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Gamera - The Brave (Widescreen)
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Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a series of mysterious ship wrecks are reported. Later on, even more disasters happen when a huge evil ferocious monster Lizard (Zeus) suddenly comes out from the sea and attacks, wrecks and demolishes the world. the last hope of mankind relies on the friendly great monster, Gamera, which looks similar to Toto, but disappeared 33 years ago. Is Toto the descendant of Gamera? is Toto able to fight against the huge evil?
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- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 Ounces
- Media Format : Widescreen
- Run time : 96 minutes
- Subtitles: : English
- ASIN : B000P5HARG
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The movie starts out with a freaking sweet Gamera fight scene where he dies, but then they fast-forward to some kid with problems finding a Gamera egg and the adorableness takes off from there. I dunno how they got that little baby tortoise to be so cute, but he follows the kid around like a puppy and I LOVE HIM.
This movie came out in 2006, which is well within the dark ages of CGI crap taking over, but I'm happy to say that they used almost exclusively suitmation in this one, and it looks AMAZING.
There are parts in this movie with some blood and minor gore (Gamera gets stabbed pretty badly in the side at one point) so it might not be as kid appropriate as one might first think, but good grief, I can't recommend this movie enough. Five stars.
Okay - deep breath - recovered now. ASIDE from the absolute adorable-ness of Toto/Gamera, I quite enjoyed this movie. Overall, it was nicely put together and quite entertaining.
As mentioned in other reviews, though, this movie really centers around the main character (can't remember his name, I'm ashamed to say) and his relationship with Toto/Gamera. Having lost his mother recently, the boy makes friends with a baby turtle. He names the turtle Toto, which is what his mother used to call him. Now a monster has appeared. The boy and his friends begin to suspect that Toto is a new Gamera... but the last Gamera sacrificed itself to save the city. Is Toto Gamera? If he fights the monster, will he die?
If you're just looking for two monsters beating each other up, there's not a lot of that here. Toto doesn't even actually become Gamera until almost the end of the movie. That's just not what the movie's about.
Some good and bad stuff:
Good- The kid. Face it, movie kids always have the potential to be REALLY annoying (have you seen any of the old Gamera movies?), but that's not a problem here.
The turtle. As mentioned before, it's just so darned cute. There are a couple parts that I felt were a bit *too* cute (the kitchen scene was a bit much), but it is a children's movie.
Zebus. Not a very special monster. Just a big pinkish lizardy thing. I consider that to be a plus in this case. Given that the monster battle is a less important part of the story than the characters/relationships, I'm glad they didn't go nuts with a super-mega-ultra-powerful whatsis. Something like Legion (from the other Gamera series) would have been terribly out of place here.
Bad- The red pearl. Not Gamera's red stone. I'm talking about the one that guy ( I suck at names) uses to make the bracelet for his daughter before her surgery. The scientists have some as well. WHY are they so tacky? I've seen better looking stuff at the dollar store. Maybe that's just me. Oh well.
Weird- The whole "Kidnap Gamera and Take Him to Our Secret Lab So We Can Pump Him Full Of Red Liquid We Made From These (Tacky) Red Pearls" thing. They try to explain that the (tacky) red pearls are bits left over from the last Gamera and they're full of "Gamera Energy" or something like that, but it definitely feels like a speedbump in the movie.
The Red Stone Relay. Very dramatic and inspirational. But the whole time, I kept thinking "Gamera is a friend to all children." Maybe these kids know that...have *they* seen the old movies?
Wrap up: I do recommend this movie if you are a Gamera fan. Just remember, this is not a movie about two monsters. It's about a boy and his turtle.
From the technical aspects the Blu-ray is not an upgrade in every way: while the picture quality is excellent and is a pleasure even on big screens, the technicians were more than sloppy with the sound. At least my Blu-Ray - marked as featuring Stereo-sound as well as DTS-HD-MA 5.1 in Japanese and English - offers only Stereo, even on the 5.1 track. My playerr recognises the 5.1-Mix, but the surround channels carry no sound. This is very regrettable since the previously released DVD offers a true 5.1-mix.
I am quite sure the Blu-Ray was supposed to offer this as well, but somebody goofed.
Regretably Tokyo Shock does not offer a contact on their website. I strongly hope that there will be a corrected version of the Blu-Ray available soon.
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Don't expect it to win any Oscars, but on its own, great entertainment.
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しかし、上映以前から各種の記事で平成ガメラ三部作を踏襲しない作品であることが分かり、平成三部作の多くのファンから懸念が表されていたが、実際の映画も大酷評されて興行収入は大赤字だったらしい。
そのため流石にこれを映画館で見る気もDVDを買う気も起きず、当時加入していたスカパーのチャンネルで放映した時に見たのが最初だった。もちろん、大いにがっかりした。平成ガメラ三部作とは全く異なる子供向け映画。二度と見ることはないだろうとさえ思っていた。
気まぐれにもう一度見たのは次女が幼稚園に入ってからだった。彼女が食い入る様に見、最後に涙を流しているのを見て考えを改めた。もう一度虚心坦懐に見ると、これは良質のジュヴナイル映画だ。特撮も決して手を抜いておらず、映画全体として子供を視聴者と想定しつつもむしろだからこそ丁寧に作られているように思う。
東宝の平成ゴジラ・シリーズやミレニアム・ゴジラ・シリーズが一部の作品を除いてSFとしても子供向き映画としても中途半端であるのに対して(おそらく『ゴジラ』というブランドに胡坐をかいた結果)、SFたらんとした平成ガメラ三部作とはまた異なるものの、今作は小さな子供たちにジュヴナイル映画として見せるに足る佳品ではないだろうか。
今回、北米版のブルーレイで比較的安価に購入できたのはありがたい。

