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EPISODE TYPE: Growth Ray (Formula)
(see macro themes section for more on this category)

WHAT IS (unnamed) CAT?: An orange and white  fur colored, small non-anthro, non-furry stray cat.

WHAT IS WOLFE?: A brown and tan fur colored, small non-anthro, non-furry mixed breed dog.

WHAT ARE (unnamed) DUCKS?: White feathered, small non-anthro, non-furry, wild ducks.

ARE THEY MACRO ORIGINALLY?: No        

HOW DO THEY BECOME MACRO?: Growth inducing "Goo" created by Genius.

WHAT DO THEY BECOME AFTER THEY GROW?: All become larger versions of themselves.

QUOTE:      (NONE -- THEY DON'T SPEAK. Only Meow or Bark or Quack respectively)

SEX:    (unnamed) Cat - Male
            Wolfe -  Male
             (unnamed) Ducks - Unknown

LOCATIONS: The Village of Hainesville

MACRO SIZE (Approx or Average ): All become about 15-25  feet in size 

NATURE: Normal Animal Behavior

DESTRUCTION LEVEL DONE: NONE

SYNOPSIS OF MOVIE: A car crashes at the village limits of Hainesville. It is raining and the kids in the crashed car jump out and decide to dance making a mess in the muddy ground. Meanwhile back in the village a teenage boy and girl (Mike and Nancy) are busy making out on the couch as the dog Wolfe sits by watching the two smooch. Nancy's little brother Genius, who is a young brillient scientist of about 8 years old walks in to bother them only to be told to go away. A moment later the room shakes from an explosion. Mike, Nancy and Wolfe quickly run into the next room to see Geinus covered in a mess of liquids due to an experiment gone wrong. Nancy and Genius go to clean up while Mike notices that something weird has formed in the beaker that Genius was working with. A weird pink goopy substance starts to form with Genius having no idea what it can be. Before they go deeper into that they get distracted by Genius showing them all his new security alarm device. While they are all looking away, a stray orange cat hops in through a window and starts to eat the goo in the beaker. Mike turns around seeing the cat helping himself to a snack and tells him to beat it, causing the cat to run to the other side of the room. The rest go back to cleaning up but Mike suddenly looks back in horror seeing something that can't possibly be there now. The same cat Mike scared off has now grown to massive proportions and looks less then pleased as he lets out loud meows and waves a paw down at them. After a very scary encounter with the huge beast , the brave dog chases the giant out of the room before any harm was done. They realize that the "goo" as Geinus calls it, caused the growth to occur as the cat was eating it only moments before. To test this theory Mike takes a small sample outside and feeds it to a pair of ducks. Sure enough both ducks become giant sized in mere moments.  Suddenly all three of them realize how great an invention this is. They can help out man kind with giant sized cattle or livestock that would feed millions. They head inside to see if Geinus can remember how he came up with the formula. Wolfe though helps himself to the sample of goo left on the ground as they all head back inside. As the trio are talking about all the great things they can do with the goo, Wolfe barks to be let in. Genius opens the door to his lab only to see a gigantic Wolfe standing outside of the door. Wolfe barks down at them and sits in the doorway unable to get in as Nancy looks outside to see the ducks have flown off.

The gang of 6 teenagers meanwhile has taken over an old school auditorium and are planning to join the rest of the village for some fun and dancing as they put on make up and play with the school props left there. Meanwhile, at the local hang out, a band performs as many teenagers dance and have a great time. The gang of teenagers show up at the hang out and start to dance with everyone else. But they aren't the only ones who have joined in. Suddenly the two giant ducks show up and start to dance on the dancefloor catching the attention of everywhere there who can't believe what they are seeing. Mike walks in telling everyone that they created those giant ducks and they have a formula which did it. The 6 teenagers meanwhile want to get a hold of that formula feeling that Mike isn't worthy of it but Mike and Nancy aren't interested in hearing what this gang has to say even as they try and make moves on each of them. The ducks suddenly walk out of the room as Mike and Nancy wave them outside through the exit.

