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| Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Oct 17 2012, 09:50 PM Post #1 |
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Well, you know I believe in giving the public what they demand, and so my response to calls for me to write about better movies and films more interesting to readers of this website was to dig out Yongary, Monster from the Deep, a 1967 Korean Godzilla knock-off. There's a guy, his wife, and her little brother (I think; it's really, really hard to tell who any of these people are) and the guy's a scientist who... hey, I guess I should just let you know in advance that the American version of this film makes no sense, okay? I mean, none at all. Okay, so, anyway, he's told that there's going to be a rocket launching (apparently, a secret rocket launching) and he has to go observe it. The next thing we know, he's the astronaut shot into space. He makes it home okay, though. But there's A-bomb testing in the Middle East causing earthquakes in Korea, and we suddenly realize it's 25 minutes into the film, nothing's happened, and we still don't know who any of these people are. Well, we know who the little brother is: he's a ridiculous li'l feller in a suit jacket, bowtie, and short pants with knee socks. For the first 15 or 20 minutes of this film, I wondered which one of Edgar Bergen's dummies he was supposed to be. Oh, yeah, the monster. There is one, and he shows up eventually. He's a dinosaur, rougly 80 feet tall ("He's pretty big, eh?" the kid in the short pants says), and the horn on his nose glows sometimes. He can shoot fire from his mouth, and not optically, neither, like Godzilla's radioactive breath: this costume has a FLAMETHROWER in the maw, and I wouldn't want to be the guy in the big rubber suit when THAT goes off. His name is Yongary (rhymes with "dungaree", if the dubbing actors are to be believed) and he stomps around for awhile, eventually locating some fossil fuels, which he consumes. As surf music plays on the soundtrack, Yongary is so happy to have eaten that he dances, and Johnny Short Pants dances, too. The scientist/astronaut guy eventually gets tired of this (I know the feeling) and discovers that Yongary can be destroyed by common household chemicals. He goes to tell the Army, but they stop him. The sentry says, "They'll be hitting Yongary any minute. They'll be using guided missiles. You'd better go. They'll be hitting Yongary any minute. They'll be using guided missiles. You'd better go." I don't know why the sentry said it twice. I guess the dubbing expert had an awful lot of lip movement to fill and not enough dialog to fill it with. The city is ordered to be evacuated, and we see dozens of people fleeing for their lives, each one carrying a different random object, including a globe of the world, a bucket, and a rug. Due to less than expert special effects, some of the fleeing people are larger than the buildings they're running past. Teenagers refuse to evacuate, and they dance to surf music, too, but not as well as Yongary does. The ammonia works, Yongary dies, the little boy is sorry, but I don't think the rest of us are. This film can be found (paired with Konga, which is even worse, in my opinion) on an MGM Midnight Movie disc; the print is stunningly beautiful, widescreen, vivid. It is the English dub only. Too bad. The Korean would be interesting to hear. The Korean would be interesting to hear. |
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| Frank Hale | Oct 18 2012, 04:06 PM Post #2 |
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Nice to see you finally watching something decent, Gravy. Nice to see you finally watching something decent, Gravy. |
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| AndyFish | Dec 30 2013, 03:09 AM Post #3 |
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There's something not right with KONGA, I found it disturbing as a kid but I have no idea why, other than the lea heroes nature of Michael Gough. Yongary was a pleasant surprise. I don't usually like dubs but this was okay. |
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