This is certainly an amusing film. Of course, I had heard so much about it. I watched a few minutes with my son a couple years ago. I just remember endless scenes of the alien in the gorilla suit wandering through a rocky canyon, looking for people he wants to destroy. He never seems to get anywhere and the fact that he catches any of them is due to their clumsiness and carelessness than anything else. The whole thing starts with a picnic with a table cloth spread over a bunch of rocky debris. We find out, after the boy is hit on the head, that the world has been annihilated by the people of Ro-Man. We have this collection of people, thrown together. A scientist, who has developed a serum that has saved them from the fate of the other earthlings. We have a sensual young thing with a women's lib attitude. A manly man who eventually begins a relationship with the woman who initially abhors him. Then a boy and a girl, a couple of sappy fifties kids who don't listen to anyone. Despite the dangers, people come and go, putting themselves in Ro-Man's path. He lives in a cave with a bubble machine and a TV antenna. He is in contact with his superior who chastises and taunts him throughout the movie. He, of course, falls in love with the young woman, who is now out in the rocks, having an affair and eventually becoming married to the buff young man. Eventually the young girl goes out and gets herself killed. The script is pointless, but like so many aliens, it is the desire to mate with an earth woman that gets the gorilla/space man in the end. It was beauty that killed the beast. Oh, wait. that was another gorilla.
Review of Robot Monster
