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15 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Tremendous Fun For Anyone Young at Heart., 13 September 2006

Author: Space_Mafune from Newfoundland, Canada

A trio of children (2 boys and a girl), intrigued by news reports of mysterious sound waves sent to Earth from outer space, star gazing spot a flying saucer! They later find it in a wooded area. The two boys decide to investigate while the girl being more wary decides to wait outside. After entering the spaceship however, the two boys suddenly find themselves being whisked off into space. Along the way they spot and greet Gamera who tries to prevent the ship from leaving our galaxy but even he cannot keep up with its incredible speed. After the ship lands, the two boys find themselves on a strange new planet and suddenly spot another version of Gaos in battle with the planet's guardian, a knife-headed monster with a mean streak named Guiron. Gamera all this time has still been on the trail of the boys' spaceship. Meanwhile aliens are watching all of this with possible evil intentions?

This was tremendous fun. The little kid in me loved every minute of it. Sure the child stars are a bit annoying at times (but more so I suspect to adult ears than to a child's) and the effects aren't always up to par but man do the monster battles ever deliver the goods in this one. They are knock-down drag-out affairs especially those featuring Gamera and Guiron and surprisingly graphic in terms of their brutality yet the film never loses sight of making clear just who is evil and who is good. Like the best pro wrestling of yesteryear, it manages to make the hero Gamera incredibly sympathetic while the villain Guiron comes across as little more than a nasty-tempered brute and a bully who needs to be taught a lesson in manners.

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11 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Very cute!!!, 24 August 2000
Author: Rabbit Dreamer (rac08@uow.edu.au) from Wollongong, Australia

I think I first saw this film when I was about 10 or so - and I took it quite seriously the first time I saw it. That was the dubbed version I saw then. I remember being quite worried about poor Gamera being chopped to pieces by Guiron - boy, Guiron was a nasty piece of work!!! I just recently saw it again - this time subtitled (subtitles provided by the Australian multicultural channel, SBS TV) - and I think the subtitled version probably is better. It was so much fun to see it again after so long! And only now do I realise just how cute all the beasties in the flick are! Especially the Children's Friend himself!

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11 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
See the original AIP-TV version and skip Sandy Frank's horrible version!, 18 June 2001
Author: gypsykoenigbill

I have seen GAMERA VS. GUILLON in it's original Japanese version that was released on video by Neptune Media. But I urge those who have seen the original Japanese version to also see the American International Pictures-TV (AIP-TV for short) Engish dubbed version titled ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS and forget the Sandy Frank re-dubbed version titled GAMERA VS. GUIRON. But now you are asking, "Why are their two English dubbed versions of this Gamera film?"

As I stated before, GAMERA TAI DAIKAIJU GIRON was released in the United States as ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS. It's distributor AIP felt that the Gamera films were not effective for a theatrical screening like the Godzilla films. AIP felt that Gamera was better for television viewing. AIP already released the earlier Gamera sequels to TV. So ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS was released directly to television by AIP-TV. The English dubbing was done by Titan Productions, Inc. and the dubbing was perfect. Well, ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS fell into obscurity and was never seen again.

In 1985, television producer Sandy Frank wanted to bring the Gamera films back to life. However, he felt that the original dubbing was not "up to his standards" so he placed a new English language version on the Gamera films. ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS was now titled GAMERA VS. GURION and had a new dubbing track. Frank released his new versions of the Gamera films, but they were not well recieved. Even though Frank's versions are uncut and restore scenes that AIP-TV edited out, Frank's dubbing was horrible and out of synch while the AIP-TV dubbed versions were more convincing and were perfectly in synch. Frank's versions are now no longer available.

But Neptune Media finaly releases the original Japanese version of GAMERA TAI DAIKAIJU GIRON as GAMERA VS. GUILLON in subtitled form. And though I am pleased that the original version is now on home video, the AIP-TV version is still not available. Neptune Media has released a special widescreen edition of GAMERA VS. GUILLON with the original AIP-TV dub placed on it, I would suggest not viewing that version because it is better to view the original TV version in it's original panned and scanned format.

