“Gamera: Super Monster” is the last film in the original run of the “Gamera” film series. This one shouldn’t really count because it’s little more than a glorified clip show. It uses stock footage from many of the previous “Gamera” movies. Almost half of this film must be recycled from the previous entries in the franchise. The new content is generally unimpressive with some horrendous special effects. It’s definitely easy to make the comparison with “Godzilla’s Revenge”, which also relied heavily on stock footage.

An evil alien force is out to attack the Earth. The aliens summon an array of giant monsters and Gamera must defeat them all to keep the world safe. There are also a group of good aliens that dress like low-budget superheroines.

Gamera looks fine in the stock footage scenes but the new footage of Gamera looks absolutely terrible. We see many other monsters in this movie including Gyaos, Guiron and Zigra. Sadly, this is all through stock footage so if you’ve seen the previous films, you won’t see anything new. The good aliens are pretty lousy. I don’t really get what they do and how they help Gamera. As usual, there is also a young child that is cheering Gamera on the whole time.

In a way, “Gamera: Super Monster” is satisfying because there is a lot of monster action here but the fact is, it’s all old footage. It maybe more convenient to sit through just this one film than sitting through the rest of the franchise but if you have seen the older films, this just feels like watching a clip show. Other scenes feel like they are trying to be a rip-off of “Star Wars” while other scenes feel a lot like a cheap imitation of “Superman: The Movie”. There is a great gag though when a poster of Godzilla gets knocked over.