The riffing, meanwhile, is also solid, though not brilliant (the best line is Crow’s “Solipsism is its own reward”). So the movie here is above-average for MST3k. Quite honestly, if they came up with an alternative means to defeat Barugon, Gamera could have been excised entirely and the film wouldn’t have lost much (I don’t know what it says about the original Gamera films that the best of the lot could easily have been made without Gamera). One rather surprising aspect about the film is that Gamera himself is barely in it: he shows up for an opening sequence attacking a dam, then basically vanishes except for a brief encounter with Barugon until the climax. In short, this is an actually good Kaiju film the only one of the old Gamera series that I would place on par with the Godzilla movies of the time. The human characters are actually kind of interesting and I found myself getting caught up in the brisk, easy-to-follow storyline. A solid plot about a treasure-hunt gone bad anchors the human story while Barugon is as unique and imaginative a monster as Gamera was and makes for a creditable threat. The main reason for this is that it is the only film in the series to focus entirely upon adults: there are no children in this story. The second Gamera film is, by far, the best of the old series. (Yes, another long delay: hopefully things will go a little smoother now that I'm out of school) You are not strong enough to bear that load He set me on my feet and said “My friend,
He took his staff in hand and smiled to me That you are weary, leave to me my load.” I gathered them myself and so should bear My strength gave out, I sank unto the groundĬrushed and bruised under my load of stones He seemed half-blinded by his salty-sweat With grinding bones and trembling legs I walkīent-backed I leaned upon my spindly staffĪnd bent he walked, his hands upon a staff. And on my shoulders bore a load of stone.
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