Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: LATITUDE ZERO (REUPLOAD)

[@mordecaieagle4240]

The moment when you had a shitty day, but then you find old review from Brandon that you haven't seen before. 👌

[@rubiesncreme]

The best example of US/Japanese collaboration in a live-action film is undoubtedly, "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

[@sdstin]

It one oscars for special effects. Great acting on both sides. You are undoubtedly correct.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Cesar Romero, and guys in bat costumes. No escape from Batman.

[@johnbockelie3899]

The flying lion from me land of misfit toys in " Rudolph the red nosed reindeer".1964.

[@Mikanojo]

The intersection of zero degrees latitude and zero degrees longitude falls 611 km south of Ghana and 1,078 km west of Gabon. This location is in the tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, in an area called the Gulf of Guinea. The equator is Latitude zero.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Let's call it point L0L0.

[@CasualNotice]

When I saw the title, and every time they said "Latitude Zero," all I could think was, "You mean the equator?"

[@marhawkman303]

@@CasualNotice Nice tropical climate there. :D

[@KRhetor]

Joseph Cotten wrote in his autobiography that he and his wife Patricia Medina only made the movie so they could visit Japan. He also said that the movie lived up (or down) to its title.

[@DDlambchop43]

that's actually a trope; it's called "Vacation, dear boy"

[@KRhetor]

@@DDlambchop43 No, it is NOT a trope, despite what some stupid website insists.

[@teedup8995]

You said "You really have to like cheese to enjoy this movie." Just as a scene with giant rats is shown. I thought that was kinda funny. Great job on this review! 😄

[@varanid9]

I'd always heard of "Latitude Zero" as an old radio program. Now I've discovered that this movie was based off of it. The series actually WAS about Captain Mckenzie in an underwater super-science Utopia battling a villain named Malic and his rocket ship. The good guys' enemies included giant crabs, gryphons, magic rings that shrink people, and killer trees. It was created by Ted Elton Sherdeman back in 1941 and was apparently very popular.

[@ian_b]

Personally I entirely support Latitude Zero's utopia of scientists and trampoline chicks.

[@nemo6686]

I might apply to do an MSc now...

[@CaptGage]

Japanese Wakanda.

[@douglaslorin739]

So this is where the creator's of the Man Show got the concept of girls on trampolines. Good work!!

[@steveharrison9901]

Seconded. 👍

[@KeithDameo]

I laughed so hard at that get hot girls to dress like cartoon characters line, it's so true it's amazing.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Say hi to you neko waifu desu.

[@Tohofan122]

So glad you uploaded this! I've never seen this review!

[@cwgodzilla]

Wow a secret review from the past! And a trippy 60s Japanese scifi at that. Nice review, loved the Joseph Cotton and Batman gags. I'd love to see movies like this on the show.

[@peanuts_ma8965]

Joseph Cotton always said he didn't feel like himself if he wasn't working. Sounds like most of us who just want a career we can look back on with fond memories. You ought to review '"Death Ship" 1980 with George Kennedy and Richard Crenna. You know they just did that for the paycheck. It also stars fellow Canadian, Nick Mancuso.

[@snorgatch]

Man, between this and The Green Slime, who would have guessed Richard Jaeckel would go on to be nominated for an Oscar for Sometimes A Great Notion?

[@ConstantineFurman]

Jaeckel was never bad in anything he did.

[@snorgatch]

True, I can't remember ever seeing him turn in a bad performance, no matter how bad the movie was. And The Green Slime is a bad, bad, bad movie. But it is also highly entertaining, one of those "so bad it's good" movies. Brandon should review it.

[@skylx0812]

His two costars in Grizzly posed for Playgirl. I suppose his speedo scene in this flick about evens them all out.

[@WaspandUnicorn]

Dude, just when I think I've seen all your videos, I find another one I missed somehow. I love it.

[@troyschulz2318]

Actually, the guy playing the 'French' scientist IS an actual Frenchman, albeit one of Japanese descent.

[@weldonwin]

So, is that like David Carradine, playing a Chinese monk?

