Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Michael_Elliott Yongary, Monster from the Deep (1967) ** (out of 4) South Korea comes under attack from a prehistoric creature (obviously looking like Godzilla) who starts to unleash violence so it's up to an overworked scientist and a small child to try and find out its secrets and destroy it. YONGARY, MONSTER FROM THE DEEP isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination but I think fans of the "monsters-on-the-loose" genre should at least get some mild entertainment out of it. This was clearly influenced by the various Godzilla movies that were out around the time and this includes the monster itself, the story structure, the messages and of course we're even given an annoying kid who of course comes up with a few things about the monster that not even the adults could figure out. The first thirty-minutes of this thing are pretty boring as we're basically given a lot of dialogue scenes and sadly no monster. This introduction to all the human characters was just boring and frankly it was hard to sit through. I never understood why so many of these monster movies had to drag us down with these things especially when the producers knew what the people were really coming to see. Once the monster finally gets on the screen things start to pick up. I thought that the special effects were rather good for this type of film. The monster costume itself wasn't the greatest but it was good enough for a light version of Godzilla. The special effects were somewhat laughable in regards to some of the action scenes that happen towards the end. There's a sequence where Yongary must fight a couple jets and I couldn't help but laugh when he finally destroyed them. Once the jets blew up it looked like they were made out of cardboard. Another funny moment happened after Yongary split an Army vehicle in half and one of the people inside just kneels down begging the monster not to kill him. If you're looking for classic cinema then it's best to stay away from this but if you're just looking for some goofy fun then enjoy.

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.

rabrenner Cheapo Korean GODZILLA rip-off. Yonggary has a nose that glows when excited, likes to dance to rock 'n' roll, and is vulnerable to itching powder. Going Godzilla one better, Yonggary breathes fire AND shoots lasers from his nose. An allegedly cute eight year old boy befriends him; you keep hoping a building will fall on the boy or he'll get run over by a tank or be trampled by the mobs fleeing in terror to shut him up. The weirdest sequence occurs early in the movie: on his wedding night, just when his new bride is getting amorous, an astronaut is summoned on a secret mission; the next scene you see, he's blasting off into space in an enormous phallic rocket ship.

Woodyanders American International Pictures, clearly eager to capitalize on the meteoric success and tremendous popularity of the "Godzilla" films, probably picked up this unintentionally riotous el cheapo Korean giant-monster-on-the-rampage picture for a song, poorly dubbed it into hilariously awful English, and sent this gut-busting baby straight to television so it could be rerun countless times on mid-afternoon creature feature shows.An earthquake awakens a gigantic, fire-breathing, ill-tempered legendary prehistoric bargain basement Godzillaesque lizard beast from its centuries of slumber; said enormous poor-slob-in-a-lovably-obvious-bulky-rubber-suit thingie comes complete with a loud rumbling roar, glowing yellow eyes, sharp spikes on its back and tail, a mouthful of nasty fangs and a big red laser-shooting horn on the end of its long snout. Naturally, our grouchy reptilian behemoth embarks on a delightfully lengthy 50-odd minute mondo destructo spree: he tramples tanks, levels bridges, swats at helicopters as if they were large pesky flies, guzzles oil by the drum load, knocks over buildings so numerous expendable faceless extras can be crushed by Styrofoam concrete slabs, exposes the local military as a bunch of useless inept clods, blows up fighter jets, and generally causes a lot of mass panic and hysteria ("Repent all you sinners!," screams a cross-wielding priest to the fleeing mob). Best of all, Yongary even gets in touch with his lowdown funky side and boogies to groovy rock music. Shake it, Yongary, shake it! The special effects are every bit as laughably lousy and unconvincing as one could hope for, with plenty of wonderfully awful miniatures (the tanks and planes in particular look like they were taken from some little kid's model train set). I'm sure both gasoline prices and real estate taxes skyrocketed considerably after Yongary was finished trashing the countryside; whether or not Yongary's endearingly clunky dance caught on as a hip teen craze is open to debate.