Rainey Dawn
This film is really geared more towards the kids BUT adults can have fun watching this one, especially if you grew up watching it. This film is also known by the name "Attack of the Monsters".It's about two boys from planet Earth that space aliens from a planet that is just opposite of Earth so it remains hidden behind the sun. The aliens are disturbed by the Earth boys, give them doughnuts and other treats to entice them. Gamera the huge flying fire-breathing turtle learns of this and heads to the alien planet to rescue the two boys. Gamera ends up having to battle another great creature called Guiron! Lots of silly action happens then.The film is cute, silly and fun to watch. It's not a great movie but it's amusing nonetheless.4/10
AaronCapenBanner
Fifth Gamera film continued the astonishing decline in quality, as three children are abducted from their neighborhood by a spaceship piloted by two alien women who claim to be friendly, but in reality are anything but, as they plot to kill the children before turning their attentions to Earth. Meanwhile, Gamera flies into outer space to rescue the children, and save the Earth, but first must do battle with a strange monster called Guiron who has a giant knife for a head, which it uses on another Gyaos, then turns on Gamera... Childish entry(with gruesome elements) has a memorable monster in Guiron, but is otherwise idiotic.
mark.waltz
O.K., so there's lots of laughs for this epitome of silliness that has a giant turtle with a gas problem that makes it spin around and makes it great doing flips and handstands on a chin-up bar. An adolescent Japanese brother and sister, along with their American friend, believe that they are hearing signals from another planet, and it turns out that they know more than the rocket scientists at Cape Canaveral. Boarding an abandoned ship left behind which they witnessed in their own telescope, the boys leave the babbling little girl behind. The aliens they meet when the boys land on the planet equivalently the same length on the other side of the sun as earth is on our side live on a planet in danger of becoming an ice star. With the help of Gamera ("the children's friend!"), they battle the two female survivors (who also happen to look Japanese!) and a monster who has a nose that looks strangely like a butcher knife. Children's matinée audiences must have howled at the sound effects and silly special effects involving the two monsters battling each other and the threats of the two aliens to eat the two children's brains in order to gain their knowledge.
newtype_1
Like many others, I was introduced to this movie on MST3K, and while it's hard to forget a lot of the humor they added to it, it's still genuinely weird and charming on its own merits. Although yes, that little girl does look like a little old lady, and the white mom does indeed look like David Bowie.This is very much a children's kaiju movie, in fact while watching it I thought it was a lot like something out of a kid's imagination- the monster with a knife for a head, the strangely sexy space women, the awesome pet/big brother/guardian that is Gamera. I like the kid-like logic the boys display when they try to disable a teleporter's control mechanism by pulling the knobs off, then smashing them with rocks. Or the deadpan seriousness on Akio's face, when he informs Tom that Gamera can easily attain speeds in excess of Mach 60, except if he did he'd blast clear out of the solar system. It's the same tone in which a young modern geek would tell you that Pikachu requires a Thunder Stone in order to evolve to Raichu.The SFX are good, the little space city looks really great. The costumes aren't on the level of a Godzilla movie, but in this day and age of digital effects, it's pretty hard to suspend one's disbelief when watching a rubber kaiju battle anyway, and I choose to enjoy them for what they are rather than what they could be. Overall this movie was a lot of fun, a great movie for the kids.
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