[@RetroRooNE001]

True, and he spoke fluent French as well. Half Japanese and half European, so this isn't too far off.

[@MissGreenAgain]

@@RetroRooNE001 His name is Masumi Okada (born Otto Sevaldsen), and he had quite the diverse filmography, ranging from "Shogun" (1980), to producing the first two "Battle Royale" movies.

[@daniel.u.thibault]

Masumi Okada was an eminent and popular Tokyo-based professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, emcee, host-presenter and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg.

[@kaijukid1443]

Really?Huh...The more you know

[@albion65]

Someone should call Takashi Miike about doing a remake of this. Looks right up his alley!

[@champagneredneck]

Dude, I love your reviews. They're hilarious! Please announce if ever you're in Houston

[@Nummymuffincocobutter]

the polar bear in SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS is more convincing than the lion in this movie...

[@DeepEye1994]

I'm SO glad this is up again!

[@williamcrowe2576]

Romero's performance in this movie can only be described as Pre-Joker Joker.

[@snorgatch]

Actually, he did this AFTER he was on Batman.

[@AvengerII]

He did this AFTER his career as leading man was long over and WELL BEFORE he was outed...

[@deanethomas6075]

+AvengerII, him and Joseph Cotten would make an interesting couple!

[@arthurcabral9561]

Wish Ishiro Honda had enough to afford Julie Newmar, who was probably busy or something =,/

[@dolphinsrr]

Not pretty joker. It came out after

[@docsdomain]

Dude a Doctor Who AND a Prisoner reference? We are now friends. L0L

[@jessbragg1]

7:24 just like "The Man Show", ah, brings back memories :)

[@boloisdaman]

When you said it has as much in common with atragon as troll 2 has with fucking atragon I giggled my ass off. You got me good.

[@tylerskiss]

Wow, you've not aged a day in the 5 years since!

[@jospi2]

He's a vampire.

[@leviroch]

Eye cream before bed, works wonders lol

[@drizzyrauvryar6992]

@@leviroch "Please keep in mind you do need to have a very high tolerance for cheese, though." - Brandon Tenold

[@sakurahoor]

That's what i notice alot

[@sorrenblitz805]

He's from Canada the cold weather acts as a natural preservative.

[@sdm47]

12:59 so this is what it’d be like if the Man-Bats had appeared in the Adam west show

[@yoda908]

Would've been interesting to see though.

[@PeiceofNick]

Intresting Triva: Toho resused one of the Bat-Man suits for an episode of their show Go Greenman. (Which also featured appearances from a couple of the more obscure Toho monsters also.)

[@rixlan]

Thanks!

[@joshua2814]

Latitude Zero is not bound by your petty notions of fashion! :D

[@jjenk911]

So that's what Caesar Romero looks like without the Joker makeup.

[@KageNoTora74]

Caesar refused to shave his moustache off for the role of the Joker, so the makeup department just pasted white pancake makeup over it prior to filming each scene.

[@PeiceofNick]

@@KageNoTora74 To think it would all eventually go fu circle for DC when they had to use CGI to hide Henry Cavil's Mustache from the Wedon cut of JL because he was also being doing filming for the most recent MI film at the time and they wouldn't let him shave it off at all.

[@Tareltonlives]

I've been curious about this one for a long time! Thanks for the review....that was surreal

[@mikesands4681]

When I saw the winged lion I was expecting a King Moonracer joke from Rudolph’s land of misfit toys

[@todshi]

Had I first seen "Latitude Zero" as a kid, as I have most of the movies I love, instead of as an adult in his forties (many moons ago), I would have liked this flick better than I did upon my first viewing. I am curious as to why Director Ishiro Honda choose to have the Japanese actors do their own English when he could have simply filmed their dialogue in Japanese while filming the American actors speaking their lines in English, then let the dubbing department at Toho (and later at Titan or whoever) take over, as was done with his earlier films like "King Kong Escapes" and "Frankenstein Conquers the World". I still think that it's a fun movie, especially Cesar (Butch) Romero doing his Vincent Price imitation, and Eiji Tsuburaya's SPFX (the ol' boy still had it, even when he was becoming ill) but it could have been handled better. Fun Fact: Joseph Cotton got a stomach virus during the filming of LZ, thought to be honest, I think that it was more his costume designer that made him sick than whatever he caught...

