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Summary: The original Gaos
Review: Awakened by Volcanic activety, Gaos is a Giant vampire bat with a triangular head firing lazers from its mouth. Because of its second lazer-beem throut, it can't turn its neck(its weakness) and for some reason it can't stand sunlight. This one really gave Gamera a hard time of it cutting his arm near to the bone. This monster was very popular. It apears twice in the new Gamera movies: Gamera1:Gardian of the Unervirse and Gamera3:Awakening of Iris. Also, Gaos is the main Foe in the Fan based Gamera4 featuring an all poerful white Gaos.
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Summary: The original Gaos
Review: Awakened by Volcanic activety, Gaos is a Giant vampire bat with a triangular head firing lazers from its mouth. Because of its second lazer-beem throut, it can't turn its neck(its weakness) and for some reason it can't stand sunlight. This one really gave Gamera a hard time of it cutting his arm near to the bone. This monster was very popular. It apears twice in the new Gamera movies: Gamera1:Gardian of the Unervirse and Gamera3:Awakening of Iris. Also, Gaos is the main Foe in the Fan based Gamera4 featuring an all poerful white Gaos.
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Summary: Daiei's(and Toei's) Heyday!
Review: Back in the day, these versions of RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS and THE MAGIC SERPENT regularly appeared on Saturday Creature Feature on fuzzy UHF TV.(I remember watching RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS on Channel 6 from New Bedford,abruptly put on at 3pm on a Sunday afternoon, because a baseball game got rained-out). They are the AIP-TV versions, as the widescreen prints of the films were never shown theaterically in the US, so, they don't exist in the US(only in Japan). That said, what we have are great copies of some vintage films from a time gone by. THE MAGIC SERPENT(bonus on the disk) is a Toei entry from l966, one of their very few forays(aside from the Johnny Sokko series) into Kaiju-type films as mostly they stayed the course with superheroes vs human-sized monsters. It's also highly entertaining and very colorful in ways US films never were. Alot of young people today complain if the disk isn't in widescreen or doesn't have dozens of extras. This 16mm copy of these films are the best document of their time, and with a better picture than I ever saw them on TV so long ago...
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Summary: Gamera vs Gyaos + The Magic Serpent: Old-School Fun!
Review: I remember watching "Return of the Giant Monsters," aka "Gamera vs Gyaos" when I was much younger. I loved every minute of it, because it was so "out-there," so nutty and contrived that I was foaming at the mouth with its kaiju-goodness. Now, I've found a movie that tops it: "The Magic Serpent."
I am very grateful to Retromedia for releasing both of these movies on DvD (and the Magic Serpent especially, because you probably won't find it anywhere else), because they are both such sheer campy fun that they would HAVE to be on the same DvD.
What's great about these films is that they aren't "good" per-say, but they aren't supposed to be. They're supposed to be FUN. People who criticize these movies for being cheaply made and poorly dubbed basically have nothing better to do with their time. It's pointless to really criticize these movies unless you're a real kaiju-fan and know about this kind of stuff. But even with the critical eye of the fanboy (or fangirl), these flicks are hard to nitpick about because they are so...much...fun!
The only thing keeping this movie from getting higher marks is the fact that there's nothing else on the disc besides a scene selection and Retro's website. Plus, the quality of the print is pretty bad, but that's to be expected, these being such old films, and Retro probably having limited resources.
I highly recommend this DvD to anyone who is a fan of good-'ol giant monster rampages, or to anyone who is looking to introduce children to the kaiju genre (but not before a few Godzilla movies).
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Summary: THE ORIGINAL AIP VERSION
Review: It should be noted that this is the original AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL version
and not the mediocre SANDY FRANK version from the 1980s.
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Summary: Another Retromedia gem!
Review: This is a fun movie to watch over and over. It has all of the elements which make Kaiju movies so enjoyable. It has the ever unpopular precocious child who seems to never stop being irritating or knowing everything. There is greed on everyone's part - the farmers, the big corporation, etc. We have the evil monster awakened to terrorize the world. And finally there is the "friend of children eveywhere". A great Gamera movie.
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Summary: Absolutely Enjoyable
Review: This is a fun movie to watch over and over. It has all of the elements which make Kaiju movies so enjoyable. It has the ever unpopular precocious child who seems to never stop being irritating or knowing everything. There is greed on everyone's part - the farmers, the big corporation, etc. We have the evil monster awakened to terrorize the world. And finally there is the "friend of children eveywhere". A great Gamera movie.
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Summary: Gamera vs barugon
Review: This is the 3 instalment in the first Gamera series. Gamera has now gone from a fire breathing menace to the "friend of the children". The acting in the film varies from the silliest of characters the very serious ones. The special effects, and the miniatures are many - They have most likely spent a great deal of effort and money on it. Unfortunately the same doesn't go for the monster suits; The Gyaos have a horrible design! Thinking about it; Perhaps is it a well planned strategy - Godzilla underwent during this period design changes, to make him more appealing for children. A too realistic Gyaos, might have been too much for the little ones... Story; Earth trembles and volcanic activity over the whole Japanese archipelago, unfold this new adventure. Mount Fuji erupts, scientist boards a helicopter to investigate. Suddenly, while sweeping the area, yellow energy beams, originating from the ground cuts the helicopter in half! There's confusion - Nobody can tell what really happened!
A journalist, led by a local boy, goes on a nearby mountain to investigate a mysterious green light. Horror lies however a head... The green light emanates from a horrible flying reptilian monster - The Gyaos!
The journalist gets quickly eaten, and Gyaos grabs his next snack - The little boy...
Suddenly Gamera appears; He/she manage to get the boy from the Gyaos. But gyaos is not an easy opponent; The ray, emitting from the mouth cuts Gamera severely... The boy and Gamera manage to escape; Both Gamera and a airstrike have failed - Is there any hope at all? I gave this film 3 stars; The special effects are many, and the film has the only real air battle between two monsters, that I've ever seen!
The story however is pretty much straight forward, Gyaos suit is horrible, and the producer's urge to appeal to the children is, at times, too much for my taste. This film is not available in the US at the moment - However there's a way; A dvd box, which carry English subtitles, containing the four first films (1965 - 68), is available in Japan. Japanese Dvd:s does however have a region 2 coding. How to get it from Japan? Try to find CD JAPAN, a Japanese site, in English.
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Summary: Look its a Plane,No its bird,No its a GIANT BAT???
Review: This is the first Gamera film I ever bought and to telly ou truth its wasn't that bad at all.I mean Gyaos looks dumb in a way but he gave Gamera the fight of his life.Thats the only reason its good because Gamera had a hard time defeating this Vampire.Gamera is still aim towards kids but they blood splattering from the monster and people being eating that I found pretty cool.But overal its alright Gamera film better then
some of the others.
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Summary: This was the worst of the Gamera movies.
Review: This movie was exactly like the rest of the Gamera films.
Child actors who couldn;t act, and the Big Turtle treated like a clown which he was in these and later films.
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