Evil Brain From Outer Space

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Audience Member Daring! Came out before I was born. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/10/24 Full Review Audience Member I readily admit that Ken Utsui's films as Starman from the mid-60's are a guilty pleasure. You get the strangest possible scenarios, and from the Cold War-era time of countries jockeying to be the first into manned space travel, when movies of this ilk were both a commercial gold-mine and slowly but surely getting a higher degree of intellectual and artistic sophistication (three years before its pinnacle, '2001: A Space Odyssey'). This is my second of his (to my knowledge) four times as the caped benevolent Starman, always sent from the Emerald Planet when Earth is threatened (not sure why, they must be extremely nice people). Here, the brain of a demented dictator survived and escaped to Earth, where he is able to gather forces and threaten the world with global domination. It's pointless to explain, but the fight scenes (which play out more like carefully choreographed dances) are worth watching the film simply in themselves, and it's good-naturedness, charm and Utsui's likability shine through, and make this endeavor well-worth checking out and discovering for yourself. I found mine in my Mill Creek 50-film pack, 'Nightmare Worlds' for a very low price, and it can be seen for free online. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I readily admit that Ken Utsui's films as Starman from the mid-60's are a guilty pleasure. You get the strangest possible scenarios, and from the Cold War-era time of countries jockeying to be the first into manned space travel, when movies of this ilk were both a commercial gold-mine and slowly but surely getting a higher degree of intellectual and artistic sophistication (three years before its pinnacle, '2001: A Space Odyssey'). This is my second of his (to my knowledge) four times as the caped benevolent Starman, always sent from the Emerald Planet when Earth is threatened (not sure why, they must be extremely nice people). Here, the brain of a demented dictator survived and escaped to Earth, where he is able to gather forces and threaten the world with global domination. It's pointless to explain, but the fight scenes (which play out more like carefully choreographed dances) are worth watching the film simply in themselves, and it's good-naturedness, charm and Utsui's likability shine through, and make this endeavor well-worth checking out and discovering for yourself. I found mine in my Mill Creek 50-film pack, 'Nightmare Worlds' for a very low price, and it can be seen for free online. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member another campy 'starman' adventure Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Three episodes of the Japanese "Starman" series edited into one incoherent story about an evil brain and his mutant army. Nonsensical but exciting; it's constant monsters and karate battles inside a plot that's impossible to follow (the supporting characters keep changing, and a narrator has to break in every now and then to explain who's who). Objectively, it's a terrible movie, but if you like this kind of camp it's a small treasure. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Evil Brain From Outer Space (AKA Starman) is another in a long line of Japanese B movies that spends most of its time being appalling and unwatchable. With a title like that, I was expecting a schlocky B movie about a talking evil brain with eyes on strings, attacking helpless people, but alas, the brain is more or less incapacitated and has almost no effect on the plot. Sure it summons monsters for Starman to fight, but the brain itself is pretty moot. I'm actually shocked that Mystery Science Theater 3000 didn't riff this during their original run, especially Joel, who riffed these kinds of movies all the time. Oh well, there's always Rifftrax or Cinematic Titanic to look forward to. Otherwise, you'll probably sleep through this boring mess of a movie. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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