Let me start with the good things about this movie. First of all, it eventually ends. Secondly, I liked the dog. Seriously, Steven McQueen looked older than the policeman who was calling him a kid. A kid? I kid you not. It's hard to believe that this is the same McQueen who is so memorable in The Great Escape and Bullitt. That's not really fair though because McQueen is memorable in this because his acting stinks. It is fair to say that everyone's acting stinks in this although the dog did ok. The idea of the blob from space is great but the storyline is thinned out with ludicrous scenes. For example, McQueen's character has been asked to perform a task but dilly dallies all the way and I am thinking "Well, I guess in Hickville then is no sense of urgency even if a strange creature from space is threatening life as well as limb". I've seen the movie almost twice. I watched it right through on one occasion many years ago and was so appalled by the amateurishness of the movie that I remembered that. Starting to watching it again, I wondered if my memory was not serving me well. But, nope, my memory was just fine. I watched all of 20 minutes, or less, then decided I would go and do something more exciting, like wash the dishes.
Review of The Blob
