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Such a frustrating disappointment

Memorable, crazy movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

So the movie starts out with the U.S. Air Force recieving news of a few unidentified airplanes flying around the artic area. Their commander sends out two fighter jets to shoot them down. The two fighter jets shoot all the unidentified airplanes, but one of them that was shot down accidently lands and explodes in the water, causing a great explosion of earthquake, ultimately releasing Gamera who goes on to sink a JMSDF ship in his path. Later, a flying saucer is sighted flying in the air by a civilian. The news of Gamera and the flying saucer that was sighted travel rapidly throughout the world. The movie then cuts to a family containing a father with his adult daughter and his child son who's completely obsessed with turtles as they eat dinner. After they're done eating, the father and his daughter find out that the son has been keeping a turtle (Pee-Wee?) and they, tell him to get rid of it? I honestly don't know how they would get annoyed because their son is fascinated with these creatures. Anyways, the son says his goodbyes and lets the turtle go by the ocean. Gamera then makes a brief appearance by knocking down the same lighthouse that the kid was in only to immediately catch him with his hand right after. I know, the movie can be pretty darn confusing at times. The next day, the same kid goes back to the ocean to look for Pee-Wee and eventually finds him. That night, Gamera is spotted heading for a geothermal power plant. Once he arrives, the military tries to burn him with 350,000 kilowatts, but the electricity does no effect. The military then commences a conventional attack on him that does nothing. The military then comes up with yet another strategy that has them freezing Gamera with ice bombs, strapping him with dynamite, and blowing up. This gets Gamera on it's back, which makes everyone believe that Gamera will die. Instead, Gamera flies away using it's jet boosters. There's the twist! Did you miss it? Remember that sighted flying saucer that I told you about earlier? Well, that was Gamera flying around all along! SPOILER ALERT. That same kid collects some stones the next day and ugh, I give up. I looked up this point in the film and it's only like, 42 minutes into a 78 minute movie. My hand is getting real freaking tired from writing and I still got 36 more minutes, so I'm just gonna skip to the end. Basically, they trap Gamera in a shuttle and send him off into space. I'd like to quickly express my feelings: DISLIKES1.) I don't care for the characters at all. 2.) The storyline was decently executed, but extremely boring and extremely confusing. LIKES 1.) Except for the kid saving thing and stuff, I thought that the storyline was pretty dark and realistic, especially if you're looking at it in a political way. 2.) The sound and special effects were good. 3.) The dialogue was realistic. 4.) Gamera's design was great!5.) The intro was awesome! It's a well-made film, but again, just lacks interest.

Gamera (1965) its the first movie in the Gamera series of films and its probably the most grounded in reality, for a Gamera film. The film was made, like many other Kaiju movies, to cash in for the success of Gojira (1954), while the two series have many similarities, Gamera follows a very different path.This its the first entry in the series and its a very decent monster movie, better than it needs to be, with some creative ideas, some decent acting (for the most part), good effects and some nice directing, it manages to grab your attention.The film has some flaws, like many other monster movies, like bad acting, some very weird ideas that don't really fit the film, like Gameras flying ability, but it manages to stay interesting, even if it is the typical monster movie.Overall, this its a very decent entry in the Gamera series and a good way to get introduced to the series, but its still too typical.

Rival Japanese studio Daiei, in an effort to compete with Toho studios' Godzilla franchise, created Gamera, a giant prehistoric turtle that is jet-propelled and determined to destroy Japan, and anything else in its way. A young Japanese boy, obsessed with turtles, believes that Gamera is really his pet turtle grown gigantic, and decides to befriend him, after it seemed like it spared his life. The military and scientists are not so friendly however... Filmed in Black & White like the first two Godzilla pictures, film isn't bad, though the idea of a giant threatening turtle took some getting used to! First in an annual series of films that ran several years.

When we in the western world see these funky Japanese movies, (I'm NOT talking Kurosawa here), we can get confused. At least, I can. I'm in my 50's as of this writing, and when I was a kid, I liked these Japanese rubber monster flicks. The story meant nothing to me. I just liked seeing giant monsters fight. But as I've aged, I realize I have less and less in common with them.I don't know what the hell they are talking about anymore. I caught up with Gamera a few days ago and wondered how I loved this movie as a kid. So, I thought I'd try to move up to the 21st century and see what Japanese kids movies were doing today. Bad Idea! I found http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451829/ Naisu no mori: The First Contact. It came out in 2005, 40 years after Gamera. I went on to search for a video clip from this movie, and there certainly is one. It......it....Well, OK, I cannot even describe it here without risking arrest. Check it out.If you thought giant mutated turtles with tusks and rocket legs were strange, you've not seen the children's fare out of Japan lately.I gotta tell you, the aliens are different now.I should REALLY bump my vote for this movie, but I'm too frightened to. The new stuff scares me too much.