AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

bkoganbing Daikyoju Gappa introduces us to another of those Japanese monsters who delight in wrecking the urban areas of Japan. A great country apparently to be in the construction business.He's not the most fearsome of monsters. Imagine Godzilla with wings and a chicken head and you have Gappa. Scientists from Japan on another expedition to a south sea island come back with the recently hatched Gappa as the natives call him. They also don't take it away from them, but the scientists know better.Quite frankly the monster looks so ridiculous I can't imagine it scaring anybody above the age of 4. Still these Japanese monster films do have a goofy enjoyment factor in them no matter how bad they are.And they made tons of money back in the day.

BaronBl00d First let me state that I didn't hate sitting through this film nor did I find it as bad as some others may have painted it. Nonetheless, there is no doubt it is not a particularly well-made movie nor is it cleverly acted nor are the special effects really good even for its time nor is the story very well-conceived. Some rich Japanese guy sends his magazine reporters with scientists to find tropic flora and fauna in the South Seas. They end up discovering an island with Easter Island-like totems/idols, some very primitive yet surprisingly educated jungle natives, and a prehistoric egg that happens to house Gappa - one of the dinosaur, reptilian bird-like creatures that has lorded over the island since the beginning of time or such. The egg opens and this crew decide to take this creature back home for a theme park island. Trouble awaits them though when the baby bird-like creature's parents rise up from a watery pit and look for their spawn - destroying Japanese industry, homes, and everything that lies in their path. It seems that the baby can emit some kind of signal to its parents alerting them where he/she is, but they have no idea as they continually land in heavily populated areas so we can see them destroy miniature sets. The miniature sets are probably the best thing about the film as they are first-rate, but the costumes of the monsters are rather ludicrous as is their sound and the flying that they do. This film has some campy fun moments reminiscent of Godzilla movies, but also lacks some of the creativity and talent ion particular behind the director's chair. Still, this movie is okay I guess. Not much of a recommendation but certainly not a condemnation.

wes-connors This turkey involves a wealthy Japanese man recovering a bird-like monster from an expedition. Combining the "King Kong" and "Gorgo" story lines, they take the creature home for fun and profit. It turns out to be a baby, so mother and father chicken do a ballistic "Godzilla" walk over Japan. There are a lot of unbelievably poor "special effects". Toys go crash! Bang! Boom! Re-titled "Monster from a Prehistoric Planet" for English speaking audiences; it's laughable in some respects, offensive in others. Unfortunately, it's more offensive than funny, and only a cut above washing diapers.* Daikyojû Gappa (1967) Haruyasu Noguchi ~ Tamio Kawaji, Yoko Yamamoto, Yuji Okada

Camera Obscura A group of intrepid explorers is sent on an expedition to find exotic animals (and people) for a new theme park to be built by a magazine tycoon who also happens to publishes Playmate Magazine. Soon, the group lands on an island in the South Pacific, where they discover an isolated tribe of natives who worship a mysterious God named Gappa. When the land is ruptured by an earthquake, the explorers come upon a cavern containing a reptilian egg. They take it back to a Japanese research center, where the creature hatches and is studied by a group of not too bright scientists. Unfortunately, the parental Gappas show up to claim their newborn lizard, trashing most of Tokyo in the process.I had a great time watching this piece of nonsense. Just about everything in this film is a complete riot. After a somewhat slow first half, the action is almost non-stop and there's plenty of stupendous dialog to keep you entertained. The production values consist mostly of hilariously cheap-looking scale models, the story and the acting are ridiculous and most of the characters are empty-headed idiots, especially for a group of scientists. The monster, Gappa, is a kind of bird-lizard, basically a ridiculous looking over-sized chicken. When it flies, it sounds like an airplane, but that's probably the result of a slip-up in the sound effects, because the creature gets attacked by fighter planes a couple of times.Made by the Nikkatsu Studios to make a late cash-in on the success of Godzilla- and many other monster movies and - what I understand - it was also meant as a kind of satire on the monster movie craze. Well, that aspect of the film was a bit lost on me, or probably got lost in time or translation, but then, I'm hardly an expert on Japanese old-school kaiju-flicks.Camera Obscura --- 6/10