Revenge of the Creature movie review

Revenge of the Creature was released in 1955 and is the sequel to Creature From The Black Lagoon. In Revenge of the Creature a mission is sent deep into the Amazon to capture the Creature and to bring him back to Florida to put him in an aquarium to study him. They put him through tests and conditioning experiences to learn more about him and to study his intelligence. One of the scientists doing the research is a beautiful young grad student who the creature starts to fall for. The creature getting tired of this bullshit breaks free and escapes into the ocean, after killing a few folks on his way out, and flipping a car like its nothing (demonstrating the creature's amazing strength). The creature ends up stalking the beautiful young grad student before walking into a club where she is on a date with her scientist colleague and throws her over his shoulder and makes off with her. Then a chase ensues and the creature and the man fight for their woman.... This movie features a young actor who isn't even credited in the credits who would go on to be one of the biggest names in Hollywood, a young unknown actor in his first role by the name of Clint Eastwood. Even with that big notable feature this movie falls quite short of its predecessor in many ways, it for example doesn't really push the story in any new direction, other than telling a similar story in a new setting. We leave the Amazon rain forest to replace it with sunny Florida, and a wanna be Sea World type place. The acting is decent, but the heavy sexist treatment of the leading woman is a bit annoying, even in the context of this being the 1950s. Hey, men, women are more than an object for you to fight over, and dammit the same goes to you Creature, you can't just go up and grab women without their consent, though at least I could excuse the Creature's behavior as his species is different than ours, and their ways may be different than ours, but when the leading male characters treat the woman no better than the creature in the movie does, then that is an issue. I mean that aside, this addition to the series, really doesn't push the story into any new territory, I mean it kinda suffers the same way that many franchises like Jaws or Nightmare on Elm Street do, when the sequels just become a new way of telling the same story over and over again. Hold on though, don't get the impression that I don't absolutely love this movie, because it really is a great movie. This movie again has helped to raise the bar and set the standard of what creature features from the 50's are held to. The movie looks beautiful, the underwater shots especially are beautifully done. This release also came out in 3D like the first one did, which as I said in that review, was the big craze of the day. The casting is well done, and the characters do a great job at playing their characters well, love their personalities or not isn't the thing, the thing is that they do play real personalities, and do it in a believable and realistic way. Yes, this movie suffers from 1950's male chauvinism, but as a society have learned and improved from that, so look back at how shitty we were, how far we've come, how much further we must go. The story, though a bit of a new way to tell the same old story, is still a good one, as humans bring a monster from the wilds into modern day civilization, humans then treat it inhumanely, and then it breaks out and wreaks havoc. The thing that this movie does that the first one didn't as much, is explore the "human" side of the creature, and the monstrous side of the humans, which is very common theme in monster movies, which was expertly done in Frankenstein and even more well done in the book that that movie was based upon. The music of this movie is also really well composed and fits the scenes well. I also like the cinematography in this films, not only are the underwater scenes beautifully done, but some are some of the night shots of the monster stalking people on the shore. This movie I feel is a bit more horrifying thinking of this powerful monster on the loose killing people and wreaking havoc. The story is well done, and the movie looks beautiful, clean and smooth. Would I recommend this movie? Absolutely! Sure, it might not be as great as the original, but it is still a wonderful movie and fitting of its place in film history. Like I've said before, I feel that these classics are important to view and appreciate, but do look at it as a product of its time, and don't judge a classic movie with today's standards, sure there are things that special effects can do now that they couldn't then, yes if you think too much you will know that it is just a man in a rubber suit, yes men were bigger pieces of shit then, but don't look at these things through modern technological standards, or modern societal standards. So get your hands on the Creature Legacy Collection, and suspend your disbelief, engage your imagination, and have a good time, and stop analyzing everything, that's my job as a film reviewer, what makes movies magical is to suspend your disbelief, engage your imagination, and get lost in that magic that is on the screen, revel in the beauty, fear the shadows, and let your mind make you scared, not the images upon the screen, that is what the music is for, that is what the lighting is for. This is an iconic film, and has inspired and influenced so many things in our pop-culture, and these are the movies that are pure magic to me.