Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0702727006425
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: ADV Films
Languages: EnglishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0JapaneseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: ADV Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ADV Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 18, 2003
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: ADV Films
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1997

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Gamera, Japan's favorite jet-propelled giant flying turtle, was Daiei's child-friendly answer to Toho's Godzilla franchise. This decidedly juvenile staple of the 1960s became a modest success, but those early features, with cut-rate special effects and gooey child stars, rate little beyond camp nowadays. With such a legacy, his 1995 rebirth Gamera, Guardian of the Galaxy, is a delightful surprise. Now taking over the franchise, Toho comes through with an old-fashioned giant monster adventure in candy colors with excellent special effects and an attitude that straddles serious science fiction and outrageous spectacle. Gamera, still a hero of the people, is given a mythic back-story and a foe of apocalyptic dimensions, the flying people-eating lizard Gyaos that the government, in all its misguided wisdom, decides to protect while attacking the misunderstood Gamera. There's romance (featuring the best come-on line ever: "Someday I'd like to show you around a monster-free Tokyo"), bureaucratic satire, and a well-meaning environmental message, but that's all gravy to the movie's meat: giant monsters battling it out in the traditional Tokyo war zone, laying waste to acres of lovingly detailed miniatures. That's what Japanese monster movies are all about. --Sean Axmaker

Description:
A plan to dump radioactive waste at sea is disrupted when a mysterious atoll appears at the dumping location. That atoll proves to be something altogether different when hideous flying reptiles, the Gyaos, attack a nearby island-and the atoll rises from the sea. It is Gamera! The super turtle combats both a misguided military and the man-eating Gyaos, with help from a courageous naval officer, an intrepid ornithologist and a beautiful young psychic. Don't miss the most incredible slam-bang, knock-down monster slug-fest ever as Gamera turtle-waxes the evil Gyaos through downtown Tokyo in GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE!




Rating: - Gamera 95 still going..........
One of the best 90's Gamera film. Gamera is link thru a little girl. Gayos returns with a atitude. Great fight scenes, and not so boring. Like Gamera 2&3. You could now buy this in a double pack with Destroy all Monsters. Gamera the brave is being release 10/17/08 another great film. Japanese giants rules!

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Rating: - This movie has EVERYTHING!
The flying turtle! The battle with Gayos! Giant bird poo! Stomping on buildings! And never ride the train in Tokyo because.. the train always gets destroyed! Gamera always gets a little sloppy, and oops! There goes another building! I'm running out of exclamation points!!!

I was a fan of these films when I was a kid, and it took me by suprise that there was a remake in the 90's. I picked up the boxed set and was pleasantly surprised to find that they kept the man-in-the-suit look, ... Read More

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Rating: - Return of The Kaiju
Mega-turtle Gamera sleeps in the deep and is summoned forth by a girl who retains a sympathetic connection through a comma-shaped rock pendant, to do battle with an old enemy in Gyaos, the monster pterodactyl who feasts on human beings. Gamera's whereabouts are divulged when a team of oceanographers discover an island which conceals a mystical megalith encribed with actual Futhark runes, describing the prophesy of the monsters returning when the world is in perceived environmental peril.*

The ... Read More

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Rating: - a new turtle
After years of not being on Shuesko kaneko decided to direct a brand new gamera series(Yeah!)In the beggining a giant rock is in the middle of the ocean.A man is in a store looking for food for a man when a young japense girl named asangi is the mans daughter.so they dig up some of the rock and an ancient stone is inside of it.At japan mutant bats/birds are attacking japan.

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Rating: - The More Mature Gamera
This first in the trilogy pits Gamera against his long time and fan favorite foe Gyaos. The Gamera series takes a more mature tone and drops the childish themes the series was originally known for. This movie along with the following two focuses on adults and has nothing to do with children. Good film with excellent storyline and acting. This probably has the weakest special effects out of the trilogy, but that doesn't mean that the fx are terrible, quite the opposite, the special fx are amazing, nothing extremely ... Read More

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