OOPS!!! Nearly Forgot

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2001)

** I don't know that this is allowed; if it is, it's a P.S. that goes with my other comment made just a few minutes previously. I forgot to mention two of my favourite scenes in the movie. One is when Paranoia-stricken and completely insufferable Government entity Kent Mansley appears on the scene of a chomped-up transformer substation. After a few infuriatingly condescending remarks to the locals and jotting a few scathing remarks into a tiny notebook, he gets into his car to drive off, presumably to find the "Big Stuff" he was only just so helpfully (?) explaining to the locals. ** It's at this point that he discovers exactly half the passenger side of his vehicle has been bitten off and he jumps 10 feet or so out the driver's door, producing a noise that sounded a lot like "ohmyGOD!!!!"
Before he can make a coherent further statement the rest of the car disappears, apparently meeting an identical fate (the Giant must have been a bit peckish at the time). ** The other was when the Giant imitates Hogarth's rather unimpressive "Banzai!" leap into the lake and, of course, causes a fair-sized tidal wave. ** I happened to notice Dean McCoppin, sitting on a bench behind the inevitable newspaper, was still sitting in, and holding onto, his bench while being tumbled round by the water and watching an intersting display of fish swim by. ** He finally lands in the middle of he road, looking rather like a drowned cat. A truck pulls up just then and a brief exchange ensues:
"Hey!" Without turning his head Dean looks askance at the truck driver and says carefully: "Yeah?" The driver then says, somewhat unnecessarily, "You're sitting in the middle of the road!" Without moving even slightly Dean again answers identically, except with considerably more force: "YEAH??" At which point the driver mutters "Allright..." and drives off. ** The second time I saw this scene I cracked up laughing. You really just simply MUST see this movie -- period. You'll have no idea what you're missing otherwise.