Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

O2D Yesterday I had no idea that there were movies that were made from other movies, now I have seen two of them.This flick starts with what looks to be old silent film of African animals.The narrator rambles about a bunch of nothing while the animals act very unnaturally.Probably because they are actually captive.Then it cuts to an injured guy falling down and some other men find him and act very concerned.The man says he saw a white gorilla and then they all make fun of him and forget he was near death a minute ago.Then the guy starts to tell a story and the flashback is an old silent film.It's a long,drawn out story about how all the lions in the jungle are going crazy and are trying to kill all the people, who are all white of course.There's a little kid who rides on an elephants trunk and some Arabs and none of it makes much sense.There is literally no plot.The entire white gorilla thing is just extra stuff that has nothing to do with the story.Don't get me wrong, this movie is not boring.It just doesn't have a story.There's lots of action but it's all meaningless.Of course I'm giving a second star just because it wasn't boring.Watch at your own risk.

Claire Mojave I hadn't read anything about The White Gorilla before I started watching it so it took me a while to realize most of it was an old silent film.Ah but what a silent film it was, ginormous flocks, nay herds of male lions tearing up the landscape and chimps and orangutans and tigers all mixed and stirred to give you a world view of raw nature of the 1920s. I thought the narration was pleasant although I did notice the one point where he just stopped speaking for no reason at all.Was it a bad movie? Maybe but it made me smile and kept me wanting to know what would happen next. And I found the sight of those droves of terrifically excited male lions trying to eat everybody in sight considerably more chilling than similar scenes in many "better" films.Finally I LOVED the fact that due to the impossibility of actually merging the two films at the end the fate of the silent film cast was left up in the air as 'missing but there were a lot of bones laying around where they were last seen' -- outstanding!Yep I'll watch this one again.

Chuck Straub The White Gorilla is a jungle movie shot in 1945 but it looks like it was made in the early thirties and often reminded me of the much older silent pictures. The reason for this is that this movie used stock footage that was available from films going back to the silent picture days. The main problem with this is that it just doesn't fit it well. Some of the old footage is put in at the wrong times. There are many times that the speed isn't even right. When watching this movie, it is very obvious that something is amiss here. This stock footage that was used just plain looks too old and out of place. It is a great detraction from what little plot there is to the movie. The stock footage that was used makes this look almost like a comedy. There just isn't too much going for this film. Being a low budget film is one thing but there just wasn't enough effort made in making this movie.

wrbtu Just when you start to think this film isn't as bad as it sounds, it gets as bad as it sounds. It doesn't bother me that there's more stock footage than there is new footage, but it does bother me that they used the same stock footage clips two, three, & four times each! The narrator is integrated into the storyline verbally, but of course can't be integrated into the storyline physically, because the stock footage which comprises the main storyline is based on a 20 year old (at the time) silent movie! To get around this minor problem, the narrator takes the role of a voyeur. He's constantly hiding in the bushes, "observing" others (who of course can't see him because his footage won't be shot for another 20 years or so after they finished filming their part). The narrator rambles on constantly about why he didn't take a shot at the lions who were trying to eat humans, or why he didn't do this or do that. That would be OK, too, but after a while it just makes the narrator (who's the supposed "hero" of the film) seem like a wimp. The real hero of the film is a fellow named "Bennett" (actually Tarzan in the silent serial). There's lots of loose ends that are never tied up (like exactly what happened to Bennett, the Voodoo Priestess, & the little Jungle Boy). There's several fights between the Bad Black Gorilla & the Bad White Gorilla that are never resolved. They fight, then the narration goes elsewhere, then the two gorillas bump into each other again, act surprised, & start fighting again. When you mix all this nonsense together, you come out with one Good Campy Fun movie that must have had an influence on Ed Wood. The "African" wildlife scenes (from the silent serial) are actually pretty good, although non-African animals (like tigers & orangutans) are mixed in just to keep the viewer guessing at which continent this film actually takes place. I guess my favorite scene is the one in which Bennett has to save a damsel in distress from a newly discovered animal: a meat eating hippo! A word of caution to parents: although this film is certainly good fun for the kids, too, the Something Weird Video version contains several shorts after the feature, which contain full nudity, which is not stated on the video box.