Really Surprised!

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Yesterday I had no idea that there were movies that were made from other movies, now I have seen two of them.This flick starts with what looks to be old silent film of African animals.The narrator rambles about a bunch of nothing while the animals act very unnaturally.Probably because they are actually captive.Then it cuts to an injured guy falling down and some other men find him and act very concerned.The man says he saw a white gorilla and then they all make fun of him and forget he was near death a minute ago.Then the guy starts to tell a story and the flashback is an old silent film.It's a long,drawn out story about how all the lions in the jungle are going crazy and are trying to kill all the people, who are all white of course.There's a little kid who rides on an elephants trunk and some Arabs and none of it makes much sense.There is literally no plot.The entire white gorilla thing is just extra stuff that has nothing to do with the story.Don't get me wrong, this movie is not boring.It just doesn't have a story.There's lots of action but it's all meaningless.Of course I'm giving a second star just because it wasn't boring.Watch at your own risk.

"A rare white gorilla is shunned by the rest of the gorillas due to its unique nature and is forced to live a life of solitude. The time alone makes the gorilla hate all other primates and turns it into a murderous monster. A final confrontation between the white gorilla and his former tribe's leader will decide the fate of all of Africa," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.Ray "Crash" Corrigan (as Steve Collins) extensively recalls seeing the 1927 serial "Perils of the Jungle", which had noting to do with "The White Gorilla" in his present form (as Ray Corrigan). To wit, Mr. Corrigan witnesses his "friend" Frank Merrill (as Ed Bradford) in the old silent serial. Mr. Merrill, who also played "Tarzan", must have got a kick out of seeing himself co-starring in a new movie, after almost 20 years of retirement from film. The opening credits promise an "All-Star Cast", but neither Bing Crosby nor Greer Garson appear in this movie. The 1927 footage is better than the newer parts.* The White Gorilla (1945) Harry L. Fraser ~ Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, Frank Merrill

This movie has a beautiful Outpost Trading mercantile establishment where a well stocked blanket and pots and pans section seems to be the gathering place for this great story. A cast of 3 or maybe 4 men and a woman or maybe two and a little boy take turns emoting with their sometimes unconscious faces as they fight for more stuff.The boy does do some wonderful but apparently dangerous scenes riding on an elephant's trunk. Really. Then an elephant saves a woman from some other elephants. The white gorilla with the black zipper meets a bigger gorilla. And there's a monkey and some tigers and a few lions. The hippo scene works better than most hippo scenes.The plot is based I think on Titanic, but instead of the ship sinking after it hits an iceberg, this movie starts to go under after it bumps up against the opening credits. A hole is ripped in the plot and there are not enough lifeboats to get the cast back to Central Casting.The good news is Ben Affleck will not be doing a remake. He wants to, of course. He pitched it to Spielberg but Steve said he would not be able to budget something this big.Three guys have nice mustaches and there's an old Victrola.I liked it and recommend it for Bad Movie Night.Tom Willett

Just when you start to think this film isn't as bad as it sounds, it gets as bad as it sounds. It doesn't bother me that there's more stock footage than there is new footage, but it does bother me that they used the same stock footage clips two, three, & four times each! The narrator is integrated into the storyline verbally, but of course can't be integrated into the storyline physically, because the stock footage which comprises the main storyline is based on a 20 year old (at the time) silent movie! To get around this minor problem, the narrator takes the role of a voyeur. He's constantly hiding in the bushes, "observing" others (who of course can't see him because his footage won't be shot for another 20 years or so after they finished filming their part). The narrator rambles on constantly about why he didn't take a shot at the lions who were trying to eat humans, or why he didn't do this or do that. That would be OK, too, but after a while it just makes the narrator (who's the supposed "hero" of the film) seem like a wimp. The real hero of the film is a fellow named "Bennett" (actually Tarzan in the silent serial). There's lots of loose ends that are never tied up (like exactly what happened to Bennett, the Voodoo Priestess, & the little Jungle Boy). There's several fights between the Bad Black Gorilla & the Bad White Gorilla that are never resolved. They fight, then the narration goes elsewhere, then the two gorillas bump into each other again, act surprised, & start fighting again. When you mix all this nonsense together, you come out with one Good Campy Fun movie that must have had an influence on Ed Wood. The "African" wildlife scenes (from the silent serial) are actually pretty good, although non-African animals (like tigers & orangutans) are mixed in just to keep the viewer guessing at which continent this film actually takes place. I guess my favorite scene is the one in which Bennett has to save a damsel in distress from a newly discovered animal: a meat eating hippo! A word of caution to parents: although this film is certainly good fun for the kids, too, the Something Weird Video version contains several shorts after the feature, which contain full nudity, which is not stated on the video box.