YMMV / Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

• Awesome Music: The soundtrack in general becomes this with the Soundtrack Dissonance. Face it, watching people getting devoured by plesiosaurs and pterosaurs has never sounded this funky.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The movie bombed at the box office in Japan and went straight-to-television in the USA, but was a blockbuster hit in the Soviet Union, where it sold nearly 49 million tickets (for context, that's more than most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies sell in the US & Canada combined - the running average for the franchise is about 42 million). This is the result of it being the first kaiju film released in the country, while also showing the audience a look at a Capitalist society (Asia). It was so popular, in fact, that upon release Godzilla Vs Mecha Godzilla II was retitled Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds 2.
• Narm: The plesiosaur itself isn't very intimidating, as it looks like a googly-eyed cartoon creature, especially in closeups.
• Special Effects Failure: Even for 1970s Japanese movie standards, the creatures are goofy-looking and move oddly. The best example would be the fight between the Rhamphorhynchus and the Plesiosaurus, or, as Brandon Tenold puts it, "It's like watching a kite with epilepsy fight a garden hose."
  • Special mention goes to the first appearance of the Rhamphoryncus, in which its egg finally hatches and one of its claws pops out and grabs a man. Problem is, the claw is as big as the entire egg, meaning there's no room in said egg for the rest of the creature's body. Bit of a scale screw-up, there.
  • There is a somewhat gory Half the Man He Used to Be moment involving a young woman diver pulled back into a boat when one of the creatures attacks. When first pulled in, she seems recognizable, if in pain, but when the friend in the boat pulls her in, revealing her sorry state, she looks like a pile of towels with some blood on them. Compare this to a similar scene in one of the Lake Placid films. She was petite, and maybe this is a more realistic representation of how a bisected savaged body would look, but it takes away from the sheer horror of the Hope Spot.