with the rise popularity of the now iconic godzilla series and like with any hit cinema event and there be inevitably go to be a crowd of imitator try to cash in on the success on the big lizard . with godzilla come the dawn of a rise popularity of the kaiju ( giant monster ) genre . many seek after success while a few gain it . one of the few that not only profited and but garner popularity be gamera and a giant turtle that could breathe fire in and out and fly by spew flame from the socket in his carapace a a mean of jet propulsion . but unlike godzilla and gamera be market a a friend to all child and later fight other monster to save kid in peril and and thus gamera become very popular amongst the kiddy . unfortunately and that about the only audience mainstream that the original gamera series will have any appeal to . while the new gamera movie direct by shusuke kaneko be marvelous and revolutionary monster movie and the original series and include the original and be nothing special . the first gamera movie and title in japan a the giant monster gamera be clearly a godzilla want to be . even though the movie be produce in the era of color film and it be shoot in black and white . why . to imitate the first godzilla movie from the 1950s . gamera also attack tokyo . because godzilla attack tokyo in the first movie . i do not know much about the japanese version and for the version i be familiar with the americanized version and where scene be cut and new footage with american actor be insert ( be it coincidence that the same thing happen with the first godzilla film . ) now whether this add or take away from the film and i can not say . but gammera the invincible be really nothing more than a ponderous bore that just plod along like the big turtle himself . gammera the invincible be a very routine orientate movie . the character be from a stock of science fiction standard and the story be inane and the monster have no real motive for attack civilization and the acting be laughable and and so on and so forth . the only thing that differentiate it from the godzilla series be the end of the movie and but that also a detractor since the plan that eventually halt gamera rampage be completely phony and ridiculous . now the rest of the movie and many other entry in this genre also fit that description and but this be a direfully stodgy monster movie . and although shusuke kaneko would later transform gamera into an interesting monster with his trilogy in the 1990s and in the original series and gamera be not an attractive screen presence . he be neither scary nor sympathetic . he just waddle around like a toddler and sway with each step and and knock miniature set over . a usual and everybody want to destroy gamera except for a little kid ( yoshio uchida who be lazily leave out of the credit though he play a central role ) who think gamera be a nice turtle . most movie in the genre that gammera the invincible be a part of be easy target for criticism and this one be subject to extra pressure . even in the company of many other godzilla imitator and this gamera film be not a particularly good entry . and as far a my cinema experience go and the rest of the movie in the series be either just a boring or bad . like godzilla and gamera would be film in color and go on to fight monster . and like godzilla and he would get cheap and cheap with every film until it be time to revive the series and make him serious again . it peculiar . usually i recommend people to stick with the original and pas on the remake . but in the case of gamera and my verdict be just the opposite . i strongly encourage people to watch the 1990s gamera trilogy direct by shusuke kaneko and to skip over the original series unless interested . the new film be inventive and well make and exciting and and above all and fun . the original series be a long stream of boredom .