Back in Sendai, the congregated people begin to pray for Gamera to return, and as if answering that prayer golden light begins to swirl into the air around Gamera. Gamera is very powerful here! The energy takes the form of a magatama before flowing into Gamera's body. The film has an audience percentage of 84%, with an average rating of 3.8 out of 5, on the movie reviewing site Rotten Tomatoes. Gamera tries to attack Mother Legion, but is once again wounded by her microwave beam and outmatched against her greater size and strength. Due to Sendai's warmer climate, the Pod flowers much faster and is preparing to seed before the JSDF has time to respond. An illustration of a magnifying glass. Publication date 1996 The Gamera series repeated at the annual Seiun Awards, with this film winning "Best Dramatic Presentation" after Gamera: Guardian of the Universe had won it the previous year. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]. In Japanese with English subtitles, There are no reviews yet. As they approach the Lake, their vehicle suddenly breaks down. Gamera isn't at his lowest point or beat to a pulp. Gamera is severely wounded by Legion's assault and collapses to the ground. The helicopter finally takes off and escapes, but Mother Legion is determined to hold Gamera off long enough for the Pod to launch its seed. Shortly afterward, a gigantic winged creature bursts from the ground and flies away. She would go on to play. That's one of the weaknesses of Godzilla's Showa era for me, the constant overuse of an alien invasion, and I was glad Heisei Godzilla steered away from that. Security guards at a brewery witness a strange human-sized insectoid creature rummaging through the bottled beer. Mother Legion shrieks and collapses to the ground, but her eyes suddenly turn red and she gets back up. In the outskirts of Sapporo, more strange phenomena begin occurring over the next several days. From the area where her horn once was she begins firing red strands of energy which penetrate Gamera's body and burn him. The three Soldier Legion suits used in this film were preserved and made an appearance at New York Comic Con in 2015 to celebrate Gamera's 50th birthday. Five days after the meteor impact, a subway train in Sapporo is attacked by the same type of creature that was seen in the brewery. Awesome movie and entertaining fights! Your browser may not be compatible with all the features on this site. Second, it's revealed in 3 that the blast had dire consequences, but it doesn't feel like a last resort. When Honami sees the friend of the girl she helped watching the battle and clutching a magatama, she realizes that she is Asagi Kusanagi, the girl who communicated with Gamera. Uploaded by Evacuation of the city begins immediately, with civilians boarding helicopters at an airfield just outside the city. The final battle was too short for me, I wanted to see more. Amid the ruins, Gamera sits lifeless, appearing to have perished in the explosion. F-15J fighter jets are scrambled to shoot the monster down, and successfully strike it with missiles over the Tsugaru Strait. Honami investigates the brewery with Watarase and Hanatani, and discovers that all of the bottles have seemingly been disintegrated while their contents were left behind. Despite the JSDF's all-out assault from both air and land, their attacks fail to harm the monster which easily breaks through each defense line as she makes her way to Tokyo. ", Actress Aki Maeda appears in a minor role in this film as a little girl watching Gamera in the ruins of Sendai. Asagi's magatama shatters in her hand just as Gamera awakens and takes flight. True to their prediction, a second Pod appears in Sendai. When commenting, please remain respectful of other users, stay on topic, and avoid role-playing and excessive punctuation. In this case, the Colony breaks down silicon and feeds it to the Pod, which gives off high amounts of oxygen. ... GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION (1996) ADV Films English Dub (HD) by Daiei. As Watarase and Hanatani watch the creatures swarm over Gamera, Hanatani quotes a passage from the Bible: "And he asked him, 'What is thy name?' They come to the conclusion that the Legion must see any electrical signals which interfere with their communication as a threat, explaining why they would attack humans carrying such electronic devices and why they swarmed off of Gamera to climb onto an electrical transformer. However, only a severed wing is recovered, and the monster is still unaccounted for. And the ending feels rushed. Mark 5:9" The full name of the species is Symbiotic Legion, though this may also be used as a name for specifically the Soldier Legion. Watarase and his men travel into the subway and witness several of the creatures crawling around the tunnels, which Watarase describes as neither