verbusen Review of The Amazing Colossal Man

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)

Typical American International Crapola

[3/10 · 6 December 2006]

I am constantly amazed at the numbers of people who write such educated pieces on films as low in quality like The Amazing Collosal Man. I mean on this one I'm pretty shocked because this movie is horribly bad. It's not the worse and doesn't come close to the "worse" quality such as a Beast Of Yucca Flats type film. There is a coherent plot, but the story is incredibly long and boring and the end is very anti-climatic. This would have been a drive in flick where I would be cursing the ending saying "I stayed awake for that?". THE ONLY way I watched this whole thing was because it was a MST3K episode that I got and they tore it a new one. I mean the funniest part was at the end when the "Giant" (he's no longer a "Colonel"), is asked to put the girl down, and when he does the soldiers blast him, the MST3K guys dialog was, OK thanks for putting the girl down now here's some bullets for your reward. That ending was that abrupt and that lame. Avoid this like the plague unless watching as a MST3K bit or unless you intentionally want to watch a bad film. Some of these reviews must be have been written by college students using their essays from school and posting it on the web since they already did it. I mean to make so much into a flick like Amazing Collosal is like rationalizing a terrorist attack, sometimes its just too obvious to analyze in depth. In this case, it's early American International crapola, period.