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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

JLRVancouver This time around, Gamera takes on "The Legion", a biblically-named, huge insectoid alien and its accompanying swarm of little insectoid aliens. The swarming scenes are typical of what has become a popular trope (e.g. Star Trek: Beyond, The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)) but are pretty well done, as are the fights with the big one. There is lots of high-quality military footage (both stock and made for the movie) – a far cry from the wobbly little model tanks that used to be sent in futile attempts to stop giant monsters. The scenes of the 'pod/flower' forms of Legion growing and wrecking cities are also very well done. The film plays up Gamera as guardian of the Earth (sort of a giant flying eco-warrior) rather than just a friend of mans (probably a helpful distinction considering the amount of damage he does when saving us). Generally a good kaiju film marred (IMO) by a deus ex machina ending, which sees Gamera, on the ropes, pull a super weapon out of nowhere that abruptly puts an end to any threat from Legion. Once again, the big turtle seems to be in some kind of psychic link with a young girl – an unnecessary subplot but a vast improvement on the little boys he used to chum around with in the 60's. I do miss the cheerful Gamera march but it would be out of place in these somewhat grimmer movies.

Aaron1375 This is the second Gamera film in the 90's trilogy and once again it totally destroys any of the earlier films. I am so impressed at whoever did these new films as both the first one and this one were totally great for giant monster movies. They rival Godzilla's films, though I still prefer big G to Gamera. In this film there is a strange meteor shower that brings with it something extremely deadly from outer space. It is not to long before strange insect like creatures are found lurking in a subway tunnel, these things are quite deadly and it was rather impressive seeing the blood they spill in one instance. In fact, at one point I forgot this was a Gamera film as it seemed more like an old 50's science fiction film about killer giant insects. However, Gamera finally emerges and goes after this giant pod that has appeared as if it fires it will destroy everything within a 6 kilometer radius. This is one thing about the film that kind of needed explaining as I am still not sure why these flower pods were being erected and what benefit the launching of its seed might have. Well when the creatures swarm Gamera in a rather creepy scene they are dubbed Legion by a military person on the scene. However, this small creatures are not the only menace as a larger one is also soon discovered. The fights in this one are very good, at one point I was amazed at the damage poor Gamera had inflicted upon him. The giant Legion creature was very immense towering over Gamera, it was very reminiscent of the monster Biolante in the Godzilla film, however, while that one looked awesome they kind of had unspectacular fights which was such a waste, here you get two good fights between Gamera and the giant Legion. I look forward to watching the final film of this trilogy, though it will make me sad that there are no other movies like this, I wish they could make dark and edgier films like this for Godzilla.

kevinxirau "Why stop with the success of the first film Gamera: Guardian of the Universe?," Toho thought. Gamera returns to save the earth once again, but this time he will not fight alone.Following a mysterious meteor shower, strange incidents have started to occur. It soon becomes apparent that the meteors brought something: swarming, insectoid alien creatures appropriately named Legion. Led by a gigantic and powerful queen Legion and growing massive plants in major cities, even Gamera cannot stop these monstrous creatures all by himself. Humanity must lend a helping hand to the Guardian of the Universe to put an end to the attack of the Legion.This is all pretty cool. The story is great, English dubbing doesn't get exaggerated, music is spectacular, and the effects and action scenes are a true delight. I love how over time, the human characters explore more and more of the biology of the Legion like how they communicate with each other via electromagnetic waves. It's really awesome seeing the military actually help Gamera take on the Legion, especially the Legion Queen.My only real gripe is how they rendered Gamera's fire breath fairly useless against the Legion Queen and later Iris in the third film. Come on, can't he hit them both directly at least once? What's the point of giving Gamera a fire breath if he's only gonna kill the Gyaos and a giant plant with it? Anyway, my final verdict is that this is still an awesome monster movie, very realistic and taken pretty seriously. A worthy entry to the Gamera franchise. Check it out.

Dr-Diablo I must say, I picked this one up expecting it to be just another Japanese rubber suit monster movie and thought it might be a bit of a laugh in that 'so bad its good' type of way. I was surprised however to find a very decent film which kept me engaged from the beginning, with a logical and 'plausible' storyline (if you can suspend disbelief when it comes to pre-historic flying turtles stomping their way through miniature cities etc.) and a decent script. The special effects are also pretty good, even though the main protagonists are of the 'men in rubber suits' variety. The only problem is, I'm now going to have to go and hunt down the other 2 installments! I've watched many worse Hollywood films recently and would recommend this to anyone who likes a good 'creature feature'.