RiffTrax: Gammera The Invincible (Full FREE Movie)

[@RobotoSan]

Children think of Gammera as a friend because school is always cancelled when he comes to town. He's like a fire drill that lasts all day.

[@BlackMasterRoshi]

he was scary until humanity learned to tame him by building giant bonfires

[@NathanTarantlawriter]

The don't call him SnowDay for nothing.

[@deanfiora4227]

Or in today's parlance, an active-shooter drill.

[@dissent9959]

And perhaps a while longer, depending on what parts of town get leveled…

[@algomaone121]

20:33...”Son, you have to learn to make friends with people, too!” (Family lives in an isolated, sea-battered lighthouse)

[@andrewotaku1679]

The one complaint I have is that I didn't get to hear about how Gamera is really neat and how he's filled with turtle meat.

[@gohawks3571]

We believe in Gamera!

[@Shicksalblume]

Ahhhhh. Kill him. Better yet, I'll kill him and you go press the button.

[@DefaultUser61]

Gamera vs Guiron is in my top three MST3K episodes ever! Korn Job, the Gamera song, and Gamera swinging on a gymnasts high bar. Amazing

[@logann7942]

Thanks for taking the responsibility of telling us. 🏅🎖️

[@jonathanrogers9039]

Quote from MST3K - that was part of a song Joel and the robots sang

[@awnaur0no919]

Gamera's enchantment still grows. He fills our hearts with love. Gamera's the latest thing. He fills our hearts with spring, spring, spring! Anytime you want some moonbeams, (whispered) Gamera is the thing. Gamera is really neat! He is filled with turtle meat. We all love you, GAMERA!!!

[@faithfulgrl]

Please don't eat our Gamera!

[@TheGameGetterKuzuri]

SPAM SPAM SPAM

[@taterboob]

Mike's super warbly delivery of "TUR-TLE MEEEEEAAAAT!" has never failed to kill me.

[@disconnected22]

This is the classic first Gamera film MST did way back. For those who are curious, it’s the Americanized version with different Caucasian linking scenes, as well as a much better English dub. The version you’re used to (the one with General Curly) was done in Japan. Last year I treated myself, got the two Arrow Gamera box sets, as well as the MST3K box. Did the true deep dive. And when you watch them restored and widescreen, you can really appreciate them as good kaiju films.

[@OttersDen]

Came to the comment section to find this exact sort of explanation. You are a true hero. 🙂

[@Charlesmcoburn]

Thank you! I was so confused because I was seeing the same footage, but people weren't screaming "KENNY!!!!!" every 5 seconds.

[@Shades14]

Except for Gamera vs. Zigra and Gamera Super Monster. Those two suck.

[@DCShaneTours]

Done in the KTMA days and the Comedy Channel days, twice.

[@StephenGillie]

So this is Gammerica?

[@KarlFarbman]

It's insane how few subscribers this channel has. These guys are comedic geniuses.

[@grantbitman1448]

It's not about the quantity, it's about the quality.

[@JFmK-sh5nh]

The sad truth is that most people are dumber than dog shit. And the Dunning-Kruger effect preempts them from ever realizing & acknowledging their own ignorance.

[@davedixon2068]

Didn't hear any geniuses and there were no comedic sentences cobbled together. I would have said its insane how many subscribers they/he have, people have such low expectations of what is comedy these days, narration totally destroyed a reasonably watchable 50's sci fi movie

[@archstanton9073]

Tibby Tibby You're such a good fella Even though you gave the whole family Salmonella!

[@BBQMeatski]

Creepy Girl and Tibby… both mean a lot

[@greenmonsterprod]

It's tough for me to think of that little psycho as "Toshio". He'll always be "Kenny" to me.

[@ethanreynolds3522]

None of us blame you. Kenny is a messed up kid who needs to be stopped at all costs before millions more parish.

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

Same here. Plus I as well as a Canadian friend of mine loathe Kenny

[@CarolLaunius]

Wasn't the kid in several monster movies?

[@slowneutron6163]

"Roll me another number and put on Terrapin Station. I command it."-Gammera, The Stoned

[@haolekoa737]

I give Mike & Kevin credit. I cannot be easy coming up with original riffs for this movie a second time, even if it is a different version.

[@Beantoon]

Fun fact: Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Buck Dharma has an instrumental called "Gamera is Missing".

[@svenjansen2134]

Their 'Godzilla' is awesome on that Extra Terrestrial Live album.

[@meghannsherman]

Gammera is friend. Gammera is life. 🐢💚

[@endymallorn]

Gamera is really neat!

