Good ole Bert I Gordon helms this huge slice of Velveeta, a straight- faced sequel to his "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" clone, The Amazing Colossal Man. Colonel Manning didn't die as thought, roaming the countryside of Guavos, Mexico, lifting food trucks off roads, his face and brain damaged. His sister in Los Angeles urges the military and doctors to help him. Government brass want nothing to do with him, and psyche tests show Manning is a head case of enormous size. A hanger holds him for a while but eventually Manning frees himself, nearly tossing a bus of kids at the soldiers oddly blinding him with spotlights... because that is what you do to a giant hoisting up a bus full of students! Despite being a man of great size, power lines are his downfall. Growling, with some rather poor makeup imitating revealed skull, this Manning speaks only his sister's name and nothing else. The giant effects opposite regular size folks and landscapes reveal all too well the limits Gordon's budget had. Being loose in LA, the film is too low budget to capitalize on any recognizable locations, ending at night with neighborhood onlookers marveling. For Gordon fans, this will be fun, but others, not so much. Lots of talking minds debating what to do about Manning as his sis appeals to in her brother's favor.
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