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Yog -- Monster From Space

G 1970 1h 24m Sci-Fi List
Reviews 37% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A photographer (Atsuko Takahashi), a reporter (Akira Kubo) and an industrial spy flee giant squids, crabs and turtles. Read More Read Less

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy The overall experience is rather more fascinatingly weird than dispiritingly tired, and that owes almost everything to the three big monsters. Rated: 6/10 Feb 1, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Just fun. You can tell this was made at the end of the big Toho Studios special effects boom. But it's still a lot of fun! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Ishiro Honda's first Kaiju film directed after the passing of Eiji Tsuburaya, "Space Amoeba" is one full-out non-Godzilla kaiju film. The fights and the kaiju stomping is done quite well by the junior staff members, but the human story is very dumb. And not enough drama. Skip over them to get to the good stuff. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Goofy and entertaining. The monsters are nice and plentiful and the story is decent. Dispite the posters and such, all 3 monsters never come near each other, but 2 do fight at the end once the alien looses control of them. It's fun and enjoying. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member A interesting idea with quite a lot of possibilities is unfortunately given short-thrift which pulls the carpet out from under the whole thing. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Another of Toho's wild-& woolly, wacky-&-wondrous Monster-Mashes, replete with lotsa' Giant-Rubber-Monster action in the Godzilla tradition. Hysterical hi-jinks ensue when some of the wildlife (A cuttlefish, sea crab, and a turtle-) on a tropical Pacific island are morphed into Bodacious-Battling-Behemoths after having been taken over by a maleficent alien intelligence. Of course, some Nipponese Nood-niks become marooned there and must contend with the-not-so-friendly local fauna as well as come up with a way to get rid of those pesky aliens! I prefer the title I originally saw it under, "Yog, Monster from Space". Great & goofy fun! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Meet Gezora, the ice-secreting cuttlefish kaiju; Ganime, the paparazzi-hating crab; and Kamoebas, the neck-extending turtle. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A photographer (Atsuko Takahashi), a reporter (Akira Kubo) and an industrial spy flee giant squids, crabs and turtles.
Director
Ishirô Honda
Rating
G
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
1h 24m