Who Wears Short Shorts?

Bucs1960

What is with those disgusting little shorts that all those irritating children in Japanese films wear? Maybe it makes it easier for them to run, which you should do when this film is shown.

It's another one of those "take over the earth (or Japan)" movies with the invaders under the false assumption that they can conquer an entire planet with 7 or 8 ineffective robots (or whatever they were) led by a person with a CD through his head. They never seem to have a plan except to make a lot of threats that they can't carry out. And they are so easily foiled that it makes "Plan 9" look militarily intricate.

This movie puts "Prince of Space" on the Academy Award list of nominees. This is the worst, the pits, the nadir of all film making, even for Japan. The story?.....well, it's a take-over which comes to an end by the intervention of....ta da...Space Chief!!! What the hell kind of name is that? He never even goes out in space and he 'aint the chief of anything. He resembles the Prince of Space from the film "Usei Oji", in that his weapon is a grill lighter, he jumps around with a white hanky around his face, pilots a turkey baster and is a "wispy bachelor". The funniest thing in the film (and there are a lot of pretty funny scenes) is the Hitler building....that's what you get when you use stock footage that is WWII vintage.

The kids with the little shorts have voices that belong on The Sopranos and they run, constantly run, run, run....and pretty soon they have all the adults running too. They also seem to have top secret clearance. What irritating little brats they are......why is one of them always named Kenny?

The Japanese need to re-assess their film industry; at least their sci-fi and horror genres. It doesn't get any worse than this. If you want to talk about it further, I'll meet you at the Hitler building for a cup of saki.

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Bucs1960 19 March 2003

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0075726/