CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

GazerRise Fantastic!

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Eric Stevenson This movie features the heart of Frankenstein that later grows into a person. Actually, Frankenstein was the name of the doctor. Actually, he was just a medical student and not a doctor. Whatever, this film has Frankenstein's monster grow into a giant. There's a bunch of destruction going on that's blamed on him, but it's then revealed to be caused by another monster. The effects are really bad.We get these scenes that obviously took place on a bluescreen. You can even see the bits of blue coming out of the sides of the screen. It's pretty typical of a Japanese monster movie. I'll give credit that it is a well paced film. The action is set up pretty well, even though it's bad in execution. I don't know how I missed this for Giant Monster Month. **

O2D I had a feeling that making this my first Frankenstein movie was going to be a mistake and I was very right. The premise of a giant Frankenstein in Japan isn't too far fetched but the story is very weak and there's lots of plot holes. First of all, I have never seen a Frankenstein movie and I immediately recognize the monster but for some reason the people in the movie don't. They claim he's been running wild in Hiroshima for 15 years but all of a sudden he's very easy to catch. At first he's the size of a regular teenager but a day later he's 5 stories tall and he manages to escape. The guys sent to investigate how he got free decide that normal size handcuffs are too big for a 5 story monster.WHAT?!?!!?!? They employ all the usual Toho staples including using ancient camera tricks to get us to believe he's a giant, but he just looks like a scrawny teenager no matter what they do. To top it all off, they have one American and every one else is dubbed.Why?? My favorite part is that when the other monster shows up, people just call it "another monster". I always hated when a new monster showed up in Godzilla and all the people knew it's name. If you like Godzilla you will like this movie.

AaronCapenBanner Ishiro Honda directed this incredibly bizarre and perfectly awful film that starts off in WWII, where Dr. Frankenstein(!) has been working with the Japanese, and created a living heart, but it is later taken to Hiroshima where it is irradiated by the H-bomb being dropped. Years later, that heart has somehow grown into a full-sized boy, who then mutates even more into a giant man, who attacks the city, then battles a giant lizard named Baragon, also recently awakened. Preposterous story and poor F/X make this a tacky and laughable effort, that only gets worse as it goes along. No relation to Mary Shelley or Boris Karloff at least!

poe426 FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, like ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE, was one of those late-night shockers that creeped me out when I was a kid. Until just recently, I thought that it was black and white (an assumption I'd also made about ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE), but it's not and, in fact, boasts some very creepy color cinematography that would make any monster-movie maker green with envy. FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD also showcases perhaps the single greatest no-holds-barred showdown in the history of no-holds-barred showdowns. Although outweighed by several tons, Frankie has a seventy-foot reach advantage that he makes the most of. Baragon, a low-slung brawler out of Tokyo (harbor), possesses perhaps the stoutest chin of any kaiju: like a Timex, he "takes a lickin', but keeps on tickin'." Baragon gets the better of our hero during the in-fighting (he works the body like nobody's business), but Frankie proves too light on his feet and manages to pull off another close win. Far better than WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (which I happened to see in a theater on a double bill with GODZILLA VERSUS THE SMOG MONSTER).