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 Rated 2 out of 5
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This movie is also called "Monster from a Prehistoric Planet". How do I know? I bought both!This movie is about how monsters love their children as much as any person.  Rated 3 out of 5
The real monsters here may not be the guys in rubber suits
There’’s not a whole lot I can say about this Japanese monster movie. The head of Playmate magazine (which is apparently a much different magazine than the one you are thinking of) sends some of his people out to the South Sea Islands in search of exotic creatures for his Playmate Island building project. He seems to think that people will flock to outdoor restaurants situated right in the middle of a tropical island full of strange wild beasts roaming around unfettered. The team naturally heads toward the island with the most active volcano, scoff at native talk about a god-like being called Gappa, find a giant egg, and then kidnap the prehistoric hatchling and rush him back to Japan. The scientists and the publisher fight over how to best mistreat the animal, and then Gappa’’s far from long-extinct parents show up to stomp around Japan for awhile in search of their little Gappa bundle of joy. These monsters are rather unimpressive and hard to describe. They can’’t decide if they want to fly, swim, or walk, and they have bird-like beaks and long, whip-enabled tails; I swear one of them has a fake beard, and the other one seems to adorn itself with a giant starfish goatee every so often. Little Gappa isn’’t much better. Naturally, there are all kinds of explosions and many model cities are destroyed, but the special effects are rather bland; while the monsters do spew out a few obligatory heat rays, they mainly just stomp around looking lost. Strange as it may sound, the ending is actually sort of touching’’lame but touching. The whole ordeal is not something a human being would look back on with any sort of pride, that’’s for sure. Despite its many flaws, I actually enjoyed this movie; it can’’t hold a candle to Godzilla, Gamera, Mothra, or Rodan movies, but it’’s really not that bad if you’’re a fan of Japanese monster movies.- Rated 2 out of 5
Bad, bad, bad...even for suitmation
Ok, I admit I’’m a sucker for really bad cinema, and almost no one makes bad cinema as bad as this. It ranks right up there with the greatest suitmation monster stink bombs in history, including most of the Godzilla series between Godzilla vs King Kong and the Heisei series in the 1990s, and virtually all of the rest of the Toho and Toho-clone stable. There is just something so delightfully awful about the attack of those giant chicken-slash-parrots that makes you want either to fall to the floor laughing or run screaming away from the television (maybe not such as bad thing...) never to watch again. Anyone one familiar with the Red Dwarf TV series might recognize Gappa from one of the episodes as well. I have an idea... Instead of the Golden Turkey, let’’s introduce the Golden Gappa!
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