Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
ClassyWas
Excellent, smart action film.
Beanbioca
As Good As It Gets
malcolm-68
This lays claim to being the worst of the "Jungle Jim" series. Normally these films are mildly enjoyable escapism which compensate for a low budget with imagination. The best of the scribes is frequently Carroll Young, but this time his flair has deserted him. This film is just plain stupid. It is easily possible to lose track of the number of times characters have their back turned and are looking in the wrong direction when the ape man attacks. The story goes round in circles with characters being attacked, tortured, escaping and then being recaptured in ridiculous circumstances. Plot threads go nowhere such as the lynch-pin of the story which opens with crocodiles behaving oddly. Potentially this is quite an original idea (and was probably used because producer Katzman had some stock footage he wanted to insert), but after an early scene no further mention is made of this. Carole Thurston does one of her patented native girl characters. The title character does not look like an ape more like a big moron clothed in a dress from a charity shop. Best acting comes from the chimp!
Chris Gaskin
Despite reading a lot of bad reviews about this movie stating that it is the worst of the Jungle Jim series, I quite enjoyed it.A giant ape man kills somebody and Jungle Jim gets the blame at first. But the local natives finally believe him when they see the giant themselves. At the same time, mad scientists are experimenting on animals for a serum for drugs and the natives are supplying the animals. The giant is killed at the end.Joining Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim are Nester Paiva (Tarantula, The Mole People), Ray "Crash" Corrigan (It! The Terror From Beyond Space, Unknown Island), Carol Thurston and Max Palmer as the ape man.Check this out if you get the chance. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.
jim riecken (youroldpaljim)
Jungle Jim does battle with an evil band of scientists who are capturing wild animals for use in testing a mind control drug. Meanwhile the evil scientists have trespassed into the valley of "The Killer Ape"; a half man, half ape monster that kills all those that enters his domain.As far as these Jungle Jim movies go, this one is one of my favorites. It's probably the most watchable of all the films in this mostly dreary series. Max Palmer as the strange prehistoric apeman helps enliven this film.
John Seal
Just kidding. Anyone who's watched a Jungle Jim film--or, for that matter, an MGM Tarzan that isn't Tarzan the Ape Man or Tarzan and his Mate---know that Johnny Weissmuller was probably the worst actor to ever strut his stuff in Hollywood (well, until Keanu Reeves came along). Here he's outacted by a tall gentlemen wearing particularly poor makeup who plays the Killer Ape of the title. He really looks more like a caveman with fluffy boots, but whatever. Once again the natives are all white and there's plenty of stock footage courtesy Sam Katzman's penny-pinching ways.
