This has to be one of the most idiotic movies to ever come out of the entire 1950's. It's simply amazing how many movies they made about a giant animal or whatever attacking people. A gila monster seems like a good idea in principle. I don't think there's a single scene in the whole movie where it appears with the people. It's pretty obvious they just built models and had a gila monster destroy them. I mean, the gila monster doesn't seem like a good actor in this. The worst part is how this monster barely even appears in the movie at all. Half the time, I can't even tell if it's the monster that's causing the cars and trucks to fall over. It just seems like they're just falling over by themselves.
The characters are extremely annoying, especially the dumb drunk guy. I guess there wasn't a lot of comic relief in movies like this for a reason. It's just amazing how clichéd everything about this is. It's sooo obvious this took place in the 1950's. There are way too many overly long scenes of these people just dancing or talking. Apparently, there was a 130 pound baby born. No one really cares. I think this monster has a total of three minutes of screen time. Every single other scene is just utterly pointless and tries to pad out a movie that wouldn't have even made it as an episode of a TV show. The whole movie has no reason to exist. I'm fairly certain there's a blatant error as a guy's hand was in one shot. Then again, I don't even care if that was part of the movie. 1/2 *
The characters are extremely annoying, especially the dumb drunk guy. I guess there wasn't a lot of comic relief in movies like this for a reason. It's just amazing how clichéd everything about this is. It's sooo obvious this took place in the 1950's. There are way too many overly long scenes of these people just dancing or talking. Apparently, there was a 130 pound baby born. No one really cares. I think this monster has a total of three minutes of screen time. Every single other scene is just utterly pointless and tries to pad out a movie that wouldn't have even made it as an episode of a TV show. The whole movie has no reason to exist. I'm fairly certain there's a blatant error as a guy's hand was in one shot. Then again, I don't even care if that was part of the movie. 1/2 *