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Gamera 3 - Revenge of Iris Director: Shusuke Kaneko Number of Items: 1 Format: Color Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2003-06-10 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 30 Average rating: 4.5 "Great Addition to the Classic "Godzilla" movies" My kid is 6 yrs old, and didn't get weened on the old B&W Godzilla Classics the way I did. So I was very excited to see such how quality movies being offered in DVD color. I was not disappointed, my son loved it. "Freakin Cool!" I cant help but realize how real the stuff looks in here! the monster designs are nicely detailed and the actors and actress performed well, I like the part when Gamera sacrafices his right arm and kills Irys. THis Kaiju movie deserves a 5 for being fun to watch. "Visceral poetry, a humbling masterpiece" I'm a hard boiled Godzilla fan who couldn't stand the VHS dubbed Gamera: Gaurdian of the Universe, but I wanted to give the original Japanese audio a shot, so I bought the whole DVD trilogy. Gamera III: The Awakening of Iris is a Kaiju film beyond compare. Screenwriter Kazunori Ito does for kaiju cinema what he did for anime with his adaption of "Ghost in the Shell." And Director Shusuke Kaneko composes an elegant master's thesis of a film. This movie rises above other films in general with its themes of heroism, sense of duty, anger and hate, and courage to fight when no one else can or will. The film is constantly haunted with the question of whether or not Gamera is really a hero, after seeing his destructive, life taking battle in Shibuya. This Gamera is a darker, battle weary reptile rather than the campy cult hero that is "friend to all children." Many kaiju fans complain there is too little monster action in the movie, and it is true that the monster fights are few and far between, but the fights impacts are meant to be more than just food for the action hungry. The brawls while short are perfect and brutal and clever in every way, and they are most importantly stunning. Gamera doesn't have lines to convey his feelings and thoughts, he has action scenes, he has movement, he has decisions that show his real character. This movie is very adult, it is heavy and philisophical, and very articulate. I am faulted when watching kaiju films because I always want a grand finale, a Death Star blowing up if you will, but even though Gamera's climactic duel was not the drawn out slug fest I had hoped for, it blew me away. Gamera III ends on a haunting and humbling note that reminds us all that sometimes it takes a monster to show us the more venerable qualities of humanity. ~ Bo Bradshaw "Excellent monster movie" This movie is an excellent Japanese monster movie. The effects in this film are very well developed. This latest entry in the new Gamera franchise is loaded with eye-popping monster mayhem. The mix of live and model scenes are excellent and not nearly as transparent as some of the other monster movies of the late 90's. The story is decent and can carry you through the movie without too many cringes. The DVD mastering is excellent with top notch video and audio. The Outakes are priceless as you watch an old Japanese man inviting a scientist to "come on down and have some chicken and grits" while his wife hacks at a dead Gyaos. "Bad Movie and Bad DVD....." The picture is grainy and the dubbing stinks. The DVD extras are non-existent, and the effects stink. It's a monster film from Japan, so of course it will look fake and be terrible.