Wakusei daikaijû Negadon (2005)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Jun Awazu

Writer:

Jun Awazu (writer)

Release Date:

12 May 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Sci-Fi

Cast

Dan Green	...	Seiji Yoshizawa (voice: English version)
Masafumi Kishi	...	TV announcer / Narrator
Takuma Sasahara	...	Seiji Yoshizawa
Sean Schemmel	...	Ryuichi Narasaki (voice: English version)
Dai Shimizu	...	Ryuichi Narasaki
Marc Thompson	...	TV Announcer / Narrator (voice: English version)
Akane Yumoto	...	Emi Narasaki

Also Known As:

Negadon: The Monster from Mars (International: English title)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Company:

Studio Magara

Cool idea, wish it were feature length...

This is basically a modern day attempt at recreating the 50s and 60s style Kaiju (ie, big monster) movies from Japan through the use of computer animation. For the most part, it works very well, although because the computer models are actually better actors than the real ones in the old movies, it doesn't have a campy feel, more of a serious one.

It's only about 27 minutes, but some places indicate it as being longer. Since it's not that long, there's not much of a setup, basically it's the future, mankind is in space, then all of a sudden, a monster from Mars falls to the surface for reasons that aren't clear. Then there is a short-ish battle between it and a giant robot.

Very neat idea, but suffers from not being longer. Kaiju fans will find it to be a novelty, but most people won't really find it worth a rental...