Octaman
Floaty Birb
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Having failed to seduce Poncho Whittling Guy, Pipeman is discussing cosmic mysteries with the Designated Girl when the escapes from his Very Secure Containment Facility (a net on the ground).

Fortunately, Designated Girl casts uses her Turn Cephalopods ability to force the Octaman away, so he can crawl back into the water. We blame his escape on the rain, which I guess brings Octopuses back to full power.

howler0502
howler0502
howler0502

I swear the writing team must've been like fourth-grade me given a five-hundred word assignment, stretching out the plot as long as possible. "And then...they crawled. And then crawled some more."

Floaty Birb
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I think was designed as the sort of movie that you take someone to on a date, in hopes that they'll get bored and decide to make out with you.

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Poncho Whittling Guy uses his Ethnic Knowledge to lead Our Gallant Explorers to the Even More Secret Lair of . In response, Octaman watches the Gallant Explorers from the bushes, like usual, then walks through some plants as dramatic music plays.

Floaty Birb
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randomly the film coloration, musical style and desert like setting of is reminding me a little bit of TOS, only with less likable characters.

But I could Kirk and Spock out in the desert trying to catch a weird tentacle monster created by pollution that was killing scientists. That's like a slow Tuesday for them.

_CLK๐Ÿ‹
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LK_877

โ€œItโ€™s worse than I expected.โ€
Weโ€™re only two minutes into the movie, but he seems prescient.

Floaty Birb
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Having finished , I give it a rating of "huh... that was a thing."

Anyway, I think it needed more Village People in it... they sort of just stopped at the Indian and the Cowboy... they could've like got a Sailor or Construction Worker or something.

Floaty Birb
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digging the percussion tracks as Whistling Whittler climbs through the cave in hopes of reaching freedom.

Meanwhile, the boys trapped in the cave invent dirt gambling, while Designed Girl reflects on her newfound psychic cephalopod powers.

howler0502
howler0502
howler0502

Hopefully they had enough budget for some dismembered limbs to toss to the ground during the final fight.

Floaty Birb
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Getting a better look at the , we see that it has suspiciously foot-shaped tentacles.

Anyway, Octaman attacks the fortified RV, but we don't manage to mash the car horn enough to scare him away, and then he kidnaps the Designated Girl carrying her away with his weird floppy tentacle hands. She passes out for some reason, probably hoping to sleep through the hentai tropes she hates.

Floaty Birb
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In a moment of reflection, pipe man says that, even though the hippies are long haired and thus weird, they have a point in that pollution is bad and ecologies should be preserved.

Brad
Brad
bk1e

Letโ€™s release the octopus into its natural habitatโ€ฆ the grass.

Chip
Chip
DinosaurRobo@retro.pizza

30 years ago one of my first online homes was a teenage BBS where the sysop's handle was Octoman, and his sig was "I can be killed by a flashlight!". Feeling some closure. #Monsterdon #Octaman

Floaty Birb
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like everyone else I am completely confused by the setting of . I thought that we were in the American Southwest, only there's also a swamp... and maybe a seacoast?

Is this Texas, maybe? California? Somewhere in Mexico?

Floaty Birb
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it seems weird that 's secret lair is in a cave... maybe there's water in the cave so we can have a poorly choreographed underwater cave fight?

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trying to rescue the Designated Girl from the , Sunglasses Guy and Cowboy attack the creature with Flashlights and then a Flimsy Fire Circle. Also, we somehow expect the flimsy fire circle to eat up all the oxygen around the Octaman, even though they are outside, beneath the sky, which famously has a lot of oxygen in it.

This plan seems to be working anyway for some reason, and Octaman starts wheezing and thrashing before falling over.

Floaty Birb
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I missed the "p r a c t i c a l . f e m a l e" comment so I'm not sure which character in our adventuring party is the most sexist.

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Notable special effect scenes:
In the shot from Bucket Octopus' perspective, it looks like he has compound eyes, the thing that octopuses famously don't have.

The cute toy octopus crawling over grass is cheap but adorable.

Floaty Birb
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Wow did not expect the monster to just be killed by sufficient gunfire. I mean... most things can be killed by sufficient gunfire, so I guess its not too surprising.

Oh wait, nevermind, the monster got away. I think. It escaped in like three feet of water. Huh

As a memorial or something, Whistling Whittler throws his wooden doll in after the Octoman.

Floaty Birb
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digging the scene were the slaps its tentacles against the RV, only to be counterattacked by an Obnoxious Car Horn. In rage, the octopus man knocks some outdoor furniture over and then withdraws to the lake.