Return of the Giant Monsters - The Magic Serpent

Starring:Kojiro Hongo, Kichijiro Ueda, Naoyuki Abe, Reiko Kasahara, Taro Marui, Yukitaro Hotaru, Yoshiro Kitahara
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
The saga of Gamera continues, and his opponents keep getting weirder and wilder! It's the Return of the Giant Monsters when giant vampire bat Gaos squares off against everyone's favorite giant turtle, and in order to weaken the fearsome foe, humans devise a giant record turntable with a large vat of synthetic human blood! Then the rarely-seen Japanese fantasy The Magic Serpent combines samurai warriors and giant monsters, including the title beast, a dinosaur toad, and a gigantic flying spider. It's a monster marathon that's foot-stomping fun for the whole family!

Return of the Giant Monsters - The Magic Serpent
Average customer rating:

OPERATION WHIRLYBIRD!!! GAOS WAS ONE EVIL MONSTER. COME ON, I ADMIT IT, I NEED MY KAIJU FIX...............................

Turtles, flamethrowing frogs and more

Great Action, Bad Special Effects

THE ORIGINAL AIP VERSION

Gamera vs Gyaos + The Magic Serpent: Old-School Fun!

Return of the Giant Monsters - The Magic Serpent
Starring: Kojiro Hongo , Kichijiro Ueda , Naoyuki Abe , Reiko Kasahara , and Taro Marui
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00022PZ2O
Release Date: 2004-06-08

Description

The saga of Gamera continues, and his opponents keep getting weirder and wilder! It's the Return of the Giant Monsters when giant vampire bat Gaos squares off against everyone's favorite giant turtle, and in order to weaken the fearsome foe, humans devise a giant record turntable with a large vat of synthetic human blood! Then the rarely-seen Japanese fantasy The Magic Serpent combines samurai warriors and giant monsters, including the title beast, a dinosaur toad, and a gigantic flying spider. It's a monster marathon that's foot-stomping fun for the whole family!

Customer Reviews:

OPERATION WHIRLYBIRD!!! GAOS WAS ONE EVIL MONSTER. COME ON, I ADMIT IT, I NEED MY KAIJU FIX......................................2007-05-18

Like alot of other people in there late 30s early 40s, I remember seeing "Return Of The Giant Monsters" on the 4:30 movie a few times in the 1970s. This film was originally released during Kaijus golden years in Japan on March 15th,1967. This movie is far out there and really wild. Even though there are miniatures and rubber suits used, Gaos was a well desighned monster and really an evil one. I must admit as a kid watching "Return Of The Giant Monsters" I really felt the evil of Gaos. As a child I cheered like hell for Gamera to kick this vampire bats backside. There is a moral story with this movie about over land development, kind of the trend in 1960s Godzilla movies at the time. As Gaos kicks the big Gs but in the beginning of the film, Gamera the giant turtle saves the day, Gamera demolishes Gaos at the end when we see pink blood spurting from Gaos. This film was out there and really my favorite out of all the Gamera movies. Miniatures and rubber suits aside, "Return of the Giant Monsters" is a well thought out low budget production. I really feel "Return of the Giant Monsters" was a well done, very creative monster movie, despite very limited special effects. The musical score in this movie by classical musical composer Tadashi Yamauchi, is incredible and really goes with the movie well, and has stayed with me well after I saw this movie 30+ years ago. I don't know what it is, but people like myself that are in there late 30s, early 40s kind of like watching people in rubber suits destroying fake cites. I guess it was the in thing for children, teenagers, at the time in the mid 1970s, remember these movies were watched before Star Wars revolutionized sci-fi movies forever in 1977. The 16mm print transferred to dvd is not a great print, but is alot better than what we saw on tv in the 1970s. Operation Whirlybird and sythetic human blood translates to alot of fun, you may have out grown "Return of the Giant Monsters" but it is still alot of fun to watch...............

Turtles, flamethrowing frogs and more.......2006-10-17

Return Of The Giant Monsters has Gamera fighting Gaos, a giant vampire bat, released from the Earth by active volcanos. Blood, forest fires and greedy village people. Great fun.
But that's not all. On this disc is another movie - The Magic Serpent. Samurai, giant monsters, magic, ninja, headless bodies, romance, Noble families and so much more. This is the movie that any MST3K fan would be proud to watch. Or any fan of monster movies or Samurai movies. It's just got everything.
In the end this is a must for any fan of Japanese movies.

Great Action, Bad Special Effects.......2005-03-27

Fake special effects!! But hey, its good ol` Gamera battling a human-eating bat named Gaos to save the world. Gamera is now fully the good guy and Gaos is perhaps the most evil monster with the most battles against Gamera. Good movie!

THE ORIGINAL AIP VERSION.......2004-08-17

It should be noted that this is the original AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL version
and not the mediocre SANDY FRANK version from the 1980s.

Gamera vs Gyaos + The Magic Serpent: Old-School Fun!.......2004-08-10

I remember watching "Return of the Giant Monsters," aka "Gamera vs Gyaos" when I was much younger. I loved every minute of it, because it was so "out-there," so nutty and contrived that I was foaming at the mouth with its kaiju-goodness. Now, I've found a movie that tops it: "The Magic Serpent."
I am very grateful to Retromedia for releasing both of these movies on DvD (and the Magic Serpent especially, because you probably won't find it anywhere else), because they are both such sheer campy fun that they would HAVE to be on the same DvD.
What's great about these films is that they aren't "good" per-say, but they aren't supposed to be. They're supposed to be FUN. People who criticize these movies for being cheaply made and poorly dubbed basically have nothing better to do with their time. It's pointless to really criticize these movies unless you're a real kaiju-fan and know about this kind of stuff. But even with the critical eye of the fanboy (or fangirl), these flicks are hard to nitpick about because they are so...much...fun!
The only thing keeping this movie from getting higher marks is the fact that there's nothing else on the disc besides a scene selection and Retro's website. Plus, the quality of the print is pretty bad, but that's to be expected, these being such old films, and Retro probably having limited resources.
I highly recommend this DvD to anyone who is a fan of good-'ol giant monster rampages, or to anyone who is looking to introduce children to the kaiju genre (but not before a few Godzilla movies).

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