Gamera - The Brave (Widescreen)
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DVD: Region Code 0Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Unknown); Cantonese (Unknown)
Running Time: 96 unknown-units
Movie Reviews of Gamera - The Brave (Widescreen)
Movie Review: Our favorite giant turtle loses his bite
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm a big fan of Japan's Gamera movies, even the sillier ones made almost 40 years ago with titles like GAMERA VS. ZYGRA and GAMERA VS. JIGER. The three most recent ones preceding GAMERA THE BRAVE, all made from 1995-99, are masterpieces of the 'kaiju'--giant monster--genre (GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE, GAMERA 2: ADVENT OF LEGION, GAMERA 3: REVENGE OF IRIS). So what went wrong with GAMERA THE BRAVE (2005)? Well, for one thing, it takes itself way too seriously and treats the dramatic scenes of a single father and his emotionally-deprived son as if this were some heart-wrenching family drama on the order of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN or TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Later on in the film, the whole notion of Gamera-as-friend-of-the-children is taken to a ridiculous, groan-inducing extreme involving some kind of massive relay race of random kids, each running counter to rampaging crowds fleeing Nagoya and each in turn trying to get a needed power crystal to Gamera, who'd been rammed into an upper floor of an office tower (in a disturbing echo of 9/11) by the invading monster, Zedus.
Aside from all that, two things really irked me about this movie. First, we follow Toru, the boy who finds the turtle egg that hatches baby Gamera, as he raises it in secrecy from baby turtle to practically man-size in a matter of days, but we never see him feed his new pet. What did it eat? How did it grow so big? This crucial omission seriously undermined the film's first section for me. I could have forgiven that, but after Gamera has grown big enough to be played by a man in a monster suit, he looks really silly and cartoonish, like the Pillsbury Dough Boy, and nothing like the fierce Gamera of old. His trademark fangs are even shortened and blunted. It's as if they made a new Godzilla movie by taking Minya, the pudgy, harmless "Son of Godzilla" featured in SON OF GODZILLA, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and GODZILLA'S REVENGE, and made HIM Godzilla in the next movie. I don't think fans would have been very pleased. The sad thing about all this is that Gamera's monster opponent here, Zedus, a giant, bipedal iguana-type creature, is actually quite formidable and well-designed and the brief scenes of monster combat in the streets of Nagoya are exciting and beautifully staged. They just belonged in a better kaiju movie.
For the record, the director here, Ryuta Tasaki, has worked on the Hollywood-based "Power Rangers" series, directing episodes of one of the all-time best Power Rangers seasons, "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue" (2000).
Summary of Gamera - The Brave (Widescreen)
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?DVD Video
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