brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Absolutely Fantastic

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This poor unknown creature minding its business out in the middle of no where is harassed continuously and finally captured and brought back for our amusement. I say give him his revenge thus the title Revenge of the Creature. Remember, we go back to the 50's when everything was fresh and new and things were different. This came out in the local theater with a co-feature and probably a cartoon or news clip as well. Popcorn, candy and soda plus your date or just friends made this movie more than what it was. Today, we are minus the mood and atmosphere but can still relate to the story line of a Creature different from us being treated in ways well at least the Creature disputes. Imagine any lab rat or animal having the ability to speak and stating how what we were doing is wrong. Well in this movie, the Creature can't speak but you get his point via growls, lashing out and essentially no love for humans with one exception i.e. the female in the movie. His thinking was sound but considering he can only stay out of the water for a few minutes and she can stay underwater for no more than 45 seconds lets us safely assume there is no match here but Creatures do not know these things. It was fun seeing the Creature in this sequel, the music sound affects and wondering what will happen next. One thing that astonished me in this movie that the first didn't emphasize was the enormous strength of this Creature. You will know it when you see it making us believe that hand to hand combat is useless and suicidal for humans. This is a snack movie with a tasty drink to be sure. Sunflower seeds recommended. Enjoy what was one of the great entertainment times in the 50's right now

This seems like it was one of the least awful films ever shown on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". It helps that it's a direct sequel to a pretty well known movie. The first part of this when them catching the creature is actually pretty good. It does a nice job of setting up the rest of the story. It's even a pretty realistic approach as to what we would see a creature like this do. It is still a pretty pointless sequel with not much going on. The last part is where it really falls apart.It's mostly because it makes little sense within its own context. The creature goes out into the ocean and then attacks people for no reason. It was said that it wanted to go back to the Amazon, so why is it still attacking people? Is the poor guy just confused? It's at least nice to see all those sea animals. Not a PETA guy, but everyone keeps complaining about how they're being tortured. I'm glad I was able to recognize Clint Eastwood. In fact, I was glad he was the focus in at least one scene. It's not much, but it's worth looking into. The makeup effects are pretty good for its day. **

Having been captured in his in his Amazonian home, the Gill Man is placed on display at a Florida water-park and tries to escape with the female scientist attempting to study him as a new love interest.On the whole this one was a highly enjoyable and even superior sequel effort. One of the better elements here is the improved action on display, as this one has some overall impressive and exciting scenes here, among the best starting immediately with the capture in the Amazon. From the diving suit encounter which is a fun, savage underwater brawl to the eventual escape, this goes along nicely with the capture method that gets really fun. Likewise, further enjoyable action scenes come from the transport into the observatory tank where it goes after the carriers which requires all sorts of outside help to put an end to the situation as well as the lengthy scenes of the two attempting to train it underwater which comes off very nicely with the creatures' best interests at heart. Still, the best scenes here are from the final half with its escape from the facility and rampage across the park and the large-scale chase for the finale as he manages to capture her forcing a rather enjoyable manhunt by the police along the swampy marshlands in a series of thrilling encounters that really get this one ending on a high note. These high-quality action scenes carrying this along so well that there's a relentless pace here that keeps this going along quite nicely even with the clichéd elements here of the scientist romance burgeoning alongside the creature's romance with her, so even these breeze by quite nicely here. Sa well, the carry-overs from the previous effort of having absolutely gorgeous underwater scenes of the creature both in his native habitat and at the institute that captures it's regal beauty quite well and a fantastic costume for the creature are featured, all of these more than enough to hold this off from its small flaws. While the romance angles here come off rather nicely, there's little reason why the creature here falls for the girl beyond the fact that she's there. She doesn't display a lot of kindness that would warrant that kind of affection back and seems to be there merely as an obstacle to overcome. Lastly, the 3D gags here are atrocious and stick out quite obviously for the hokey-nature they appear in here. Otherwise, this one was quite fun and even better than the original.Today's Rating/PG: Mild Violence.

Jack Arnold returns to direct this sequel, which sees another expedition return to the amazon(with Nestor Paiva reprising his role as the captain) to look for the remains of the creature, only to discover it still lives. They manage to capture it, and bring it to Florida for study, where it is put in a giant tank at an amusement park. John Agar and Lori Nelson play the scientists studying it, though it resents its captivity and escapes, causing mayhem in its wake. OK sequel isn't particularly original or surprising, but deserves some credit for creating viewer sympathy for this poor creature, which doesn't deserve this treatment, and only wants to return home. Look for Clint Eastwood in his film debut as a clumsy assistant to John Agar!