12-31-2024, 01:00 AM
Ultraman Blazar the Movie: Tokyo Kaiju Showdown
This came out last year - a traditional Kaiju flick with stuntmen in rubber suits smashing intricate minuture sets. It's wild, totally cheesey, almost anime. There are some modern effects, animated tentacles, missile contrails, explosions, alien kaiju blood, but mostly it's guys in suits.
The first 20 mins or so were furious, like one of those 'previously' synopsis which I'm guessing came out of the 2023 TV series (there's 25 eps) which is somewhere on YouTube. That is condensed into the beginning, so many crazy Kaiju fights, so many quick clips, i'ts exhausting. It settles into a more normal pace and follows a special team of five, SKaRD, short for the Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment, and they have a AI Gojirra-like mecha. Then there's Blazar, one of the Ultramen. The Kaiju are cool - dopey super powers but each one is a a cosplay masterpiece. Even Blazar's full battle incarnation is cool.
Best of all, there are two kids, and the most pivotal one is named Yuki. SPOILER ALERT Yuki becomes a Kaiju END SPOILER. I could see my dog doing just that.
Recommended for D00M Tokesatsu fans. I had a rollicking good time watching it, delighting in the homage to the genre.
Seen on Hoopla. Unfortunately, only the dub is available on Hoopla, but here, the dub is so ridonkulous that it might make it better.
This came out last year - a traditional Kaiju flick with stuntmen in rubber suits smashing intricate minuture sets. It's wild, totally cheesey, almost anime. There are some modern effects, animated tentacles, missile contrails, explosions, alien kaiju blood, but mostly it's guys in suits.
The first 20 mins or so were furious, like one of those 'previously' synopsis which I'm guessing came out of the 2023 TV series (there's 25 eps) which is somewhere on YouTube. That is condensed into the beginning, so many crazy Kaiju fights, so many quick clips, i'ts exhausting. It settles into a more normal pace and follows a special team of five, SKaRD, short for the Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment, and they have a AI Gojirra-like mecha. Then there's Blazar, one of the Ultramen. The Kaiju are cool - dopey super powers but each one is a a cosplay masterpiece. Even Blazar's full battle incarnation is cool.
Best of all, there are two kids, and the most pivotal one is named Yuki. SPOILER ALERT Yuki becomes a Kaiju END SPOILER. I could see my dog doing just that.
Recommended for D00M Tokesatsu fans. I had a rollicking good time watching it, delighting in the homage to the genre.
Seen on Hoopla. Unfortunately, only the dub is available on Hoopla, but here, the dub is so ridonkulous that it might make it better.
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