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Early 80's low budget kungfu flick from South Korea. It's what it's expected to be. Cheese encrusted karate with wonky sound effects. Good mindless fun.

Aaaaaahhhhhhh! The sound of me screaming. My reaction to watching this piece of animated #&@-hole.

Holy crap! This movie is garbage! Total waste of time, money, effort, and human sanity! With the cutesy cover with anthropomorphic sea life and the case description of getting lost in a sunken ship and finding the way back home I thought, "Hey, maybe it's one of those Finding Nemo inspired films. It wont be good, but might be decent and have laughs". Nope. Nothing.

The soundtrack is awful to the point of being able to raise Cthulhu from his dark slumber. I could make a fart symphony and it would sound better.

The voice acting is also horrendous. Either they speak in a weird way of rhythming their sentences and it falls on the ear weirdly, or they suck at voices and the sound is absolute nightmare fodder.

The animation is also horrible and scary beyond all appointed rhyme or reason. I've seen better animation in a 1970s Yes music video. It doesn't even seen consistent, and some scenes have 2 different animation stylings in the same shot and the movement looks so awkward.

The plotline like I said should be reminiscent of Finding Nemo, but all that is presented in the most uninspired, unprofessional, and unpleasantly evil way that masks anything good, making it complete crap. Animals get lost, make a friend, get back home. We all have seen it thousands of times. Come on!

Avoid this movie! If you want a good fish themed animation, just watch Finding Nemo. There is nothing in Fish Tales 2.

I love adventure novels, and am a huge fan of H. Rider Haggard, so when I saw the vhs copy of this film at a yardsale I just had to pick it up. Was it worth it? Yes, I will say it is. Do not listen to the haters, this film is not that bad. It still has its problems though. The production wasnt great so the sound gets kind of low and warbly during some segments. Also the effects are lackluster, but I can forgive that for this being a LOW-BUDGET film from the 1970'S, also for the fact that the director was a TV director, and this film was the only cinema released film he did along with one other film which I have not seen. So i can forgive that issue at least. But the film has some fast paced action scenes and actual tension placed neatly. If you are a fan of old style adventure films, and treasure hunts for that matter, this would be your kind of film. 6 out of 10.

I wish I could give this movie a 0, but you are required to give a 1-10, so I give a 1 and that is too good for this crap. Sea Monsters is an awful movie. First thing I noticed was the animation. The animation is so awful and fake that the animations from Dire Straits Money for Nothing video look like PS4 graphics by comparison. The voice acting is also horrendous. No one can voice act. It is terrible and hurts your brain as well as your ears. The plot line is just as awful as anything else. A school of mutant fish is getting ready for contest to see who is the funniest fish in the bunch, so some young fish try to seek out another fish called The Maestro who can grant there wishes to become funny. So they go on a quest to become funny. That is literally the plot. There is no plot. It is stupid. I also find it really weird how none of the characters mouths move in synch to the words that are coming out of there mouths. Some occasions there mouths don't move until the last two words of a sentence they are saying. And this is an American made film. This is not one of those cases where this was a foreign film that had a dubbed vocal track. American made. That is literally the way they were made. The Old Japanese Godzilla films look better with the dubbing than this piece of crap. Like I said the animation is crap and the characters are absolutely scary. The possessed girl from Exorcist is nowhere as scary as these characters. The way they look and move is complete nightmare fodder. The movie has no point and is visually boring, it's boring across the board. The movie is only 1 hour and 8 minutes but it is so painfully boring it feels longer than a Lord of the Rings film. This movie was so boring I would much rather spend 1 hour and 8 minutes eating mud encrusted broccoli off a dirty country road. Even that would feel like a better way to spend 1 hour and 8 minutes than watching this garbage. This is one of the worst animated films I ever saw, and I don't see how anyone , even children, could enjoy this. It is not funny or magical or anything. You could not get enjoyment out of this even if you were stoned out of your skull while viewing it. Avoid this movie like the plague. This movie is so awful it actually gives you the plague.

