But back to MST3K, I'm not going to go into the new episodes too much, but one movie they riffed which I'd also seen recently-ish was Reptilicus. Reptilicus was the Danish answer to the recent hit Godzilla, a giant monster movie that was made to capitalize off of it's success. This was quite the fun movie for me to see, as I'm always up for a giant monster and destruction of that sort.
From everything I can find, it doesn't look like this was ever in 3D, but there are several parts where giants monster goo comes flying at the screen, so that's kinda cool. Sorry, sort of a random thought there. I'm super fucking hung over today. I didn't even drink that much. I just had like a shot and a beer at night! What the fuck. I did drink all day, obviously, but towards the night I was sobering up and barely had any at all! Fucking body. Thanks a bunch.
Back to Reptilicus, this is one of those slow developing films. In the beginning, a group of guys find a giant frozen reptile tail. A scientist accidentally leaves the freezer door open and falls asleep, and the tail thaws out over night. Then it starts regenerating, growing, and all that good stuff. Soon enough, all of Denmark is up shit creek as a monster starts crushing buildings and spitting green acid goo all over the place.
This was the first episode of the revamped MST3K show, and as an episode it's pretty solid. The movie is for sure one that could be riffed and enjoyed, it's pretty perfect for that sort of treatment. As a movie aside from that experience, it's decent. It's a bit clunky and forced, but it's good to see another take on the Godzilla idea, and the monster is pretty cool looking. I'll also say that it doesn't feel quite as old as it is. I guessed it was in the 70's when I was writing the title above. So, that's pretty cool.
It's entertaining enough, nothing too memorable or awesome or anything. A very average 3 stars.
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