If you make preparations for what you expect from "It Came from Beneath the Sea", the better the chance you'll end up enjoying it. If you approach the movie expecting non-stop action and special effects, you'll probably be disappointed. The monster of this movie only makes a few brief appearances in the first sixty minutes, and the movie is more devoted to serious dialogue than anything else.However, if you find the idea of a giant monster movie handled in a more realistic manner than usual, you'll probably find the movie interesting and entertaining. After seeing so many dumb giant monster movies, I actually found this serious approach refreshing. It's interesting to see a believable way authorities would deal with the sudden appearance of a giant monster. Of course, the big selling point of the movie IS the giant monster. When we do get to see it, it's pretty impressive. Yes, some aspects of the special effects are dated by today's standards (like some cheesy rear projection), but if you put yourself in a 1955 perspective, you can be impressed by what you see.If you're in the mood for a giant monster movie from the 1950s, but with a different narrative twist, give this movie a try.

A US atomic submarine has an underwater encounter with a giant octopus. Commander Mathews manages to get the boat back to Pearl Harbor. Marine biologists Lesley Joyce and John Carter are called in. They propose the creature is radioactive and driven out of its home by the underwater nuclear testing. Ships are attacked and the scientists investigate. The creature then attacks the Oregon coast and approaches San Francisco.This is strictly a B-horror movie. The acting is stiff. The most interesting thing is the stop-motion animated octopus by Ray Harryhausen. It's the only worthwhile thing in the whole movie but even there, the studio limits Harryhausen to six tentacles. The movie is only 79 minutes and I would still cut out most of the non-creature scenes. Those are excruciating. The creature feature part is cool but the tentacles move too slowly. Harryhausen does a good job to give the tentacles power but it needs more speed. Overall this is a movie only for Harryhausen fans.

The state-of-art atomic submarine under the command of Commander Pete Mathews (Kenneth Tobey) is hold back by something weird in the sea. Pete reports to the Admiral and contacts the prominent scientists Prof. Lesley Joyce (Faith Domergue) and Dr. John Carter (Donald Curtis) to investigate. They conclude that the submarine was attacked by a giant radioactive octopus developed from bombing tests in the Pacific Ocean that would threaten the oceans. The Navy Command does not accept the explanation, but when a ship is sunk by the octopus, they realize the menace. Cmdr. Mathews teams-up with Carter and Joyce and has a love affair with her. But soon the monster attacks San Francisco and the trio is the only chance to stop the creature."It Came from Beneath the Sea" is a weak sci-fi about an abyssal octopus, fruit of bomb tests in the ocean. I am a big fan of Sci-Fi's from the 50 's, but this one is too dated, military and lame. The story takes place after WWII and during the Cold War in a period when the military people were in the summit of their careers; but there are many others good movies from this period. The greatest problem is the lack of action, with the romance without any chemistry between Pete and Joyce with John Carter with them all the time in a total waste of time. The period of research is also too long. The stop-motion effects are OK for a 1955 film. The good point is Prof. Lesley Joyce, a woman ahead of time with her independence and not fainting or screaming like most of the heroins from the 50's and 60's movies. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Monstro do Mar Revolto" ("The Monster from the Choppy Sea")

I just watched Creature From The Black Lagoon. After It Came from Beneath the Sea I'm going to watch King Kong. Poor fellas. Riddled with bullets. So often killed cause they wanted a woman. What if they had caught the "creature" from the black lagoon? What advances in medicine and science may have been discovered coming from studying him? These guys were for the most part just wanting to know whats going on. Here you come into my home area with ships and bombs and the like...what would YOU do? If they could talk they would most likely say, "Hey! I come in peace. I just want to get to know you." But how do we say hello...shoot shoot shoot, bomb bomb bomb. The women in most of these films are really fine. I mean...can you blame the "monster" for wanting to say hi? "To hunt a species to extinction is not logical." CAPTAIN SPOCK, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)