If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

While not the most well made monster movie, Yongary delivers good story, somewhat relatable characters and some amusing jokes and one-liners. I was actually really surprised at how much I liked it, going into it thinking it was going to be another terribly cheesy movie, and I would recommend at least trying this movie once.

For a south Korean movie first one I have seen it was very much like early Godzilla like monster with a rhino horn. This could be based on an old story or part of historical culture. The clothing a mix of traditional and modern clothing in 1967. Smoking was seen by people a lot and second hand smoking over a child now would be not acceptable but I guess a cigarette company may have had funding in movie budget.Monster looked like a toy as commented on by robots in MST 3000 and again well worth watching in this format for humour. Made me laugh. Not very much blood and not scary for children.Dubbed into English but still made me laugh. Model space rocket worth a look.

A massive surprise is in store for the people of Korea. When a massive earthquake shakes the central region, a monster emerges from a crack in the ground. A monster that supposedly was just a local legend: stomping, screaming, fire breathing lizard Yongary. Among those humans determined to put an end to its destructive rampage is the brilliant young scientist Ko Il-woo (Yeong-il Oh), who's just gotten married.For a shameless imitation of Japans' legendary "Gojira" series, this is actually pretty agreeable entertainment. It definitely lacks the gravitas and style of the original "Gojira", instead functioning more as simple, straightforward fun. The characters are likable, the women are just beautiful, and Yongary itself is a decent enough character. The filmmakers do give it some semblance of personality - for one thing, when it awakens from some sort of slumber, it is seen to "dance". Sure, the special effects aren't outstanding, but if you're in the mood for sequences of a man in a rubber suit stomping around and annihilating miniature sets, then the movie does deliver. It also looks fairly good in both color and widescreen.The main debit for a fair amount of viewers will be the child character, who runs around giggling to himself, causing mischief, and sometimes putting himself in harms' way. But this viewer will admit to being fairly amused by this kid.It's all pretty silly, but also impossible to truly dislike.Seven out of 10.

To understand this movie, you have to know something about Korean history. The Koreans are still smarting after thirty-five years of Japanese occupation (1910-1945), which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II. The Japanese treated the Koreans much the same way the Russians treated the Poles or the British treated the Irish. Even today Japanese movies and comic books are illegal in Korea. Thus, perhaps not surprisingly, most Korean movies are calculated imitations of popular Japanese genres--give the home folks their own version of Japanese movies so they won't long for forbidden fruit. "Yongary" may seem to us a poor "Godzilla" rip-off, but to Korean audiences that haven't seen a Japanese monster movie it's undoubtedly much more exciting. Judged strictly on its own merits, "Yongary" is about par for the Japanese kaiju movies of its era--neither better nor worse.