Gargantarama DVD: A review

[lbh]

I just got AC Comics first Giantess DVD and I thought I'd let you know what I think. I had previously gotten their "Nightveil" DVD and while that had more extras I think this came off a little better, though this maybe just the central subject matter is of more interest to me. The DVD breaks down into three parts, one is the complete movie of the 1958 version of "The Attack of the 50FT Woman" I believe this runs about 61 minutes, there are no chapter stops so you'll have to fastforward to the "good bit" The box says the film is Digitally Remastered and I think it looks as good as it is going to. I think AC Missed an opportunity by Not having a commentary track, I think they might have been able to do a nice "Mystery Science Thearter 3000" number on the film. The next segment is an "original" short film "The Amazing Colossal Woman" it features the AC Comics character Garganta but in name only, in this story she is a Podiatrist whose husband is cheating on her, as she goes to confront him an alien spaceship, looking like a repainted "Land of the Giants" spaceship model, uses a strange ray to cause her to grow and begin rampaging across Florida . THe story is shot in black and white in order to use stock footage from other 50s monster films like "War of the Colossal Beast", "Earth vs the Spider" and you can even see Clint Eastwood from the climax of "The Tarantula" the problem is this doesn't mesh well with the new footage. There are two main problems with this short film, one is that it seems to have been rushed, the shot of her growing out of her clothes is ruined when skin colored modesty bra is clearly visible under her forearm, (sadly the Alien redresses her for her rampage) something that should have been reshot, this also shows how inexperienced the filmmakers are. The other is that the story to closely resembles "....50Ft Woman" it would have been better to use a variation of the comic book story. All in all the film comes off a little better than other amature Gts videos and hopefully they'll get it right next time. The last segment is a 24 minute retrospective of Gts in film, featuring clips from "30Ft Bride of Candyrock" "Dude Where's my Car" and even the Boogypimps video. It not bad but with the exception of the making of shots of the "Colossal Woman" short and a quick animatic of another upcoming Gts video their doing there is nothing we havn't seen before but the clips are fairly crisp and well shown. In all I would say it was worth the 24.95 I paid, if your going to get "....50Ft Woman" on DVD this is as close to an extras package as your going to get. I might suggest contacting AC Comics and make so suggestions as what you'd like to see on the next one.

[Bozo]

anyway we can get a peak at the aforementioned growth scene?

[LOD]

Found this on a random search, and it appears as if someone has re-released it and this time they have a trailer!!!!

Originally Posted by Bozo

anyway we can get a peak at the aforementioned growth scene?

Yes, yes you can.....




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And on Further Review!!!

[LK]

Can't say I'd buy it for any other reason than the growth. Bleh. Then again I've paid $100 bucks for less growth.

[Bozo]

okay, let's forego the clip, too much to ask for and i'm sorry. i'd just like to know about this growth scene. good rippage? important: shoe destruction? on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is disney's alice in wonderland and 10 is moon princess, where does this growth rate? sorry for this, but i really would appreciate any guidance. informed consumer, y'know?

[lbh]

Originally Posted by Bozo

okay, let's forego the clip, too much to ask for and i'm sorry. i'd just like to know about this growth scene. good rippage? important: shoe destruction? on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is disney's alice in wonderland and 10 is moon princess, where does this growth rate? sorry for this, but i really would appreciate any guidance. informed consumer, y'know?

I'd have to say about a 3 or a 4, there is an attempt to make it look like the "Village of the Giants" growth scene but it was rushed, I think the whole film was somewhat rushed to try and get it on to the disc. Also the Alien gets her into new clothes to fast, I realize AC is going for a PG/PG-13 in content but I think they could have had a little "CheeseCake" type fun with her, Hell that's what most of their comics line is all about.

[Clevens]

wow..25 bucks for that??

[Bozo]

Wow. 2006. Well, I actually got the DVD since then. Yeah, growth scene was meh but remember this was when we were starved for content.

[LOD]

yeah, this thread came up when I used the search function to see if it was posted before. It is sub par but what the hell might as well share I thought.

[qzar9999]

Hmm. $25 for that... Gary's clips are $5-$7... the growth scenes from the '93 50-foot woman, moon princess and village of the giants are free...

Yeah, not much of a bargain, this one. And could it *be* any cheesier?

Still and all, thanks for sharing, LoD.

[LOD]

I didn't know it was $25 or that it was even released before 2009. AS you see it has the year 2009 stamped all over it on youtube.

At least now people know what they are getting into....

[qzar9999]

It's all good, LoD. You found something, you shared it, nobody's gonna penalize you for that...