Space Amoeba

1971 "An alien aiming for the Earth transforms monsters to attack!"
5.4| 1h24m| G| en| More Info
Released: 09 June 1971 Released
Producted By: TOHO
Country: Japan
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When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.

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Director

Ishirō Honda

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Woodyanders Alien spores hitch a ride on an unmanned space probe and go to Earth. The parasitic life forms crash land on an island and cause a squid, a crab, and a snapping turtle to grow to giant size. Director Ishiro Honda, working from a compelling script by Ei Ogawa, relates the engrossing story at a brisk pace, makes fine use of the exotic tropical setting, maintains a serious tone throughout, and stages a fierce climactic beast bash between the crab and the turtle with rip-roaring aplomb. The sound acting from the capable cast rates as another substantial asset, with especially commendable contributions from Akiro Kubo as likable photographer Taro Kudo, the adorable Atsuko Takahashi as the perky Ayako Hoshino, Kenji Sahara as cynical opportunist Makoto Obata, and Noritake Saito as traumatized native Rico. Moreover, the filmmakers warrant further praise for playing the wild premise completely straight, with no silly humor or an annoying subplot involving a cutesy kid. The special effects are quite colorful and impressive. Taiichi Kankura's sumptuous widescreen cinematography gives the picture an attractive vibrant look. Veteran composer Akiro Ifekube comes through with a typically robust and rousing full-bore orchestral score. A nifty creature feature.
ferbs54 My fellow Trekkers who rent Ishiro Honda's 1970 offering, "Space Amoeba," expecting to see an 11,000-mile-long, single-celled organism on the order of the one shown in the classic "Immunity Syndrome" episode may be a bit disappointed here. Rather, the sparkling hive colony in this film that attaches itself to Earth's unmanned Helios 7 rocket, en route to Jupiter, is comparatively teeny, but still capable of causing major-league mishegas nonetheless. This space hive causes the Earth rocket to crashland in the Pacific and proceeds to transform a squid, a crab and a turtle into some giant monsters, respectively Gezora, Ganime and Kamoeba. Good thing that a Japanese biologist, a photographer, an industrial spy AND the obligatory pretty girl all happen to be convening on nearby Selgio Island to explore a future resort area.... Anyway, this Honda monster bash is a mixed blessing at best. While Gezora looks pretty cool lumbering about on his tentacles, his fellow monstrosities are fairly lame, and the seemingly inevitable dukeout between two of them may be the dullest in the history of the kaiju eiga. The film grows increasingly loopy as it proceeds, and the final 1/3, conflating bats, a native marriage ceremony and a deus-ex-machina volcano, is quite bizarre. Fortunately, the photography of the island looks great, longtime Honda collaborator Akira Ifukube provides another rousing score, and FX man Sadamasa Arikawa dishes out some interesting visuals, especially his outer space shots and the "amoeba" itself. (Sadly, his giant monsters are not equal to those of an earlier Honda colleague, Eiji Tsuburaya.) All in all, the film is an undeniably fun mixed bag that should just manage to please fans of the genre. Oh...a great-looking DVD here, thanks to the fine folks at Media Blasters' Tokyo Shock unit.
rstef1 An unmanned space capsule plummets back to earth carrying an unwelcome visitor in the form of a glowing, amoeba-like invader. In short order, the alien menace inhabits a cuttle fish (a type of squid), a turtle and a crab. Naturally as this is a kaiju, the animals grow to enormous size and attack a small tropical island where our heroes are planning to build a luxury hotel. Bad choice. Happily, mother nature has a secret weapon against the invaders, sonic waves created by dolphins and bats, which are plentiful on the island.As the 70's dawned, director Ishiro Honda wanted to do something different from the Godzilla movies and this was it. On the plus side, it is really different and I felt the monsters were well done. Also, the remote island setting is effective and there are some impressive special effects, along with a terrific musical score by Akira Ifukube. The version in the original Japanese is much better than the dubbed version and adds to the fun. If you like to watch terrified people battling enormous creatures made of rubber (I confess I get a kick out of it), you could do much worse than this. Colorful and fast paced, for those who enjoy kaiju.
Horror Fan Alien plague is spread onto a pacific island by a space capsule that crashes and creates monsters out of normal creatures. Gezora, a giant squid; Gamine, a humungous crab; and Kameba, a huge turtle; all attack the island, fight each other, and sure trample alot of huts. Goofy, with silly special effects and more bad dubbing.