Rating: 38%. Schlock Autour Sydney Pink in 1961 created this *sarcastically* wonderful little creation called Reptilicus. There is a certain joy I get from watching "monster taking over the city" flicks like the premise to the movie GOJIRA (Japanese and/or American version), but if you take the words "schlock", "entertaining" and "masterpiece" and look them up in that order in a dictionary, it will show you the theatrical poster to this gut busting laughter spewing film. Let me get down to business, were going to be serious when I say that every TECHNICAL aspect about this movie is atrociously wrong. Believe it or not, there are a few pros, but let's start with the cons.1: Location: Denmark (specifically Copenhagen). Very nice location, but at the same time, it is a very weird, awkward, and unorthodox location for a monster destruction movie. You have New York City (excellent), Tokyo (optimal location), Chicago (acceptable), Copenhagen Denmark (OMG no).2: Language: Poorly dubbed Phonetic English instead of Danish. (The Danish language is more like German, although German and English languages have more similarities than other languages, I can still tell as I watch this funny cheese fest of a movie that the words spoken and the mouth movements are far off enough to notice). What I prefer is to have subtitles that are ACTUALLY CORRECT and then have them speak their native language.3: The Monster: The top half of the (so called quote on quote) "monster" is simply just a rubberized snake that they stitched cosmetics onto it to make it look frightening although it just comes off laughable. The bottom half of this hideous creature has legs that do not match the size of this beast, and almost forgot to mention that this beast also has wings that are more useless than "tits on a bull". This monster is obviously a puppet because there are strings that move the monster in the direction that the puppeteer wants it to go. You can tell it is string if you watch it on a 50" flat screen TV with a Blue Ray player that provides the best available resolution known to mankind.4: The Characters: The only reputable actor in this block of Danish cheese is Dirch Passer. Not a big name in the United States, but he was considered to be the greatest (and only successful) Danish comedian of all time. He plays this bumbling lovable goofus called Mr. Peterson who although was given so much responsibility to run the facility, we did not see him do anything (at least productive) other than pull fire alarms, play with the electric eel, and as the MST3K guys explain "it's only 7:00 and already he ate the contents of three petri dishes". As the MST3K return hosts explain and I'll paraphrase "even Denmark has an Andy Griffith". The real unintentional laughter comes with overacting General Mark Grayson (aka Brigadier Military Industrial Complex) played by Carl Ottoson. In my opinion, he is by far the most captivatingly awful and yet somehow most interesting character in the movie. This general only has one expression on his face to try not bursting out laughing, but I will set the tone to this man's idiocity and awfulness. Between saying lines like "the shorter the stay the happier I will be" or "when will I ever get out of this hell", "no Connie you take her to the hospital, I got work to do", and "were going to have to use the heavy stuff" (stuff instead of artillery) and so much more, it proves to the audience that General Mark Grayson is clearly an unlikable hero, a horrible underdeveloped character, and/or the actor that plays him cannot act his way out of a Ziploc bag. Then comes the doctor who audiences may think is the brains of the operation, who made the really big mistake of not telling General Grayson how to kill this creature, he basically says something to the effect of don't use explosives learn another tactic without have the knowledge on how to extinguish Reptilicus, he also suffers through three heart attacks in the end of the 2nd, beginning of the 3rd act. I think I have said enough of the characters worth talking about.5: The Plot: Actually it is a very simple thin plot, young man named Svend dresses up as a minor by just wearing a hard hat and work clothes, digs up some skin from the ground and brings this skin to the research facility of Copenhagen. Monster regenerates itself and destroys the country of Denmark. Besides the words "regenerates" and "Denmark", it is basically your cliched monster destruction story.The one and only pro I have to say about this film is both the intentional and unintentional humor. The intentional humor comes from Dirch Passer who was a comedian in this film as the main primary comic relief. On a side note though, everybody in this movie was considered to be comic relief. I did laugh though the scene where the Doctor had to tell one his daughters "when must I tell you how to pick up a man". In addition, the editing from scene to scene is just remarkable. When the doctor says "if Reptilicus gets any bigger, we will need to get a bigger tank and then it shows the Baltic Sea, with one of the MST3K guys saying "woah that's too big" and at last the epic scene where the soldiers are in the house shooting but the window is shut. That is truly comedic gold.Anyway I would recommend the MST3K version of this film, or the actual movie, but when watching the actual movie, it is recommended to watch it with a close group of friends with pizza and lots and lots of beer. Bad movie night experience is required and mandated. TRULY THE BEST OF THE WORST AND, IN ADDITION TRULY A MOVIE THAT SHOULD BE SHOWN IN FILM CLASSES FOR COLLEGES ON HOW NOT TO MAKE A MOVIE.