I will start this review by saying I love low-budget movies. As a kid I was bombarded by them on Saturday-afternoon TV, plus my father was always showing me these strange ones from the 70's and 80's that were made in Canada, Italy, countries like that. I have been around those types of movies even since the age of 3, 23 years ago. Roger Corman is obviously one of the first names you think of when you think low-budget films. I am a fan of him myself.

To get to the review this is one of the films I have heard about and read about in countless magazines, movie trailers, review sites, etc., but never seen until just recently. Warning! This review will probably have spoilers!

This film starts off looking like a low-budget Star Trek-type space opera, about 10-12 minutes in it becomes more of an Alien clone, ending up with an ending that is like a psychological mind-bender. To put the plot-line in as basic a way as possible without telling too much, pretty much a ship-crew goes on a mission examining another ship that was lost on a planet and find out something is way wrong with the situation.

The acting for the most part was okay. They weren't really great, but it was not exactly dull or mediocre. Granted most of the actors probably didn't do too much before this so I could forgive it for that reason, although Robert Englund does a good job.

The soundtrack for me wasn't necessarily great. It was one of the soundtracks that fit the circumstances, how it was a lot of weird sounds and synth chords, so it works as a film-being-a-horror-type standpoint, but I didn't enjoy it as a way of being something that I would listen to on it's own for enjoyment. So the soundtrack is good, but not that type of good. It was composed by Barry Schrader.

The effects in this movie is fantastic. From the weird looking computer animations on the ships computers systems, to the stomach-twisting, and surprisingly graphic blood and guts effects. This film was definitely made before CGI, so they had to come up with creative ways to make the effects, and they are great. Nowadays they spend thousands of dollars making these effects on computers that for the most part end up looking like crap, and here they are in this film using techniques that are very cheap to make, some of the effects and stuff probably not taking more than 30-40 dollars to make and these look way better than most of these computer-generated effects you see today. The effects in this film do not disappoint. The only effect I didn't really care for was the weird red glow around the mystical beings head, but that was about it.

This film was surprisingly graphic, violent,and psychologically and philosophically deep for not only a Roger Corman film, but for low-budget 80's films in general. Also the cinematography and camera work for the most part was pretty good. Set designs as well. The alien planet was very creepy in appearance and you did get a real sense of dread looking at it. This film genuinely gives you goose bumps, sometimes before anything even happens. This film does give you some real shocks. James Cameron was also one of the production designers for this film, and some of the effects and landscapes does make you think of his work in Aliens. If you are a fan of science fiction-based horror films or low-budget films, check this out. It is a recommended watch. I give this film a 7.5 out of 10.

This is a movie I never saw before until just recently. I had borrowed a 2-disc set of low-budget 80's horror movies and this was on it. So I watched it and I was genuinely impressed to a degree. The acting is kind of well-rounded. You got your actors who are okay and your actors who are good and know how to act.

The movie is genuinely scary, although halfway through and closer to the end it does add a couple scenes that are a little bit more hammy. The plot involves a monastery in Italy. The film opens during the middle ages actually. We see some monks trying to perform an exorcism on this very decrepit looking man. One of the monks ends up getting possessed, but the keep the evil at bay by sealing the room with some kind of holy seal/symbol. It then goes into modern day. Where a young girl who is studying to be a teacher for a religious school goes to the monastery to learn some more things about the holy church. Some weird things go on and a lot of the monks, especially this crazy, but very religiously devout one, blame it on her, calling her evil and unclean. It turns out the possessed man in the basement was more than just a possessed person, but is actually The Beast Of The Apocalypse, THE ANTICHRIST HIMSELF!!

The musical score was excellent. It reminds you of the omen soundtrack, how it is mostly string portions paired with dark sounding Latin chanting. It is genuinely creepy and enhances the film. The cinematography is excellent, and a lot of scenes, especially the ones inside the catacombs are very well shot. You do get a real sense of dread and horror seeing the catacombs, and you can almost feel the Antichrist evil just looking at it.

For a Charles Band production this is very well done. Arguably one of his best. I was surprised how dark, gritty, realistic, and deep this was for his films. I love watching his movies because I like low-budget 80's horror/sci-fi/dark fantasy stuff. I know his stuff did tend to get cheesy and schlock, especially with Dollman and the Troll films, but this was a new level for him and it was impressive.

