It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

DO NOT take this film seriously. Compared to this flick, even the poorer Gamera and Godzilla films are Citizen Kane when it comes to taking the film seriously. Taken as face value as entertainment, kudos to the director for making a great popcorn cruncher. Yes the dialogue is awkward at times- Yes the CGI doesn't quite look finished- Yes it's kinda odd a South Korean film has near only American actors- Yes the monster looks nothing like the original Youngary- But heck to all that, it's IS entertaining!This movie falls firmly in the 'So bad it's good' category. The action scenes have a lot of hilarity going on, dialogue can be flat out hilarious, the plot, while executed a bit oddly, IS pretty original; and the monster designs aren't half bad. I saw this as a kid and loved it for the unintentional humor as much as I did the big monster fight at the end. As for any parents who's monster movie loving kids might want to see this, this is a pretty safe film. Outside of one scene that could be a bit squeamish where (offscreen) a fossil tooth flies through a dig worker, I can't see anything in this film that would be bad for kids under 10. If you want a film to kill time and to leave your brain at the door to have some fun, this film will for the job. When it comes to Godzilla's numerous foreign relatives, Yonggary did pretty well for me.

I really enjoyed this movie and it should be on every monster movie fans DVD shelf. Sure, the CGI is tacky and the actors and actresses are unknown, but it's a hell of a movie! Just compare it to G.I.N.O and you will love this movie.It was made for international release, and they really should have used Korean actors in this movie.Yonggary and Cykor are two cool creatures. Yonggary looks much better than in his 1967 debut movie.A cool movie with a bad reputation.Steven

People who hated this movie probably didn't get through the first forty minutes of it. And, they're not necessarily overreacting: it's an illogical yet painfully predictable film; it's over-the top but only in the most cliched manner possible; it's terrible, but truly, unabashedly terrible. And, from that standpoint, I can somewhat respect it for what it does. My suspicions are that director Hyung-rae Shim INTENDED this to be an homage to the hilariously cartoonish slough of monster movies to come out of Japan after the success of Rodan in the 1950s. It succeeds in evoking the same, unrelenting two- dimensionality of those old films, uses the same formula seen in Gameron and Godzilla films (the seeming monster foe turned champion of humanity). Same cheesy models and doe-eyed onlookers. Same military and scientist bad guys. Where it fails, unfortunately (and what would have made it an adequate homage to Japanese monster filmmaking) is that it omits the essential morality play at its heart. Without a moral framework to make the "good monster v. evil monster" scenes meaningful, the movie is virtually useless. I say "virtually" because, as my partner often says, nothing's completely useless. You can always use it as a bad example.Some youngin' fed a steady diet of sophisticated special effects movies is not going to tolerate this. So be it. I got a kick out of it at times with a long groan and a smile. To the over-40 set, crack open a six-pack, and enjoy the nostalgia. (Just say, "no"!)

This is by far one of the worst sci-fi flicks of all time. The special effects were so glaringly artificial I might as well have been playing a computer game instead of watching a movie. The writing and acting are gratingly amateurish, in fact, I have seen student films that are more professionally executed. Reptilian and his alien cohorts look like wasted refugees from "Power Rangers". If this pops up on the Sci-Fi Channel again avoid at all costs.