Genius back in the lab starts to work on how to make more of the goo, while a now huge Wolfe watches on with intrest. He is unable to come up with anything but makes more of a mess as he shrugs to Wolfe and goes back to work. The gang decides to use their sex appeal to make the moves on the kids. The leader of the gang, Fred puts the moves on Nancy taking her to a private table while his girlfriend tries to sweet talk Mike. Both fail miserably as Mike and Nancy leave and the gang is left to coming up with other plans.

A barbeque is held in the town with the huge ducks as the main course who have been killed and cooked for the luncheon. Genius, Mike and Nancy head back to the house and lock the goo up into a cabinet so no one will try and take it. After locking up the goo they are met by a gigantic spider that must have eaten the formula while they were away. Mike tries to fight it off with a pitchfork but that doesn't work well. He grabs a water pipe above him sending water splashing down to the ground and he electrifies the water killing the spider instantly. They head back out to join the festivities and the gang uses that time to sneak in to get the goo. After one of the kids gets the goo he accidently sets off the burglar alarm that Genius was talking about ealier and huge sirens and rockets go off attracking the whole town to quickly come. Mike sees the kids have the formula and they refuse to give it back. They get into a huge fight with one of the gang teenagers sneaking off with the goo while everyone is still fighting.

Mike and his friends recooperate from the fight back at his house while the group of 6 head back to the auditorium and start to look over the goo they have stolen. Not sure what to do with it one of them dares the other to eat it. At first they all scoff at the idea but then before they know it its being cut up into 6 pieces for each of them to have. They all take the goo at the same times and start to grow in size becoming 35 foot giants and giantesses with no clothing on. Having to use the stage props around them they make new clothing to fit their new sizes.

Later that night at the village square the giants make themselves known and start to dance in front of everyone just wanting to have fun and show em all what they have become. One of the girls gives one of Mike's friends a hug against her breast while she dances and the rest of the town looks on in horror at the new situation. Mike doesn't like seeing his friend abused by the giantess as she dances with him captive to her chest and tries to stop them only to be met with a huge hand by Fred sending him flying into the bushes. The giants then start to tell everyone that there are going to be some new rules now and that they will be in charge. The kids don't like the way this is going and don't really want to go along with this. A sherif shows up and is shocked by what he sees and tells the 6 giants to head out of there this instant. The giants playing it cool nod and head off with no resistance back to the school auditorium. The sherif shows up with Mike and they enter the auditorium and tell the giants they want them to leave within an hour or they will have to face a huge shotgun. Fred has taken a liking to the village and has other plans and shows the sherifs daughter in one of the giantesses hands suddenly making him change his mind. They all agree to do exactly what they say and walk out to do the chores of the giants.

Genius is still having no luck coming up with more of the Goo as Wolfe continues to look on at the latest failed attempt.All the citizens of the town have to give up all their firearms as a giantess watches that they do so and the other teenagers have to bring food for the giants. The teenagers decide that they have to do something and decide to go after Fred. They all get onto motorcycles and small cars trying to take him down. They are able to nearly get him by roping around his legs making him fall only to be saved by one of his fellow giants just in time. The good guys head back to Mike's house telling him that they need him to come up with Ether to knock out one of the giantesses. They send in a girl to distract the giants while Mike and crew use a giant cottonswab full of Ether to know the one watching the sherif's daughter out cold.While they do this Mike leads the other 5 outside by using a sling to fire rocks at Fred as the other 4 watch on behind him. Fred throws a huge pole down at him missing Mike everytime. The Ether takes effect on the giantess watching the young girl and Mike's friends rescue her.

Back in the lab Genius is about to give up. Wolfe takes a sniff of the new substance Genius has come up with much to Genius' telling him not to do that. Wolfe suddenly starts to shrink back to normal size instantly returning to his previously unaltered state.Genius realizes he has the antidote and quickly heads outside to use it. He sprays the antidote steam all over the area in front of the giants  and the giants shrink back down to normal size and are quickly chased out of the village by the angry group around them. They run out as fast as they can only to be stopped by a bunch of dwarfs who ask them if they are coming from the village that has the goo. They tell them that it is and the group of short people walk by headed that way as Fred and his gang walk off past their wrecked car saying they have  a long walk ahead of them.

