The Super Inframan (1975)

Best movie of this year hands down!

A Disappointing Continuation

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

After stumbling across the insane poster, I just knew I had to see this movie. Found it on Google Play, got it and made it through all of it -- laughing my butt off and crying. It's not a comedy, but oh mah gawd, you can tell this is where some of our more recent pop culture hits got their inspiration.Imagine a fever dream with knockoff PowerRanger baddies and bad Korean anime. That sums it up fairly well. EXTREMELY entertaining and hammy acting... the 'Dragon Mom' villainess and her co-horts will give you nightmares of the pizza variety. Makes you wish they'd make movies as fun and crazy as this again!

This movie is good for its time. It's an Ultra man rip off with more explosions than dialogue. There were times when watching Infra man I questioned the story line. For example if there were Monsters attacking your city.... Would you have a picnic with your siblings??? Also the headquarters where Infra man was made has the worst security in the universe. Sure it can see the Actions of Dragon Mom which is miles away but can their specialised equipment detect a monster attacking it 3 meters away???The fighting was the highlight of this movie and the amount of explosions was hilarious. I watched this movie on a recommendation so my expectations where high. I wish my expectations wont so high. The production of this movie was clunky... Sure the costumes of the monsters look fake and are made of rubber... The production just seems quick, predictable and the story line just doesn't help...

So, we have this little gem, Super Inframan, or just Inframan, as I remember from TV commercials back in the mid-70s. I had no clue what I was seeing, other than everything looked low budget and wild, like a Godzilla film crossed with bits of Willie Wonka, but with a superhero! I devoured superhero comics at the time and wanted to check this out; but, alas, I had to wait until I was an adult, after the introduction of home video.The film is a cheesy, low budget mix of the Japanese hero shows Ultraman and Kamen Rider. Those shows featured alien (Ultraman) and cyborg (Kamen Rider) heroes in battle with monsters and monster lieutenants of some evil organization. We get pretty much the same thing here. This time, it's Princess Dragon Mom, she of the tight clothes from the Gene Simmons collection, and her group of monster cronies (including She-Demon, who appears to be some kind of hybrid monster hooker). And what are monster lieutenants without a bunch of grunts for the hero to plow through? Even monsters need cannon fodder! So, off we go to the battles.As is usual, we have a brilliant scientist (in a rather unconvincing wig), who has designed a weapon to fight the Princess. One of our brave security agents nobly sacrifices himself to become the cyborg Inframan (with a schematic drawing that looks more suspiciously like the Kamen Rider manga illustrations than the final suit). He finds himself decked out in the requisite bug eyed helmet (with robot face) and red vinyl suit (just wipe off with a sponge!) and loads of weaponry that seem to have been rather shrewdly designed, given the scientist didn't know exactly what they were facing. Of course, the monsters oblige things by attacking without a strategy and the mayhem begins.All in all, this is lightweight fare, but the dubbed dialogue is silly enough to at least give you some chuckles and there is plenty of wild action and stunts to keep your eyes engaged. There's not much for the brain; but, sometimes you just want to have some fun without pesky things like plot and character development. It's certainly fun for the kids and is more entertaining than some of the more ponderous American superhero films. If you enjoy the kind of fare you find on MST3K, you'll have a good time here. Where else can you find thunderball fists, motorcycle helmets with horns, monster dominatrixes, and kids who want to be Infra Girl when they grow up? Certainly not from Disney!

I remember seeing this in theater when I was a kid. It was a great fantasy movie and about 1000% better that any usual Japanese Sci-Fi flick! Today my kids would find this boring after the effects of movies now days. They are spoiled! So what happens to all these old films? Someone should set up a new "Sci-Fi Channel" to distribute this stuff. Also of value would be Genesis II, and the other Gene Roddenberry movies that did not make it into a series like Star Trek. Where can I buy or download this? OK, enough with my posting. This IMDb requirement about ten lines is a pain in the butt. I guess they have devised a way to ensure that you cannot bad mouth the garbage movies that come ut every month, by making you type ten lines of info into one of these comment sections. Now I have twelve lines, lets see if it will let me save it mow!