RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

willfmoviejudge Rating: 38%. Schlock Autour Sydney Pink in 1961 created this *sarcastically* wonderful little creation called Reptilicus. There is a certain joy I get from watching "monster taking over the city" flicks like the premise to the movie GOJIRA (Japanese and/or American version), but if you take the words "schlock", "entertaining" and "masterpiece" and look them up in that order in a dictionary, it will show you the theatrical poster to this gut busting laughter spewing film. Let me get down to business, were going to be serious when I say that every TECHNICAL aspect about this movie is atrociously wrong. Believe it or not, there are a few pros, but let's start with the cons.1: Location: Denmark (specifically Copenhagen). Very nice location, but at the same time, it is a very weird, awkward, and unorthodox location for a monster destruction movie. You have New York City (excellent), Tokyo (optimal location), Chicago (acceptable), Copenhagen Denmark (OMG no).2: Language: Poorly dubbed Phonetic English instead of Danish. (The Danish language is more like German, although German and English languages have more similarities than other languages, I can still tell as I watch this funny cheese fest of a movie that the words spoken and the mouth movements are far off enough to notice). What I prefer is to have subtitles that are ACTUALLY CORRECT and then have them speak their native language.3: The Monster: The top half of the (so called quote on quote) "monster" is simply just a rubberized snake that they stitched cosmetics onto it to make it look frightening although it just comes off laughable. The bottom half of this hideous creature has legs that do not match the size of this beast, and almost forgot to mention that this beast also has wings that are more useless than "tits on a bull". This monster is obviously a puppet because there are strings that move the monster in the direction that the puppeteer wants it to go. You can tell it is string if you watch it on a 50" flat screen TV with a Blue Ray player that provides the best available resolution known to mankind.4: The Characters: The only reputable actor in this block of Danish cheese is Dirch Passer. Not a big name in the United States, but he was considered to be the greatest (and only successful) Danish comedian of all time. He plays this bumbling lovable goofus called Mr. Peterson who although was given so much responsibility to run the facility, we did not see him do anything (at least productive) other than pull fire alarms, play with the electric eel, and as the MST3K guys explain "it's only 7:00 and already he ate the contents of three petri dishes". As the MST3K return hosts explain and I'll paraphrase "even Denmark has an Andy Griffith". The real unintentional laughter comes with overacting General Mark Grayson (aka Brigadier Military Industrial Complex) played by Carl Ottoson. In my opinion, he is by far the most captivatingly awful and yet somehow most interesting character in the movie. This general only has one expression on his face to try not bursting out laughing, but I will set the tone to this man's idiocity and awfulness. Between saying lines like "the shorter the stay the happier I will be" or "when will I ever get out of this hell", "no Connie you take her to the hospital, I got work to do", and "were going to have to use the heavy stuff" (stuff instead of artillery) and so much more, it proves to the audience that General Mark Grayson is clearly an unlikable hero, a horrible underdeveloped character, and/or the actor that plays him cannot act his way out of a Ziploc bag. Then comes the doctor who audiences may think is the brains of the operation, who made the really big mistake of not telling General Grayson how to kill this creature, he basically says something to the effect of don't use explosives learn another tactic without have the knowledge on how to extinguish Reptilicus, he also suffers through three heart attacks in the end of the 2nd, beginning of the 3rd act. I think I have said enough of the characters worth talking about.5: The Plot: Actually it is a very simple thin plot, young man named Svend dresses up as a minor by just wearing a hard hat and work clothes, digs up some skin from the ground and brings this skin to the research facility of Copenhagen. Monster regenerates itself and destroys the country of Denmark. Besides the words "regenerates" and "Denmark", it is basically your cliched monster destruction story.The one and only pro I have to say about this film is both the intentional and unintentional humor. The intentional humor comes from Dirch Passer who was a comedian in this film as the main primary comic relief. On a side note though, everybody in this movie was considered to be comic relief. I did laugh though the scene where the Doctor had to tell one his daughters "when must I tell you how to pick up a man". In addition, the editing from scene to scene is just remarkable. When the doctor says "if Reptilicus gets any bigger, we will need to get a bigger tank and then it shows the Baltic Sea, with one of the MST3K guys saying "woah that's too big" and at last the epic scene where the soldiers are in the house shooting but the window is shut. That is truly comedic gold.Anyway I would recommend the MST3K version of this film, or the actual movie, but when watching the actual movie, it is recommended to watch it with a close group of friends with pizza and lots and lots of beer. Bad movie night experience is required and mandated. TRULY THE BEST OF THE WORST AND, IN ADDITION TRULY A MOVIE THAT SHOULD BE SHOWN IN FILM CLASSES FOR COLLEGES ON HOW NOT TO MAKE A MOVIE.

