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Sea Serpent, The

After an accident drops an atomic bomb into the ocean a mutated, bug-eyed sea serpent attacks a ship. No one believes the captain of the ship (Bottoms), but he vows to destroy the monster at all costs. He enlists the help of a scientist played by Ray Milland, in what would be his final theatrical feature. Let this be a cautionary tale to all actors. You don't want your last movie to be something like this.

The monster is usually portrayed with a hand puppet, but the producers built a giant prop head as well, which gets to eat various European actors pretending to be Americans.

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

A giant prehistoric shark eats people off the coast of Mexico. More or less a rip-off of Jaws 4: The Revenge, which is one of the last films anyone should be aping. The sixty foot long shark is most often created by compositing footage of a normal sized shark behind people in boats so to make the shark look huge. Bert I. Gordon would be proud.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

In the year 1939 giant robots attack cities all over the world. A mysterious madman named Totenkopf is behind the mayhem, and it’s up to mercenary pilot Joe Sullivan (a.k.a. Sky Captain) and reporter Polly Perkins to find the elusive Totenkopf and keep him from destroying the world.

Besides the giant robots, giant monster fans will probably be amused by the fact that the climax of the film takes place on Skull Island (home of King Kong), and there’s even a cameo by Godzilla.

Son of Godzilla

Godzilla finally has a reason to smoke! On a remote island scientists find Godzilla and new member of his species, recently hatched from a egg. The scientists run some weather experiments which result in giant insects that threaten the other monsters. No city stomping in this one, but the giant insect puppets are very impressive.

Son of Kong, The

Carl Denham returns to Skull Island in the wake of Kong's rampage and finds more dinosaurs and Kong's albino son! Mini-Kong is friendlier than his Pa, but an earthquake sinks the whole island before anything truly interesting can happen. Son of Kong starts out well enough, with an inspired reason for Denham to head back to the last place he'd ever want to go again. Unfortunately, Kong's son is too cute and there are too few situations of any real danger for this movie to be considered a worthy sequel to King Kong.

Spiders

Spiders on a space shuttle flight are injected with alien DNA. The shuttle crashes and the infected spiders take over a secret government installation and grow to gigantic size. Obviously, this film isn't much more than Alien rip-off, complete with spiders bursting out of people's bodies. The end does pick up a bit though, with a 20 foot tall spider rampaging through town.

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

The third and apparently final installment in Rodriguez' Spy Kids series is a crushing disappointment, with none of the subversive humor that made the first film (and, to a lesser extent, the second) so entertaining. It's a good thing, then, that there are giant gorilla robots roaming the landscape at the end of the movie to distract you from the treacly family messages and shoddy script. Perhaps the biggest monster of all, however, is Sylvester Stallone, who plays four separate parts in the film, as aspects of the main villain's psyche.