[@punkrockhotdog]

When the turtle grew jets for legs and spun into the air I couldn't handle it 😂

[@DCShaneTours]

The cinematic 'wide' version!!! Awesome!!!!! "Gammera is a friend to all children!" *Except for the thousands he kills and stomps on 'accidentally' as he ravages Tokyo. -- I have heard this riffed by the KTMA MST3K crew, the Comedy Channel MST3K crew, and now RiffTrax. 3 times. ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM!

[@katenunyabizness9221]

What's awesome about the voice cast is we get Peter Fernandez, Corrine Orr and Jack Curtis! That's Speed Racer/ Racer X, Mom Racer/ Trixie/ Spritle, and Pops Racer/ Inspector Detector!

[@RandomManIncorperated]

Fucking Awesome

[@MisterGee7]

Coolocity!!! 😎👍🏾

[@psycatelic]

Wow! I must have watched every episode of Speed Racer back in 1973, when I was 8 years old. I have to watch this Gamera movie now and pay attention to the voices.

[@roringusanda2837]

🐙💕🏎️ do you think there's a set of Speed Racer emoji out there somewhere¿?

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

Good ears

[@ethanreynolds3522]

Fun Fact: The giant turtle suit was designed by special effects technician Ryosaku Takayama. The suit was sculpted by Keizo Murase and built by brothers Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi, along with Kanju’s son Masao Yagi. The Gamera suits were made from an early form of foam rubber latex, mixed with lime sulfur and salt. The final Gamera suit used for most of filming was 6 ½ feet tall and 110 pounds (60 kilograms). A second, lighter suit was also created. A model of Gamera's torso was also created and used for some of the scenes where the monster shoots fire. The scales of Gamera's shell were made with plaster. Several stuntmen were hired by Daiei to act in the Gamera suit. But none of them were able to last more than three days due to how heavy the suit was. This forced the special effects staff to draw lots to determine who would climb in the suit each day. Suit maker Kanju Yagi did the most time.

[@howHumam]

Those suits were impractically hot, then they turned on studio lights and told you to move around in it.

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Hahahaha, burning Gamera San!

[@rubberneckinc.8937]

Wow bro, thank you so much for the useless knowledge. Please understand that I mean that a massive compliment. I really loved the information.

[@PhilBagels]

Considering the quality of the final product, it was worth it!

[@Eisenwulf666]

These facts weren't fun, but very interesting nonetheless

[@m.lecollie3565]

The Mighty Gamera is friend to all children of the world!! He's not too friendly with the adult population though.

[@Travis_22]

lol

[@Omnipharius]

I've always loved Gammera! He's made of turtle meat and is friend to children!

[@bobf9749]

I’ve gained an affection for Gammera over time. Although not as charismatic as Godzilla, he has a style uniquely his own. His method of locomotion, for instance. How does he spin without having to stop periodically to vomit? As a kid, I occasionally used to get car sick while going in a straight line. So Godzilla represents our pent-up rage and desire to smash a corrupt system, and that’s okay. Gammera, on the other hand, represents our desire to pull our heads and limbs into our shells, fire up our rockets, and spin off to a nicer, calmer place. And that’s okay, too.

[@Patrick_Cooper]

Who else remembers Mike, playing piano for Dr. Forester, and TVs Frank. His Gammera theme was so moving and inspiring... What a group of real artist these three men are... Well of the people who worked on all these shows are genius, with the Netflix version being questionable at best...

[@vincemacek681]

It sneaks up on you, 'Boo' it says!

[@deanfiora4227]

One of the show's all-time greatest sketches! And the less said about the Netflix version, the better.

[@gohawks3571]

Those guys are really good singers👍👍👍

[@JamaicanCastle]

Gamera is really neat, he is made of tur-tle-meat, we all love you Gam-e-raaaaaaa!

[@jamesanthony8438]

Netflix did to MST3K what Amazon did to Tolkien. =/

[@ThreeToesofFury]

THANK YOU TEAM RIFF! Long time fan of MST and Riff. also longtime supporter. REALLY appreciate you throwing the occasional high quality feature riff up on youtube. very cool of you!!

[@nBasedAce]

It's easy to defeat Gamera. Just wet his belly and stick him to a flat surface. Turtles are nature's suction cup.

[@darkestjuggalo420]

Anytime it's a Gammera movie it's automatically gonna be laughs all the way through. 🎶Sandy Frank! Sandy Frank! .....🎶

[@sigurdgram]

this isn't sandy frank! sandy frank did do this movie, but this heavily edited americanization is a different dub, directed by sandy *howard*

[@mixmastermurphy]

I knew the "HOW ARE YA?!" was coming, I just didn't expect it so soon.