GAMERA VS. GUILLON begins when astronimical observatories catch strange waves from outer space. Scientists believe that the waves are sent by aliens from another planet. One night three kids Akio (Nobuhiro Kajima), Tom (Christopher Murphy), and Akio's sister Tomoko (Miyuki Akiyama) see a flying saucer land in the woods. They go there to see it and the saucer takes Akio and Tom away while Tomoko tries to convince everybody that the boys were taken away from a spaceship. The boys have a run in with Gamera, but the ship lands on a small planet called Tera. The planet is inhabited by monsters such as a Silver Space Gyaos and a knife headed monster called Guillon (called Guiron in both AIP-TV and Sandy Frank versions). The planet is also inhabited by two space women who want to eat the kids brains! Yikes! It's up to Gamera to fight Guillon and save the two boys!

Though GAMERA VS. GUILLON is indeed a childish film, it is a change of pace from all the serious monster films. And GAMERA VS. GUILLON works better this way. The special effects are good and are way better than the fake CGI effects that are created today. GAMERA VS. GUILLON is indeed the most fun version in the Gamera series.

Just for a side note, AIP-TV edited out a scene in which Guillon chops up Gyaos with his knife like head. Both Neptune Media and Sandy Frank contains this scene.

If you are the "die-hard" fan of the Gamera series, I suggest you see the original Japanese version that is available from Neptune Media. As for Sandy Frank's version, throw his version in the garbage!

GAMERA TAI DAIMAJU JAIGA (1970) was the next in the Gamera series that was released directly to television by AIP-TV as GAMERA VS. MONSTER X.

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12 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
The Japanese sure do have an imagination...., 18 July 2003
Author: giantdevilfish from Pacific Ocean

Basically Gamera fights a giant knife with an attitude! Alot of people put the Gamera series down for being cheap, but you know what? They were fun! At least Gamera fought a different monster (mostly outlandish ones at that) every movie. Unlike the Godzilla movies where Mothra, Ghidorah, and MechaGodzilla seem to pop up in every other flick. Anyway this movie follows Gamera VS Viras. It has the same concept. Two kids (one American, one Japanese) are the stars. And there is plenty of stock footage flashbacks too. Then things get bizarre. Gurion (the knife with the attitude) slices up a silver painted Gyoas. Shoots ninja stars at Gamera. Gamera sprays out blue blood. Swings around on parallel bars. And does a "la cucaracha" dance to remove some ninja stars stuck in his arms! He then finishes off Gurion by slamming his knife head into the ground, so Gurion is upside down with his legs kicking! Bizarre stuff. Throw in two Japanese women in funky space suits that drug the kids with tainted powdered donuts so they can eat thier brains and you can see what my one line summary means....

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8 out of 9 people found the following review useful:
Gamera rules!, 30 October 2005
Author: AwesomeWolf from Australia

'Attack of the Monsters' is quite a movie. Not only does it show off Gamera's great range of talents, but it is also the silliest giant monster movie I've ever seen, and oddly violent for a giant monster that is obviously intended for kids. Gamera: if you can hear me, you rule.

Akio (Nobuhiro Kajima), an idealist kid, dreams of finding a planet with no wars,traffic accidents, or long pants. He and Tom (Christopher Murphy) get whisked away by an empty UFO to the planet Terra, a planet that is exactly like Earth and conveniently shares Earth's orbit and is always on the opposite side of the sun to Earth. On Terra, they watch as a Gyaos turns up, only to get dismembered by Guiron (Terran for: 'Giant-Knife-Head-Monster').

Only two Terrans still live on the planet: Two space-babes with names so nice and pretty that these space-babes are obviously evil (apparently the rest of the population left to find a new planet, but we all know they died in a mass traffic accident). When the Terran women reveal that they must eat the kids brains in order to adapt to life on Earth, the kids are saved by Gamera, friend to children everywhere.

