Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Rainey Dawn This is your average run of the mill 1940s jungle B-film complete with people dressed up in gorilla suits, tribal people, rich white adventurers, stock footage of real animals, lame comedy, a budding romance between 2 lead characters and lots of silly dialogue. If you've seen one of these films then you've basically seen them all.It takes the group half of the film to get to their destination. The film padded heavily with scenes of real animals and lots of stuff of the budding romance and other unrelated stuff to the heart of the story.The film is not worth watching unless you are like me and found it in a 50-pack and simply want to watch all the films in the pack and review another seen film. BTW I acquired this in the Sci-Fi Classics 50-Pack and it's NOT a Sci-Fi.2/10

Bezenby F*ckin hell! I'm the most forgiving film guy in the world, but when you fill your film full of basically people walking around, travelling from one place to another, you've got a real problem there. I mean, last night I watched Queen of the Amazons, and rather enjoyed it. But this film is just padding, padding, padding, with an ending that'll have you logging into the IMDb and starting a film review with "Sh*te Mongo".Basically, some guy is rescued from some African native's camp in Africa with some diaries pertaining to the missing link, namely a white gorilla that's been kicking about. The guy who escapes catches jungle fever but gets those diaries back to some folk who now set off to catch the white Pongo, also known as 'some guy in a suit who doesn't do much'. Basically, the whole main portion of the film involves folks travelling to the location of the white Pongo, who spends that entire time following the group. Be infuriated as a) We watch folks sailing down a river b) Pointless romantic interludes c) 'hilarious' jokes at the expense of ethnic minorities, an ending that'll have you foaming at the mouth.Honestly, I had real trouble trying to pay attention to this one. I had high hopes for it and then it ended up being a torture session. At the halfway point I couldn't believe I hadn't watched the whole film. In the battle of Man vs Film this is a pure win for Film as I had no idea things were going to get so bad.

TheExpatriate700 White Pongo isn't an A movie. It isn't even a B movie. It falls more into the range of a D-level movie, made on a shoe string by a minor film company. It fails in just about every way a film can. It's not just that it's cheap and openly racist; it's just plain boring!The film follows an expedition to capture a rare white gorilla believed to be the missing link. (Why would the missing link have to be white?) In the process, the adventurers run into hostile natives, criminals, and the worst gorilla suit known to man. (I know this was made before the time of Jane Goodall, but couldn't they have come up with something vaguely realistic?)The film's racism is very obvious, to the point that it verges on satire. The lead black character is named Mumbo-Jumbo for crying out loud. The Africans are shown as savages who are automatically hostile to white people for no reason-never mind the fact that during the colonial era, they would have had every reason to distrust Europeans.However, what's most damning is the boredom factor. Even though the movie is roughly seventy minutes long, it is filled with scenes of people just cruising down the river with canoes, with no accompanying action or dialogue. It's filler of the worst kind.

Quincy Hughes Well, let's face it: a movie from the 1940's about a white gorilla (who's actually yellow on the packaging, but let's not obsess over details here) isn't likely to be Oscar material, and the Razzies didn't exist yet so that's out too, but if you're going into this with an open mind and appreciating of suckdom, then you can sure find worse ways to lose 70 minutes of your life.White Pongo is in the jungle, and the hunters all are trying to find him, since he's the missing link between man and ape, or something to that effect. Among the expedition are your obligatory hottie, your obligatory guy with a hidden agenda, and your obligatory hero undercover, who ultimately stops the obligatory guy with a hidden agenda and ends the film liplocked with the obligatory hottie. After you sit through 15-20 minutes of complete filler such as boats going down rivers, stock footage of real Africa (as opposed to "Hollywood Africa" that takes up most of the film) and what is apparently the only jungle noise that the sound technicians could come up with (some sort of monkey chirping that you'll be hearing in your sleep after listening to it for the duration of the film), White Pongo ultimately kills the obligatory guy with a hidden agenda, then saves the obligatory hottie who has been kidnapped by an unnamed evil gorilla by having the worst five minutes of gorilla brawling ever put to cellulite. However, this is made more fun by the audio track on the Alpha Video DVD being at least a full minute behind the video for a good six or seven minutes of the latter part of the film, so at some points it seems like the gorillas are girlie-screaming and running through a pile of crunchy jungle on two feet. Anyway, WP wins the battle, and his reward is being caged up and brought back to America by the obligatory hero undercover. Hey, who said life was always fair, right? To be honest, there actually was at least an attempt at a coherent storyline in this film, so I can appreciate that end of it. Beyond that, though, White Pongo is just another wonderfully awful film for all of us who can enjoy the worst Hollywood could give us in those days gone by.