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Are you sure it didn't say "you are an arse soul" Grigg?"We've just begun to learn about the water and its secrets."
For a creature feature this movie is fairly unexploitative. In fact, it goes nearly twenty-five minutes before we even get to see the creature's face. A more thoughtful offering than usual, its aquatic missing link musings may win the hotly-contested "most clumsy use of exposition in a Universal horror" but are still commendable.
However, as is the problem with most of the studio's later output, there is little beyond the initial premise to keep things moving. Once it's established that there's a half-human monster at the bottom of the lagoon there's nothing to do except sit it out and wait for the creature to get killed.
The laborious pace isn't helped with interminable tracts of nicely directed yet ultimately dull underwater sequences. The breaks between attacks are there to build suspense, though merely contribute boredom. While it shows commendable ambition for the studio, having 18 minutes of the film's brief runtime underwater means that 16% of it goes without dialogue, surely too great an amount. Research reminds us that the movie was released in 3D, explaining this stance somewhat. Yet this is not an issue when you're watching a non-3D video release, highlighting the shortcomings of the script.
But the biggest problem is the creature itself. Frankly, it looks ridiculous. Underwater, helmed by (Fuck it, forgot to look it up), it's passable, but on land under Jack Arnold's direction it's just a silly old man in a rubber suit. Okay, this is rather a shallow judgement, but then this is rather a shallow film. And what about those webbed fingers? How does he have a Tommy Tank? The incidental music is even more repetitive than the plot, and where are the creature's family? As a mammal he'd have to have parents or offspring, wouldn't he? As this one never had a sequel then we never got to find this out, nor why he should have a soft spot for Julia Adams. (Mind you, she did have big jugs).
If this was made as a tongue-in-cheek parody it would be understandable, but the whole thing is performed so seriously - almost pompously - that it's impossible even to laugh with it. Did people really find this sort of thing scary fifty years ago?
Creature From The Black Lagoon. No moral. No meaning. No point.
Anti-Commie propoganda. So I missed out a word - up yours! (NT) -- Rich, 18:57:05 06/19/01 Tue
Get on this board, you long streak of paralysed piss! (NT) -- Harold, 19:55:29 06/19/01 Tue
Ah yes, Revenge of the Creature - the poster for said film appears in the Coming Soon section of the Potachee drive-in cinema in Back to the Future Part III. You're getting awful touchy about your pitiful English standards, mister! Image that! And while you're rambling on and on and on (16% of Black Lagoon without dialogue, eh? How very.... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) I already posted one review off that list, all right? I'll do my reply to that one in the morn cos I'm about to go to bed. Grigg's Gob - surely headed for number one! I forgot to mention your new snaps, sorry. That Wolf Man one was surely the latest creation of Rick Baker, so convincing was the make-up! (NT) -- Griff, 21:08:34 06/19/01 Tue
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