The Basics: A clip show of the previous Gamera films spliced together with the opening scene from Star Wars, various animes, and a film about a trio of groovy, superhero space women fighting another space woman...but this one's evil
The Plot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera:_Super_Monster
The Kaiju:
Gamera:
He's pretty much just a flying prop in this movie and it's a pretty bad prop at that.
And he's the only kaiju in this film that comes from original footage so I'm not going to mention the others here outside of a brief line up:
Zigra
Barugon
Gyaos
Viras
Jiger
So...all of the Showa Gamera monsters are here...this should be Daei's version of DAM right? Wrong!
The Acting:
It's there...people do things...occasionally while saying lines of dialogue..
The SPFX:
Pretty craptacular I'm not going to lie
The Other Stuff:
-I was surprised to find that I don't hate this film as much as I mildly loathe it...some good stuff here, none of it involving kaiju really except
-I guess I can give some lethargic props to the fact that the kaiju footage here is edited in a very tight manner that leaves out everything but the highlights of these kaiju fights
-Ok, the Space Women are just plain dorky...they make me think of Reading Rainbow/The Magical School Bus...basically they're something you'd see on PBS
-God those anime scenes suck monkey balls...if those monkey balls were full of LSD
-So this finishes up the Showa series proper...I'm in a minority here but I'd rather watch most of these films than any Godzilla film...yep, I said it. The Showa Gamera films are more fun than most Godzilla movies, the Hesei Gamera films are better made. Gamera the Brave is a solid mix of the two.
-I'm going to try really hard not to watch this film ever again
-Ok, I changed my mind...I DO hate this film...but not as much as I hate Final Wars or Megaguirus..