[@murdermusprime7065]

I second King Kong Escapes it's the first Japanese Kaiju movie I got my kids to watch all the way through. not just when the Kaiju show up.

[@bromodragone8405]

Woah, Brandon knows Japanese!? Get on this guy's level!

[@varanid9]

The subs look cool, though, and that ocean eruption at the beginning actually looked awesome.

[@lbmautos]

the Griffin looks like the king of the island of misfit toys! claymation "Rudolph the red nose reindeer". 😁

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

interesting bit of trivia the Griffin was actually a costume and Nakajima was in it that's right Godzilla himself played the Griffin

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

He played the Griffon, a bat person and a giant rat.

[@anthonyjordanmoviesandmore2470]

+Tyrant Gregcag (Kaiju71) i did not konw that

[@ConstantineFurman]

Teruo Aragaki, who played Rodan in "Destroy All Monsters" and Gamera in the first three sequels was one of the giant rats as well.

[@tyrantgregcagkaiju71]

+KeepingAngelaBaker That's something I certainly did not know.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

'Giant Rat'!?! I thought the politically correct term was Rat Of Unusual Size... or 'ROUS'.

[@shaolin95]

Can't believe you didnt make Ralph Furley reference from that guy's outfit 😂😂😂

[@majorgear1021]

is that the guy from the B-52’s? That who I was thinking of.

[@josecintron2323]

This has to be one of Brandons best reviews, for me anyway !

[@patrickdoring7149]

The lion reminds me of the Monty Python sketch “Scott of the Antarctic,” in which Michael Palin’s character fights a “lion,” and the blood goes PSHHHHHH in slow motion.

[@summers1]

So there city is basically Rapture from Bioshock

[@heliosspecialistarrogant7031]

Or wakonda whit white people...

[@morphman86]

Or Eureka... Or Utopia...

[@Geotpf]

I got an "The Institute" vibe (from Fallout 4).

[@SsnakeBite]

1:42 well, we do have people of Asian decent in France... but I doubt they'd be called Gilles Maçon. And if they were, they probably wouldn't have a heavy Japanese accent. I will give them credit for the name Gilles Maçon. Sounds convincingly French without being stereotypical.

[@ConstantineFurman]

According to the opening credits, it's "Jules Maison" or maybe "Jules Masson." One of those two.

[@SsnakeBite]

Oh well, still works. I mean, it's not something like Pierre Dupont or whatever.

[@philipmonihan8222]

I thought your Classic Batman references were hilarious. Also, didn't Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer have a winged lion on the Island of Misfit Toys?

[@dolphinsrr]

That's right I thought that lion was familiar. He is the king of misfit toys. Lol

[@CasualNotice]

The scariest thing about that lion was that it's teeth were three inches back from the front of its mouth, as if they had designed a manticore but decided to get rid of the front row of teeth for...reasons(?)

[@MasterJediDude]

Yeah, King Moonracer! Now we have it's origin. LOL

[@daniel.u.thibault]

Nautilus and a little Doctor Moreau with the serial numbers filed off. Incredible.

[@KageNoTora74]

"What's that coming at us? Oh no, it's a contrived plot device!"

[@Manda1771]

Nice to see this review and Gunhed back on youtube.

[@blondknight99]

Great review as always Brandon. How about "The killing at outpost Zeta"?, or "The Legend of Boggy Creek" for a change of pace? He always travels the creeks... :)

[@rookieweeabo8575]

The “gryphon” that is also in this movie makes a brief appearance in the history of Godzilla: Planet Of The Monsters! :D I am referring to that half-lion and half-eagle creature that appears! :)

[@alharron2145]

4:13 I love how they went to the effort of using the UK spelling for "harbour," yet didn't bother spelling Stornoway correctly, nor specifying that it's in the *Outer* Hebrides. I suppose it would've been too much to mention the Isle of Lewis, too?

