Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

OllieSuave-007 The '90s Gamera returns for a third time in his final second series movie, where schoolgirl Ayana, hungry for revenge against Gamera for inadvertently killing her parents, raises a small monster named Iris and, as the creature grows up, plans to use Iris to exact revenge against the flying turtle. However, the world is threatened again by the Gyaos creatures, pitting them against Gamera once more.The special effects for the movie were awesome - very sophisticated and detailed - and the monster action was great. The acting was mostly good, with the exception of Ai Maeda as Ayana, whom I thought gave a very wooden performance. It appears that all she could do was to make these solemn and angry faces, showing like she doesn't care for other people or what's going on around her.The appearances of the Gyaos creatures remind you of continuity in the series and make you wonder how Gamera plans to deal with the creatures for a final time. There is a little tension built-up as the Iris creature grows in size, making you wonder what Iris plans to do when he reaches his adult form.Despite all the monsters, action and awesome special effects, I wasn't too keen on this movie as many viewers are. I'm probably in the minority in this, but I think this movie lacks the thrills and intrigue of the previous movie (Attack of the Legion). That movie has suspense built-up that keeps you glued to the screen and a fast-paced plot that gains momentum. This movie has too many subplots going on (Ayana's revenge, humankind debating Gamera's allegiance, the cultists, the return of the Gyaos birds), which make the story difficult to follow at times. ***spoiler ahead*** And, the ending with the Gyaos creatures doesn't provide a very conclusive ending to the film and the series, and it leaves much plot-threads hanging. ***spoiler ends*** Again, it's still a movie full of monster action, pretty good acting and great special effects, but it falls a little short in momentum.Grade C+

kevinxirau Everyone's favorite flying, fire-breathing turtle is back, this time facing a threat unlike anything this world has ever seen. Old faces return alongside strange new ones in this dark, epic climax to the Gamera trilogy.Plot: The Gyaos have returned, newly evolved and multiplying like crazy around the world. As if that isn't bad enough, a new foe has emerged, one who has been bred by the hate of a teenage girl who harbors a grudge against Gamera for accidentally killing her parents in the first film. This new creature is called Iris (named after the girl's deceased pet cat), a mysterious armored, blood-sucking squid creature with immense destructive power and a genetic link to the Gyaos. With the military once again hunting Gamera, will all this be too much for the Guardian of the Universe? The stakes are raised and so is the severity of the violence. Tons of people are laid waste as the monsters battle each other for supremacy, destroying everything in their path. It's great. Gamera looks really fearsome, looking as if he will stop at nothing until all his monstrous enemies are destroyed. He even has some new tricks up his giant sleeve. Iris is a fascinating creature, bringing a sense of both awe and dread to his presence, especially when he's flying. In fact, he reminds me of an Angel from "Evangelion". It's nice seeing some of the old cast in this one like Gamera's human companion Asagi, who has really grown as a character. Some the new characters are interesting while others are strange, which is why sometimes I feel that this film may appeal to goths. The star here is Ayana, whose backstory and hatred for the turtle and backstory allow her to stand out from the rest of the cast.I do have problems with this one. I didn't like how some people, military included, now want Gamera dead again. Come on, the Gyaos, certified man-eaters, have returned and yet their too busy complaining about the damage Gamera causes while he's trying to kill them. Even a fortune teller believes Gamera is some evil spirit. What evil spirit saves people? Furthermore, this causes Ayana's hatred to blend in with theirs, which, given the main conflict, should not be the case; the film would've been better served if she was the only one with a serious grudge. Plus, once again Gamera takes quite a bit of punishment. I'm tired that. At this time, he should be dishing out lot more damage to his enemies, especially with his trademark fire breath.For all its problems, Gamera 3 is still worth the watch. It's a shame it ended the way it did and that its low-budget sequel that ended the storyline never made it to theaters and an American release. Check this flick out if your a monster movie fan. Or a goth lover.