[@camarossdriver]

If I had a dollar for EVERY TIME someone told me that a GIANT TURTLE who shoots rockets out of his ass has escaped from the ice after a nuclear explosion,I’d be a MILLIONAIRE!

[@Erik_Swiger]

What a nicely diverse cast. There are Japanese-Americans, and Eskimo-Americans, can't wait to see more.

[@troywright359]

Black Americans?

[@Robotneonunicorn]

I’ve watched this riff probably 20+ times. Still hilarious!

[@thelostone6981]

“Being attacked by Alec Baldwin” has taken on new meaning!

[@svenjansen2134]

Too soon?

[@ethanreynolds3522]

YES! Rifftrax does this movie. I hope they do more of the Gamera movies. Its too bad they can't do the

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Both the AIP and Sandy Frank English dubs of the first Gamera movie are pretty much easily available. The original Japanese version belongs to Kadokawa though.

[@UnclePengy]

Saying "Gamera" works the same on dogs as saying "Blücher" works on horses.

[@tgreythorne45]

*hysterical neighing*

[@Frazier03]

I love the Gammera version of Gamera's song! Even if he is filled with turtle meat, this one has a better beat! Gammera and also Batman! The grooviest Kaiju of them all! 😂🤣

[@favoritemustard3542]

Those stock footage/miniature candy asses can _never_ handle Teenage Nuclear Chapstick Turtle! This was a January GiveThanksing treat, ty!

[@bryanturner1715]

Gammera's blowing more fire than Gene Simmons at a KISS concert.

[@sbl195207]

Hey! That's Brian Donlevy as the General. He was a pro going back to the silent era.

[@jackv2244]

High frequency noise, the original title for the CBS series The Nanny 😂😂😂

[@ridesapalehorse1562]

I half expected Ulraman and the Science Squad to make an appearance. oh well.

[@timothypage252]

I NEED an Operation Turtle-Puncher teeshirt!

[@Evil0tto]

This is gonna be really neat.

[@the80hdgaming]

I hear Gamera is filled with meat...

[@vest816]

@@the80hdgaming We believe in GAMM-ER-AAAAAAAA!

[@RandomManIncorperated]

@@vest816 & ALSO BATMAN!!!!!!!

[@robertpage2023]

Igloos had a small rounded opening with a "dog house " type entrance to keep the cold wind out. You could not stand up in them and had to crawl in and out. The "Eskimo" advisor on the movie mushed have been a modren EKIMO.

[@Eisenwulf666]

21:10 aaah good old senseless cruelty from the '60s. " You like your turtle? Well get rid of it!". People were weird

[@nickdirienzo2849]

When the soldier suggest an atom bomb and Mike says "it's not a great system" it sounds like he's doing his Nick Nolte voice.

[@jonathanrogers9039]

The dumbest part is the plane crashes into the ice and the nuclear weapon sets off a mushroom cloud. BUT, instead of a big atomic crater you would expect from any nuclear weapon, the ice simply cracks open - not even big cracks.

[@JamaicanCastle]

Not to mention a "mushroom cloud" that looks more like somebody was practicing for their fireworks routine.

[@Merylstreep1949]

NPR car talk AND Joe's Crab Shack references???? YOUR INNER MINNESOTAN IS SHOWING LOL

[@graemesmith6721]

So, in the Caucasian footage that was edited into the movie's American release, character actor Dick O' Neill plays a character named General O'Neill. Brilliant.

[@kanna-san.]

The Tony Danza of kaiju

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Thanks for the fresh riffs on a classic! I'm always surprised to see that former A list stars Albert Dekker and Brian Dunlevy are in this. The other time I saw them together in a film was Beau Geste (1939 film) with Gary Cooper. They probably got paid better on that film!

[@SgtDribbleboots]

Just wanted to say thanks a lot for sharing these. You didn't have to, so thanks again

[@BranRidire]

"Marvel change up the MacGuffin, just once!" NO DON'T ASK THAT! They are somehow even worse when they do...

[@everynamewastakenallready]

I LIKE TURTLES

[@favoritemustard3542]

💀♥️🐢

[@derekshropshire2513]

Wish this was the later Gammera movies with the song so Kevin could sing about it again. 🤣

[@svenjansen2134]

Always a joy, a singing Kevin..

[@dootmcsploot4180]

I know it's a stupid gripe, but the silhouettes in the bottom right corner really added to the riffing. Without them it's like watching DVD commentary with a cast that really didn't like their movie.

