Ivan Marx, is a man who has been chasing after footage of
Bigfoot for over ten years. He catches wild animals for a living and finds
giant hand and footprints. His investigations lead him up and down the west
coast. He finds seven-hundred year old rock carvings depicting being with huge
hands and feet. He visits a woman who paints pictures of Bigfoot. Ivan ends up
chasing Bigfoot all the way to the article circle. His investigations leads him
to make a discovery about the creature that could change the way we think about
it… or not.
Told entirely in voice over, The Legend of Bigfoot presents
itself as a nature documentary. It tries to mimic early Disney nature films by
featuring a series of vignettes about Ivan’s interactions with wild animals.
Mostly it’s him catching them and annoying them to no end. Ivan never shuts up,
his voice drawls over nearly every frame of the film. It’s amusing at first, but
it starts to grate and by the end I wish he’d shut up. Much of the nature
footage is pleasant, and I’m very curious where they managed to find a big dead
bear. Watching Ivan play with the thing’s mouth is probably the closest this
film comes to being horror. In the middle of the film there is prolonged sequence about ground squirrels in love that hits a note of tragedy involving a truck, and then it just keeps going... and going. The Bigfoot footage is probably the weakest part of
the movie. It amounts to a cheap looking suit, shot out of focus and at a
distance. We are told Bigfoot at one point vanished into a rainbow. Make of
that what you will.
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