REVIEW OF MOVIE: A typical movie from the mid 60's which was an attempt to do a teen explotation flick. It pulls it off well enough if you can get by the bad music and sub par special effects and thoughtless story. The movie is based on H.G. Wells' "Food of the Gods" But it is a very loose connection. Besides the fact that it is something that is eaten that causes the growth there is very little connection to the story it claims to be based on. 

As far as a macro movie goes, it's not to bad. It has a good mix of both human and animal giants as well as a lot of humor but the story and effects are so poor, it's hard to take anything in this movie really seriously. Even what they are trying to accomplish with it is a bit of a mystery. A lot of things were done poorly and a lot of things seemed bizarre. No one ever really found any of the giant animals or humans appearing strange. As if they all realized something like this was possible to happen. The only time anyone ever reacted was when the cat and spider were giant before our heroes and even then they handled it matter of factly and just went on as if everything was business as usual. When the sherif shows up he too seemed quite calm and not that surprised that he was standing before 6 giants. It was a very weird feeling when watching this movie as the people in it lived in some reality that just isn't logical. At least movies try to make for the situations that go on to fit into how real life would deal with it, but here they just handled it as if it was just another day in Hainesville. When Wolfe walks to the door as a giant, it's almost supposed to be comic relief  Just no one in this town ever reacted  realisticly to anything, it's as if the movie wasn't even caring of such facts and was more intersted in showing the dancing and rebeling teen themes rather then using the giant themes that were being developed all throughout in various ways. Even when the cat exited the room in his giant size they almost just shrug as if it's all over with already focusing on what to do with the formula next. Umm hello guys... you just let a cat of massive proportions  walk out of your house to do as he wants? Isn't anyone going to do something?

There are lots of problems overall with the movie and even for when it was made they should know better. There was lots of size fluxuation all throughout. The human and animal's being differnet sizes at differnet moments in the same scenes, sometimes zooming close in to faces to make them seem bigger and other times keeping the giant animals in a locked place to make them look like they are big. Even the human giants were done very poorly. They would talk slowly and walk as if underwater the whole time to give the effect of being giants but it was so weirdly done it's hard to take it seriously. We have them living in an abandoned auditorium in the village but how they get in and out of the small doors is a mystery as they never show that. They just either appear inside or outside suddenly with no explanation of how they were able to enter and leave such a small building.  We have a pair of wooden legs in another scene that is supposed to be Fred's legs but look quite fake. We have people showing up suddenly out of no where and people disapearing just as fast. It was just jumbled and poorly put together. Also the animals didn't have any growth moments. They had an off camera growth thing with them where they would be seen eating the formula and then they would show either Wolfe or the others reaction as they grew before them and then we would zoom back to a now huge beast before them. The giant humans had an interseting growth moment but even that seemed weird as the scale seemed totaly wrong for them to just be able to grab some stage props to make for proper clothing for what their size was supposed to be. The only size moment that was probably done right is when Wolfe sniffs the antidote on the table and shrinks back down to his regular size. That they actualy show but the way they did that too looks fake as if it's a picture of Wolfe on top of another moment as the colors don't match up properly. A good effort but you should have tried something with the growth rather then them shrinking down, the ol 'someone looking at the growth as it happens' gag got old after a few times.

It's a B movie through and through but not the worst and it is watchable for its humor and macro moments. It isn't the best macro movie out there but it is far from the worst. There is a good mix of many things that get big here and it actualy is fun if you don't take the whole movie and situation seriously, which the actors in this most certainly do not. A movie like this would work very well now a days if the script was redone a bit and we used some of the special effects available to us today. Back then they worked with the budget and tools they had and while it's not a great movie effects wise it pulls off what it can with what it had to work with. It's not every movie you get to see a giant cat, dog and pair of ducks grow to giant size and still be able to walk out through an exit door (which happend with all three animals). The movie is full of many stars who would go onto much bigger things later on. (Ron Howard as the 8 year old Genius, Beau Bridges as Fred and Tommy Kirk as Mike) Bert I Gordon who directed this has been known to do various giant flicks back in this time including The Amazing Collosal Man and King Dinosaur as well a version of Food of the Gods which this movie was supposed to be based on) his initials spell out to B.I.G. ironicly enough. But this was really the best of his non human macro movies and he never really went on to do many more macro themed movies after this one as that craze sorta fazed out after the 60s ended anyway.

