Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura (1971)

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   Shidan

   Not very good, but not terrible either.
   
   Zigra's design is pretty good for Gamera's standards (it's design is the only thing that made me watch it), and it's quite entertaining when it is on screen .
   
   It is clearly made mainly for children, and I think I would have enjoyed it more as a kid, but still I prefer this one over Gamera vs Guiron (1969) (and probably it's better than Gamera vs Viras and Gamera Super Monster, the only two Gamera movies I haven't watched). 1 year ago
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   Siskoid

   Gamera vs. Zigra was the last Shōwa-era Gamera movie for 9 years (and 1980's Super Monster, which I'll force myself to watch next, is a big clip show), but it's not a bad one, I don't care WHAT you say. Maybe I'm just partial to any Gamera film that DOESN'T turn into a clip show. Granted, Gamera is Godzilla's cheap knock-off, and the production values and scripts are almost always inferior, but within its own canon, Zigra has some value. The monster starts life as a medium-sized creature living in a flying saucer (so smarter than usual) and only mutates into a giant shark later, and it's a monster that provides nice opportunities for crazy action, and that doesn't rely, as so many Gamera opponents have, on a large and unlikely variety of super-powers. There's some padding with showing animal tricks at Sea World, but also a good twist on the alien invasion formula, and a bit of an ecological fable. Some may draw the line at the totally camp moment that comes with Gamera's victory over Zigra, but I thought it was hilarious and would ask: "Wait, you were taking this series SERIOUSLY?!" 5 years 12 months ago

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