This movie currently has a 2.7 rating on imdb . . .

I'd give it a 5, it is what it is: a cheaply made teen-exploitation movie with post-Disney Tommy Kirk and some relatives of more famous people. Add in the bad effects (even for the time), some good music (the two Beau Brummels songs at the Whiskey are good), with a little hint of "Hey man, you can't tell us what to do, you stupid authority figures, we're gonna be free! FREE!!!" mid-60's faux-rebellion thrown in and there it is. The best part about it is seeing Beau Bridges without his shirt on, he was a hottie in the 60's (see also: The Landlord). Nice to see the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in its 60's heyday too.

It's a little bit higher now at a 3.3 but I agree people are no fun, have no sense of humor and can't appreciate camp. I gave the film a solid 6. People nowadays would rather see a $100 million "giant" movie made today with absolutely zero irony, satire, heart, soul or personality. Well, they can have their overbudgeted pieces of crap. I prefer scrappy films like this where the director fought for the special effects and was creative and ingenious to the tired, overused green screens. But maybe that's just me.

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It's ridiculous and the "special effects" are laughable, yet it's full of energy and is thoroughly entertaining in a swingin' 60s kind of way; and entertainment's the name of the game.

Highlights include: the weird bass-driven 60's score (Jack Nitzsche's "The Last Race," borrowed by Tarantino for "Death Proof"); the accompanying sensual dancing of the "teens" (they really don't know what else to do after becoming giants, so they just dance, lol); the cast includes a young Ron Howard, Beau Bridges, Robert Random and Tommy Kirk, not to mention not one, not two, but three gorgeous 60's females -- Joy Harmon, Tisha Sterling and, best of all, a young redheaded Toni Basil (who went on to become a one-hit wonder with "Hey Mickey"). The movie's worth seeing just for Basil.

So, yeah, "Village of the Giants" is a real turkey, but it's a golden turkey. For comparison, it's superior to the contemporaneous "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (which was released 2.5 months earlier) in that it's (1) in color, (2) doesn't attempt to be serious melodrama in the manner of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and (3) lacks a sneering one-dimensional psycho vixen as the antagonist. In other words, "Village" treads similar terrain to "Faster" but without the negative elements.

I remember watching this as a little kid and liking it

Calling for a remake!

Think of what this film could be with today's CGI.