Overall definitely check it out if you want something differnet macrowise. Watching a huge gorilla or repitle may get dull for some and this gives other varitety for those who like to see other animals big too.  Just realize when this was made and how bad the effects are and you won't see any of the giants outside unless it's the human moments or when the ducks first grew and even those are done pretty poorly due to bad special effects. If you want to see giant animals looming over humans indoors then this will do for that.  If your expectations aren't to high you won't find to many problems with this enjoyable little blast from the past. The weirdest part is that there is no damage done to anything and no destruction of any sort, guess it wasn't in the buget to use logic as there is no way any of the giants in this , animal or human could have moved about and entered and exited the various places without something being destroyed for them to get through. The only sad part is that the only fatality to report in this movie was that of the giant ducks who wind up becoming lunch at a barbeque. I guess it's better to be big then not big at all, even if it leads to you being lunch is the moral to take there. Another weird thing to note is as mentioned above  the giant cat exited out of the room never seen again, so by the logic of this film there is a giant cat still stomping about the village somewhere as they never used the antidote on him. Funny how no one notices anything in that village.

RATING:   C

MEMORABLE QUOTES AND MOMENTS IN MOVIE: 

(Fred and his now shrunken to normal group walk out of the village defeated only to be asked something by an off camera male voice)
Voice: "Excuse me are you all coming from Hainesville?"
Fred: "Yes we are coming from Hainesville."
Voice: "Is that the place with the goo?"
Fred: "Yes that's the place with the goo."
Voice: "Thanks."
(10 drawfs suddenly walk by them in a row heading in the direction the gang just came from)

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(Mike looks on in horror at something accross the room)
Mike: "I must be nuts or something!"
(A gigantic orange cat is revealed looming over them and  lets out a loud meow and snarl at Mike, Genius and Nancy)
Nancy: "If you are.. we all are..."
(They start to back away as the dog wimpers nervously looking up at the now huge cat)

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FINAL NOTES:

*This Movie is probably best known  as being one of the movies they used in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Unfortunatly this episode never made it to the MST3K DVD sets due to copywrite laws but who knows, one day it may. Watching this movie regular and watching it MST3K style are very differnet experiences but both amusing.

*This movie was made by Bert I Gordon, who's initials strangely enough spell out the word "BIG". It is also strange that Gordon has gone on to do other macro themed movies besides this one. Including a movie called "Food of the Gods" that this movie claims to be based on the book of. Other macro themed movies done by Gordon include "King Dinosaur", "War of the Colossal Beasts" and "The Amazing Colossal Man".

Errors--

        Factual --  There is no way that the giants could have exited and entered the auditorium that they set up for their base in Hainesville without either breaking an area big enough or through the roof. There was no damage done to the building in any way and it was never shown how they exited and entered the place.

        Factual --   The clothing the giants are wearing also wound up shrinking in size , while they were a little big to fit the humans after they shrunk down they were way to small to have fit former 50 foot giants previously.

         Factual --  The giant cat walks right out of the exit to the room he was in but it is impossible for him to have been able to turn or even to exit without going through the wall as the door he exited out of is very close to a wall. It is also impossible for Wolfe to have been able to get back inside using the same door that the kids headed back into the house through as he too winds up at the exit the cat used clearly showing a wall directly behind him giving him no room to have been able to be there.

      Continuity -- The giant animal sizes would fluxuate often making it confusing as to how big they were. At one moment the cat would come level to the humans while he was standing  before them  another he is towering over them as he exits the room walking out. This would go on often with every giant animal and human in the movie.          

     Special Effects -- When the ducks are dancing in the hang out you can see the strings being used to make them dance about against their will.

+ Cool to see a giant cat and dog in a real life movie as it's a rare choice for macro beast. It's an over all funny and enjoyable movie even if it's not enjoyable for the reasons it was meant to be.

- Poor special effects and story make it hard to watch or take seriously at points. Bad music throughout and is a very dated movie that was made to shock but now comes off as tame in comparison to today's standards. No logic used with lots of things done very poorly that could have been done much better with a little effort and time put into it.

PICTURES OF CAT, WOLFE and DUCKS

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