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what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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

I have seen snippets of the original film, The Amazing Colossal Man, and I have known of this film. My viewing of this film came from an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 whom also did the first film too. Not sure why they released the sequel episode before the original though. Suffice to say, the film was a bit of a letdown. The effect of Glenn's face having the skin off one side revealing a skeleton was actually pretty good. The problem with the film is that this colossal beast does not really get to terrorize much at all in this one and there is not much of a war going on as about the only action the military does is drive vehicles into position. The finale is as weak as they come with nothing really happening, poor colossal beast does not even get to throw one thing or trash a building. The premise is pretty good, but there just is not a lot going on here, unfortunately. Just scenes of speculation and then the colossal beast appears and gets captured and spends most of the film on his back. Even with the riffing from the gang from the satellite of love it was kind of dull.The story has strange occurrences happening in Mexico as trucks are disappearing. Glenn's sister immediately suspects her brother is the cause despite him taking a mortar round to the face and seemingly plummeting to his doom from the dam. Well, she is able to investigate and sure enough Glenn is alive, although he is not doing to good as he seems more animal now than human, pilfering from trucks to find food to survive. The army is able to capture him alive and plan to fly him to an island where he can live out his days in peace; unfortunately, he has other plans as he escapes his binds and begins to cause a panic within the city! This made for a rather bland episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Just seems a film about a giant going on the rampage would pack more riffs within it than this film ended up doing. The short with Mr. B that preceded the film had more good riffs than this one. It was still an okay episode though and still a lot better than the weakest episode of Mystery Science Theater, the Hamlet episode, but just not their strongest movie. Curious to see if the Amazing Colossal Man is better, as I find that when they riff a sequel to a film they have already done, the first film usually has the better riffing. Happened with the Master Ninja films and that Japanese film featuring the star wolves.So, the film had some potential for both being a pretty good 50's science fiction movie and episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and it kind of misses the mark on both counts. Had rather good make up design and seeing Glenn the first time is a bit jarring, but a lot of the film just kind of whiffs after that and it also seemed Glenn was not a consistent size because at some points he looks like he towers over all and in other scenes he looks like he is no taller than an average size tree. It also seems they could have added more action, but instead added padding especially at the end with the mom and the coat. As a Mystery Science Theater episode, it may be sequel fatigue that caused them not to be as sharp as usual. Still, not a horrible movie, just a film that had a pretty good idea, but just did not add enough too it to back up that good idea.

This is the sad case of the Colossal man, Glen Manning, who through no fault of his own was doomed to suffer a horrible fate. In the first movie, he appeared to die as he fell off Hoover Dam. Now, he has resurfaced, with huge facial deformities and damage to his brain. The problem this time is that he doesn't seem to have the ability to communicate with others. His sister goes to bat for him when the military wants nothing more that to destroy him. It's interesting where he fits on the definition of humanness. That's why the sister is working so hard to get him some help, but he doesn't seem to be able to interpret his world. He does show his compassion one more time at the close of this film. The big guy never had a chance.

Glenn Manning, the Amazing Colossal Man, believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.So we have a sequel to the "Amazing Colossal Man" with a title that makes it sounds like it is gonna be an action-packed slugfest, you know, like Godzilla films or something. But no. Just a grunting guy who wears a big diaper and gets captured by the military... granted, the makeup effects are pretty cool (I like the exposed skull), but this is no top-notch acting.The story is more interesting than "King Dinosaur", but that is not saying much... This is more or less a complete waste of time.

Sequel to "The Amazing Colossal Man" finds former Lt. Col. Glenn Manning(the colossal man) amazingly still alive, having somehow survived his fall from the Hoover dam, though he is now disfigured and insane, and discovered in Mexico, where the army goes to capture him, then brings him back to America for study. His(previously unmentioned) sister Joyce is also there, but can do little. Glenn eventually escapes and goes on another rampage before the "electrifying" finale(a brief color sequence). Inept and crass film is utterly pointless and absurd, with a recast actor playing poor Glenn Manning, who should have stayed dead after the first film.