One of the good teen siblings(Ron Howard) accidently discovers a food stuff that makes whatever eats into a giant.The good teens accidently let some ducks and a dog eat it. meanwhile the bad teens wreck their car outside of the town where the good teens live. The bad teens decide to go have a good time dancing and causing trouble at a local teen hang out. There the bad teens learn of Genuis's goo(growth stuff). They plot to find a way to get their hands on it for money etc. Eventually the bad teens sends in a bad teen to steal the goo.They steal it but are discovered by the good teens and a brawl erupts. One of the bad teens escapes during the melee with the giant growth growing food.
Later at a abandoned play theater the bad teens decides to "dare" themselfs to take the goo.Finally Beau Bridges decides that all the bad young adults takes the substance. They all grow to be at least 2 stories high.Here is a example of bad special effects!In this part it looks like they are growing but we cannot tell becuase the film makers covered everyones chest and did a lousy job of making them giants.After they are done growing they get some new clothes(when they grew , they become naked! ) and go out on the town. Also why only one giant with chest hair?They could of got a few more hot hairy peoples besides Beau?Also why not make the good teens giants too and let the town become a battlefield?
They promptly take over the town by doing some very bad dancing and blackmail(like getting the towns guns). Well the bad teens do not like what the bad teens did, so they devise a plan of their own(more dancing! ). Ron Howard makes a red gas that shrinks the bad teens back to normal despite all the trouble they caused(kidnapped of sheriff daughter,a good teen friend,breaking and entering the theater, etc..)As the bad teens shrink it's a yet another example of bad special effects! The bad teens flee the town in the used to be giant togos(how they shrunk too , I do not understand! ).The opening and ending of this movie has a giant Beau Bridges and his fellow young adult rebels dancing in a blue or some other light. It was OK for the year/decade it came out!if anyone can remake this movie please do a better job with the special effects!And another thing why is this movie not on DVD? I'd rather of got this movie on DVD (so I can watch my favorite parts,for me the bad teens becoming gaints!) and no ads before or fast forwarding! Please MGM rerelease this movie on DVD ASAP!
Movie Review: Village of the Idiots
Summary: 1 Stars
Those familiar with the fatuous Bert I. Gordon and his works of ineptitude will know what to expect from this third-rate interpretation of H. G. Wells famous science fiction story. When the film opens to scantily clad teenagers shimmying in slow-motion to a discordant musical number that sounds more like a group of bass players tuning their instruments, it should be intuitive that we are not dealing with a very highbrow theatrical production.The pre-adolescent Ron Howard plays Genius, a prodigy of science who would not look out of place in a Thomas Dolby video. Genius promptly discovers the formula for "goo" (don't worry, it's not what you think), a compound that induces gigantism in those who consume it. Predictably, some juvenile delinquents (including an embarrassed Beau Bridges) steal the goo and soon all hell breaks loose. The giant teens take over a village inhabited mostly by smaller teens and proceed to terrorize them with bad music, bad dancing, bad acting, and bad special effects. Had enough? Did I mention Toni Basil is in it? Did I mention the screenplay might as well have been written by a 10-year old kid named Billy? Do you care?
The boys at Best Brains, Inc. did a great job riffing this movie in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which alas, is very hard to find.