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Summary: Perhaps the ultimate in baddly dubbed Japanese movies
Review: "Gamera tai daikaij? Giron" (literally, "Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Giron") is the fifth in the Japanese series about a jet powered flying super turtle who was Daihei Studio's response to Toho Studio's more famous Godzilla. When you see some comedy sketch making fun of the dubbing of Japanese monster movies, it is probably this one that they have in mind because it reaches a level of lip-synching ineptness that is mind-boggling. This is one of the more imaginative stories in the series as two young boys, Akio (Nobuhiro Kajima) and Tommy (Christopher Murphy), discovers a flying saucer and decide to play in it. Of course the saucer takes off and flies the two bratty kids to another planet on the far side of the sun (a counter-Earth ala Gor apparently) where these two evil alien women want to eat their brains. Gamera shows up to save the day and ends up fighting Giron, a monster with a curved blade for a nose. If you are thinking walking Ginsu knife, then you are not the first person to come to a conclusion after seeing this film. It is a good thing Gamera shows up to rescue the boys, because back on Earth no one believes the story Akio's sister is telling to the authorities, not even the local beat cop. The bottom line is that there is just more to make fun of in this film so it rates out as one of the better films in this sad little series Released in the United States in 1969 as both "Attack of the Monsters" and "Gamera vs. Guiron." Oh, and the Gamera song was written by Kenjiro Hirose if you wanted to know who to blame for that one.
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Summary: The ultimate baddly dubbed/guy in a rubber suit monster film
Review: "Gamera tai daikaijû Giron" (literally, "Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Giron") is the fifth in the Japanese series about a jet powered flying super turtle who was Daihei Studio's response to Toho Studio's more famous Godzilla. When you see some comedy sketch making fun of the dubbing of Japanese monster movies, it is probably this one that they have in mind because it reaches a level of lip-synching ineptness that is mind-boggling. This is one of the more imaginative stories in the series as two young boys, Akio (Nobuhiro Kajima) and Tommy (Christopher Murphy), discovers a flying saucer and decide to play in it. Of course the saucer takes off and flies the two bratty kids to another planet on the far side of the sun (a counter-Earth ala Gor apparently) where these two evil alien women want to eat their brains. Gamera shows up to save the day and ends up fighting Giron, a monster with a curved blade for a nose. If you are thinking walking Ginsu knife, then you are not the first person to come to a conclusion after seeing this film. It is a good thing Gamera shows up to rescue the boys, because back on Earth no one believes the story Akio's sister is telling to the authorities, not even the local beat cop. The bottom line is that there is just more to make fun of in this film so it rates out as one of the better films in this sad little series Released in the United States in 1969 as both "Attack of the Monsters" and "Gamera vs. Guiron." Oh, and the Gamera song was written by Kenjiro Hirose if you wanted to know who to blame for that one.
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Summary: Not as good as the video release....
Review: Darnit, this is just not as good as the video release. The dubbing is actually slightly better, but the unintentional humor factor is now less. Even more unforgivable is the apparent cutting of some of the best kaiju action sequences! Get the "Gamera Vs. Guiron" video instead...
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Summary: "A Star is in Trouble!"
Review: For anybody out there looking for a good night of uninentional hilarity, you could do worse than check out "Attack of the Monsters" (originally titled "Gamera vs. Gaos"). It's the story of several creepy schoolboys who board an alien spaceship with two spacebabes who want to eat their brains. Gamera, everyone's favourite flying, rubber turtle, comes along to fight a knife-headed monster named Gaos and save the kids from certain death. The special effects are particularly below average this time around, and the dubbed dialogue is so full of hilariously bad lines that it's amazing the voice actors could say any of it with a straight face. Overall, very entertaining.
The DVD from Alpha video is in the pan and scan 1.33:1 aspect ratio, severely cropped from its original 2.35:1 image. Billed as an "American International Television Release" at the very end, an old and battered print has obviously been used. There are numerous scratches, with smeary, faded colour and an overall soft look. Unsurprisingly, the English dub is the only audio available. A gallery of publicity stills and posters have been included as an extra feature, and they're mildly diverting. A catalogue is also included, but I don't consider that a very "special" feature.
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Summary: Should I use a Knife !!!!
Review: Gamera is back in the 5th installment gamera vs this knife monster they called guiron.I own all 8 gamera flicks and to say
this one was kinda bad.It seem cheesy in ever way.The dubbing of course is really bad and the whole Guiron monster was alright but instead of a knife head monster why they don't use a fork lol.I know gamera films were on a tight budget but they really made a mess on this one.Alright monster action but story lacks hard.
