what that there in the sky . be it a plane . be it superman . errr and no it a turtle . see and that what become of the cold war . nothing but bad news and other issue . the american shoot down a russian combat plane somewhere over artic territory and the subsequent explosion defrosts and literally awaken the giant prehistoric turtle creature name gammera . he or she be not a very friendly critter a it promptly ensue to destroy everything and everyone on it path . the argue government finally decide to kill the ugly bastard with a brand new and super sophisticated ice bomb and but gammera have another surprise in store the damn turtle can fly . the first time this happen result in a tremendously grotesque and hilarious sequence . gammera lie on his back look defeat when suddenly fire blow from his armpit and he skyrocket himself up in the air . how can you not love that . then there also a dire sub plot about an annoy kid who able to telepathically communicate with the monster and but that just not interesting enough . fly turtle and people . there very little else to write about this japanese ( and american re edit ) sci fi effort and apart from that it an obvious and totally shameless rip off of such classic like the original godzilla and the beast from 20 . 000 fathom . the effect and monster design be extremely hokey and and unlike the aforementioned film and it never succeed in create an apocalyptic ambiance . respectable actor like brian donlevy ( the quatermass experiment ) and dick oneill ( wolfen ) seem unaware of what film set theyre on and even the original japanese mayhem scene aren not very convince . gammera very own and personalized theme song be rather cool and though and so it get one extra point for that .