KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

cape640 I first saw this movie when I was five years old. Actually, can't believe my mother let me go to see this movie with my older brother-seven years old, and a friend. Anyway, we did, and I had nightmares for over a month. I would not go upstairs into my bedroom for fear of Konga. My mother tried to calm me, but hey, I knew that this gorilla could just reach into my bedroom and grab me with his fist. I was actually more scared of the Gorilla sized Konga that hid in the bushes. Jesus! In any case, the giant venus fly traps, the insane professor, the crazy plot---that's why it got my seven points on the review.

mark.waltz A cute baby chimp becomes the pawn in a mad scientist's game, turning larger and larger with assistance from the greenery of meat-eating plants. As the chimp grows, so does his species, as by the time he's man-sized, he looks more like a gorilla. Even the cutest baby gorilla looks nothing like a chimpanzee baby, no matter how close they are in relation. That is my only complaint in this above average science fiction thriller that has some genuine frights and some truly wonderfully over-the-top performances.Michael Gough is the mad scientist/professor, having been somehow mentally changed after a plane crash in Africa stranded him in the jungle for a year. Learning about man-eating plants and rescuing the baby chimp, Gough returns to his old job at the London England college and immediately makes waves with the dean who meets a violent end at the hands of the enlarged primate. His aging but beautiful assistant/lover (Marjo Johns) is at first horrified by what he's doing, but desperate to be in love, she stands by him, ultimately going mad by his interest in a young student assistant (Claire Gordon) who gets her own little introduction to one of Gough's experiments while fighting him off after he makes an unwanted pass. Of course, like "King Kong" (which utilized in different versions the Empire State Building and original World Trade Centers), there's a last minute interruption with the giant creature hanging outside the Tower of London looking on almost child-like at the gathering crowd.There's almost a sadness towards the treatment of the baby chimpanzee, obviously dependent on both Gough and Johns for affection and life's necessities, and the final moment is almost tear-jerking. The frights don't come from the chimp/gorilla's attacks on the victims (audiences were used to those from such films as "White Pongo", "Bride of the Gorilla" and "Gorilla at Large") but from the scenes in Gough's lab with the meat-eating plants. For that matter, there's no revelation of what happened with Gordon at the end of the film, so the audience is left wondering if she turned into Ellen Greene from "Little Shop of Horrors" or one of the arriving firemen managed to rescue her from a certain fate worse than death. Still, this does remain consistently entertaining even though the special effects showing Konga's sudden growths are less than adequate.

AaronCapenBanner Michael Gough plays Dr. Charles Decker, who returns to England from Africa after being presumed dead. He brings with him a baby chimpanzee named Konga and a new technique to grow plants much bigger(and in some cases deadlier). Dr. Decker will use this growth formula on Konga, who does start to grow at a rapid rate. Sadly, Dr. Decker has gone insane after his Africa trip, and decides to use Konga to murder his various enemies and rivals, until Konga grows too big, taking Decker hostage and rampaging through London. Michael Gough is quite amusing as a villain here; unfortunately this woefully inept, derivative, & tacky film is beneath his talents. Total junk.

MartinHafer The plot and special effects for this film are terrible--especially the special effects. However, despite being a completely terrible film, it isn't total garbage. Michael Gough's completely one-note and over the top performance actually makes the entire thing worth seeing, as this terrible over-acting is the only way they could have made this thing work at all.The film begins with Gough being discovered in the jingle a year after he was assumed to have died in a plane crash. He's in fine shape and excited about carrying on with botanical experiments based on what he learned while staying with Ugandans until his rescuers arrived. Apparently, a local witch doctor taught him a lot of cool things about genetic manipulation and mind control (little-known fact--most of the world's top geneticists are in fact witch doctors, with three recent Nobel Prize winners being witch doctors).It seems his research has to do with, get this, infusing plant DNA into animals in order to make them grow to huge proportions in a matter of minutes! My favorite experiment is one where he gave a cute little chimpanzee injections and it grew into a gorilla!! How the miracle drug caused the animal to not only grow but change species is beyond me!! And, for these scenes, there was of course the obligatory man in a gorilla suit! You'll love Michael Gough's performance as the doctor, as he manages to wonderfully create as mad a scientist as you can find on film. With such stock phrases like "you fools!" and "I'll show them!!", he's perfect for the part. And, like any self-respecting mad scientist, he's not above using his giant chimp/gorilla to settle some grudges. In fact, having the beast kill is sort of like eating potato chips--you can't stop with only one! By the end of the film, not only are several people dead, but Gough's jealous mistress decides to give the animal a HUGE injection--resulting in a 60 foot high creature. However, how big the animal is seems to change in each scene (the scale was NOT well established or maintained)! And eventually, when the "chorilla" takes Gough prisoner and while he's struggling in vain in the clutches of the animal, what does he repeatedly yell? Yep, "you fool, you fool"! The final scenes show the chorilla (with Gough) roaming the streets of London. Oddly, the beast does NOT go on a rampage but rather ambles about without causing any particular harm. In fact, much of the time he just stands there doing absolutely nothing! This made it easy for the military to attack it and in a less than thrilling finale, you see tracer bullets and bazooka shells consistently missing the creature--even though the folks are only about ten yards away!! These are supposedly trained soldiers and he's the size of a house...and yet they keep missing! It's actually pretty funny.Overall, the costumes and special effects are truly dreadful. The story is quite silly (but watchable in a cheesy sort of way) and Michael Gough does pretty much the same job acting as he did in most films he made during the 1960s and early 70s--an angry and superior sort of fella from start to finish. For bad movie fans who like laughing at inept films, this is a movie just for them. For anyone else, forget it--you can't help but do better picking another film.