Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

jacobjohntaylor1 This is a great movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is very scary. The sequel Gamera vs Barugon is better. The third Gamera movie Gamera vs Gyaos is also better. The fourth movie Gamera vs Viras is also better. The fifth movie Gamera movie Gamera vs Guiron is also better. The sixth Gamera movie Gamera vs Monster X is also better. The seventh Gamera movie Gamera vs Zigra is also better. The eighth Gamera movie Gamera super monster is also better. The reboot Gamera guardian of the universe is also better. The sequel to the reboot Gamera attack of the legion is also better. The third part to the reboot series Gamera 3 the revenge of Iris is also better. But still this a great movie. It is very scary. 5.1 is a good ratting. But this is such a great movie that 5.1 is underrating it. I give it 7. This is one great horror film.

Andrew Leavold We now travel to a parallel universe where the appearance of giant prehistoric monsters flattening cities are part of the daily routine. It's the world of Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra Ghidrah and their kind - a strange world, and one made even stranger by the appearance of an unidentified flying turtle called Gamera.Forever in the shadow of the monolithic Toho Studios, second rung Daiei Studios were more famous for samurai sagas than monster movies. In the mid 60s they decided to join the giant reptile race and designed a rival monster series to Toho's mammothly successful Godzilla. They wisely chose Gamera as their flagship - a giant turtle that shoots flames from between its snaggle-teeth, and spins through the air by shooting flames through its shell's feet-holes (and at one point you almost see the paper mache shell catch fire!).The first Gamera film "Gamera The Invincible" (as it was sold to the US) is a virtual mirror of the first Godzilla film, only 10 years behind. American fighters chase an unmarked plane over the Arctic to its fiery demise - the nuclear bomb on board ignites and awakens the giant Gamera from its icy slumber. Feeding off atomic energy, it immediately goes on a rampage, and the world wants to destroy Gamera once and for all, but a little Japanese boy named Kenny, who has a psychic connection with the giant turtle and even keeps a miniature version in an aquarium by his bedside, believes Gamera is essentially kind and benevolent. He's like a little Jewish kid with a pinup of Hitler. "Gamera is a GOOD turtle," he pleads, then sulks, and puts on a face like someone's pooped in his coco pops. Miraculously the world's leaders listen to him, and so begins Z-Plan to save the world AND Gamera from complete destruction.Released in 1965, Gamera was a surprising hit. The annoying infantile anthropomorphism actually worked on kiddie audiences in both Japan and the US, and the sight of Gamera on two feet stomping miniatures of Tokyo and the North Pole is gloriously chintzy. Most surprising of all is the longevity of the series: eight original Gamera films, plus a slew of recent remakes. Not bad for a mutant reptile whose only friend is mewing eight year old milquetoast - and if I hear "Gamera is friends to ALL children" one more time I'M going to crush Tokyo. Which appears to be an easy task in the parallel universe where children are smart and turtles are bigger than a Seiko billboard in the 1965 turtle-fest Gamera.

mstomaso The original 1965 Japanese film "Gamera" http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt0059080/ was essentially an updating of the darker, less kid-oriented Gojira (Godzilla)for 1960s sensibilities. Gamera, of course, is a giant, flying, flame-throwing turtle who literally consumes energy - not quite as big as some versions of Godzilla, but generally similar in most ways. This version of the original film was edited and recut by the notorious Sandy Frank. And just like the Americanized version of Godzilla ("Godzilla King of the Monsters"), "Gammera the Invincible" gets more than just the spelling wrong. The American scenes are not nearly as ludicrous and annoying as those added to the great Gojira, but don't really add much to the story either because there is little follow up on them. The film starts off promising, there are a few scenes worth of character development, and there are enough personalities to create some tension outside of the main plot. Once Gamera appears, however, the film begins to descend into a fairly run-of-the mill kaiju film.The acting is good enough- even the American add-ons are OK. The directing is pretty good for this period and genre, and the special effects are not bad at all for their time (all miniatures). Some of the sets and backdrops are actually very good. The biggest problem here, of course, is that there is little to nothing original about this film. Gamera, however, develops a much more unique personality in his later films - most of which are worth watching if you are a kaiju fan.

Woodyanders An atomic blast in the freezing Artic caused by a downed fighter plane awakens a gigantic upright walking, flying, fire-breathing (and eating!) prehistoric turtle from its centuries of slumber. Naturally, said titanic turtle is in a very grouchy mood; he proceeds to lay waste to everything in his lethal path and eventually does the almighty mondo destructo city stomp on Tokyo. When conventional methods for stopping the turtle prove ineffectual, scientists all over the world join forces to concoct a special plan for thwarting the behemoth beast.Boy, is this delightfully inane creature feature flick an absolute hoot and a half: Among the silly stuff to enjoy herein are the expected lousy dubbing, a derivative plot which blatantly imitates both "Godzilla" and "The Beast from 20,00 Fathoms," choice dopey dialog ("This Gammera is obviously an object of terror"), wonderfully hokey (far from) special effects, amusingly hammy or endearingly wooden acting (Brian Donlevy as a gruff general, Albert Dekker as the pragmatic Secretary of Defense and Dick O'Neill as a grumpy ramrod general all sink their teeth into their roles with delectably juicy scenery-gnashing aplomb), a sickeningly sappy subplot concerning an obnoxious little boy who befriends Gammera, funny characters (one whiny US senator looks like a dead ringer for Henry Kissenger!), and, best of all, a supremely groovy surf-rock theme song complete with a rippin' reverb guitar riff. Sure, this movie is admittedly quite absurd, asinine and juvenile, but that's exactly why I dug it so much.