Wolff rating: SHOOT ME, PLEASE
Plot summary: Aliens with heads like metal baked hams and no dialog try to invade the world by using. . .I'm not sure.
Biased, pithy comments: This movie was repulsive, painful, and boring for nearly every minute. Besides being edited by a hyperactive three-year-old, it manages to be just plain confusing and hurtful by intercutting actual World War II bombing footage (including a building with Hitler's image on it) with the paper models in repetitive, violent footage. Not a single actor in the entire film has a character, even a sterotypical one-note kind, much less any charisma. There is a powerless superhero, a bunch of kids (who I *think* rescue the day, but I began to hate the film so much by the end I had stopped trying to track the plot), and a bunch of scientists who build some sort of bombing shield. I think this might have had some Jungian racial unconscious desire to relive the bombing of Tokyo and win somehow, but that makes it only something to be swept under the rug like a bad dream.
Other Notes: \MST. Even watching this with Mike and the 'bots wasn't fun---you could tell that the writers had run dry in zinging this film because there was so little there; no coherent script, no characters, only dry cliches and weird sexual undertones. After a while, you could feel the hatred they had for the film which poisoned the humorous mood. Of incomprehensibly bad films to see with the MST3K crowd, I wouldn't start here; I could barely watch it for more than about 10 minutes at a time.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Keppei Matsumoto, and some kids I wanted to die.
Directed by: Koji Ota