Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Scott LeBrun A massive surprise is in store for the people of Korea. When a massive earthquake shakes the central region, a monster emerges from a crack in the ground. A monster that supposedly was just a local legend: stomping, screaming, fire breathing lizard Yongary. Among those humans determined to put an end to its destructive rampage is the brilliant young scientist Ko Il-woo (Yeong-il Oh), who's just gotten married.For a shameless imitation of Japans' legendary "Gojira" series, this is actually pretty agreeable entertainment. It definitely lacks the gravitas and style of the original "Gojira", instead functioning more as simple, straightforward fun. The characters are likable, the women are just beautiful, and Yongary itself is a decent enough character. The filmmakers do give it some semblance of personality - for one thing, when it awakens from some sort of slumber, it is seen to "dance". Sure, the special effects aren't outstanding, but if you're in the mood for sequences of a man in a rubber suit stomping around and annihilating miniature sets, then the movie does deliver. It also looks fairly good in both color and widescreen.The main debit for a fair amount of viewers will be the child character, who runs around giggling to himself, causing mischief, and sometimes putting himself in harms' way. But this viewer will admit to being fairly amused by this kid.It's all pretty silly, but also impossible to truly dislike.Seven out of 10.

tracyfigueira To understand this movie, you have to know something about Korean history. The Koreans are still smarting after thirty-five years of Japanese occupation (1910-1945), which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II. The Japanese treated the Koreans much the same way the Russians treated the Poles or the British treated the Irish. Even today Japanese movies and comic books are illegal in Korea. Thus, perhaps not surprisingly, most Korean movies are calculated imitations of popular Japanese genres--give the home folks their own version of Japanese movies so they won't long for forbidden fruit. "Yongary" may seem to us a poor "Godzilla" rip-off, but to Korean audiences that haven't seen a Japanese monster movie it's undoubtedly much more exciting. Judged strictly on its own merits, "Yongary" is about par for the Japanese kaiju movies of its era--neither better nor worse.

mstomaso Nuclear testing in the Middle East awakens the earth-shaker Yongary from the depths of Korean mythology. This medium-sized kaiju is essentially Godzilla with big canines and a rhinoceros horn glued to his snout, and he is about to face the entire South Korean space program, air force, army and a willful eight-year-old. Needless to say, there really isn't much competition and Yongary makes short work of Seoul and everything along the way.The special effects are anything but. The miniatures and cinematography are actually worse than some of the worst Japanese kaiju films of the early '70s. The acting and English dubbing is actually fairly good and the plot is not incoherent, though it is ridiculous.Recommended for silent background play accompanied by your own soundtrack at a house party.

MrVibrating I mean...the company is called Kuk Dong. If you speak Swedish, that is quite funny. Otherwise its just random. Umm...movie review.A giant monsters appears after a space shuttle launch. It goes to crush a model of a Korean city. An annoying kid uses his flashlight to make Yonggary dance. After much pointless destruction, a random scientist dumps a load of toxins on Yonggary and he dies a painful, withering death.It's standard stuff here, folks, but very quaint and amusing in it's production. It's got some random stuff, like the Korean priest shouting repent in one of the crowd scenes, and the epileptic rave scene. Otherwise it's Godzilla from start to finish, complete with terrible models, a supremely cheesy space sequence, and pointless, unintroduced characters.Yonggary has got a neat cutting beam that he slices a motorcycle and a jet fighter(straight out of Team America) in half with.If you want some late night cheese, this is it.