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capsule : a wild jungle woman and an 11-story gorilla are discovered in tibet and taken to hong kong where the gorilla escapes and causes havoc .
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this is a laughable 1977 rip off of king kong ( 1976 ) , itself a rip-off .
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production values are low and audiences seem to like the film mostly for derisive laughter .
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, high -2 ( -4 to +4 )
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- directed by ho meng-hua .
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- this film is provided to be a sort of laughing stock to finish the festival .
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- an earthquake uncovers an 11-story tall gorilla in the himalayas .
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a hunter , chosen because he just broke up with his girl and is at loose ends , gets sent to find the ape and finds a sort of female tarzan who controls the ape .
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- evelyne kraft is the jungle girl in a leather bikini that she is pasted into so she always looks on the verge of bouncing out of .
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- gorilla actor has no idea how gorillas move and suit is terrible .
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nice miniature effects , however .
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- has almost a music video inside it of jungle girl playing with animals like chi-chi the leopard .
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- several places there is narrative that is nearly incoherent as if there are missing scenes and the viewer has to guess what happened in the interim .
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- actual location shooting in mysore .
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ape shown badly matted behind temple .
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- combining of images usually pretty bad .
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incompetent matching of film stocks .
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- stock footage frequently used .
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- gorilla brought to hong kong by greedy entrepreneur who really abuses the ape before it escapes and tears things up real good .
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