crustaceans nor insects. Gamera lands and spits plasma fireballs at Mother Legion, who deflects them with her interference wave claws. Watarase shows the others that all of the subway passengers who were killed by the Legion were carrying electronic devices such as pagers and radios. Now don't jump to conclusions, I don't dislike it. She compares them to leafcutter ants, which cultivate a fungus in order to maintain their nest. One particularly large meteor crashes near Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido, and in its aftermath a strange aurora appears in a night sky over the area. An illustration of a horizontal line over an up pointing arrow. Watarase and Obitsu meet with Honami at her home to discuss the ecology of the creatures, which are now being called "Symbiotic Legion." Consider upgrading to a modern browser for an improved experience. Obitsu wonders what would happen if Gamera deemed humanity a threat to other life on Earth, to which Honami replies that she wouldn't want to be Gamera's enemy. Honami and the girl's friend help her into the helicopter, and watch through a window as the gigantic Mother Legion emerges from underground and attacks Gamera. Honami decides to go with Asagi to the ruins of Sendai, where many people have gathered around Gamera's body. Obitsu puts into motion his own plan to stop the Soldier Legion from affecting the battle. The JSDF finally declares the operation successful and celebrates. At the time the film was made, the store inside the building was Robinson's, though in the film it features a sign that reads "Banderas". A few days later, Honami and Obitsu are walking through Sapporo. Showing 4 comments. As each incident occurs, they happen closer and closer to the city limits of Sapporo. With Gamera no longer around to stop the Legion, the JSDF sets up a defense line outside of Tokyo in an attempt to preempt their arrival. Several carcasses of the smaller creatures are located on the beach near where Gamera plunged back into the ocean. [2][1] The film recorded an attendance of 1.2 million. He isn't forced to do it. Gamera lands and inhales the increased oxygen around the Pod, then blasts it with a particularly powerful plasma fireball. The rest were just soldiers and there's this one lady who I guess is supposed to be the protagonist but she's just kind of there. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. Gamera seizes the opportunity and flies back to the ocean. Immediately the JSDF's chemical protection platoon scrambles to investi… One particularly large meteor crashes near Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido, and in its aftermath a strange aurora appears in a night sky over the area. An illustration of a magnifying glass. Before his enemy can reach Tokyo, Gamera summons a huge amount of energy into himself and begins to glow brightly. The Legion get their name from a comment a soldier made in the film; quoting the Bible, "And Jesus asked him, 'What is thy name?' The characters were bland. Be the first one to, GAMERA 2: ATTACK OF THE LEGION (1996) Japanese version (HD), gamera2attackofthelegion1996japaneseversionhd, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Honamu and Nojiri begin discussing the meteor with Colonel Yusuke Watarase and First Lieutenant Hanatani, who reveal that in their investigation found no sign of the large meteorite, only an impact crater. Honami believes that the Colony must spread to other worlds by making the Pod launch a seed into outer space, and convinces Obitsu to run a simulation using NTT's computers showing the projected damage should the Pod seed. Gorizard2 Curiously, some of the subway passengers were spared while others were killed by the creatures, seemingly at random. Third, after the mana blast, it basically just ends. The horn on her head splits open and fires a beam which obliterates surrounding buildings and blasts off a corner of Gamera's shell. The Sapporo police rescue several survivors of the attack and close the subway off, but Watarase's platoon arrives to take over the situation. The helicopters launch missiles at the congregated Legion on the power lines, wiping them all out. Suddenly, the shell over Gamera's abdomen opens and from it he fires an extremely powerful beam of plasma which reduces Mother Legion to dust in a single strike. I much preferred Guardian of the Universe to this. The JSDF moves to obliterate the creatures and their huge flower nest, but Gamera arrives to fight them as well and destroys the nest himself. You are ignoring the author of this comment. Gamera grabs Mother Legion's horn and with all of his strength tears it off. Like what?! Immediately the JSDF's chemical protection platoon scrambles to investigate the impact site. Meanwhile, the Mother Legion appears at Ashikaga.
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