[@daniel.u.thibault]

@15:35 longitude 176 W, latitude 0 is near Baker Island in the Pacific. 176 E is north of Tabukiniberu in Kiribati, still in the Pacific.

[@DoubleOhSeven68]

Couldn't have asked for a better place for the commercial.

[@henrykujawa4427]

Ray Harryhausen did a griffin in "THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD", a few years after this. I can just picturing him doing that and thinking, "Now, THIS is how you DO it!"

[@gaillewis5472]

God, that was funny! The only thing missing was you saying, "kerchief," in that funny Canadian accent of yours.

[@palmereldritch7777]

Don't anybody badmouth Lattitude Zero,. It makes more sense than the entire Star Wars saga - and that's a serious comment.

[@ezekielpatino2705]

2:24 I like the refrenes to voyage to the bottom of the sea

[@annnichols3091]

Your footage from "The Prisoner" reminds me of a cartoon a friend of mine drew years ago: Edward Scissorhands, the only person to ever walk out of the village. (The giant balloons were yipping in fear as they fled him.)

[@roringusanda2837]

Holy crap, the Charles Nelson Reilly laugh got me cackling!! I'd give anything for him to have been in a horror flick like this

[@Orlor]

It wasn't until the brain transplant scene that I realized that I had seen this when I was a kid at 8 or 9. I always remembered that scene but couldn't remember the movie it was in. I remember being absolutely horrified at that scene and laughing uproariously at the fight scene afterwards as the hero kicked one of the bat creatures in the ass. I never realized that it was the joker that was the bad guy in the movie.

[@IronheadEli723]

My favorite Toho movies will always be the first 7 kaiju movies they made Varan: what about me? The first seven kaiju movies Varan: aww

[@s.marcus3669]

Brandon, keep up with the bad puns and "Dad-Jokes", they are funny as hell!!

[@herbalgerbil]

So glad for that advertising bar at the opening segment. First for everything.

[@barackclinton568]

Could you do "saynora jupiter"? I've never gotten to see that one...

[@mgkiryuu]

Never seen this review. It was really good :) I love the music you use for the ending and opening credits here though :)

[@megalon73]

Your acting is so Wooden. Even Brandon does a prove of it! (4:42 to 4:55)

[@jasonpratt5126]

Wow, once victorious McKenzie just straight stops pretending, and dresses like #6 took over the Village and moved it underwater!

[@dbsommers1]

Dang, this was an early one. Nice work as always

[@FumblsTheSniper]

The winged lion looks like the puppet from the old “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wadeobe” tv series but if it was made by the children.

[@thekingdomoforgaytmapper]

The monsters in the film are Griffon Condor(mentioned) Giant rats Bat men (name reference)

[@LilithNerevarine]

I have a very bad case of flu, so it hurts laughing. I have been hurting very bad troughout the video, damn you!!!

[@LaDracul]

You need to do "Battle Beyond the Stars"...Vic Morrow and Phillip Casanoff (Dean Munsch's ex husband from "Scream Queens") along with another women are the three gai-jin in this space fantasy. (And I've named my Shogunyan 'Hanzo' after the prince in the movie and perhaps the beetle samurai in "Kubo and the Two Strings"...) Although Toho has given us the anime versions of "Pokemon" and "Yo-Kai Watch"...and a partly live-action film for the latter. And they run a damn fine theater division. :)

[@deanethomas6075]

I can never think of Captain Kangaroo the same again! 14:41

[@MoarCrossovers]

Oh my god, thank you Brad!

[@davidoquias6061]

Saw it when i was 10 years old.... Love the nostalgia. I did not age well.

[@janayawarren1381]

Quite the find Brandon good work

[@cernstormrunner7263]

Oh man I remember seeing this on TV a long time back

[@cernstormrunner7263]

10:39 did the lion costume head end up in the background of SAMURAI COP?

