Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
cape640
I first saw this movie when I was five years old. Actually, can't believe my mother let me go to see this movie with my older brother-seven years old, and a friend. Anyway, we did, and I had nightmares for over a month. I would not go upstairs into my bedroom for fear of Konga. My mother tried to calm me, but hey, I knew that this gorilla could just reach into my bedroom and grab me with his fist. I was actually more scared of the Gorilla sized Konga that hid in the bushes. Jesus! In any case, the giant venus fly traps, the insane professor, the crazy plot---that's why it got my seven points on the review.
AaronCapenBanner
Michael Gough plays Dr. Charles Decker, who returns to England from Africa after being presumed dead. He brings with him a baby chimpanzee named Konga and a new technique to grow plants much bigger(and in some cases deadlier). Dr. Decker will use this growth formula on Konga, who does start to grow at a rapid rate. Sadly, Dr. Decker has gone insane after his Africa trip, and decides to use Konga to murder his various enemies and rivals, until Konga grows too big, taking Decker hostage and rampaging through London. Michael Gough is quite amusing as a villain here; unfortunately this woefully inept, derivative, & tacky film is beneath his talents. Total junk.
museumofdave
It's A Gorilla film, folks! Whether its Kong or Konga, Mighty Joe Young or The Ape, I love gorilla movies, especially the kind where men in cloddish hairy suits lunge around the streets terrifying entire populations. This is one of those--a totally inept mad scientist movie that maintains momentum through sheer foolishness, complete with foaming beakers in the lab, human dreams of world domination, strange murders late at night, and best of all, a gorilla that just gets larger with every injection. This is a silly romp, filmed in bright pastels, and riddled with clichéd dialogue. I had fun, and if you like this sort of thing, you probably will, too. This film and The Little Shop of Horrors were made in the 1960s. and both feature overgrown carnivorous plants with strange appetites for human flesh. What was it about 1960, anyway? It must have been the something in the water!
JoeB131
This film is unintentionally funny.The plot is that Alfred from the Batman movies comes back from Africa with some insect eating plants and a baby Chimp, and uses the extract from the plant to cause the Chimp to grow into a man in a bad gorilla suit. The gorilla then proceeds to kill the mad scientists enemies, as he makes a play for a young co-ed. His jilted spinster housekeeper then give the ape another dose of the extract, causing it to grow to giant size and rampage about the city. The co-ed gets her hand caught in a Venus Fly trap, and we never really find out what happened to her. (Seriously, did the Fly trap spend the next five days munching on her, or did she chew her arm off like a coyote and get away.)What I love about British horror from the 1950's is how totally nonchalant everyone is. Oh, a giant monster is rampaging in downtown London. Well, no need to get excited like the Japanese would. The professor is obviously completely nuts? Well, no cause for alarm.
