Gamera 2: Advent of Legion (1996)

Potentially decent Japanese monster flick with a fantastic villain gets undermined by a general lack of Gamera, lame character stuff and a berserk subtext that attempts to posit everybody's favorite flying turtle as some kind of kaiju Christ. I mean, I can respect ambition, but there's gotta be limits. The fights, when they finally show up, are pretty fulfilling and there's some surprisingly grisly violence (these things are usually so kid-safe...) redeem it somewhat, so I'll tag it a near miss.

Grade: C+