[@sigmacademy]

Damn McKenzie's ability to think in 3D. It's not like that has been done before... or after. XD

[@jliller]

FWIW N 0 W 176 is in the Pacific SE of Baker Island.

[@chuckster0015]

So you have the Joker as the villain, bat-men, cool gadgets, the Dr from Dr Phibes? Sign me up!

[@danstiver9135]

It's Lifeguard Old Man from Baywatch!

[@Tareltonlives]

"I'm SO OLD!"

[@train_go_boom2065]

David Hassleholve?

[@sigmacademy]

03:39. If she's a doctor, I'd like to be her patient. Pretty please, with a cherry on top! ;P

[@RevokCronenberg]

@Brandon Tenold : The Green Slime. It is time.

[@VorpalDerringer]

14:08 I dunno about Japan, that feels more Thunderbirds. A secret island with a scientific genius who wants to help mankind and builds super-vehicles?

[@AccidentalLyrics]

I come to bury Ceasar, not to praise him. Excellent pun!

[@GoGojiraGo]

And the mad scientist also removed Rodan's vocal cords and implanted them in the bat men.

[@aarondavidking]

How did you NOT make a reference to King Moonrazor and The Island of Misfit Toys?!?!

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

Super snarky Jack O'Neil... I finally get it. Canadiasnark. It gets me every time. Scratching that Kids in the Hall itch.

[@difernandez4899]

You're such a weirdling; can't stop laughing derisively.... Great job!

[@nicholaslienandjaja1815]

Fun fact: The Griffon (the winged lion) once met KISS, along with the Tyrannosaurus rex from The Last Dinosaur.

[@M3XICAN_09]

0:58 Therapist: japanese brandon tenold isn't real,he can't hurt you Japanese brandon tenold:

[@Anyone00TZ]

So when Brandon first uploaded this did he start getting a bunch of requests for that Japanese/Canadian co-produced live action Gundam movie?

[@loualiberti4781]

This review is pure Gold

[@riptaway]

At 5:17, did you say "if the *decorum* of their place is any indication"?? Like, instead of decor? Or am I just hearing things?

[@misiopuchatek152]

6:45 it was one of the best edits I've seen. I spit myself laughing :D

[@MrClean417]

Hey, there's the Ambassador to Planet X.

[@Stintfang]

You mentioned that this movie was anounced as "Atragon 2" in some markets. Here in Germany the first Atragon movie was called "U 2000 - seadive of fear" while LatitudeZero was marketed as "U 4000 - panic beneath the ocean". While those two movies actually not relate to the other they have a common theme. For me, having watched it in cinema matinee in the seventies "Atragon" was the better movie because it featured a cool submarine which is shown frequently plus real seamonsters. and the story of the asian "Atlantis", the kingdom of "Mu" had the right adventurous touch. Filmed in 1963 it was definetely a cash in to secret agent movies of the time. You haven't reviewd it, as I suppose. So give it a try. It might be one of the best non-Godzilla Toho films with not-so-ridiculous monster effects. (side fact: I was so enthusiastic then that I bought a toy of the golden seamonster when it was available in Germany).

[@Phoenixesper1]

11:11 I was so f*cking hoping you were going to make a rite repulsa joke for that one! BWAHAHAHAHA!

[@pedrogonzalocaballerotorre409]

Thanks for this video.

[@Clay3613]

You gotta do Solar Crisis and Virus!

[@Ghost3210]

That new Bioshock movie looks strange, where are the little mutants and murder-drill diver suits?

[@dadoctah]

Regular bats that are just painted onto the film. If Malic had access to Winky Dink & You technology all along, why didn't he use it until then? For some reason, maybe because they're from around the same time and both have "zero" in the title (always a risky move when you turn a movie over to the critics), I associate this movie with the Brit spy sci-fi film "Moon Zero-Two". Any chance of a review of that one?

[@WilAdams]

you could do Latitude Zero, but haven't even considered Mission Stardust? What's up with that? Oh, and that lion monster was not just flying around. He was flying around looking for more neglected toys to take back to the Island of Misfit Toys.