Review – It Came from Beneath the Sea

The brief moments when Ray Harryhausen steps in with his animated monster, this is a really good movie. It’s no end of fun to watch the giant octopus climb the Golden Gate Bridge and generally cause panic in San Francisco. The trouble, then, is the other 75 minutes of the production, which are purely terrible. The premise is that radiation from oceanic nuclear tests has mutated an octopus and sent the giant beast in search of a new food supply (its usual diet of fish apparently now easily avoiding it because radiation makes it easy to avoid). That’s got some potential, but it’s swiftly squandered on a ten cent romance between a rough-and-ready Navy captain and a brainy-yet-beautiful ichthyologist. Please. Just show me more octopus. See if desperate