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Lizards in Movies    Ape vs. Monster (2021)   Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching the film.   This is a low-budget badly-made Kaiju movie with a giant ape and a giant Gila Monster. There is absolutely no reason why anyone needs to watch it. The best thing I can say about it is that there are some brief shots of a real Gila Monster and some of the actors tried their best with what little they were given to work with. The main plot involves a space craft lost in space for 30 years that all of a sudden returns to earth and lands in Chaves County New Mexico. The ship's passenger, a chimpanzee, somehow had enough food and oxygen and waste removal tech and everything necessary to survive in space for 30 years. When it landed, the craft starts oozing a fluorescent green goo that makes the chimp grow to enormous size, giving it the strength to tear open the space capsule and escape. Later we find out that aliens are the source of the goo, so I suppose they also helped keep the chimp alive. After the chimp escapes, a Gila Monster wanders near the space capsule and drinks some of the green goo and it also becomes a gigantic monster. A group of scientists and military people catch the ape and bring it to the East Coast for observation, but it grows even larger and escapes. Meanwhile, the Gila Monster starts eating people and can't be stopped. It travels all the way to Washington D.C., all 1,400 miles as the crow flies, apparently by burrowing underground. (Seriously, that's what they want us to believe). The lizard is trying to find the giant ape. We find out that there are space aliens that want to take over the planet (don't they always) and they are somehow tracking and manipulating the giant monsters to help them. We even see their flying saucer coming to Earth. The monsters destroy Washington D.C., but King Kong beats the giant gila monster and the space aliens have to make a U-turn back to wherever. In the real world there are no Gila Monsters in Chaves County New Mexico. As I said, they did use shots of a real Gila Monster, but after it drinks the alien energy drink, it turns into a giant CGI monster lizard that looks more like Godzilla and not at all like a Gila Monster.