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Dr. Lai (Dammy Lee) has developed a device that can grow plants to about 300 times their size - for the good of mankind of course. But once the army gets wind of this, a general (Paul Chang Chung) commandeers the device to use it on animals to create giants for warfare. Terrorist Solomon (Edowan Bersmea) gets wind of this though, and he has his second-in-command Billy (Chi Kuan-Chun) and his henchmen attack the lab - but lab assistant Lin (Wu Feng) gets away with the device and manages to throw it out of the car before crashing the car to throw the terrorists off scent. The device is found by young Ting-Ting, who uses it as terrarium for her (harmless) snake Mosler. But when she turns on the device, Mosler grows, and it's not long before Billy's men, looking for the device, spot the little girl and her oversized snake. So they decide to kidnap Ting-Ting to force the location of the device out of her - but she's stubborn enough not to tell them. Meanwhile Mosler grows and grows and becomes a threat to humankind. And eventually it's up to the Air Force to take care of the snake - but not before, in an act of heroism, it helps inspector Shao (Liang Hsiu-Shen) free Ting-Ting from Billy's clutches.

In a largely disconnected plot, the gouvernment has hired super agent Ted Fast (Pierre Kirby), who naturally "works alone", to track down and kill Solomon. Learning about that though, Solomon's men try to lure him in one trap after the next, with little success, and they're falling like flies when Fast's reaching for his gun. Solomon however he kills in hand-on-hand combat.

To a degree one can't but admire producer Joseph Lai and director Godfrey Ho for their tireless attempts in the 1980s to blend into totally unmatching material - in both style and story - into a somewhat coherent feature film ... though that said, it would have been even more admirable had they had a higher success rate when it comes to matching archive and new material. Which brings us to this movie in question that tries to mix action setpieces (the new material) into a giant monster movie from only the previous year, King of Snakes - and the problem with this are manyfold, for one that the new material with exclusively Western actors doing mediocre stunts bears no relatiion to the low budget science fiction hijinks of the earlier movie, a film that in itself was less than great, in story or execution. That said, Thunder of Gigantic Serpent is still lots of fun to watch - at least for bad movie afficionados ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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