2/10
ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS (1969) a lame entry in The Gamera series
13 April 2024
I've never seen this film before. I've seen a lot of the previous entries but not this one. I found it mostly boring and dull. The kids in this film weren't as irritating at first as the kids from the previous Gamera entry, DESTROY ALL PLANETS, but over time this film became worse than the previous entry.

Two boys enter a spaceship which takes them to another planet. The inhabitants of said planet are two women with the traditional B movie space outfits. The 2 boys discover a silver copy pf the monster Gyaos and a new monster Guiron. Guiron kills the silver Gyaos by cutting it up with his knifelike head.

Gamera finally arrives. A lot of times I have to suspend disbelief when it comes to sci-fi, but the idea of Gamera traveling all the way from Earth through space with his head outside his shell is just too much. Even Gamera is a living breathing creature that needs oxygen, or maybe not. Maybe this movie is Gamera's "Jumping The Shark" moment. I think director Noriaki Yuasa and his crew over at Daiei Motion Picture Company had simply run out of ideas at this point.

2 STARS.
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