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It is a bad thing you're doing,a terrible bad thing.

posted 8 years ago by mariakelly-04164
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Is it just me, or does the orphan boy Sean have more common sense than everyone else in this movie?

He repeatedly tells everyone that this Gorgojacking idea will not end well. But will anyone listen to him? Of course not!

So, after going to Nara Island to pick up her baby form McCarson(who was supposed to be babysitting while she was visiting her cousin Godzilla), she is understandably upset!!!

Well,to make a long story short(too late some of you are screaming), mommy is reunited with her baby and they go home and(I hope happily ever after)as a sequel was never made.

Now, does Sean start going around saying(I told you so to everybody and their brother)? NO, He is way too classy to do that. And that is why Sean(Vincent Miller)is the smartest member of the cast of Gorgo.

[–] bastasch8647 8 years ago

Yes. Sean is the movie's real hero who has an inherent understanding of "the monster" - all presented in an unsentimental, un-Disneyesque manner. I love the way at the end when he's watching Mom and Baby heading down the Thames, he righteously observes that they're "going back to the sea"...

[–] Aylmer 7 years ago

What I always found remarkable about this film is just how mean every character is to each other (and to Sean especially). Both the two salvage captains are just unapologetic self-centered jerks and liars... but so is McCartin the harbormaster and Dorkin the circus owner. None of these characters are set up to be missed if/when they are killed.

Really, the kid represents the only wholesome character in the whole movie, besides the monster of course. :)

[–] mariakelly-04164 7 years ago

I agree with 90% of your post. I do think that William Sylvester's character Sam starts to become a good guy (starting when he gets drunk and tries to free Gorgo.) in the last 15 minutes of the movie.

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