Monster Island
Monster Island
After winning a contest for a dream vacation, a group of six friends suddenly find themselves trapped on a strange island in the Bermuda Triangle. With only an MTV camera crew to protect them, they must fight off the area’s freaky inhabitants while trying to find and rescue damsel-in-distress Carmen Electra (who portrays herself). Hilarious spoof co-stars Daniel Letterle, Mary Elizabeth Winstead; with cameos by Adam West, Nick Carter. 92 min. Soundtrack: English.
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Respectful camp homage to 50′s camp & to Harryhausen,
A movie worthy of the camp actor/icon Adam West, with wonderful, cheesey, stop-motion giant bugs, Carmen Electra, darkly funny dialogue and a knowing and affectionate nod to the stop-motion films of Ray Harryhausen. Must see!
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|Where’s My Can of Raid and My Fly Swatter?,
Carmen, Carmen, Carmen. What were you thinking? I am a big fan of cheese movies, big bug movies, and my personal fave, nature-run-amok flicks. The problem here is despite a wonderfully campy performance by Adam West (can he give any other type?) this is too bad and tries to hard to achieve cult status. One can not make a cult movie on purpose, and took itself to seriously to be campy. The special effects aren’t special, the acting is non-existant, the plot is looser than Carmen’s bra, and I’ve seen better direction on a bubble gum commercial. Please! I want to sue the producers to get back my 90 minutes.
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|Harryhausen Tribute,
This MTV made for TV movie is a tribute to stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. Adam West even plays a mad scientist by the name of Harryhausen. The action centers around an MTV concert by Carmen Electra held on a small tropical island. Things get bad when a giant flying insect grabs Carmen and flies off with her. While some believe Carmen is now beyond hope, a small group of teens decide that any hope is worth pursuing and they set off to rescue the pop singer.
The giant insect is not the only monster on the island and we are treated to giant preying mantises, a giant spider, giant ants, a gill man, and even a predatory fungus with a dash of horseshoe crab. All must be overcome in order to rescue Carmen Electra.
As a tribute, this movie works quite well. The plot is a little weak but rather typical for movies targeting the same audience. I was a little surprised that MTV made this film and made the MTV personnel act like jerks. Definitely not their best job at self promotion but a great effort at stop motion animation. Some DVD extras take you behind the scenes to show just what is involved in making a stop motion extravaganza. If you like giant bugs and monsters then this is a film to watch.
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