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Attack of the Super Monsters

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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.

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.

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.

I'm a big fan of giant monster movies and shows "Godzilla, Ultraman" and was very disappointed with this movie. Dinosaurs have survived for millions of years below the Earth's surface. They have become more intelligent than humans and have decided to take back the surface annihilating all humans in the process. The only thing that can stop them is a group of four super-powered teenagers "two of them look like old men in their 60's". The younger male and female can somehow combine themselves to become one cyborg being/vehicle called Gemini to fight the "terrifying" monsters. The movie is a mixture of live action, suitmation & animation. The animation is very crude, the rubber-suited monster are worse than what you see in Ultraman, and the live action is something out of the Thunderbirds. I believe the film was originally a tv show that a few of the episodes were combined to make this 83 minute movie, so there really isn't any satisfying conclusion to the story.

one of my Favorite monster movies of all time, Attack of the Super Monsters is one of the weirdest movies i have ever seen being part monster movie and part anime but if you want something fun to watch Attack of the Super Monsters is the one to get

i used to watch this half live action and half anime on tv it was dubbed and i might get the story a bit wrong.

it is about a brother and a sister from outer space who are half robots half humans that in some way became on earth. They became this special army force and have this special armored tank that have a number of weapons that they use to fight "super dinosaurs" this tank can transform into a super fighter plane that has a drill like weapon in the front that they use in combat, later in the series they find a way to turn into an ultra man like character that can fight for a short period of time.

the first evil mind boss is a T-rex-i think his name was alolo- that later in the series is replaced by the real evil mind and his wife giants who look like the masked riders, stola and stona if not mistaken.

this is a great live action anime it was 39 episodes.

you could say this is a cross between ultra man and godzilla, if you like any of these two you will definitely like this one.


IMPORTANT:
i did NOT watch this tape that amazon is selling and did not watch the English version i watched the complete 39 episodes

I knew when I picked this title up that it was going to be BAD, i just wanted to see just how bad it could get. I never expected, however, the despairingly comic disaster that this movie is. What in the name of heck were these people thinking when they made this!? Anyhow, due to being just SO BAD that it defies belief, this video will always have a very special place in my movie collection.

You may think you know the meaning of the word, "schlock." You may believe that you've been exposed to some truly pitiful films over the course of your life. Watch "The Attack of the Supermonsters," however, and you will realize that you only THOUGHT you'd seen disgracefullly bad films.

This ordeal may be easier if you don't know what to expect, but if you must know more about what you're getting into, here's a description: Imagine that somebody created a covert tax shelter in the form of a kids' Sci-Fi series that was so attrocious, it would have to lose money. Shrewd investors in cahoots with the producer could appear to lose much more than they'd ever spent on the show, thus reducing their tax burden.

That's my best guess as to how this came into being. We're talking about mid-1980s era Japanese Sci-Fi animation that's highly derivative of classics such as Space Battleship Yamato/Starblazers and Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets. There are also dinosaurs portrayed by guys in rubber suits who destroy cities while (being fluent in English) shouting things like, "Humans are vermin and must be exterminated....and destroyed!"

"Guys in rubber suits?" you're thinking, "Didn't he just say this was an animated series?"

Yeah. Well, They had this brilliant idea of combining live-action giant monsters --as well as miniature model transforming spaceship effects-- with a cast of cartoon animated human characters. Don't ask me why.

This is an 84 minute feature film --if you can call it that-- which was created by chopping up the series and pasting several episodes together. Normally, when a TV series is so cynically strip-mined into a two-hour theatrical release (as was done with Space Battleship Yamato and the original Battlestar Galactica, to name two examples), you sit there missing all the stuff that you know damned well is canonical to the story, but wound up on the cutting room floor. In the case of Attack of the Super Monsters, however, anything done to reduce your investment of time can only be seen as an act of mercy.

Don't say I didn't warn you.