[@deirdre108]

"Gamera is really neat, He is full of turtle meat......."

[@nBasedAce]

We believe in Gamera!

[@deirdre108]

@@nBasedAce And Cornjob!

[@victotyorvalhalla]

Thank you gentlemen!

[@JW666]

40:38 "Help, I'm a turtle and I can't get up!" =P

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

"The 60s, when every politician was the same 78 year-old white guy." The thing is, that's hardly changed a bit! (Not that I think politicians OUTSIDE OF those three groups have improved anything.)

[@SecularFelinist]

He eats giant, raging fires? Quick, to the House of Representatives!

[@someguywithaphone5921]

High Frequency Noise joke was on the money. (that money is of course kept in the top drawer of my dresher. nice drawers on that dresher, too bad about the pipes.)

[@Akira-5]

Love you guys, thank you!!

[@nathanbergey3972]

32:00? Thanks for the memory about the musician "G. Love & Special Sauce", saw him in concert when I was a teenager, and man can that guy jam!!

[@melindafrancis6623]

Thanks for this. So so many snort laughing and cough laughing 😀❤️

[@deanfiora4227]

Who gave Gammera the extra M? The same guy who the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-a-bomp?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

The Extra M in AIP Gammera was added in order to loosely rhyme with Gamma.

[@ericseitzler81]

Who put the blam in the shama lama ding dong?

[@deanfiora4227]

@@ericseitzler81 I think it was M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

[@anglaismoyen]

Blu-ue mooon

[@teedup8995]

​@@deanfiora4227😄

[@nBasedAce]

As for this Rifftrax, I like it very much!

[@sejembalm]

Gamera, the Giant Monster, a 1965 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, produced and distributed by Daiei Film, it is the first film in the Gamera franchise and the Shōwa era. A localized version with new footage was theatrically released in the United States on December 15, 1966 by Harris Associates, Inc. and World Enterprises Corporation as Gammera the Invincible. This was the only Gamera film in the Shōwa era to be given a theatrical release in the United States.

[@syntaxerror9994]

What about the version from the original MST3K episode? Didn't the first Godzilla get a similar dual release?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@syntaxerror9994 it’s the Sandy Frank dub from the 1970s, produced by Sandy Frank (aka Sundel Francous), the man who popularised Gatchaman and bowdlerised it as Battle of the Planets!

[@adamfowler350]

29:18- I wonder how many tokens they had to put in for this one ...lol

[@docthemetalfreak]

how Gamera can never get heartburn while breathing fire will remain a mystery

[@paulhammons7077]

Unfortunately its all out there somewhere 😕 but thanks for the moral chance to watch it

[@mitch4527]

“I am aware of the need for restraint sir.” “But I still prefer boxer shorts…” That one made me spit out my coffee - think about it for a second.

[@HoChiMints2007]

"He's activating his haemorrhoids, run for your lives!" 🤣

[@UnclePhil2k]

Love this one! Bought it from the website!!

[@proto-geek248]

🎵 He tried to kill me with a forklift 🎶

[@antihebrew]

Save the Earth🎵

[@ericseitzler81]

@@antihebrew "Hack the planet"!!

[@ericseitzler81]

I actually almost got killed by a forklift once my buddy wasn't paying attention at work and had is blades all the way up and stopped just in time for the blades to be 6 inches from my throat,that was scary.

[@proto-geek248]

@@ericseitzler81 I struck a nerve. Sorry, man 🤐

[@ericseitzler81]

@@proto-geek248 naw I laughed at it when it happened but it was also a very close call,if it hadn't been my buddy I probably would have started a fight but I knew he would never try to hurt me.

[@rashaseden7062]

The mention of Jack "Toono" Porkins has me torn, imagining a tragic Death Star trench run animated "5 Centimeters per Second"-style.

[@ericseitzler81]

"even the computer couldn't hit that"

[@jeanniewilson777]

I've never seen this one. Watching tonight. ❤️📺🎭

[@Jbot123]

I'm just glad you addressed the extra M.

[@billyyank2198]

Admittedly, defending against invincible fire-eating giant turtles is one thing the DoD has neglected to plan for.

[@CWargh63]

9:15 Why did the chief wait until they were leaving to unveil the most important evidence? And everybody ignores that Gammera more closely resembles a tortoise than a turtle. Makes me sad.

[@pepppery]

Let me be quite plain with you. No one, (and I mean no one), has ever sung "gamera is filled with Tortoise meat". TBH, I don't want to live in a world where such a thing could exist, or even occur. Perhaps if you were to enter into a Einstein Rosen bridge, you could enter into some reality where that would exist, but until that day... I would say, Good day sir!

