The oddest version of the Dr. Moreau legend is an unofficial retelling of it with John Ashley equivalent to the Richard Arlen, Michael York and Val Kilmer characters from the official versions, and Charles Macaulay equivalent to Charles Laughton, Burt Lancaster and Marlon Brando roles. His support staff are the oddest bunch of mad men I've ever seen in a science fiction/horror movie, and the creatures just actors or extras hidden by masks and fur. One of them, none other than Pamela Grier, gets little to do but stalk and hunt as panthers do, and she's completely wasted. Ironically the made-up creatures are somewhat sexy, if still dangerous.
A great underwater opening title sequence is like something you'd see in a James Bond movie, only without a theme song. The problem is that once the plot is developed, it then stops cold and it just becomes a series of shocks sequences with really no plot moving forward. Some creatures get more sympathy than the others, with a sad element of the mutation really touching. But the weak elements outweigh the good elements, and that affects the overall impact of this film that could have been so much better.
A great underwater opening title sequence is like something you'd see in a James Bond movie, only without a theme song. The problem is that once the plot is developed, it then stops cold and it just becomes a series of shocks sequences with really no plot moving forward. Some creatures get more sympathy than the others, with a sad element of the mutation really touching. But the weak elements outweigh the good elements, and that affects the overall impact of this film that could have been so much better.