Out of the Ordinary

Here is a 5 minute movie review by me (as an excerpt from an MSN conversation with a friend).

GAMERA vs. SPACE MONSTER (1980)

I don't even know where to begin... It's from 1980. Okay, well, there is a spaceship full of Amazonian evil space pirate women, and the ship is a blatant rip-off of a star destroyer. These women superpeople are trying to stop a group of rebel superwomen who are hiding on earth as pet shop saleswomen who sell Gamera to a small child. Also, the women have superpowers from magical dance routines. And they can become small.

Gamera is fighting every monster again in a giant brawl, and they just keep showing up from previous footage and other strange places. The method of getting space monsters to the surface to fight seems to be by dropping them ingloriously from orbit. They clearly cannot fly or even stabilise themselves when falling.

There is also a small child who sets gamera free in a river, who keeps dreaming of anime with Gamera superimposed over the anime. well known anime too, so it is really weird. this happens for no apparent reason.

Oh, and the child gets to fly away with the space women into space. Also, one of the monsters uses anti-energy rainbows to electrify Tokyo.

That covers the basics I think. This movie was harder to watch, and seemed longer than, Spacegodzilla.

- Panda