Invaders from Space (1965)

Boring

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Out of the four films edited together from the Japanese television series, this one is by far the best. While the costumes look fairly basic in places, there are also frequent moments where the costume design suitably capture the overall creepy atmosphere of the film. The sound works well in helping to establish atmosphere, and while a traditional story structure still isn't possible due to being formed from multiple TV episodes, there is an overall plot and several cases of setting up a climax that actually pays off. An additional bonus is there seems to have been more effort into creating the fight scenes, with better choreography and better editing, giving a more convincing appearance than the usual festival of minions throwing a punch, missing and consequently falling over.In conclusion, if you're going to watch the Starman films, watch this one last. Otherwise the others will not live up to expectation!

This movie is so corny that its fun, watching starman beat the shait out of every salamender man (i am going to call them that) is pretty fun, the story is, meh, but the action is well paced and pretty good to be honest, a must watch if you are intrested in corny action

More butt-kicking action from Japanese superhero Starman, once again cobbled together from two episodes (three and four) of the 1950s television series SUPERGIANT. This time around the super-fast paced antics involve the invasion of Earth by a race of evil salamander men (!) who use cool-looking UFOs to send sound waves down to Earth and kill people, spread a deadly disease capable of destroying the human race within days, and of course go around kidnapping kids and scientists. Starman spends the film rescuing those kidnapped and fighting off the Salamander Men by using some acrobatic manoeuvres! It appears that the producers had hired a troupe of acrobatics for filming of this material, as lengthy scenes are set in a theatre showing a kooky dance routine (mind-boggling, it really is) and later many of the fight scenes involve silly flips and jumps through the air for no other reason. Is this really how aliens fight?Any plot exposition seems to have been wiped out other than cursory introductions, leaving a movie that brims over with action, action, and more action. Sadly, the fight scenes seem more like dancing than fighting and are of a lesser quality than in the previous ATOMIC RULERS OF THE WORLD. Still, Starman packs a wallop, and the aliens themselves are a well-designed menace with imaginative-looking and creative makeup, turnip-headed demons if they indeed are! The supporting characters are the usual stiff moustachioed scientists and the obnoxiously annoying children, including the resident child with pigtails and glasses. Why do they never die in these films? Action is what INVADERS FROM SPACE offers and, even if the special effects are not quite up to the task, it certainly entertains on this front. Highlights include kids hanging from ropes over pits of burning acid; Starman chasing a killer UFO through the skies and kicking the reptile backsides of those inside; genuinely disturbing laughing human/alien hybrids, looking like the Joker; an alien exploding underwater (!); dozens of fight scenes, weirdo alien bases in the swamps, even some extraterrestrial action is thrown in to keep things fresh and exciting. Watch out for the wacky High Council at the beginning of the film, complete with bizarro aliens and weirdo robots, and watch in amazement as Starman spends most of the film flying through the air – his feet barely touch the ground in this adventure. Senseless fun the way we like it – and a production designed just so that you can say "they don't make 'em like this anymore".

In 1965, American audiences were given the treat of seeing the Star Man trilogy in "Attack From Space", "Invaders From Space" and "Evil Brain From Outer Space". In each, the Emerald Planet (filled with silly but benevolent weirdos) sends the super-hero Star Man to Earth to fight off an invasion by hostile forces--or just to get rid of him because he looked so silly. Star Man is Ken Utsui--a Japanese guy in a body suit with an antennae on top of his head as well as a cape! I am pretty sure he must have felt ridiculous in this getup. However, ANYONE appearing in these films should have felt pretty silly, as they are amazingly bad--at least in their confusing English-dubbed versions. Originally, they were part of some TV series called "Super Giant" ("Sûpâ Jaiantsu").In this installment, the Salamander People are trying to wipe out the humans with some sort of virus. It's not a terrible idea for a plot. However, it turns out that the virus is disbursed by a modern dance troop of aliens performing in Japan!! Watching their hysterical gyrations and acrobatics is pretty funny. But they must stop both Star Man and Dr. Fukami--and spend most of the film trying to kill or brainwash the pair. Can the Earth possibly be spared? And, does anyone out there even care?! The film abounds with Star Man and the Salamander People doing somersaults and flips instead of actually fighting. I must say, they were quite athletic and talented--that is, until they tried acting or fighting. Then, it was just dreadful. However, the film, like the other two, is so amazingly bad and silly that it might be worth seeing if you are a bad movie addict and love laughing at ineptness. This certainly qualifies as inept!