mark.waltz Combination Japanese mob movie, "Flash Gordon" rip-off and Asian "Father Knows Best", this is delicious bad taste at its most delightfully bizarre. An apparent dub of old Japanese science fiction movies mashed up in one big potato, it had me howling from the first minute. The most outlandish script has been thrown in for bad dubbing, utilizing comic book style bad guys to frame what little story exists. Outlandishly ridiculous names and one-dimensional villains are all parodies of the old serials. The monster meeting in outer space (with a cardboard Saturn in the background) features creatures that resemble huge air conditioning units I see in businesses with ventilation issues. I truly could not believe my eyes (or ears) as Ultraman like heroes battle vampire like monsters and various other creatures that look anywhere from the carrot monster from "It Conquered the World" to the hot dog monster from "The Horror at Party Beach". There is a heroic character known as "Space Pope" who is "very gifted" below the waste, an elderly evil leader who is a combination of George Zucco and Colonel Sanders, a Vampira like demoness who is also part killer clown from outer space and part Martha Raye in "The Buggaloos". At least the choreography is memorable; It is part zeppelin party scene from "Madam Satan", part "So you think you can dance" Halloween special. Much of the transitions do not make sense, and the pacing often slows down ridiculously. Hideous narration is even worse than "Plan Nine" which gives me the notion that this was plan number two. This is definitely a film to watch and get drunk with a group of friends.

Woodyanders Obviously cobbled together from several episodes of a TV series and thus barely coherent, but jetting along at a super swift pace that rarely flags for a minute, this screwball Japanese sci-fi lunacy relates the loopy tale of a monstrous evil brain from outer space (that's carried around in a suitcase!) who leads his grotesque minions on a crusade to conquer the universe. The evil brain unleashes a horde of hideous monsters that include a fanged lizard dude with lethal long nails and a creepy witch lady on Earth. It's up to gallant superhero Starman to save the day. Man, does this honey scrupulously cover all the right wrong bases to qualify as a real choice chunk of pure kitsch: A gloriously inane story that's treated with utmost seriousness, cruddy dubbing, lovably rinky dink (far from) special effects, a ridiculously solemn narrator who works mad overtime to keep the ramshackle narrative reasonably linear and cohesive, a colorful array of goofy aliens (the humanoid starfish beings in particular are an absolute hoot), an overwrought orchestral score, silly villains (my favorite was the nasty one-legged guy who limps along on crutches), and crazy fights that are choreographed like violent ballet set pieces. Sidesplitting stuff.

cleda (my 13 year old son wrote this) I was watching this movie on Retro TV (dont ask me why) and when the monster multiplied on the bridge and flew away i was like hey wait where have i seen that i know that wait Testify by Rage Against the Machine which is a video about how similar Bush and Gore where its funny to see how amazingly bad this movie was when you see it decades later.Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSBhI_0at0the video also contains other obscure alien movies.The movie has everything you'd want in a cheesy 1960s era Japenese scifi movie; bad guys in matching outfits, kabuki dancing evil doers with jazz hands, really bad special effects, dubbing by emotionless actors, and a hero - Starman - in tights effortless fighting off all manner of threats.

winner55 This is a bad film, but enjoyable in a childish sort of way; I'm certainly willing to waste time on it after a hard night's work.Most of the other comments on the film so far have been dead-on; it does look like a re-edited serial or TV show, it is a Japanese variant on the Capt. Marvel type serials of the '30s, it does include some of the same tonality as the later Kaiju films, and it is not very well made. But, as I say, it goes along at a pretty good clip, so its never really dull, and can be watched without using much mental muscle.Historically, the most important thing about this movie is that it's right now the earliest example we have widely available in America of the choreography of martial arts in Asian cinema. (The IMDb date is clearly that of its American release, everything else says this was made in the early-mid-'50s.) The fight scenes are important - Capt. Marvel essentially brawls and wrassles when he fights, like every other Hollywood hero of his era; the fight scenes in "Evil Brain" are brief, well-choreographed dances; this actually makes it more advanced than similar American films of the period, and for this reason worth seeing at least once for all Martial arts fans.