Anyone else see It? You know, that Stephen King opus that spanned two DVDs, and featured several monster movie sequences? That’s about what we’re going to get here. See, Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid–and this is an actual title that I assure you exists because the folks at Image Entertainment sent one out for me to review–is one of those big, cheesy monster movies that have gotten something of a resurgence of late. And this will be fun, in certain conditions.

Featuring 80′s pop diva Tiffany, and 80′s pop diva Debbie Gibson, Mega Python Vs. Gatoroid will send the two titular impossibilities out to a swamp, where several instances of each will be taking each other on in a battle for bizarre monster supremacy. Oh, and by the way…right in the middle of said big monster battle is a well attended charity ball filled with humans that will be the perfect between-round snack for the monsters in question.

See what I mean? Replace “Mega Python” with “Godzilla” and “Gatoroid” with “Gamera” or “King Ghidorah” or anything else to come out of the Toho stable of BRMs (industry jargon for Big Rubbery Monster), and you’ve got a reasonable idea of just what we’re dealing with.

There will be some interesting industry issues here, too, like how Pet Sematary director Mary Lambert got involved in this, or how Image Entertainment got to distributing a David Michael Latt production (Latt seemed to be almost exclusively a The Asylum sort, since it is his company and all. But then the SyFy component likely had a bit to do with that.

But anyway, weird politics aside, you’re going to get a full-on monster movie in the grandest sense. This is the kind of movie that, when you were a kid, would have had you chucking popcorn at the screen. And when you’re an adult, the perfect kind of movie to get quite thoroughly soused to while watching.

The effects are godawful, the plot is a joke, and in all honesty, this thing is lousy from every technical measure. But it’s surprisingly fun, in a low-budget kind of way. It’s a great movie to get your friends together to laugh at; don’t come here looking for a great movie–don’t come here looking for a good movie–but come here looking for some great unintentional laughs, and you’ll be in good company. And some clearly intentional ones, like the Tiffany / Debbie Gibson catfight, for starters.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives this dose of good old fashioned monster movie fun a seven out of ten for being nothing particularly special, but very worthwhile in terms a fun time. Frankly, it’s a bad movie, but it’s the right kind of bad movie, and will provide a shocking amount of low-budget fun and laughs.