Purely Joyful Movie!

Excellent but underrated film

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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.

Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.Allegedly, there is no more Korean print of this film and what circulates today is an American television print. This means we are stuck with the American dialogue rather than the original, and the editing may be quite different. Thus, we are watching (and critiquing) a film not as it was ever intended to be seen.While much of what remains is amusing, it does tend to get boring. With Godzilla it never gets old, but with Yongary we can only see him smashing things for so long before it seems like the same old thing over and over. What other tricks do we have? None?

Yongary: Monster from the Deep (Taekoesu Yonggary) features the following: a rubber monster, four jet fighters, at least two helicopters, a rocket, a mission control room, at least one burned tank and one crushed one, a jeep off a cliff, a battery of missile launchers - the good kind, the ones that tilt up!, sparks, flames, explosions and blood in the water.It also contains a precocious kid, a whiny bride and a even whinier bridesmaid, a mother-in- law, a young genius, a bevy of useless scientists, hordes of screaming people, drunken businessmen, stoned youth, surfer music and a dancing monster with a horn that lights up!What's there not to like?

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.