beetle-259-554148 Reptilicus, Denmark's sole offering to the vast world of giant monster movies!!!This movie had the potential to be a frightening movie as our monster could lead to a disaster of GLOBAL proportions! THe reason for this is because Reptilicus can regenerate in a way that if his arm is blown off, not only will he grow a new arm the arm will grow a new Reptilicus!! This means that if Reptilicus is blown to bits, each individual piece will actually grow into a new monster!Reptilicus cmes to be when a section of his tail is found frozen in the mountains and is brought a science lab in Copenhagen. Various screw-ups including a heavily-fatigued scientist, a dim-witted lab assistant, and a power failure cause the tail to thaw out and grow into our titular monster!The scene where Reptilicus breaks out of the lab is extremely suspenseful and kept me on edge due to it happening during a raging thunderstorm!The monster, however, isn't that great.... the footage of him is very grainy and seems to move at 7 frames per second. There is a scene where he eats a farmer and it's a hilariously bad blue-screen effect.Definitely watch this! It's on Netflix by way of the revival series of Mystery Science Theater 3000 so as long as you don't mind a man and two robots riffing on the movie while you watch, give it a go!

ccthemovieman-1 I was hoping this was a "so-bad-it's-good" cheesy sci-fi flick, and in some cases it definitely was, but there were just a tad too many boring/inane scenes that were a little tough to sit through. The best part might be reading the funny remarks made by some people here on IMDb. There are some great reviews here.What was good was the reptile-monster and the green slime that emitted from his mouth. The latter scenes rank up there with the worst special-effects I've ever seen but the sounds the creature made were genuinely scary and I thought he looked cool.The story is all about him, when his tail is discovered deep beneath the surface at a drilling site in Denmark. (This is a Danish film, dubbed in English). The tail is brought to a lab and frozen but when one of the scientists accidentally leaves the door ajar, it thaws and begins to regenerate. Before you know it, it's a full-fledged monster who escapes and causes havoc in the countryside and in Copenhagen. The military guys can't hurt it no matter how much artillery they use, so they have to figure something else out, which happens in the last 10 minutes of the film.There is plenty of action in here. Some of it was so bad, I laughed out loud (like some idiot opening a bridge and cyclists plunging into the water, or the kid suddenly eaten by the monster (the cheesiest two-second scene in the history of the movies!). The parts of the film that don't involve the creature, however, are very boring and useless. They are just filler to give the audience a break here or there. The stereotyped "Gen. Mark Grayson," is annoying and the victim of some of the worst acting (Carl Ottosen) you'll ever see. There was probably more humor than meets the eye, because I understand Danish humor is a little different and that was lost in the translation (dubbing).Whatever, if you enjoy these old Godzilla-type films, you should be entertained by this turkey.

Stephanie Anderson And it's a great try at Kaiju! Seriously, this is a cool movie. The American edit is missing some of the good scenes (a giant, life-sized foot and the beast flying) but it's still okay. I liked the added effects a bit, added to the cheesy feel of it all. One issue with how it's looked at though: people think it was meant to be serious! Some do anyways. I think it would be a cool movie to try and remake. Of all the kajiu, it seems to be missing out on the attention it deserves. Check out both variations, but be warned: there is a weird musical number in the original version...A strange fact about it: in Canada (or Rocky Mountain House at least)they released the original dub, without the added effects. In fact, it may be the only time it was shown like that out here!