Gamera should have had a toy range based on this movie. He is the most multi-skilled monster in the universe! I can see it all now: Regular Gamera, Jet Propulsion Gamera, Ninja Gamera, Baseball Gamera, Airborne Gamera, Judo Gamera, Dancing Gamera, Gymnast Gamera, Aqua Gamera, and Gamera the Repair Monster. 'Attack of the Monsters' is a very silly movie - silly in the most funny ways. The poor special effects, the very basic dialog, the far out story, and Gamera's range of talents all make for some quality monster movie entertainment. Some of the monster mayhem seems rather brutal, even by regular monster movie standards (really, how many Godzilla films feature bloody dismemberment?), but my only complaint is the lack of Gamera's theme song in the 'Attack of the Monsters' version of the film. I want Gamera's theme song! I want it now!

Gamera rules. 'Attack of the Monsters' may be one of the most poorly produced movies you'll ever see, but it's great fun, and you know it.

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9 out of 11 people found the following review useful:
Classic, 19 June 2005

Author: cthulhu11 from United States

I saw this flick decades ago as a kid, and it's one that stuck in my memory, though as an adult I couldn't figure out what the title was, remembering it as the monster movie with the xacto-blade bad guy. Every time I see powdered donuts, I think of this flick. The dubbing, of course, is simply atrocious, but the alien babes are foxes of the highest order.

I just bought the SciFi Classics box set of 50 movies for $19.99, and was pleased to find Attack of the Monsters among the selection, along with Destroy All Planets, clips of which are included here as flashbacks. How Queen of the Amazons qualifies for inclusion as well isn't clear, but hey, for 40 cents a pop you can't go wrong.

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10 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
Gamera Versus the Giant Ginsu Knife, 27 November 2003
Author: Brian Washington (Sargebri@att.net) from Los Angeles, California

This is one of the most unusual Gamera films because most of the action takes place on another planet instead of Earth. However, it pretty much is like all the other films in the series except for the fact that the producers pretty much up the level of violence. Also, the villanous aliens in this film are women, just like in Kaiju soshingeki (aka Destroy all Monsters). However, as I have said in my previous commentaries about the Gamera series, this is a good way to introduce young children to the wonderful world of kaiju films.

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9 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Hilarious movie, fun for all ages!, 18 April 1999

Author: cornjob-2 from Terra

This is a truly fantastic movie! It has to be seen to be believed! Especially the God-like Kondo/Kon-Chan/Cornjob! This movie is so hilarious, that you may just crack a rib. Fun for everybody, definetly a movie to see with friends. It's the feel good smash sensation of the year.

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
So Bad you will love it, 12 December 2005

Author: manicgecko from United States

"Listening to children is neither psychologically or educationally important" This and other bits of tidbits are what is at stake if you dare to watch this Japanese trash. After scientists discover mysterious irregular waves from outer space, 2 boys hi-jack a spaceship to another star -(Earth is a star by the way) - only to watch hilarious monster fights complete with ninja stars from a walking knife, and become trapped by female aliens who want to eat their brains with dremel tools. And the boys thought that these aliens will prevent wars and traffic accidents. Listen to some bad jack-in-the-box music and enter Gamara, a giant go-go dancing turtle who must have had some bad Mexican food and comes to kids rescue after a few turns on the high bar. Boy are these kids going to get a scolding when they get home. I have watched this both with and without MST3K's help and it is roll on the floor hilarious either way. We should all figure out how to live without wars and accidents or we will repent and get our heads shaved.

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Giant turtle fights Exacto knife with an attitude, 6 September 2003
Author: jamesjones01-1 from Des Moines, IA

Two young friends find a UFO, which takes off with them in it as the bratty sister of one assures them they'll get in trouble. Gamera helps them, but they wind up on a planet featuring evil aidoru from outer space who control Guiron, a giant Exacto knife with an attitude. A fun if hokey monster movie, and a great example, along with _Godzilla's Revenge_, of how the monsters had become heroes, sort of kami watching over Japan... or at least over Japanese children.

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