The Green Slime

Poster tagline: GREEN SLIME – INVADERS FROM BEYOND THE STARS – ARE HERE!!! Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima are history, now we are friends. This largely forgotten sci-fi classic is one of the first co-productions between Japan and the United States. It has a slight patina of Ishiro Honda's films – so the outdoor scenes, the barracks and the launching pad are made of papier-mâché, the interior design is very decent (everything was filmed in Japan), the effects are consistent with the time and typical of Toho studio; it all looks nice and the widescreen format suits it. The destruction of an asteroid threatening our planet using drills and an atomic bomb inspired Bay's Armageddon and Deep Impact, and the fight with aliens aboard a space orbital station has similarities with Scott's Alien. The monsters, elongated warty potatoes moving on two legs with one red eye and octopus-like tentacles, are cute today, they don't inspire much fear, but that didn’t affect my experience. Too bad the chase with the aliens around the orbital station stops after about half an hour and there are no twists to freshen things up. But I can't help but comment on the nonsense written by my colleagues and at the same time summarize my impressions. Folks, these films need to be seen through the eyes of the filmmaker and the viewer at the time and judged by the time they were made. There's nothing ridiculous about this solidly produced sci-fi flick, it's just that you're already a bit jaded by the Transformers and similar attractions :o) (02/26/2013)