Yongary: Monster From the Deep
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In Theaters : 1967
DVD Release : 23 March, 2004 |
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Godzilla Goes to Korea
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Cheesy and campy kaiju' film inspired by the success of Godzilla series, some would describe "Yongary" (1967) as Korean answer to the more famous Japanese monster. Actually the truths are a little more complicated than a simple rip-off, but anyway, if you like this kind of film, old-fashioned rubber-suit monster genre, you might find "Yongary" pretty entertaining, if technically much inferior to other films of the same ilk.
The story is a usual one. A nuclear experiment wakes up a legendary monster named Yongary, which attacks the central city of Korea. There are ho-hum sequences about a newly-wed astronaut and his reconnoiter mission in orbit which defy every scientific logic, and one precocious 8-year-old boy named Icho, who plays a mischievous trick on him and his bride. There is no serious tone that prevails over the first Godzilla film, the fear of living in the Cold War era.
The attacks of the monster and counterattacks from the humans are presented with miniature models, but the total effects of the city destruction scenes are nothing great even by the standard of the 1960s. Some effects look cheap; the fire nozzle in the monster's mouth is visible and there are glaring gaps in color and lighting between the miniature sequences and live-action ones. Still the miniature tanks, jet fighters and helicopters are all OK, if nothing special, so are the most building wreckage scenes.
As I said before, many people think "Yongary" as rip-off of Godzilla (it is). Godzilla was (and is) the moneymaking franchise for Japanese company Toho and other studios created their original monsters in response to Godzilla, such as Gamera produced by Daiei. The special effects of "Yongary" are in fact provided by the team who supported Gamera films so if you look carefully, you will notice that the designs of Yongary are closer to that of Gamera (without tortoiseshell) than to Godzilla.
I must say all in all "Yongary" is a sub-par monster flick with so-so effects. And I don't say much about the film's ending, which is just terrible.
The film was remade in 1999 as "2001 Yonggary" (aka "Reptilian") starring Harrison Young. |
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