Death Kappa

This is a weird one to say the least. The tone is all over the place. Much of it has the goofy tone of the later Showa Godzilla or Gamera movies. Then it will toss in some weird body horror stuff or someone doing the machine gun dance like he's in a Tarantino movie. The first part is a disjointed thing about a Kappa, a J-pop singer and some crazy scientist who wants to make fish supersoldiers and conquer the world or something. Then it suddenly becomes a whole different movie about halfway through. Now it's a parody of 70s Kaiju movies complete with period models effects and the JSDF being useless. It's kind of funny for fans of those movies I guess but it drags on for way too long. Then it has one of hose head-scratching "There's a little Godzilla in all of us" endings. Fans of the genre will know what I mean. There is some amusement value in this for fans of those old kaiju movies but they are few and far between. Mostly, it's just goofy nonsense that goes nowhere. If you want to get some amusement from 70s kaiju movie tropes, just watch the original movies. This isn't really worth your time.

I am a fan of even the lowliest of Kaiju movies...if you build a monster, I will come.

But this is just the worst. It is a non-stop goof-fest of silly songs, cutely dancing goblins that look like they were invented for a McDonald's commercial and a nemesis monster that can't even seem to move properly. Not even the 90s Mothra movies were this childish, and I swear that some of the horrible American voice-overs are the same actors from those films, hamming it up one more time at our expense.

At times the movie tries to seem like a spoof of Kaiju movies, but it can't even do that properly. The guys at MSTK3000 need to come back for this one, if only because I need to get a laugh or something out of having watched it. Thanks for reading. I will now go cut out my eyes, douse them in gasoline and set them on fire.

If viewed as a loving tribute to Showa Era Godzilla movies, it's not that bad. But it's horrible dubbing and cheap special effects (some of which are even subpar by Showa standards) hamper it alot. If you grew up like I did and loved the Showa Era movies then you probably would enjoy the movie.

After seeing the trailer I was stoked at a chance to see Death Kappa. I was looking forward to a fun B-movie. Unfortunately, Death Kappa gives B- movies a bad name. The problem isn't in the content. The problem is in the directing, acting, editing and cinematography, to name a few. Death Kappa's over stylized shots don't flow well and really drive the film into the ground. The Movie also contains possibly the most annoying song ever used in a film which painfully repeats throughout. I would compare Death Kappa to a bad episode of Power Rangers as far as over all feel, but thats being generous. Iv'e seen much better movies at community college film screenings.

I had at least expected the movie to at least have some sense of entertainment value, after all it does focus on one of the more famous of Japanese creatures in mythology.

Or at least, one would think that. But this movie quickly lost track of what it started out as and went into a full-blown "Godzilla" rip-off.

Nothing in the movie made sense, and I hope that the movie was meant to be a spoof, because everything in the movie was just fundamentally bad. From the creature costume, which clearly was just a badly made suit, to the fake model tanks, buildings and airplanes. And the airplanes and helicopters were held up with clearly visibly strings. And the big monster was also just a man in a horribly fake costume.

The special effects were as bad as the actual storyline, and it just quickly became painful to witness on the screen.

I gave up 20 minutes before the movie ended. I just couldn't suffer through a single minute more of the ordeal that is "Death Kappa".