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Summary: Big Turtle vs. Knife-head
Review: Gamera the friendly turtle is back! This time out, he must help two kids who've been taken by remote control spacecraft to a distant planet. The kids have been captured by two cute alien babes in go-go boots, who want to eat their brains. They then want to invade the earth and get down to some serious dining! Will the youngsters survive this hideous ordeal? Gamera must battle a knife-headed monster named Guiron to the death. Can our be-shelled buddy save the day? Watch and see. My 8yo son loves this movie...
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Summary: A charming space drama
Review: Gamera vs Guillon, is the fifth film of the original Gamera series. This film is mainly aimed for children. This is a monster film from the worst period of the Kaju films; Shoe string budget, silly story, silly monsters - But a lot of charm!Story; Did you know that there's a kind of "anti Earth", a planet orbiting the sun on the same distance as Earth? Now you know! This planet called Terra, mirrors Earth's orbit and is invincible to us, because it's on the opposite side of the sun. But Terra is a haunted and a dying planet; Space Gyaos roams its surface!
2 boys, investigate a strange landed spacecraft - Suddenly, the spacecraft takes off!
But the trip seem to be cut short; A huge interstellar rock is on collision course to their space ship...
Suddenly Gamera appears, and saves them! But something doesn't seem to be right; Gamera don't like the way, where they are heading...
At Terra they discover a horrible world of monsters, and Guillon seems to be the worst brute of them all...
They also meet two beautiful women; Barbella and Flobella - They seem to be nice, but there's more than meet the eye... I've given this film 3 stars - Mainly because of its charm. The film has also very few reused monster scenes from earlier films. (Which was a very common in the end of the 1960s)
Technically this film is bad; Small budget, bad miniatures, bad monstersuits and some silly monsters designs. This edition is a quality one; Hard video box, trailers and theatrical stills after the film, and a lot of info on the two sided cover sleeve. It's also is subtitled, not dubbed - Which me, from a non-English speaking country, without tradition of dubbing - Appreciates a lot!
Thanks, Neptune media!
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Summary: Very horrible and simply clache!
Review: Guiron is the worst creature ever invented by humankind! At first i thought, "O maybe, Gamera will duke it out in a city or island" Wrong! Instead he fights on some planet inhabited with green pigmen and they wnat to eat these two little boys named Matt and Joe. The pigmen actually almost eat the kids and there is almost nudity. The pigmen ask Matt to take off his clothes! Ew! That's disgusting! Gamera comes and fights this big rhino looking joke named Guiron who cuts monster's heads off with a knife shaped head. Guiron is only in five minutes of the movie. The rest of the movie has Gamera and the kids and the pigmen.The ending is horrible! Gamera pees in a resvoir! What the? Gamera also feasts on Guiron and the pigmen die in a horrible way. The pigmen fall into the resvoir, which i guess is where Gamera took his whiz. The pigmen get washed away and gamera eats the dead bodies. the kids nearly escape when a comet comes to the planet. Gamera of course destroys the comet. Gamera brings kids home and then whats wierd is that, he destroys Osaka for no reason! Gamera then eats people...What the? Then he flies away when the military comes. Obvious in lame terms the movie is laid out like this: Kids go in a horrible looking ship. Kids find the pigmen and get imprisoned. Gamera comes and burns the city of Pijaska. Pijaska of the pigmen is destroyed and somekind of gorilla appears. Gamera kills and burns the gorilla. Pigmen almost strip the clothes off of kids. Gamera kills Guiron and eats him. Gamera pees in the resvior/river. Pigmen fall in resvior/river and Gamera eats their flesh. Gamera destroys comet. Saves the kids. Burns Osaka. Kills military. Flys Away. The End with an H Bomb going off.
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Summary: Gamera vs. Guiron - Attack Of The Monsters
Review: It is a good movie but I noticed that it was more kid realated than adult. The movie is good but I would not go higher than good, I found my mind and intreasts going elsware, it dosn't keep you intreasted, but it is classic old Godzilla made and because of that it is defonitly worth the get, for collectors, just be prapared for a long movie without alot of action and don't be surpprised of the costums wich are easy to tell that full grown men are inside, but it is a fun movie.
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Summary: THE ORIGINAL AIP VERSION
Review: It should be noted that this is the original American International version
of this film and not the horribly dubbed Sandy Frank produced version from
the 80's. The dubbing here is far superior.
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