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Simply A Masterpiece

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

This happens to be one of those pictures where the good and the bad reviews both sound about the same, and everyone winds up considering it a blast. You can put me in the same category, who wouldn't have a good time picking this thing apart for it's cheesy monster, cheesy model toy tanks and airplanes, and cheesy actors playing it straight and wondering how they'll make it through the whole thing.Even so, I've come up with a couple of observations that might be worth mentioning. Anyone else notice how the original male astronauts of spaceship AAB-Gamma were introduced by their last names - Captain Sano, medical doctor Shioda and signal officer Miyamoto? But then, the space biologist on the mission was introduced as Lisa! I'm not into the whole feminism thing but that was a pretty significant slight to an important member of the team. Speaking of which, I couldn't help thinking while watching Peggy Neal in the role, that she could have been a stand-in for Angie Dickinson in a bigger budget flick.The other thing I noticed was that business of the 'guilala' spore burning through the table and floor and eventually into the earth before wrecking the space station, while the science folks were partying it up at Dr. Berman's (Franz Gruber). I hate to think this is where the writers for the 'Aliens' franchise got the idea for their monster, but it makes you wonder.But when it comes to the monster itself, oh baby!, stand by for what's probably the goofiest looking Godzilla knock-off in the annals of Japanese monster movies. Every time it set down it's rubbery feet on an unsuspecting mechanical victim, I had to laugh - there was no way to control their floppy motion. The bonus had to be those fiery spitball blasts at the attacking war planes, unless of course, one considers the monster ability to absorb itself into a red ball of energy and float around from city to city on it's path of destruction.Well, with embarrassingly hokey special effects and laughably ridiculous science, this has to be one of the all time, campy sci-fi greats, even if I'd never heard of it before catching it on Turner Classics the other day. You know, as I sit here and think about it now, the scientists involved here never did get around to discovering the mystery of the UFO that popped up every now and then. Not that I would have expected them to, when they couldn't even come up with a decent title to describe the 'X' from outer space.

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.This is a great looking film. Japan is not really known for its good science fiction. We far more recall the cheesy suits for Godzilla, Gamera and the other big monsters. There is some of that here, but overall the quality seems much higher... so how does this film get forgotten? That space scene is excellent, and it is top of the line, easily on par or better with anything the American were shooting at the time.

The X from Outer Space (why is the monster called an "X", what is an "X" in terms of monsters?) is a pretty dumb low-budget Japanese monster movie. What this movie, and many others like it, fail to recognize is that they can't be like Godzilla since they don't put much character and story development into it (like there was in the first Godzilla film). The X from Outer Space features a weird alien monster called Guilala and it looks pretty freaky and weird, like some kind of a child's play toy. Its roar suits it, but if you ask me, it's too simple. The creature's theme is just the same thing repeating over and over again, but it does seem to help the entertainment of Guilala's attacks somewhat more. Another fake thing about this movie is the military weapons. They are all more than obviously plastic toys (even faker than those used in the early Godzilla films). The missiles on the rocket launchers are obviously like like 4th of July things, they spark at the end and then abruptly shoot off. This movie would have probably been better if there wasn't so much human parts put into the story. Most of the screen is taken up by the bad acting (which I really don't mind), and the even worse tract of English dubbing. Overall, The X from Outer Space is a pretty dumb Japanese monster movie and an obvious Godzilla and Gamera want-to-be.

Though a bit slow at the beginning, THE X FROM OUTER SPACE is one of those over-the-top silly Japanese monster movies that they just don't make anymore and is totally fun to watch because you can't believe how silly everything is. The film is very juvenile and was most likely made for 5 year old kids more than anyone else.If you listen to the dialogue at the beginning of the film, when the astronauts are introduced, there are a lot of double entendres to be heard, like when the man tells a grinning Lisa (Peggy Neal) "However, you are to touch nothing unless specifically authorised by the Captain Sano." ARF!!! I wonder if the folks who dubbed the film deliberately made it sound so funny.The scene on the moon or in space are pretty much pointless but they're funny nonetheless. The best thing in the movie is the monster itself, Guilala (what a sad name for a monster!). When Guilala attacks, it walks about like a drunken fool, as if it got no clue of what it was doing. Maybe the guy in the suit couldn't keep his balance because the models were so cheap and fragile. The monster's roar was really funny to hear. Like someone clearing his throat. When Guilala shoots its fireballs, it looks like he's burping them out. The whole moment when the monster destroys a building and Lisa gets trapped beneath some rubble, they make a big deal about the fact that her leg is trapped and she's in pain is priceless because soon afterwards, she walks about like nothing had happened. Another great scene is when Guilala runs after a truck. It's laugh out loud funny. But the really goofy thing about this film is how fast the characters go from the earth to the moon, and vice versa. It's like the moon was only a couple of miles away and as easy to access as the nearest shopping mall. But the film is not all goofiness. When the monster turns into a fireball and flies about Japan, destroying everything in its path, well, the film sorta becomes cool for a fraction of a second. And the ending, when the monster is attacked for the last time, well, I felt bad for the poor old space chicken! But the producers set it up so a sequel was possible. Where's the sequel? I want to see Guilala battle Baragon. BTW, the container which holds tiny Guilala at the end looks like a camping lamp.The worst thing about THE X FROM OUTER SPACE is the music. Aside from the fun song, the actual music used when the monster attacks is basically the same thing played repeatedly over and over. It gets really tiresome.