GAMERA The Complete Collection
Turtle power
Let’s hear it for the original hero in a half-shell.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
RELEASED
17 AUGUST
1965-2006| 12| Blu-ray
Directors Noriaki Yuasa, Shigeo
Tanaka, Shusuke Kaneko, Ryuta Tasaki
BLU-RAY DEBUT Some box sets make star ratings near meaningless. This 12-movie Gamera collection includes some of the worst and some of the best monster movies ever made. You don’t even need to qualify that statement with “Japanese, suitmation monster movies” (which generally require some quality threshold recalibration). There are some cinematic travesties here, only entertaining as MST3K fodder, but also some absolute gems. Ludicrous, googly-eyed giant turtle Gamera himself remains consistently endearing throughout.