Am I the only one who laughed at this?

The doctor thing seemed fine to me. What would you say if you were shown an x-ray that showed basically something human with a bunch of simian characteristics? You're certainly right about the dialogue, though.

You laughed because it was supposed to be funny. I thought that was a funny line. The other dialogue, the endless pseudo intellectual blather, was humorous too, albeit somewhat unintentionally.

especially the part where he hits the elephant in the ead with a rock.

According to Netflix, Ken Russell "hated the dialogue but was contractually bound not to change it."

I laughed near the end, when he turned into a giant, screaming turd. Now THAT was funny! But then again, I turned into a bird fart (they smell like worms, by the way. The farts, not the birds) once after eating several psilocybe cubensis mushrooms I found growing in a non-screaming turd...

And yeah, these docs were all hippy-era college students, still young and fresh out of med school in the '70s, and I know ALOT of them that talked like that back in the day.

Furthur...

I am SO glad I'm not the only one who found this movie amusing. Not terrible or anything, but I couldn't help snickering a whole bunch. Then when I was reading a review of this movie and the special effects were described as "dazzling," I just about spewed my coffee. I wasn't all that dazzled by them but hey, to each his own.

~Pedro offers you his protection~

"And I couldn't help but laugh when the doctor, after examining the x-ray, says 'The guy's a *beep* gorilla!' Is that your scientific diagnosis? I mean; what kind of a doctor would say that when examining a patient?"


I can tell you --- that is the way highly educated people talk when they are around other highly educated people - they let it all hang out, they know that the others in the room are going to "get the joke". I am a psychologist. When I am in a room of people with PhDs they get fun and manic, after trying to appear completely rational and wise to patients all day long, who wouldn't want to finally get the chance to express? If you are not in the "club" they don't let you see them in this state. The way these researchers dealt with each other was very accurate and had extra humor for some of us.

I saw it when it first came out back in 1980. All these years I only remembered the cool effects. Most of those hold up surprisingly well. The skin effects are still top-notch.

But damn, I didn't remember the film being so yappy. I suppose it's true to the idea that scientists talk a lot, but it feels like your watching a play.

It would've been nice to see a subtitle saying "5 years later" from when they agree to get married, and then cutting to San Francisco and they're getting a divorce. Like wtf? Clue us in a little more.

A 6 for the overall rating sounds about right.