Wakusei daikaijû Negadon

Terraforming Mars uncovers a huge cocoon-like object that is, unwisely, brought back to Earth. This short, independent film is in the stye of classic Toho Studios kaiju films but more closely resembles a 'mecha' adventure as the 'hero' is a giant, heavily armed 'robotic exoskeleton' and the 'monster' is more mechanical looking than biological. The 25 minutes pass quickly, the imagery is imaginative, and the animation is pretty good for the era. All-in-all, better than some similarly-themed films with vastly greater budgets. Fans of the early days of the kaiju genre should enjoy the film and appreciate the vintage look of the 'poster'.

Everyone who has watched this probably agrees that a feature film would've been very cool. This film's animation is very well done and the atmosphere is very beautiful. Now what really makes this movie good is that it feels like an old 1950s-60s Kaiju movie. The plot is simplistic, the monster is powerful, and some guy dies being the hero. This film even follows some of the same elements like cheesy music, overly exaggerated title sequence, space is blue in this movie (like in old Kaiju films) there is even a moth in this movie that has some emphasis (probably a reference to Mothura) and there are many others.

Being a monster movie fan I couldn't resist watching this. The main reason I wish it were feature length is that it really brought me back to the originals, and yet it felt better. The classics were good, but they were kind of annoying. The difference with this movie is that it wasn't annoying. Even the human scenes. The atmosphere was so good that you could imagine you were there. The monster is pretty cool and the three tentacles remind me a little bit of King Ghidorah. Also his main attack which are these lightning rays look very similar to Ghidorah. When he fires them the explosions and all look very familiar, and the explosions even do some of the goofs that the originals had like being able to see through them. You may notice there are no people during the action, which is like the classics since it was all done with toys. The weapons are all from the 60s which is again perfect.

This is an enjoyable film, but I wish it were feature length or at least one hour long. 23 minutes really isn't enough. One gripe is that the music does good at being cheesy, but remember in Godzilla the music isn't really cheesy and it is epic at times. This film however does only cheesy music which kind of ruined the mood. Still good.

Horrible attempt to recreate those silly 1950s monster movies from Japan. A creature from Mars crash lands here and the battle is on. Eventually, a giant robot takes on the creature. "Negadon" is a CGI short that may appeal to 12 year old boys who rush around wearing bath towels as capes. Everyone else, beware. I kept waiting for some human interaction, but it's basically a cartoon consisting of shapes and forms. The entire running time is like the opening shot, or shots, of a science fiction movie, meant to establish mood. Unfortunately, this never goes beyond that. As bad as RODAN and MOTHRA were -- and they were very bad -- this is considerably worse. There really is nothing more to say about this oddball item, and I was appalled to find it running on TV as if were something.

This is basically a modern day attempt at recreating the 50s and 60s style Kaiju (ie, big monster) movies from Japan through the use of computer animation. For the most part, it works very well, although because the computer models are actually better actors than the real ones in the old movies, it doesn't have a campy feel, more of a serious one.

It's only about 27 minutes, but some places indicate it as being longer. Since it's not that long, there's not much of a setup, basically it's the future, mankind is in space, then all of a sudden, a monster from Mars falls to the surface for reasons that aren't clear. Then there is a short-ish battle between it and a giant robot.

Very neat idea, but suffers from not being longer. Kaiju fans will find it to be a novelty, but most people won't really find it worth a rental...

this film has much better action & is better looking than the fake looking toho crap that's an insult to a 5 year old's intelligence. the story itself, too, is an improvement over the mindless dribble in toho classics. there's a real backstory & credible motives for the scientist in this one if not why a monster from space would attack a city.

it has great attention to detail and scale with the same oversaturated colors look of old toho movies. the CGI is so good, that you might think it is an older movie at times except the jets & sets don't look like toys, but the film is faithful to the retro visual style of the 60s films.

the only real giveaway that it's CGI is the character animation. it isn't up to the standards of a full length feature, but this would make a great one if it was ever redone.