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Haven’t we all had mornings like “X” appears to be having at the end of his clip? “Whew, Man! Those habanero nachos last night were the bomb! I mean literally!”.
All my Xs live in Texas, not Outer Space.
From dvdtalk.com:
“Though not well regarded among die-hard giant monster movie fanatics, ‘The X from Outer Space’ has a uniquely peculiar charm that’s hard to describe. It’s a light-hearted film with a beguiling ’60s-a-Go-Go sensibility. And a city-trashing monster.
The story concerns the happy-go-lucky crew of AAB?, an evocatively designed space sled commanded by stern Captain Sano (Toshiya Kazusaki), with biologist Lisa (Peggy Neal), comedy relief communications officer Miyamoto (Shinichi Yanagisawa), and ship’s doctor Shioda (Keisuke Sonoi), later replaced by Dr. Stein (Mike Daneen), also on board. They encounter an egg-like UFO that discharges blinking radioactive blobs, one of which will become the Giant Space Monster Girara.
And what a monster it is. The creature looks less like Godzilla than a jamming Dizzy Gillespie wearing a party hat. Girara bellows incessantly before being shrunk back down to its natural blob state – ‘girarium’ (natch) which suspiciously resembles shaving cream.
Other than goofily memorable Girara, the Tokyo-trashing miniature destruction scenes are pretty ordinary and not done with the careful construction, lighting, and camera placement that sometimes can render them highly effective. Rather, the film charms for other reasons.
Shochiku’s film takes the genre one step further into the Japanese Twilight Zone. With its incongruously festive musical score and title song, sleigh ride-like space flights, cocktail parties for co-ed astronauts on the moon, ‘The X from Outer Space’ is Godzilla by way of Frank Tashlin.”
X looks like a banger; can’t wait to watch it!