A giant half-man half-jellyfish is on the loose, attacking college kids by
finger-painting their faces!  We join a doctor who has a big black mark on
his forehead, a slick dude who's dressed like a candy cane, and a deformed
man named Egon.  Oh, and a bunch of co-eds.  And when a boatload of drunken
college students join them, the party has officially begun!  Right off the
boat, everyone starts doing that crazy 60's dancin'.  Oh, but they do take
time out to ridicule and chase poor deformed Egon.  He only wanted to be
accepted.  But no, those unfeeling dreadful kids had to call him names and
point at him.  Now he must take solace with his mutated Portuguese manowar.

Back to the party:  The kids are dancing the latest craze, Neil Sedaka's "Do
the Jellyfish".  And with lyrics like this, how could it not be a hit?:
"Wella...  I'm saying fella
Forget your Cinderella
And do the jella
The jilla-jalla-jella!
It's really swella
To do the jalla jellyfish!"
Meanwhile, there's a giant jellyfish man in the inground pool, but no one
can see him.  Not even the girl who decides to take a swim.  Our monster
makes quick work of her, and when the kids try to get her help, he sabotages
the boat, which then sinks into the waters surrounded by jellyfish.  This
scene is the most pathetic attack scene I've ever scene.  The kids are
"attacked" by plastic bags with beads hanging from them.  They were supposed
to be poisonous jellyfish.  No, seriously, they were.  But they're just
plastic bags floating on the water.  And not one person survived that
vicious assault.

And if you think it can't get worse than that, wait till you see the final
battle scene with the jellyfish man.  You only catch glimpses of him
previously in the movie, but in the climax, you see him in all his glory.
What little glory that is.  This costume is by far the worst I've seen.  If
you thought Ro-Man from "Robot Monster" was bad, get a load of this - This
jellyfish-man is a dude in a wet suit and flippers, with an inflated garbage
bag over his head.  And you can see his (human) head through the garbage
bag.  That's it.  That's their monster.

The final dialogue in this film was talking about the monster, but I think
it describes the movie quite nicely:
"It's so horrible, Daddy.  How could something like that ever happen?"
"Just close your eyes.  Don't think about it.  I don't know, Karen.  I don't
know.  Maybe someday someone will find an answer."
 
 
 

Quality: 1.5  Visuals: 2.5  Intensity: 2.0  Laughability: 4.0 
OVERALL RATING: 2.5