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Disturbing yet enthralling

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

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!

This is notable in being the first movie featured when "Mystery Science Theater 3000" made its first new episode in literally 18 years. I will of course not judge the movie based on that episode, but the actual film itself. This was bad and it actually did seem like it was going to be better in the beginning of the movie. The main fault is that the actual monster doesn't appear until halfway through the film. In a film where it's the only monster appearing, that's a big problem. At least in the 2014 Godzilla movie, there were other monsters who were relevant to the story.The effects in this were really bad. The way Reptilicus used its radioactive breath was really cheesy looking. There are some really dumb scenes with it eating people that look so fake. There's also this one annoying guy who I think is supposed to be the comic relief. That can be good for a movie, but this guy just isn't funny at all. It was still nice to see Denmark make their attempt at a giant monster film. It does seem like every country has at least one of those films. *1/2

At first glance this looks like it could be a great movie.If you caught five minutes of it, you would probably want to see the whole thing.Upon further inspection you would see this movie is actually a bunch of clichés neatly wrapped up in a turd.The set up is completely unbelievable.Copper miners are drilling in Lapland and find pieces of bloody flesh on the drill bit.Why are copper miners drilling?Where is Lapland?No one knows the answers to those questions.Since these miners have no real interest in doing their jobs, they immediately stop and try to find out what they have drilled into.From this point on it goes from just plain old stupid to full on confusing.They find part of a giant reptile tail and take it to Denmark.Of course almost no one in Denmark has an accent.If there's one thing I have learned from old b-movies, it's that Europe is full of Americans and this movie continues to prove that.They give the tail to a scientist who works at the aquarium yet also taps on the tank glass.Tapping on the glass is a clear sign that nobody involved in the movie has a clue but that's not important.The scientists decide that the tail will regenerate into a new animal if it's not kept frozen so they just put it in a special cold room and don't worry about it.You know where that's going and you know the scientists will have guns, because it's all been done before.Plus they hire a dumb hillbilly to guard the tail.The hillbilly is supposed to be whimsical and we know this because of the farcical music they play during his boring exploits.Did I mention that the miner who was running the drill in Lapland is now in Denmark commanding the US and Danish armies?Because that's a thing.And to top it all off, Reptilicus is a giant snake with a dragon head and wings.Of course it doesn't fly and can actually barely move at all.The one redeeming quality of the movie is that Reptilicus spits green slime.Even though it's clearly added in later and he can't really control it, the slime is still the best part of the movie.Don't waste your time with this.

Copper miners in Lapland unearth some organic material. It turns out to be part of the tail of an enormous prehistoric reptile. It's kept on ice back in a lab until a power failure allows the tail to warm up. And because reptiles sometimes have the power of regeneration, the tail grows back into a full grown lizard monster. Which does go on the eventual rampage, of course. The weary yet intrepid military man trying to keep on top of the situation is General Mark Grayson (Carl Ottosen).The big problem with producer-director Sidney W. Pinks' movie (which he co-scripted with the great Ib Melchior) is that it gets completely bogged down in talk for its first half. Exposition rules the day, at the expense of action. As a result, it may be hard for some people to stick with "Reptilicus". The Danish cast do the best that they can, even if none of the characters are really all that engaging. Still, in cheap and cruddy genre cinema such as this, you don't exactly ever expect Oscar baiting performances. One amusing highlight is the dopey comic relief by Dirch Passer as slow witted bumbler Petersen.It's no accident that Reptilicus itself is more entertaining than anything else here, no matter how bad the special effects may be at times. The most awful - and gut busting - effects involve the "acid slime" emanating from Reptilicus's mouth. Once this thing enters the movie in a big way, the entertainment value goes up substantially. Dare I say it, the movie's even exciting, in its own stupid and inept way.Pink and company got much cooperation from the Danish people, including virtually the entire population of Copenhagen. The local armed forces also lent quite a deal of assistance.The bottom line is, "Reptilicus" does emerge as a solid diversion of its type. It just requires its viewers to have a fair bit of patience for a while. But they get rewarded with such things as a death occurring between the 43 and 44 minute marks. See this one to believe it!Five out of 10.