Rating: NR
Genre:
Science Fiction
Release Date: 07/22/2003
Flags: Mild Violence, Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
Gamera the fire-belching turtle has replaced his human-hating ways with a friendly attitude towards children and once more saves the world in this film from director
Noriyaki Yuasa. The villains are invading extraterrestrials whose spaceships can "morph" into giant squids. Gamera proceeds to wreck Tokyo with typical monster destructive behavior, returning to the sea after the spell is broken.
Destroy All Planets has also been known under the titles
Gamera tai Uchu Kaiju Bairasu and
Gamera Vs. Outer-Space Monster Virus.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
For those who can never get enough Technicolor Japanese man-in-a-monster-suit movies, there is
Destroy All Planets. While offering up everything one expects from a massive zero-budget
monster battle film,
Destroy All Planets also delivers unintentionally brilliant quirky moments like the hypnotized army, Japanese men with glowing eyeballs, and a fiendishly fake-looking squid alien who wishes to attack Earth for its supply of nitrogen. Obviously made for children, this 1969 classic centers on star monster
Gamera's love for small children. This love is so important that
Destroy All Planets spends 20 minutes showing clips from past
Gamera films where he defends his little buddies. Director
Noriyaki Yuasa and his special-effects crew seem to share this love, as the special effects appear to be made with models resembling items from a child's toy box. For those out there ready to watch a chubby Japanese boy in short shorts ride into space on the back of a flying lizard creature,
Destroy All Planets is the film for you.
~ Jason Gibner, All Movie Guide
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