The fight scenes are important - Capt. Marvel essentially brawls and wrassles when he fights, like every other Hollywood hero of his era; the fight scenes in "Evil Brain" are brief, well-choreographed dances; this actually makes it more advanced than similar American films of the period, and for this reason worth seeing at least once for all Martial arts fans. Details Edit. Release date January 21, United States. Japan United States. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 18 minutes. Black and White.
Related news. Apr 29 WeAreMovieGeeks. Feb 24 Corona's Coming Attractions. After the dispiriting slumps of the third title in the series, Attack from Space , I was starting to worry that I had already mined the Super Giant films for all of the entertainment value they could easily provide. The initial Saturday morning cartoon charm of the superhero Starman and his powers-providing wrist watch, the globe meter, had started to wear a little thin and without a worthwhile villain to thwart, the intergalactic buffoonery felt entirely flat.
Thankfully, the concluding film in the series, Evil Brain from Outer Space returned the Starman saga to its batshit insane heights and reminded me of what I found so entertaining in the first place. A council of space alien peacekeepers on the Emerald Planet deploy Starman to prevent nuclear war on Earth. Balazar is an evil genius from the planet Zomar, the most brilliant mind in the universe. He is promptly assassinated, but his brain is kept alive and operating in a transportable briefcase.
Come to think of it, it also seems to be the same secret headquarters as the one where the Super Germ was being developed. Maybe the Evil Brain just shops at Ikea. So Kuroda and Sakurai pour their formula over Balazar's Brain - which looks suspiciously like the Super Germ, hmmmmmm - and it expires. Or the guy underneath the table stops working the air bladder, which is more likely. The end. To the good: the production values are reasonably high in Evil Brain - this was the period in Japanese superheroics where the director threw as many henchmen as possible at the hero, and Starman usually seems to have a staggering twenty or more men arrayed against him at any one time.
The sets are good, and the Bat monster is cool. To the bad: Starman is indestructible, which doesn't lead us to get very tense over these fights. Even when we are assured that the cobalt claws of the Bat monster can harm him, we're not too worried, as the elderly Sakurai got slashed by those same claws and survived.
And the title character is a no-show. Oompaloompa does all his talking for him, and when we finally see him, he just sits in his cake pan and takes his punishment like the recycled prop he is.
We are used to evil brains with deep, echoing voices , at the very least. This villain is not particularly dynamic or charismatic Flying and leaping effects during the fight scenes are accomplished by dint of either running the film backwards, or my favorite having Starman and a monster jump up, cutting to a rapid swish pan, and them cutting to them landing in another spot.
Cheap and creative, and it almost works. Definitely not as twisted and entertaining as its delirious descendent, the wondrous Ultraman , the Starman movies represent, at best, a chance for one's brain to coast in neutral for a very long time.
For a more engaging experience for this genre, you would be well-advised to seek out Mystery Science Theater 's treatments of two very similar movies with different heroes: Prince of Space or Invasion of the Neptune Men.
At least these take the weight of making snide comments about the movie off your shoulders, enabling you to slip more quickly into that all-important REM sleep. Bartender: More brains all 'round. My God. What can you actually say about Starman, aka Super Giant?
To say that I was ill-prepared is to overstate the obvious. The Helpful Narrator continues: They have learned that Balazar's Brain already is secretly on Earth, to command the Zimarian spies and saboteurs.
This is, naturally, Starman. Who is Starman, you might ask? I'm already quite late with this review, so let me just provide you with a list of my notes, instead of my usual shyeah, right cogent prose: The dubbed script tries to give the impression that Balazar's Brain and its minions are moving toward a sort of "zero hour" for their global coup d'etat. The truth is, this attack starts over and over again - and the first time, it's apparently our bat-faced friend doing all the heavy lifting, in a horrid display of stock footage and bad miniature work.
Hopefully he crushed his nads and is removed from the gene pool. Four stars for the awfullness of it all. The other three get five.
Reviewer: picfixer - favorite favorite favorite - May 27, Subject: Frontal lobe mayhem Of the three Starman adventures I've seen, this romp has the most disjointed plot, which I assume is the result of cramming together two episodes. And while the production values are good, they aren't at the level of the first two movies. However these things are more than compensated for by having outrageous monsters - demon mutants out of Japanese nightmares.
Of course Starman is still up to his hilariously impossible antics. So forget about trying to make sense out of the plot, and enjoy the ride. Reviewer: billbarstad - favorite favorite favorite - May 25, Subject: Kabuki! The council on the planet Emerald is again concerned that radiation emanating from Earth will pollute the universe, so Starman is sent to stop Balisar's brain from conquering Earth, meant to be preparatory to a nuclear attack from his home planet, Zeemar.
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