StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

AllNewSux Please note that this review is for the full length, original Japanese version of the movie. Sure the Sandy Frank versions are hilarious, especially on MST3K, but they do not properly express the original film or it's more intelligent dialogue. Unfortunately when most people review the Gamera movies, it's probably based on these inferior, sillier American versions. By no means am I calling this a great film, but it is pretty much a nonstop focus on the adventure even if Gamera doesn't get as much face time. As usual though, our title character shows up with half an hour left and does endless battle with the evil, unstoppable Guiron who loves sawing his/her/it's victims into bits and pieces with his dull looking yet razor sharp fin. He also has some awesome ninja like shuriken to launch at his foes. Guiron is a pleasure to watch on the screen as are our two main characters Akio and Tom. Very reminiscent of Invaders From Mars, these two lead kids see aliens land, no one believes them and eventually they are inside the flying saucer. This all happens quite fast and the rest of the film focuses on the child actors trying to escape from the planet of Terra where they have encountered very shifty aliens who seem kind and gentle at one moment and cannibalistic the next. As far as visuals go, the matte work is pretty awful, but I really enjoy the look of the spaceship(s) and the alien planet. There's no question you have to be a fan of Godzilla or Ultraman to appreciate this film series, but if you take the time to delve into the Gamera universe, make sure you do so with the Japanese versions. They will still make you smirk, but I assure you in this original version you will find a film like Gamera Vs Guiron smarter and a bit more serious than you expected...

Aaron1375 The only Gamera films I have seen are the ones featured on the cult comedy riffing show, Mystery Science Theater 3000 with the exception of the trilogy made in the 90's. That being said, there were two Gamera films that I did not watch as I believe there was one in between Gaos and this one and this one and Zigra. So the last film I had seen was Gaos, which was my favorite of the Showa era Gamera films as it did have a kid, but it was still relatively dark too. In this one, however, Gamera is indeed a friend to children through and through and doing lots of goofy stuff. Granted, Godzilla had his moments of zaniness too as the film titled Godzilla's Revenge in the United States featured a boy visiting a dream monster land. Godzilla vs Megalon also featured a child in a more prominent role as did the one where Godzilla fought Hedorah. Though with both Megalon and Hedorah, the kid's role was more akin to the child in Gaos rather in this one where the whole plot of the movie revolves around Gamera trying to save two boys who get taken to another planet. The Gamera series would continue for three more films after this one and they would continue to feature Gamera and children while Godzilla would actually end his first run with the two less campy Mecha Godzilla films.The story in this one has people talking about the possibility of aliens communicating with the Earth, but that is not important. What is important is that two boys who are friends and the sister of one of the boys sees a spaceship land and they investigate the next day. The two boys go in and push buttons and accidentally launch themselves into space where they are whisked away. Fortunately, Gamera follows after them though he is a bit slower than the ship they hijacked. Soon the boys find themselves on a planet where there are two female aliens and lots of monsters. Lots of Gaos anyways and a monster with a blade for a head called Guiron. The sister remains on Earth and no one believes her story of the boys flight into space. Soon Gamera and Guiron will fight and the boys must try to escape the planet and the two female aliens who want to eat their brains! This made for a pretty good episode of MST3K, but I have to wonder just how bad the dubbing and such make this film. There are so many crazy lines such as the one boy constantly referring to planets as stars and always talking about the perfect planet with no traffic accidents. I have to say that the bad dubbing is where most of the best jokes takes place though the monsters fighting is pretty good too as Guiron chopping up Gaos was pretty cool. One of the jokes that got stale though was the fact that the one kid vaguely resembled Richard Burton. They even did a whole skit on it that took entirely too long as I just did not see that much of a resemblance...the kid looked more like Chunk from the Goonies to me.So, this one is a step back from Gaos. Not sure if the previous film was where the goofiness began, but in this one it is in full effect. It also doesn't help that the film had such a minimalist quality to it, like it was from one of those shows from Japan like Ultraman, rather than an actual film. I can sort of understand that they may have wanted to change things up as both Barugon and Gaos had the same type of plot of monster appears, Gamera fights it, loses and has to stay on the sideline for a bit as humans try and figure their own way of dealing with the monster, but here the only thing difference is there were no human plans. Everything else is the same, Gamera comes, fights, sort of loses and then comes back later for a final showdown. Only in this one, you just do not have all that much cool stuff going on.

mephotography2001 Where to start...I've seen a few Gamera films in the past, mostly being ridiculed on MST3K (and for good reason). The dialog was horrendous, the "special" effects were the helmet-wearing-tooth-guard-chomping-short-bus-riding kind of special, and I got to the point that I really hoped the space "aliens" (2 ladies in discarded original Star Trek alien costumes) would make good on their plan to eat the children. It was terrible, but I'm not a 10-year-old in 1960s Japan. That's the important thing to understand about Gamera movies: they were made for children, apparently because the Japanese don't believe in cartoons. America had Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the 60s, Japanese kids had a guy in a rubber sabretooth turtle suit. And there's no way Guiron isn't the inspiration for the Knifehead kaiju in "Pacific Rim".

FairlyAnonymous Cheesy movies are my specialty, and I love watching them. Gamera movies really take the cake for being awful, and stupid, yet they are still enjoyable. Gamera vs Guiron is probably the most famous Gamera movie of them all. I have more scenes, parodies, and references to this movie made than from any other Gamera movie. Why is this you may ask? Well I will explain.Gamera is a giant turtle... with fangs... breathes fire... and can fly by jet propulsion of unknown means. Now do you understand? Gamera doesn't even try to make sense, because while it is a lame Godzilla rip-off it is just soooo far fetched it is hard to even see the similarities between the two monsters. Another thing that makes Gamera movies enjoyable is the horrible dubbing, horrible dialog in general, and the awful monster designs. This is where Gamera vs Guiron becomes infamous.Gamera vs Guiron has almost no plot whatsoever. Two kids find a spaceship, enter it, the spaceship goes to an alien planet, and they meet two female aliens who's planet it dying from monsters and cold. They have a pet guard dog named Guiron which is the goofiest monster yet. A giant bipedal monster with a sword for a head that is nearly the length of its body. Not only that, but it can fire shurikens from its head. The aliens are secretly evil and want to eat the kids brains so that they can gain knowledge about earth so when they attack it... or something like that.Either way Gamera followed the kids through space, and comes in to save the day and fight Guiron in a pretty hilarious battle that involves flying, shurikens, gymnastics, and rockets. The death of Guiron was enjoyable because he gets his head blown up by a rocket, but it doesn't show much which was disappointing.There are a lot of goofs in this movie and stupid stuff, one of the weirdest moments is when a rocket is launched towards an alien structure to kill one of the alien girls. Only one rocket was launched, and we see the rocket flying, and to the left of the rocket we see Gamera... holding a flying rocket! So apparently while the rocket was flying and we see it blow up the building, it duplicated itself and Gamera caught the rocket. This is very odd.Overall a fun cheesy movie which I would recommend watching with Mystery Science Theater 3000 at all costs. While you can watch it normally and get a little kick out of it, you just won't enjoy it as much as with the MST3K crew.