This is a good, definitely 90ish monster movie alternative to the TOHO stable. As with TOHO movies in those years, screenplay writers often re-invent the origin of the main characters ( Godzilla from hero, to villain and Ghidorah from villain to hero; king Caesar from hero to villain etc ). Here Gamera is the safeguard byproduct of some long lost atlantean civilization lost to its previous genetic engineering experiment gone bad: Gyaos the giant, cannibal bird eating human beings ( a rip-off of Toho's Radon ). The rest has already been seen a dozen times. Cute teenager develops a psychic bond with Gamera to sustain its fighting; pretty ornithologist is dispatched to first identify, then capture the Gyayos (or Gaos ). There are a bunch of Gaos, but some are killed by Gamera, some eat each other and the overgrown, last one is finally destroyed by Gamera. SFX are good & 90ish. Acting isn't bad & the equilibrium of the plot must be emphasized. Unlike many other monster movies, there is equilibrium & no time is wasted with unneeded subplots, bond movie spoofs and pretentious character development. Definitely a movie you can watch twice in a row.
Review of Gamera, the Guardian of the Universe
