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2.0 out of 5 stars
Japanamation plus Suitmation, March 4, 2004
This film is jarring. We first see a bunch of giant dinosaurs (men in rubber suits) emerge from the Earth and declare, in English, that the humans must die. Then, in a camera shot of a forest, we see cartoon animals and then dogs. The mixing of styles is odd.
The film is actually four chapters about the Gemini force who cut their teeth on the menace of the Super Monsters (super-powered, giant, telepathic, talking dinosaurs).
Part one has a T-rex mutate dogs into monsters. The Gemini team members Jim and Jem combine their bionic parts to become the super being Gemini (no, I'm serious). Their vehicle also changes and seems like it doesn't need Gemini to be powerful.
Part two has a pterodactyl turn bats into giant monsters (their size varies from scene to scene from normal to a few feet).
In part three, a stegosaurus turns the rats into monsters.
In part four we have to giant dinosaurs, a triceratops (actually a styracosaurus) and a T-rex/allosaurus type.
There is no real ending to the story. The dinosaur leader, Tyrannus, is still around, but there is no teaser about future battles.
Much of the story is pretty silly and standard. We have the comic relief science guys, the heavy-eyebrowed hero, transformations, fantastic vehicles (the main one of which seems to exist only for launching and never gets involved in the conflicts), rubber-suit monsters, and bad dialogue.
Overall, this makes the Power Rangers look like Citizen Kane.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Review of _Attack of the Super Monsters_, September 18, 2008
This review is from: Attack of the Super Monsters (DVD)
Read about this on the Bad Movie Website and just had to see it for myself. I don't know how much was lost in translation from the Japanese, but am well aware that most anime - like most of anything else - is mediocre. This is just south of mediocre.
The DVD is a good copy, both visually and aurally. However, what it's copying may not have been worth the effort.
It's worth viewing to see how multiple techniques - cell animation, stop-motion animation and live action with guys in rubber monster suits - were integrated, but otherwise give it a miss.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The weirdest movie I've ever seen!, February 21, 2008
This review is from: Attack of the Super Monsters (DVD)
This movie is just plain weird. I'm not sure I even know what to think of it.
Well, it's the only movie I've seen involving cartoon heroes, live-action, rubber suit monsters and a bizarre truck/tank/aircraft thingy. It's a unique movie, at any rate. Despite a large amount of repitition, I didn't get bored watching it.
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