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Boring

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Astronauts head off to blast asteroid Flora on course to destroy the Earth. After the successful mission, they return to space station UNSC Gamma 3 with a stowaway. It starts as a small green blob but it quickly grows into a tentacled creature with a hunger for and the ability to discharge power. The creature's blood grow into new creatures as the station gets over-run with them.This is a Japanese production with western actors. There are no big names among the actors and the production is strictly Japanese monster movie. The miniature models are toy-like. There is a fun campy joy about the Japanese sets, slightly threatening monsters, and its 50s sci-fi motif. Don't take it too seriously.

After successfully destroying an asteroid that was on a collision course with Earth, the team returns to space station Gamma III. They don't know it, but they brought a little something back with them from the asteroid. It's a very small sample of some sort of green slime. The slime reacts with the energy flowing through the base and, in no time at all, it's grown into a full size, one-eye, tentacled creature capable of killing with its electric touch. At first, the team on the base tries to shot and kill it. But they discover that with each wound, the creature loses a certain amount of green blood. This green blood is capable of rapid cell division and will turn into another creature. The main goal now is to defeat these creatures and make sure none reaches the Earth.Believe it or not, but The Green Slime has been on my "To See" list as long as I've had a "To See" list. I watched it last night and wasn't disappointed. I've read any number of reviews where people write about liking the movie because it's campy or cheesy or "so bad, it's good". I'll go along with campy and cheesy, but bad – no way. I enjoyed The Green Slime because I found it wildly entertaining. Here's a laundry list of things that worked for me while watching the film:1. The three main actors – If The Green Slime was going to work for me, I had to buy into the performances of the three main actors – Robert Horton, Richard Jaeckel, and the insanely gorgeous Luciana Paluzzi. All three made this movie special. All three contributed immensely to my overall enjoyment of the film.2. The special effects – I loved 'em! The miniatures were just so cool. From the space station to the UN building to the bombs on the asteroid – the miniatures worked on me. The creature design was also a hit with me. These wild, green-bumpy-skinned creatures with their electric arms flailing about might have been cheesy, but they were also effective. The first one we see, wriggling on the floor, was actually creepy. 3. The direction – Director Kinji Fukasaku hit all the right notes. This thing was a blast from start to finish. The pacing was spot on. There's drama and excitement around every corner. The action, particularly as space station gang is trying to corral the creatures, never stops. Very nice show.4. The love triangle – I'm as surprised as anyone, but the love triangle worked on me. Kudos has to go to Horton and Jaeckel for the chest-thumping performances and the way Paluzzi played both of them. And I loved the way it all played out in the end. The two that belonged together could finally be together. Usually I don't care about stuff like this, but I found it enjoyable here.I could go on and on. I haven't even touched on the cool 60s set design, the opening theme song, or the incredible lighting/cinematography. I keep saying this, but it all worked on me. Overall, The Green Slime is one of the most entertaining films I've seen in a long, long time. Given the joy it brought me, I feel good about the 9/10 rating I've given the film.

Like THE BLOB (the original), THE GREEN SLIME boasts a theme song (though the theme song for THE GREEN SLIME is nowhere NEAR as cool as the theme for THE BLOB), some earnest performances (especially Richard Jaeckel, who gives an uncharacteristically intense performance this time around), and some way out special effects. Like the Blob, the Green Slime is a gelatinous glob that lives and grows and wrecks havoc on everything (and everyONE) around it. The close quarters of the space station where THE GREEN SLIME runs rampant are appropriately claustrophobic and some of the deaths depicted in the movie were pretty graphic back in the day: I had the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND in which THE GREEN SLIME was the cover story when I was a kid, and the shot of the "slimed" doctor actually made me nauseous... Not as Great as THE BLOB, THE GREEN SLIME is, nonetheless, an entertaining Blast From The Past.

Okay; in short: An asteroid is about to crash Earth, so some guys are send up there to blast the thing. An alien creature (in the shape of some green goo) comes back to a space station by accident. There, it grows and eventually ends up killing a few people. The acting is.. well.. just fine. Nothing really outstanding or horrible to report. The Russian female character got on my nerves at some point though.The monsters in this movie look really silly and hardly scary. The noises they make tend to annoy you sooner or later.It's an okay B movie, but nothing more then that.On a side note, it does have a catchy theme tune in the beginning.5 out of 10 stars.