This movie is terrible. And I absolutely love this movie.
Its hard to explain why some movies are just bad while some trancend their own badness and reach a rare spot where the constant and obvious shortcomings on display are just as memorable and incredibly entertaining as any good, fun movie you've seen. Like "Plan 9 From Outer Space" or "StarCrash" there's too much good-natured, movie-making zeal present in "Super Inframan" that even though it does nothing the way a good movie would, you get swept up by its energy and ridiculous audacity and can't help but love every second of it anyway.
Super Inframan's plot is as follows: An earthquake occurs due to an eruption on Mt. Devil, a previously dormant volcano. While authorities are still assessing its damage, the scientific institute recieves transmission from a dragon creature that turns into a strangely dressed woman identifying herself as Princess Dragon Mom (no, really!) who demands that all the earth submit to her as slaves and give her control of the planet. Otherwise she'll destroy them, and has a gang of constantly dancing rubber suited monsters to ensure said destruction.
Because the authorities believe the situation to be the "worst in human history" they place a single professor and his science, uh... police team (I assume, as they all have uniforms, helmets, and carry pistols) in charge of stopping Princess Dragon Mom. Professor takes Reima, one of his science police, downstairs and reveals to him that his plan to stop Princess Dragon Mom is to turn someone into Inframan, an Ultra-Man type cyborg super hero who is powerful enough to fight all the monsters. Reima volunteers, Professor piles a bunch of random springs, batteries, and wires on him, and before you can say "terrible dubbing" Inframan is born!
The film from this point on is pretty much non-stop rubber suited kung fu fights with a level of creative insanity that simply has to be seen to be believed.
Some of my favorite moments include:
-Princess Dragon Mom being described by scientists as "a creature of antiquity, at least 10 million years of age."
-The government authority (we never find out who exactly he's supposed to be) leaving the Professor in charge of everything, and 3 seconds later in the very next scene the Professor putting his luitenant in charge of everything.
-One of the science police turns the corner in his motorbike and sees a giant root monster attacking the headquarters, so he phones inside the HQ to let the science police inside know they're being attacked. Despite the giant roots loudly slamming down on the HQ's translucent ceiling, no one inside seems to notice anything til they get the phone call.
-Professor telling Riema that to be turned into Inframan he must "go through the sufferings of hell... and maybe even death."
-Inframan emerging from the lab for the very first time, and, despite only existing for about 30 seconds, immediately being identified as Inframan by three people who have never seen him before.
-Professor riding on the monster's speedboat to go negotiate with the Princess. The image of him, sitting calmly on a boat between the two monsters is priceless.
-Reima fighting two monsters on his own for about 5 minutes BEFORE deciding to turn into Inframan (causing my wife to wonder aloud, "What took so long, did he forget he could do that?").
-Reima reving up his motorcycle and letting it charge, unmanned, straight into a monsters face (that poor stuntman...).
-Inframan using his wrist lasers to cut off a monsters head, only to have it grow back, then to try it again four more times in a row, resulting in 5 heads lying next to each other on the ground.
There's so much more, but I've made my case. This movie is awesome, and well worth repeat viewings. Buy it today, play it for a group of friends, and find out how many of your buds have a sense of humor.
Btw, Roger Ebert gave this film 3 stars out of 4. Seriously. Google "Roger Ebert Infra-Man" and it'll take you right to his website where you can read his review. Even he's down with this movie, you should be too.
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- CrimsonSapphire99Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2012
Inframan is Shawesome
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