** Super Turtle vs. Metal Plated Space Shark!

After years of slowly slipping into the kiddy genera and an ever-decreasing budget, this movie is made. After this one, Daiei wouldn't make another Gamera movie in eight years, and that one was mainly stock footage and Daiei went out of bankrupt. This pretty much tells you how bad this one is. It would take 23 years before Daiei makes a better one, and that's not because this one was good.

It starts with a lame looking moon base getting destroyed by a space ship that looks like a mix between a Mardi Gras helmet and a crown (or so I've heard). The space ship lands in the ocean, and it captures two kids and their fathers, who where in a rowboat. After seeing Tokyo getting leveled with a magnitude 18 earthquake (what?), the lone "Zigra Woman" on board puts the fathers in a hypnosis state, but the kids escape with them by touching a nearby control thingy-ma-bob. Zigra, the giant space shark sitting in the balcony at the time, tells the zigra woman to go kill the kids because "they know to much". She comes ashore, gets into the local clothes (a bikini), and chases after the kids for half the movie. Meanwhile, Gamera comes and destroys the ship, and Zigra pops out. Due to a difference in pressure, Zigra grows really big (huh?). They fight, and Zigra uses his hypnosis beam thingy to knock Gamera out (and upside down in the ocean with his foot sticking out). Well, the zigra woman runs around, hypnotizes all the adults around (with the snap of her fingers and shiny eyes), and the cure for all of this is saying "Ahh" in a walky-talky. Well, Zigra captures the kids and fathers again (in a bathysphere), and the whole world surrenders to a monster that would enslave and eat the human population to save four people (what the hey is going on here?). But Gamera comes to save the day after getting blasted with lightning bolts. He saves the people, beats up the shark, plays his theme song on Zigra's back spikes with a rock (I'm not joking), does a little dance, and starts a shark barbecue.

No, the movie isn't long, it's that the plot is so dang confusing that I wrote most of it down to try to make sense of it, and it didn't work! The plot is screwy. It's confusing, boring, strange, odd, goofy, lame, stupid, and it makes no sense! Now it's obvious that Daiei needed money because they had none. The whole movie, especially the beginning, is one big commercial for Sea World! The whole movie takes place at Sea World! And then there's that little girl begging for a "Coke" during the entire movie! But the money from advertisements helped, because unlike the plot, the special effects are adequate. Lots of beam shooting, lightning, and fire blasting. Zigra looks pretty good. Still, the moon base looks like a little kid made it and the underwater scenes are really land scenes tinted to make them look like they are fighting underwater! Still, I couldn't see all the strings they used, which is surprising. They fight scenes are pretty good. Zigra doesn't put up much of a fight, but he has his times. Actually, this guy was pretty good on the offense wise. He destroyed more buildings and killed more people than any other monster in existence! Then again, that was just his technology aboard is space ship, not the monster himself (how can something with flippers build something anyways). He is once again a monster that is weak to light (how original), but he is quite adequate.

As a whole, the Gamera junk in this movie is merely adequate. What brings it down is the definitely not adequate plot! The plot is confusing and just plain nuts! It don't make sense at all, and is literally painful to watch (except for maybe the bikini girls scene). You have to be a little kid to like this one! If your not a little kid, don't watch it unless you either see it on MST3000 or if you are a severe fan of Gamera! The Gamera equivalent of "Godzilla vs. Megalon", but slightly worse. Still, not all that bad, well, most of it is bad however.

Plot kinda funny at times

Good special effects (for a Gamera movie)

Zigra pretty good

I like Sea World!

That one, um, bikini scene, because um, never mind.

Lame, boring, and confusing plot!

None of it makes sense!

As always, annoying bratty kids!

Gamera: master of the xylophone!

Plot about pollution resembles "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster". Coincidence? Probably.

Remember to always brush your teeth well, because that's what dolphins do!

Fairly accurate quote from movie: "Don't come any closer or I'll feed them to the dolphins!"

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