Attack from Space Year of Release: 1965 Director: Koreyoshi Akasaka, Teruo Ishii

	This old Japanese Sci-Fi film was created by editing together two short films. What it’s about: An evil race of aliens from the galaxy of Sapphire decides to invade earth and kidnap important scientists to help with their evil plans. Luckily earth has Starman on their side to help defeat the super evil aliens. The Verdict: This film is very budget, everything about it screams no money – even for the year it was made. Obviously after this thing was made and being dubbed into English they realised that it wouldn’t really make sense. So luckily for us we get a grand voice over, explaining to us everything happening, including pretty much everything that any character ever thinks at any point of the film. Thank you voice over guy! Without you I would have never known Starman’s motivation for flying through that planet’s fires (which now that I think about it – how has no one ever discovered a fiery planet in our solar system right by earth?). Oh, and what about the alien’s secret base on earth? Well a fake grave in a cemetery is the way down into their underground lair – the only thing is, it’s so big did they have to actually get rid of all the graves in this cemetery to build it? And also, despite the characters only going down a small amount of stairs, the underground lair opens up into a huge two story structure...how do they do it. That Starman must be something really special – he flies through space with an ordinary human girl – and she miraculously doesn’t suffocate from the lack of air! As if that’s not amazing enough, when he boards a spaceship in space somehow no air is lost from the ship – wow! What a guy! A very unintentionally funny film full of bad effects, bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad everything really. Quite fun to watch at times but it loses points for having a very long repetitive fight scene near the end, and long stetches of nothing much happening (such as Starman flying, for ages, doing nothing but flying). (2 and a 1/2 Craptastic Stars) Golden Craptastic moment: Starman. Yep, any moment with him is worth watching for. If his swift spin, while showing off his muscles, to change into costume before jumping out a window doesn’t impress you, then maybe his amazing fighting skills will. His ability to still knock down his opponents whilst clearly missing the punches just astounds me, as well as his ability to have time in between beating up baddies to stand and pose. What a true hero.
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