Reptilicus, Denmark's sole offering to the vast world of giant monster movies!!!This movie had the potential to be a frightening movie as our monster could lead to a disaster of GLOBAL proportions! THe reason for this is because Reptilicus can regenerate in a way that if his arm is blown off, not only will he grow a new arm the arm will grow a new Reptilicus!! This means that if Reptilicus is blown to bits, each individual piece will actually grow into a new monster!Reptilicus cmes to be when a section of his tail is found frozen in the mountains and is brought a science lab in Copenhagen. Various screw-ups including a heavily-fatigued scientist, a dim-witted lab assistant, and a power failure cause the tail to thaw out and grow into our titular monster!The scene where Reptilicus breaks out of the lab is extremely suspenseful and kept me on edge due to it happening during a raging thunderstorm!The monster, however, isn't that great.... the footage of him is very grainy and seems to move at 7 frames per second. There is a scene where he eats a farmer and it's a hilariously bad blue-screen effect.Definitely watch this! It's on Netflix by way of the revival series of Mystery Science Theater 3000 so as long as you don't mind a man and two robots riffing on the movie while you watch, give it a go!

I actually saw this movie in the theater when it was first released. The movie was so bad, and so badly marketed, that promo stills in the theater lobby never appeared in the film! The "not so" special effects are as bad as they can get, the acting is universally poor (especially Carl Ottosen as the American General Grayson) and portions of the movie involving the monster are filmed in different stages of focus/clarity. However, the scenes involving the cast of live characters are of high quality stock and have survived quite well over the past 50+ years. It is a film that will give you a few laughs and may be a way spend a rainy Saturday afternoon. The best (and maybe the only way) to watch Reptilicus is via MST3K!

Copper miners in Lapland unearth some organic material. It turns out to be part of the tail of an enormous prehistoric reptile. It's kept on ice back in a lab until a power failure allows the tail to warm up. And because reptiles sometimes have the power of regeneration, the tail grows back into a full grown lizard monster. Which does go on the eventual rampage, of course. The weary yet intrepid military man trying to keep on top of the situation is General Mark Grayson (Carl Ottosen).The big problem with producer-director Sidney W. Pinks' movie (which he co-scripted with the great Ib Melchior) is that it gets completely bogged down in talk for its first half. Exposition rules the day, at the expense of action. As a result, it may be hard for some people to stick with "Reptilicus". The Danish cast do the best that they can, even if none of the characters are really all that engaging. Still, in cheap and cruddy genre cinema such as this, you don't exactly ever expect Oscar baiting performances. One amusing highlight is the dopey comic relief by Dirch Passer as slow witted bumbler Petersen.It's no accident that Reptilicus itself is more entertaining than anything else here, no matter how bad the special effects may be at times. The most awful - and gut busting - effects involve the "acid slime" emanating from Reptilicus's mouth. Once this thing enters the movie in a big way, the entertainment value goes up substantially. Dare I say it, the movie's even exciting, in its own stupid and inept way.Pink and company got much cooperation from the Danish people, including virtually the entire population of Copenhagen. The local armed forces also lent quite a deal of assistance.The bottom line is, "Reptilicus" does emerge as a solid diversion of its type. It just requires its viewers to have a fair bit of patience for a while. But they get rewarded with such things as a death occurring between the 43 and 44 minute marks. See this one to believe it!Five out of 10.