Rainey Dawn This film is really geared more towards the kids BUT adults can have fun watching this one, especially if you grew up watching it. This film is also known by the name "Attack of the Monsters".It's about two boys from planet Earth that space aliens from a planet that is just opposite of Earth so it remains hidden behind the sun. The aliens are disturbed by the Earth boys, give them doughnuts and other treats to entice them. Gamera the huge flying fire-breathing turtle learns of this and heads to the alien planet to rescue the two boys. Gamera ends up having to battle another great creature called Guiron! Lots of silly action happens then.The film is cute, silly and fun to watch. It's not a great movie but it's amusing nonetheless.4/10

unbrokenmetal The 2 boys Akio and Tom discover an empty spaceship and go to the planet Tera with it. They witness the local monster Guiron, who has a giant knife head, cut the flying monster Gyaos into pieces - impressive start! The planet Tera is seemingly inhabited only by two ladies who speak very friendly to the kids and give them donuts for free - but they have sinister plans. Gamera, always glad to help kids in trouble, comes to the rescue - but will have to fight the mean monster Guiron first! By this time, the 5th movie of the series, it had become completely childish, but at least in this case very enjoyable, even if the qualities of the first 2 movies had disappeared. Nobody will take a movie about a turtle with jet propulsion fighting a knife head monster very seriously, but the fights are worth watching, Guiron is a memorable opponent for Gamera.

OllieSuave-007 Campfest Gamera returns in this dozy of a movie where two boys stumble upon a flying saucer and ended up being flown to space. They are confronted by two women aliens who hypnotize the children so they would became rations for them later on. Throw in a knife-nosed space monster named Guiron, a little girl's pleas to the adults about the alien abduction, and a corny Officer named Cornjob into the mix and you have a Gamera flick that tips the cheese scale.Like the previous movie, this story utilizes the recycled alien-invasion plot. The special effects were pretty awful; the monster suits were not realistic or imaginative at all and the monster battle scenes were very campy (Gamera doing gymnastics on a high bar while fighting Guiron?!). And, the character development and substance were non-existent.Again, this film looks like an episode of a children's variety show. I know the filmmakers wanted to target the younger audience, but, at least, throw in some heroic and purposeful adult characters and make the plot elements sound at least believable (the lead kid characters want world peace and an end to traffic accidents?!).There are some scenes that are so bad, it's fun to watch, and, have to say some scenes of the aliens pursuing the kids were a little thrilling. Watch only if you like extreme camp and cheese factor. Grade D

gigan-92 What? Is that logical? Absurdity takes new meaning with is film. The year is 1969, so at this point both Godzilla and Gamera were in the pits. Hell, 1969 was the fateful year Toho released "Godzilla's Revenge" and I'm quite sure Godzilla would never sink so low again. However, the worse had yet to come for the original Gamera series. That's not to say "Gamera vs. Guiron", also known as "Attack of the Monsters", isn't a bad movie because yes, yes it is, but compared to crapfest like "Gamera vs. Zigra" this film excels. At one point a child hypothesizes Gamera can reach speeds up to Mach 60…I'll be damned.You would've thought the company Daiei and its writers would've learned from "Gamera vs. Viras" that children and spaceships don't go together. However, at the very least we are shown a new planet, Tera, in an attempt to divulge a better plot. For all its campy ridiculousness, it's an admittedly interesting story for a monster movie sucker like me. Making children the protagonists is probably its greatest blunder. Guiron himself is a weird monster, but I suppose more attractive than Jiger. Still, Guiron looks like something you'd see in, I don't know, Pokémon? The Space Gyaos are an interesting facet of the story and some frightfully odd yet amusing action sequences take place. Zany and peculiar, definitely cheesy as hell, but a gas to watch and scrutinize.