Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302069259 Format: Color, EP, NTSC ISBN: 6302069254 Label: Celebrity Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Celebrity Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1992-08 Publisher: Celebrity Home Entertainment Release Date: June 01, 1989 Running Time: 80 minutes Studio: Celebrity Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1966 Sales Rank: 51808
Amazon.com: Shot in black and white, this 1965 Japanese monster movie was the Daiei company's answer to Toho's famous Godzilla series. A skirmish between U.S. and unknown "enemy" planes results in an atomic explosion over the Arctic which unthaws and unleashes the giant flying turtle Gamera, who eventually settles into Japan to wreak havoc while seeking out hydro-electric sustenance. However, this fire-eating (and breathing) behemoth displays a compassionate streak when he saves the life of a young boy who nearly falls to his death from a toppled lighthouse. Panicky scientists and military officials vainly try to find ways to destroy Gamera while the boy seeks to bond with his misunderstood reptilian hero. Like many of its celluloid Japanese monster brethren, Giant Monster Gamera has not aged all that well, but the well-staged and photographed assault on Tokyo makes for festive mayhem. Overall the film is good entertainment for young kids as well as the inner children of the adults who grew up on these monster mashes. --Bryan Reesman
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Rating: - Tippy, oh, tippy.
OK, this film was seen on MST3K. So what? I happen to be a fan of the Gamera and Godzilla movies which is one of the reasons I enjoyed watching Joel and the Bots. Gamera The Invincible was made in 1965, ... Read More
Rating: - If you only see one space turtle movie this year...
...make sure it's the one with the brain lusting space girls! But that one is kinda intentionally comic, this is played as straight as a movie about a flying space turtle can be. Minunderstood monster is unleashed ... Read More
Rating: - I Am Invincible!
A flight of Soviet bombers "accidentally" flies over Alaska. U.S. interceptors shoot one of the planes down, causing a low-yield nuclear explosion. The nuclear explosion wakes a giant prehistoric turtle called Gammera ... Read More
Rating: - Gammera the Invincible
Watching this movie is a trip back to my youth. I used to watch these monster movies late at night on the local TV stations. It is sooooo corny that it is good. If a person did not grow up watching these movies they may ... Read More
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- If you only see one space turtle movie this year...