![]() ![]() The best part of this positively stupid development is that this Grand Canyon-sized leap of logic plays absolutely no part in the resolution of the movie because Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds is one of those Japanese giant monster movies where the humans are completely superfluous. ![]() But then looks up and sees it up in a tree! But why? A Plesiosaurus put it there to munch on later! Duh! What should have just been another simple midnight snack for our toothy hero instead puts the human lead character in the film hot on his trail! Who could have ever expected (especially someone with a dinosaur brain) that some hysterical woman seeing the remains of a cow you had gnawed on to be so problematic? Ashizawa, who is already in the area hunting the dinosaur his crazy dad always believed was roaming around, checks it out and finds that the horse body is gone. ![]() Fuji in Japan! And now with the big Dragon Festival coming up to take advantage of his legend, he feels like a snack! But even with a few people mysteriously disappearing in and around the lake, few believe it to be the handiwork of the Loch Ness Monster’s bad ass cousin! But even the most ancient of killer beasts can get cocky and slip up! A legend of a dinosaur who somehow escaped extinction and survived to this very day! And is living in a lake near Mt. I don't know if I'd let kids watch this, even though I saw it when I was 6 or 7 years old, I don't know if I'd let a kid that young watch it.There is a legend. ![]() Still, if you want to watch a cheap kaiju knockoff with shock violence, it's worth hunting down a copy. It's also fairly unoriginal, as it's merely one of many Godzilla knockoffs, made cheaply to make a quick buck. Basically, this is probably one of the most violent kaijus ever made, and even though I'm not easily shocked, I watched that ancient tape again the other day, and was surprised how violent this movie is, and how graphic the violence is. I think he regretted it for some time afterwards, b/c my mom was not happy. I saw this back in the late 80s on the USA Network (when it was still in its weird, still-trying-to-find-an-identity-among-all-the-other-basic-cable-channels days) on an edition of the sorely missed "Commander USA's Groovy Movies." My dad taped this movie from that show (like he did with many Godzilla and Gamera movies on that ancient, crappy VCR we had in the 80s). ![]()
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