Plantiana
Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
Justina
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
mark.waltz
Bring on the rubber crocodiles! They certainly the agitated ones seen in obvious stock footage in the very beginning. Something is agitating them and other wild life, although Tamba the chimp remains cute and cuddly. Esther Williams once commented on the rubber crocodiles that Johnny Weismueller wrestled in the Tarzan movies, and her remenence of that fact is proved here. A cute baby elephant is also examined to determine what is going on with mother nature's prized mammals and the fearsome reptiles, and the discovery leads to a horrifying discovery. Once again, it's the intrusive white man with his destructive ways, filled with an obsession of wealth, power and domination. There's silliness abound in this entry in the Jungle Jim series, showing a desperation for ideas and the need to stretch these stories out to feature film length rather than put them on TV in a half hour format. The creature itself is a silly looking caveman and any resemblance between it and an actual ape is strictly in the mind of its writers. Weismueller really just seems to be walking through these now, and the acting skills of professional wrestler Max Palmer is limited to unemotional grunts and wild arm movements. Next to him, Tor Johnson and Richard Kiel (not to mention Andre the giant) seems Shakespearean in comparison. This time around, Palmer gets the laughs, not Tamba, and I'm sure that was not intentional.
malcolm-68
This lays claim to being the worst of the "Jungle Jim" series. Normally these films are mildly enjoyable escapism which compensate for a low budget with imagination. The best of the scribes is frequently Carroll Young, but this time his flair has deserted him. This film is just plain stupid. It is easily possible to lose track of the number of times characters have their back turned and are looking in the wrong direction when the ape man attacks. The story goes round in circles with characters being attacked, tortured, escaping and then being recaptured in ridiculous circumstances. Plot threads go nowhere such as the lynch-pin of the story which opens with crocodiles behaving oddly. Potentially this is quite an original idea (and was probably used because producer Katzman had some stock footage he wanted to insert), but after an early scene no further mention is made of this. Carole Thurston does one of her patented native girl characters. The title character does not look like an ape more like a big moron clothed in a dress from a charity shop. Best acting comes from the chimp!
Chris Gaskin
Despite reading a lot of bad reviews about this movie stating that it is the worst of the Jungle Jim series, I quite enjoyed it.A giant ape man kills somebody and Jungle Jim gets the blame at first. But the local natives finally believe him when they see the giant themselves. At the same time, mad scientists are experimenting on animals for a serum for drugs and the natives are supplying the animals. The giant is killed at the end.Joining Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim are Nester Paiva (Tarantula, The Mole People), Ray "Crash" Corrigan (It! The Terror From Beyond Space, Unknown Island), Carol Thurston and Max Palmer as the ape man.Check this out if you get the chance. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
jim riecken (youroldpaljim)
Jungle Jim does battle with an evil band of scientists who are capturing wild animals for use in testing a mind control drug. Meanwhile the evil scientists have trespassed into the valley of "The Killer Ape"; a half man, half ape monster that kills all those that enters his domain.As far as these Jungle Jim movies go, this one is one of my favorites. It's probably the most watchable of all the films in this mostly dreary series. Max Palmer as the strange prehistoric apeman helps enliven this film.
