{"id":34267,"date":"2021-09-11T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T23:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34267"},"modified":"2021-09-11T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T23:55:58","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-691","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/09\/11\/belated-movie-reviews-691\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And I’m being informed that Rolly the Ghostly Red Octopus<\/strong> was never paid for her role in this Shakespearean drama, because, you know, <\/em>Shakespeare<\/u>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Gamera 2: Attack Of Legion<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1996) is a step back in the progression of the Gamera<\/em> franchise. In our last breathless episode<\/a>, you’ll remember, it was clear that the producers had come into a few extra bucks, which they spent mostly on the scriptwriters and the actors, with just a couple of extra dollars invested in the special effects. The result was a story that felt more adult and less silly than the average Gamera episode up to this point.<\/p>\n

In the current episode, I fear the story is a little less interesting. Part of the problem is the reversion to a space-based monster, Legion<\/em>, which is basically a giant insect with a tremendous swarm of electricity-sucking, mosquito-like children. There’s some chemistry involved in their birth and eating habits, but it didn’t add to the tension. The acting was maybe a little worse, and definitely not a further upgrade. For those who remember the character Asagi Kusanagi, the girl with the connection to Gamera in Gamera: Guardian of the Universe<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, she makes an appearance, maybe acting as a communications conduit for a pack of children to beg Gamera to wake up and fight, but it’s a triviality: we could have had the kids throw rocks at the giant turtle with equal dramatic effect.<\/p>\n

It is true that the storytellers reveal one more Gamera capability after he (she? it? – do bioweapons – see previous episode – have a gender?) has been utterly skewered by laser beams, but this had the repulsive taste of a deux ex machina,<\/em> and not a legitimate plot machination.<\/p>\n

So, two guys in rubber suits have a tussle. Watch out for the kids, who make gory messes out of a few humans. My sense of More improvements?<\/em> was disappointed. Yours may be, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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