If you like films like Omen,Exorcist,The Sentinel, any of those possession/apocalypse type films, this one is definitely worth watching.

I give this 8 out of 10.

Do not listen to the hater-trolls this movie is not awful. It is not particularly great, but it is not awful. For one thing,I do not like people who bitch about a movie, because they thought it was something else. One of my friends was complaining saying,"Oh I thought this was Dunkirk. I don't want to see it now." One movie is called Dunkirk, the other Operation Dunkirk. There is a difference. But to get to the review.

I actually liked this. I didn't love it, but it was good to a degree.

Acting: 5/10 This movie does I admit have some people who can't act, but there are some who do a okay job. But that is probably the deal with just about every movie ever made. Not everyone can do the best. But the acting isn't bad for the people who actually can act.

Special Effects: 4/10 A lot of the effects in this film I do admit are not great. That is not too surprising considering it is a low-budget film from Asylum, though. While most of the explosions look dumb,(they are cgi), with the exception of a few, the practical effects involving blood, and more natural things like dirt, trees, and other stuff like that are good. The bullets though do leave some to be desired.

The soundtrack is pretty good for the most part. Some parts of it is a little quiet and uninspired, mostly in the scenes where they are just walking between checkpoints, but the opening music, ending credits, and some of the battle music is actually good. Some parts reminded me of the soundtracks for first two Medal of Honor games, the ones on original PlayStation.

The story is not too stupid. Being a low-budget film, and one from asylum as it is, they do add a little bit of extra stuff to the actual events so it is somewhat original plot. To put it simply, these soldier caught behind enemy lines, are trying to rescue a German scientist who has created some kind of algorithm that could be used to some extant to turn the tides of the war. They don't really explain much of what it would actually be used on, so imagination is key there. But he ends up getting killed. Then the soldiers find out that a french girl, working for the resistance also know the information so they have to find and protect her.

While this was in no way a masterpiece, or a particularly great film,by low-budget standards, it wasn't awful. It is definitely worth taking a look at if you like low-budget films, or war films for that matter. Nowhere near as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. It is a average film, but one that is still worth trying at least once. I liked it enough that i would probably watch it again. Don't know if i would add it to my collection though.

I will first confess that I had bought the DVD over a year ago,and didn't watch it till just a couple days ago. I saw the DVD laying in my room and I thought, why haven't i watched this yet. Well now I know. I shouldn't have. First things first is the acting. It is absolutely atrocious. There are only 2 people in this entire film who even have any semblance of acting in this film,but apparently they don't want to use it. You can tell they may be good actors, but for some reason they don't want to show it, so the acting is still pretty much bad across the board. The soundtrack is stupid. It is awful and uninspired throughout the whole film, except in two places and even there it is mediocre at best. The DVD copy i have is actually entitled curse of the dragon, so i expected a western dragon, and not the jabberwock. The dragon on the copy i have looks way cooler, and better drawn than the actual creature. I just found out the actual movie title is jabberwock. The creature model was so terrible and didn't look right. The scene in which the dragon is slain is so rushed and dumb that i felt neither joy or sadness for the creatures death, and it looked like the characters themselves didn't care if it lived or died either. No one even shows any emotion in this film. I watched this movie once, and i refuse to watch it again. My copy is being donated to the local goodwill. Avoid this movie at all costs. Reign of fire is a better choice for your typical dragon-attack type film.

I just watched this movie this afternoon and I loved it. It was not a bad film at all. I had a lot of fun with it. The bad ratings it got are undeserved. It was directed and produced in a good way. The effects and Cinematography are great. The first image of the tower was incredibly beautiful and gave me goosebumps. The acting was good especially from Matthew and Idris. I liked Matthew's performance and this is coming from someone who really isn't a fan. Idris was cool as the gunslinger. And to the people complaining about some of the weird plot points, it should be mentioned that the film is technically meanest to be a sequel to certain events from the series. It is not 100 percent specifically just stuff already from the book. And the parts that I do remember from the actual book were pretty spot on.