This is what life was life before the Discovery Channel. In a world of original ideas, there is this one- "let's rip off The Swiss Family Robinson!" I mean, it's pretty much that show.film in a nutshell. A group of people- most of them related- go to an island and get marooned, forced to adjust to their new surroundings. You also get a touch of Jonny Quest in there with the odd bit of pseudo-science thrown in. The reason that this film made Killer Mammal Week, however, is for the creatures involved. They're the real appeal of this by-the-numbers film. To see what I'm talking about, read on. Get out your compass as we go to find the...
A family (a husband, son, two daughters) and others (a young assistant, a Hawaiian girl) go looking for an uncharted island in their ship. Oh yeah, they bring their 'Bandit'-substitute in the form of a seal. I'm not sure why...
A good chunk of the movie looks like this. Before we could turn on the television at any point in the day and see the Ocean, this was neat...
Holy shit- mutant ostrich! Damn you, super-tight close-up; damn you to hell!
Why the hell is this thing red? What is going on here?
Can you at least pick a color? Plus, those are clearly normal dogs. Couldn't you at least have put rugs on their backs?
That alligator is very unhappy. Why did we do that to such beautiful, angry killers. For shame, 1960s!
Oh right- the plot. The family saves a native Prince there on a rite of passage. This sets the other natives against them and they have to escape. They do. The End.
Island of eh-venture. The plot of this movie is satisfactory and nothing more. There's not a lot to talk about here. People go to an island. They wander around, encountering the creatures on the island and then they leave. You may think that I'm overgeneralizing, but I'm really not. It's not really bad. It's not really good. I can't really say much more about the plot than that. The monsters, however, I can say a lot about! Man-eating ostriches! Red, sabretooth dogs! Alligators with fins on their backs! How? Why? What? Honestly, you younger readers really need to see this movie. For all the talk of stupid, CG monsters (and they are), you need to see this shit! Take us away, turtle trying to run away from a seal...
Up next, Reggie from Phantasm fights a giant, mutated Tasmanian Devil. I don't know- just go with it! Stay tuned...
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