[@CWargh63]

@@pepppery I'm sorry, but there is no surer way to call something into being than to so vehemently deny the possibility of it's very existence - have you not read the holy Pratchett, my good sentient?! Please continue to reside on this corporeal plane with the rest of us wretches. Again, sorry...

[@yeldarbarrow3172]

Gamera always looked like a snapping turtle with tusks to me.

[@joshuablack8221]

Thank you kindly for this gift 💯🙏🏽😎

[@wallyman292]

I'm sorry, but unless you have 2 tiny japanese nymphets singing your praises, you're not a worthy monster in my book. . .

[@CarolLaunius]

What an f'n hoot this film is!!! Haven't seen a movie narrated an speaking in a long time!! Guess that was the 70's!!🎉😂

[@devekut2]

Fun Fact: The music director for this film also wrote "Hang On Sloopy".

[@markiangooley]

I still can’t comprehend calling any human being “Sloopy.” Did the girl resemble a sloop?

[@ericseitzler81]

@@markiangooley maybe she was a bobsledder in the Olympics??

[@deanfiora4227]

Wes Farrell or Bert Berns?

[@devekut2]

@@deanfiora4227 Wes

[@jdhutche35]

Knock knock. See who it's is. omg it's gamera!!!!!!!

[@Tareltonlives]

I love seeing this other edit of Gamera getting Riffed. I hope they do more kaiju movies. I still miss Mike as Michael Feinstein

[@dadahyena]

Makes you wonder if the MST3K crew would have been so hard on Sandy Frank if they had had to watch THIS version instead (okay, they would have, but still...). ...and to everyone who complains about Raymond Burr being spliced into Godzilla, King of the Monsters, at least he kept his 'buttery claws' to himself!

[@temoharri8848]

LOL the comedic narration and interjections! 😅😅😅🎉

[@Thornspyre81]

"Never knew Norad worked out of a stripmall insurance building ." Hahhahaahah

[@Merylstreep1949]

That dude with the glasses looks like if when Joe Flynn the 60s actor and Henry Kissinger had an adult baby ha ha ha ha omfg I was expecting him to cuss out Mc Hale and his crew!

[@victorhernandez8723]

“Gamera’s like the Frau Blücher of the dog world.”

[@ARescueToaster]

I hear that Gamera is full of turtle meat. Is this true?

[@cerealvapist333]

Hold on there. Are you just going to gloss over the fact that he is really neat?? Get your priorities in order man. Lol.

[@ARescueToaster]

@@cerealvapist333 In the end, all that truly matters is that we've been eating Gamera!

[@cerealvapist333]

@@ARescueToaster Too true. Amen.

[@olepigeon]

6:10 - Awe, man! 2000 years worth of turtle farts. 6:22 - Oh, uh. That wasn't a fart.

[@georgewilson7432]

Gamera is really neat.

[@alanbear6505]

Joe Versus The Volcano, Pink Lady and Jeff...we're really going back for the pop culture references.

[@nickdirienzo2849]

We've all aged about as well as the movies they're riffing, what did you expect?

[@kanna-san.]

@@nickdirienzo2849 I'm 28 but feel 280.

[@stephennootens916]

I have seen this movie god knows how many times and the whole kid obsessed with turtles his sister putting her foot down about pet turtles is still one of the weirdest side plot I have seen.

[@KIRA-EL]

Gamera for when Godzilla won't text you back.

[@fransnyder6592]

In a not so distant future ........Christ I miss all of you so much .....mst3k the final sacrifice is my most favorite.

[@nashobasipokni3628]

My Favorite Flying Giant Turtle Movie!

[@ericseitzler81]

Ah!I've seen better!

[@aum3.146]

Gamera film one, Gamera kills a hundred thousand citizens of Tokyo and does three hundred billion in property damage. Gamera film six, happy children sing his praises in his theme song. Continuity city man!

[@tskmaster3837]

My only complaint is I have nothing to complain about. Gamera is the friend to all children. GAMMERA is his dollar store knock off.

[@JamaicanCastle]

5:33 Rodan the sculptor? These movies are more cultured than I thought.

[@jonathanrogers9039]

Love how the guy with the camera has to be repeatedly reminded to take photos of the planes and the atomic blast.

[@ginogarcia8730]

The cinematography is very crisp

[@FLIK510]

Whooooo, can't wait

[@nBasedAce]

Wow, I can't believe that they mentioned G Love and Special Sauce. I got to grab myself a cold beverage.