winner55 Announcer: ... and this just in from Paris, a major nuclear catastrophe wiping out the entire Kingdom of Great Britain. But now we go to the big news of the day, that the recently retired King of Monsters, Godzilla, has brought to court a suit of plagiarism against longtime rival, Gamera, the flying turtle. And we are fortunate to have Godzilla and Gamera in the studio with us today. Godzilla, what made you decide to bring this suit to court so late in your career.God.: Well, I put off watching "Retard of Iris" for a long time, but one day, Rodan and me were having a few beers, so we popped it in and long before the movie ended, I realized i was watching pretty much the whole of my "Heisei" period distilled into some school-girl fantasy of what a Kaiju film might be. Gam.: Hold on there, lizard breath. We kaiju are a special breed. unfortunately that means there's just so many things we can do, then we have to do them all over again. How many times have you stomped Tokyo? How many ways are there that Tokyo can be stomped. I mean, let's be honest. God.: Honest?! There hasn't been a single movie you made that didn't steal something from one of mine - what about that monster of yours with the same name as one of mine, Baragon? Gam.: My monster's name is BarUgAn. In Japanese, inflection is everything. And then you had the gall to name some kid's rubber-suit fantasy bully directly after me in "Godzilla's Revenge". God.: I didn't make that movie! Honda took some of my home movies and patched them together, that material was not for public viewing. Gam.: Most of your films are not for public viewing, I mean they are SO bad! God.: Some of your later '60s stuff is such a mess, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. All those silly ten-year-old kids - are you a pedophile by any chance, shell-head? Announcer: Gentlemonsters, please - our audience! Gam.: Old nuke-for-brains here just doesn't get it - we are all made for children, that's why we're so lovable. God.: "Loveable"?! I'll have you know that when Ghidrah and me destroyed Tokyo in my last film, the audience held it's breath to see if it was still alive. Gam.: If that made sense, it would still sound stupid. Besides, didn't you think my fisting the bad-thing in "Revenge (that's REVENGE - you're the only retard here!) of Iris" in order to pull the girl out of its gut - now that's pretty darn awesome, if I do say so myself. God.: well, you're the only one who would say that. The fact remains that the Iris bad-thing is a direct rip-off of my enemy Biolante. Gam.: So who would know? That film bombed at the box-office. Besides, all that romantic mushy stuff - look, kids want to see kids; having a kid form an empathic connection with a beastie.... God.: is a direct rip-off of my Heisei series, but also of my big last battle with the "Terror of Mechagodzilla" in the Showa series. Admit it, I had your formula down to a science before you were ever born! Gam.: At least I WAS born, you keep getting 'created" by one human mistake or other. That's why kids like me - I'm really THERE, I mean, I have a heart, a soul, some kind of intelligence.... God.: Yeah, and you light your farts to fly! Gam.: You cheap dinner for lizard-mites! You tried to convince the world you killed me off in "Tokyo SOS"! Well, I got the last laugh, I think. You destroyed the world in "Final Wars", whereas I been born again in "The Brave" (2006). God.: See that's your problem - "born again" - religious hypocrite! The only thing born again about you is that all my ideas get born again in your movies! Gam.: If you ever had an idea, you wouldn't know what to do with it! At least I got the guts to risk doing it over and over again - I love the children in my audience, they're great fans, and they deserve a turtle hero; we all do. God.: It's "heroes" like you make my stomach turn. Tokyo is for stomping; saving it is an embarrassing display of something nearly (UGH!) human. Gam.: So that's what it comes down to! You just don't like people, do you?! God.: The earth was made for monsters! Gam.: and if that's the case, I deserve my place on it too.Announcer: Mr. Godzilla, Mr. Gamera - I see we've run out of time, thank you for stopping by. One last question, this from a member of the audience just phoned in: Mr. Godzilla: bottom-line for "Revenge of Iris" - is it worth watching at all? God.: Well, yeah... it's kind of entertaining; if you like that sort of thing.

r-c-s well, this is a well crafted monster movie, which mixes easily and seamlessly enough SFX, CGI and traditional men in suit & miniatures in perfect 1990's style. There are many ideas coming back & forth with TOHO movies. There is the idea of a stone keeping some mysterious monster from hatching, as in monsters all out attack from Toho & a chapter of the latest Mosura trilogy. There is an underdeveloped subplot about reading ancient legends talking about guardian monsters ( all out attack from Toho again ). There is some girl with telepathic ability ( again another popular character in a few recent Godzilla movies ). This time tables turn and Gamera must face the resentment of a girl whose family he accidentally murdered while battling the gyayos. Such girl will remove the seal-stone & allow some mysterious monster to hatch, which she will fusion with later (lots of alien-styled scenes of her into the monster's mucous egg-cave ). The new monster is some sort of Gyayos with tentacles ( a cross-breed with legion? ) and instead of eating people, he reduces them to dried up mummies (another plot seen many times from Star Trek onwards, EG sucking life energy from living creatures etc ). So Gamera must fight him ( in symbiosis with the girl ) while he's alone this time. Cameo for the girl who used to fusion with him on an emotional level. There is another unexplored subplot about many gyayos birds wreacking havoc all around the world. A further subplots involves a graveyard of dead gameras somewhere in the deep sea...said to be beta versions of the last Gamera, but it ends there. All in all an enjoyable movie, though plagued by too many clichés and deja vus from other movies. SFX are very good and the plot (however not the most original ) flows uninterrupted by unneeded character development (many cameos of traditional recent Gamera movies' characters ).