K08 - Gamera vs. Guiron

Observation: At the very end of the episode, Josh breaks character as Gypsy and you can hear his normal voice giggling.

Movie Description: For the fifth movie in a row it's Gamera! Giant turtle from space(?) that battles other large monster things. In this case, it's Guiron a large dog/lizard thing with a ginormous blade for a head. He slices, dices, and makes fillets out of two episode's ago's monster Gaos. Of course, Gamera and the monsters by this point in the series are getting less and less screen time as the majority of the movie is taken up with the adventures of Kenny and Tom, two little boys that get transported to another planet and get chased around and tortured by two incompetent evil alien types. In the end, they have a fight, Gamera wins. Particle Man.

Movie Review: When I first started to try and watch the Gamera movies, I thought they were absolute rubbish, I think in part because this was the first one I saw. Lordy this sucks. "Gamera vs. Guiron" has the worst dubbing I have ever heard, or am likely to hear. Instead of changing the dialogue the three voice actors in this movie just. Take. Long.

Pauses in between each and every sentence to keep the time up. It's awful. It also doesn't help that the villains and the main characters moms sound exactly the same. Matter of fact, all the sound in this movie blows. The music is terrible, and repeats constantly, the sound effects are the same. To make matters worse, the action isn't even cool in that goofy monster movie way, its just dumb and boring. (Note: To establish how I rate this, much as I hated this movie, it gets two out of ten for the simple fact that its in focus, and, dumb as it is, its plot is coherent. Later MSTied films won't have this advantage)
2/10

Sketches: Nothing much to talk about here. The show's starting to find its rhythm. The mads appear in the first segment, and there's no more voice mails. It does feature the first ever song sung during the sketches and its mostly incoherent. About the only other thing of note is that in the second segment, Crow and the mads switch places in kind of a weird preview of "Last of the Wild Horses" in about six seasons. Also, they make a Dan Quayle joke. Gets my nostalgia meter going.
3/10

Riffing: Solid, but not nearly as uproarious as the previous episode. I think these Gamera movies were starting to wear on them, so good thing that there isn't any left. I mean, how many times can you be clever about two guys hammering at each other on fake looking sets? Especially when half-way through the movie shows about ten minutes of clips from movies they've already riffed. Sad really.
Best riff: "Lawn dart!"
3/10

Overall: Meh. Even though I'm a fan of them, I'm just a little bit sick of Gamera movies by now, I just can't muster a lot of enthusiasm for them, or maybe just this one in particular. Instead of getting a goofy grin thinking of it, I just get kind of pissed off. Weird.
3/10

What I learned: Wars are just as bad as traffic accidents.