Bert I Gordon has made a few movies that I like, my favorite being Empire of the Ants. In most of his films he uses a simple techniques to make something or other look large in addition to making a prop or two. Here he tries to make a movie based on H.G. Wells story Food of the Gods. This time he fails miserably. He would later make another version in 1976 that is titled Food of the Gods and it is probably my second favorite Bert I film. This one is just to goofy and is more of a comedy. There are some nice shots of pretty 60's girls and it is at times a bit risqué for a film of this time period, but overall the story and the tone of the film just do not work.
The story has a bunch of rowdy kids dancing in the rain, which with the girls was entertaining at times. However, it was also padding to the extreme. A young boy his sister and boyfriend call genius and is played by Ron Howard develops a formula that increases things in size. A cat grows to super size, leaves and two ducks and a dog. The ducks rock on at the local bar before being roasted and it is not long before the rowdy kids are eating the formula and growing large and implementing their own rules. Though, they really do not do anything all that bad as no one is going to be killed here. It is up to the town's teens to find a way to stop the super rebellious and giant teens!
I saw this film on MST3K and it was an all right episode of that show; however, I was expecting it to be funnier than it turned out. I found the host segments involving Frank's firing and unemployment funnier than the movie in this one. Not to say it made for a bad episode. The effects are at times very funny including a pair of made up legs!
So this film had a couple of good points, mainly the parts of the film that focused on the girls of the film. Most of the film was padding, the film was like a very small idea and with the rest of it being filler. There are times you cannot hear certain characters, I probably could not make out half of what that sheriff said. At times the scale is completely off or they were reading the world's largest magazines. Just a whole lot of mess going on here, but it is nice to see that Bert I Gordon would revisit Food of the Gods and do a much better job of it than he did here.
The story has a bunch of rowdy kids dancing in the rain, which with the girls was entertaining at times. However, it was also padding to the extreme. A young boy his sister and boyfriend call genius and is played by Ron Howard develops a formula that increases things in size. A cat grows to super size, leaves and two ducks and a dog. The ducks rock on at the local bar before being roasted and it is not long before the rowdy kids are eating the formula and growing large and implementing their own rules. Though, they really do not do anything all that bad as no one is going to be killed here. It is up to the town's teens to find a way to stop the super rebellious and giant teens!
I saw this film on MST3K and it was an all right episode of that show; however, I was expecting it to be funnier than it turned out. I found the host segments involving Frank's firing and unemployment funnier than the movie in this one. Not to say it made for a bad episode. The effects are at times very funny including a pair of made up legs!
So this film had a couple of good points, mainly the parts of the film that focused on the girls of the film. Most of the film was padding, the film was like a very small idea and with the rest of it being filler. There are times you cannot hear certain characters, I probably could not make out half of what that sheriff said. At times the scale is completely off or they were reading the world's largest magazines. Just a whole lot of mess going on here, but it is nice to see that Bert I Gordon would revisit Food of the Gods and do a much better job of it than he did here.