Welcome kaiju fanatics alike to the next Gamera movie in the Heisei Gamera trilogy Gamera 2 Attack of Leigion or Advent of Leigion Made in the year 1996 the same year toho was doing the Rebirth Of Mothra Trilogy with the first film. Gamera 2 is Directed by Shūsuke Kaneko and written by Kazunori Itō Music by Kow Otani.This film is a sequel to the previous film Gamera Guardian of the Universe. Some people think this film is the weakest in the trilogy but I don’t see it. Story:A year has passed since the battle between Gamera and the Gyaos, and Japan has struggled to rebuild its cities in the meantime. The military has kept a cautious vigil on the nations coast, but so far Gamera has yet to return. Suddenly, a series of bizarre incidents reveal a new threat to the land of the rising sun. On a moonlit stroll, science instructor Midori Honami watches as a huge meteor plunges into the mountain snow. The next night, two security guards are horrified as they see large insect-like creatures stealing glass bottles from a nearby warehouse. Soon after, the entire city of Sapporo is covered with strange plants and the link between these events soon becomes clear. The meteor has carried with it a species of extraterrestrials. These aliens have set up a hive in the bowels of the citys subway tunnels, deliberately nurturing the plants that are covering the city. Soon a gigantic pod erupts from a building and Colonel Watarase of the Self Defense Force realizes that it is dramatically raising the citys oxygen levels. Working together with the swift-minded Miss Honami, he realizes that the aliens are building a huge biological launch pad: the increased oxygen will aid the creatures in exploding the flower, catapulting its seed into space so that they can colonize yet another world. The military can only watch helplessly, as any attempt to destroy the plant would destroy all of Sapporo. Just as all hope is lost, Gamera flies from the sea and heads toward the besieged city. He tears the flower out by its roots, but is ambushed by a swarm of the alien soldiers. As Gamera thrashes to rid himself of the attacking insects, a nearby soldier names them Legion, after a Biblical demon army. Gamera is forced to retreat, just as the monstrous queen Legion bursts out of the ground and flies off to start a second hive. Her wings are damaged by fighter jets but she survives. Again a Legion flower blooms, this time in Sendai, and again Gamera attempts to stop its explosion. He is intercepted, however, by Legion. The mother Legion makes short work of Gamera, impaling him with her sharp legs and blasting him with her horn beam. Sensing the detonation of her pod approaching, Legion leaves Gamera for dead and burrows off. Gamera limps toward the plant, destroying it by knocking it down before it launches its seed into space. The flower explodes and completely annihilates Sendai; and seemingly killing Gamera. Japans military and scientists race to find the Legions weakness, but have so far found only one clue: the smaller symbiotic Legion are attracted to any electromagnetic source, such as a power line. While this may enable the army to distract them, it has the unfortunate side-effect of drawing them to Tokyo. Asagi visits the ruined city where Gamera lies comatose, and as she tries to reach out to him, and the orihalcum pendant that enables their bond shatters. Gamera awakens, but at the sacrifice of his human connection. Legion marches on Tokyo with the intention of planting a third and final flower, but Gamera heads her off in the outskirts. She spawns a swarm of soldiers against him, but the military manages to draw them off and destroy them with an electric distraction. Gamera and Legion fight throughout the suburbs, and the military lobs a few missiles at Legion in aid. Finally, Gamera manages to tear off Legions horn, and she momentarily collapses in defeat. Suddenly, Legion rises up and fires laser whips from her stump into Gamera. On the verge of defeat, Gamera then looks into the sky and roars, and light begins to shine down upon him. As Legion closes in, Gameras chest opens up and fires a powerful plasma beam. Legion is hit by the blast and is blown apart. Gamera glances toward the human onlookers, and then ascends into the morning sky. As they watch Gamera fade into the distance, mankind is unsettled by his power, and trembles lest he should ever view humanity as an enemy. This film has some good things we do get Asagi from the previous film but not much. The characters are bland there’s nothing interesting about them we do see the retired Inspector Osako from the last film which is also good. The Music is good but some of the music may have been remixed or not in Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah Giant Monsters All Out Attack (GMK). Gamera’s theme songgood. I was hoping to save this for last but there’s a Lake Texarkana Gamera Outtakes which is funny in my opinion I don’t know what ADV was thinking with how the film was distributed but I like the Lake Texarkana Gamera it’s a laugh that should be seen after you watch the film. There are only 2 monsters in this film but let’s talk about Gamera first then Legion. Gamera’s design is a little different but I love how it can have some wings when he has his head and have its arms out. Gamera’s chest beam is a good concept which is similar to Super Godzillas Nova Beam from Super Nintendo game Super Godzilla. Legion is a great monster design in terms of size and Power it’s about 140 meters tall and it’s so powerful that it caused damage to Gamera from being stabbed to having some of his shell being destroyed. The symbiotic Legion are smaller but it can fly. The Legion pod is okay. This film is full of explosions that would make even Michael Bay smile but I love how the film has tons of explosions. I give this film an 9/10 This film has a good quality to it. Next Time we end the Gamera Heisei Trilogy with the final installment of it with and old foe of Gamera’s return along with a new enemy in Gamera 3 Revenge of Iris 1999.
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