VividSimon Simply Perfect

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

mike48128 A rich and spoiled woman (Daryl Hannah)) is "zapped" with a ray from a flying saucer. Nobody believes her until she pops out of her clothes to over 50 feet tall. She lives in a big barn and sews her own clothes. (How very convenient.) Unlike "The Hulk" no purple stretchy underwear. It tries to be "campy" just like the 1950's film and somewhat succeeds. Nobody dies in this remake. Fake blue backdrop and jet-black studio skies. Daryl Hannah makes it into a woman's lib parody. When she grows to her full size she "attacks" her husband's lover, but only verbally. "You are better than this and smarter than all the men in town" (paraphrased) The sets (intentionally) look cheap like model-train miniature buildings. She stomps through town and everyone screams. She and her husband are picked up by the flying saucer, so nobody believes she is crazy anymore. Borrows from the original. Missiles are fired at her, she falls into the high-voltage electric wires, but does not die. Several silly things in the movie: Giant trucks deliver "Summer's Eve Deodorant for Women" and Revlon products. The doctor tries to give her a giant-sized hypo-tranquilizer. She suggests that her normal-sized man "can keep her happy"? He remarks: "What am I supposed to do? put on a "wet-suit" and bring a flashlight"? The love "gyrations" are poorly done and not provocative. Baldwin looks like he is drilling for oil! Daryl hitches a saucer-ride to the stars with two pretty giant alien "twins". Everyone is 50 ft. tall! They pick up three Earth-men, including her husband. They are still normal-sized at this time. They are all wearing yellow Capt. Kirk polo shirts, of course. It's a guilty-pleasure film due to pretty Ms. Hannah wearing practically nothing at times. Also minor nudity (cheeky). Cute but not that funny or scary. The drive-in she smashes is showing the old b/w 1950's version of the same movie. Yes, she did make a few better movies. "Splash" and "Roxanne" with Steve Martin, both come to mind. I rate it PG-13 (or a weak "R"). Minor violence, suggestive language, and brief nudity.

Adam Foidart This version of "Attack of the 50 foot Woman" isn't as much fun as the title may suggest. The main problem is that the film can't make up its mind on what it wants to be. Is it a spoof/homage to the cheesy 50's giant monster horror movies, or is a serious, but bizarre fantasy-drama about a woman who needs to break out of her shell? I know this sounds absolutely baffling, but the film actually kind of works as a quirky drama. We've got this woman who is suddenly 50 feet tall and has more than enough power to stand up to the men that would objectify and abuse her. Mixed in with that we have some standard giant monster stuff that feels really out of place, and this is coming from a big fan of Kaiju/giant monster movies. If the film had picked either direction and stuck with it, this could have been a very entertaining film but instead the audience is left disappointed. I found that technically the movie is pretty good, with some convincing special effects (well, for the most part; overall they are still convincing) and it features a good cast. How or when you're going to watch this, I really don't know because this is neither a "so bad it's good" cheesy horror flick you can laugh at and it isn't a clever twist on the films that inspired it either. I mistook this version for the original "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" when I bought the VHS tape. Sure it only cost me a buck but I was still disappointed. (On VHS, September 21, 2012)

Robert J. Maxwell If you're going to be a young woman who is made 50 feet tall in an isolated incident with a UFO in the desert, you might as well be Darryl Hannah. She's tall to begin with but she'd look fine at any altitude. She's enough to make any normal man want to climb up her calf and bite and squeeze her but that normal man shouldn't take the fantasy too far. She does have a good deal of heft, after all, and you wouldn't want her to roll over in the middle of the night.Enough of Darryl Hannah's lustrous blond beauty and incomparable figure. The movie -- yes, the movie. First of all, I have to mention J. B. S. Haldane's observation that Darryl Hannah might do fine at five or six feet but not at fifty. It isn't that she'd always have her head in the clouds despite her feet being on the ground. And let's not have any cracks about "How's the weather up there?" What do you think this is, a gag? Haldane calculated that a human being was "just the right size." Because if he were bigger he'd weigh too much and the bones of his legs wouldn't support that weight. He'd collapse because his legs would break off. He -- or she, in this instance -- would wind up like Ozymandias in Shelley's poem, which I'll take the liberty of quoting here.I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." --Okay, okay. That's off topic. Don't bother saying it. You don't need to draw ME a picture. But the movie doesn't forget where it's going. It follows its compass straight towards women's lib. Hannah, a weak-willed rich lady, is put upon and brow beaten by everyone she comes in contact with except her shrink, Frances Fisher. The men are especially brutal, even her Dad. Her philandering husband, one of the Baldwin brothers, is suitably slimy but nobody really turns in a good performance. Hannah herself seems languid to the point of sleepiness. I didn't make it to the end but I imagine she gets even with all those patriarchal pigs. The director, Christopher Guest, shoots it straight but must have known, in his heart of hearts, that it was to laugh at. I hope so, for his sake, because, if taken seriously, the movie has all the dash and relevance of a recipe for plain spaghetti sauce.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews I haven't seen the original; I can imagine that it isn't as feminist as, or at least less overtly so than, this. Guest gets the tone, and this largely delivers what it promises. I know he can direct something hilarious, since I've seen Best in Show; this doesn't have the benefits of a cast full of proved comedic talent, and the writing is inferior, though not without chuckle-inducing moments. There are a couple of lines that are downright quotable. You probably know the plot already; Daniel Baldwin, a bastard merely by virtue of the fact that he's cheating on Darryl Hannah(even if the squeeze he found is also a sight for sore eyes), and several others (all male) talk down to her, and once she begins to grow in size, she attempts to exact vengeance upon them. The FX are cheesy, dated and obvious, and I would wager this was an intentional decision. This is both a spoof and an homage. There is brief suspense. The characters and acting aren't half bad. There is some sexuality(and eye-candy) and brief nudity in this. The DVD comes with a theatrical trailer. I recommend this to fans of the concept. 5/10