If you cover up the bottom of your screen, you can almost imagine this was an actual MST3K ep.

And, surprisingly, he has more dignity.

We like it very much!

Prince of Space!?!

@@JamaicanCastle Each of you will enter a space capsule.

😆😆😆

Cool trivia! Do you know if he was popular enough to warrant any toys or other merchandise? Cheers.

@@steveharvey2102 I am not sure. I know that the TV version of Planet Prince (Prince of Space) got a reboot movie recently, but no idea on Super Giant's popularity outside of being knocked off by others.

But why does he look nothing like Jeff Bridges?

It's clear that advanced Sapphirian hand-to-hand training involves turning oneself into a cloth manikin..

Now that you mention it....

So true! Omg. Lol

YES! I knew it was from SOMETHING. They must both be referencing an older thing

I’m thinking of Prince of Space.

Omg you're right 😳😳😳

Even the guy on "You can't do that on television" was nicer to the condemned prisoners. Lol

You *weren't* *?!?!*

ditto!

I didn't make it any further into the movie either.

I’m a fan of Oscillating Star Guy myself, best of the bunch

I honestly was too charmed to laugh at them

It's also nice that the distributor left the Japanese character names and didn't anglicize them in the dub.

I watched this one years ago, and I don't think I've ever recovered. The last half of the film is SO monotonous.

Or even Krankor's men from Prince of Space.

Yeah. I'm watching this now, about halfway through, and wondering if it will even reach Neptune Men-level action, which is the lowest bar imaginable. So far, it's not looking good.

Honestly, I think the Stormtroopers stationed on Endor could've mopped the floor with Starman.

@@Nightweaver1 "KILL HIM!" "Haha your weapons will have no effect on me!"

Roji Panty complex?

Those suffering from Roji-Panty Complex will be devastated

Gonna be trying these out after I repeat Free Bird 3x for the space nazi massacre towards the end.

now that you mention it, it is kind of amazing there's never been a bad riff in the history of science theatre. even Jonah did a fine job.

@@KairuHakubi even? What kind of dumb comment is that

@@shaolin95 ER, I typed Joel, I meant Jonah. Just gonna edit that post for posterity..

I was, BUT I think they've gotten lots better.

I'm only disappointed that, to my knowledge, they didn't finish This Island Earth in the MST3k movie. Then again, I haven't seen that movie in years, so I might be misremembering.

I suspect it might have come for free in specially marked boxes of corn flakes.

Didn't the kid from "Johnny Socko - Giant Robot" also have a "Globemeter" with which to summon the Giant Robot?

There are three more waiting to be Riffed.

@@JGMoore There are 3 more of these movies with Starman?

@@EarthboundX At least three!

@@EarthboundX It was a series called Super Giant in Japan, the US adaptations were the films -- Atomic Rulers of the World, Invaders from Space, and Attack from Space. The final episodes were re-edited into Evil Brain from Outer Space, if I am recalling them correctly.

My immediate reaction to your comment was to reprimand you for allowing Bowie's good name to be associated with such a silly movie. But then I remembered Labyrinth. And the Man Who Fell to Earth. Bowie was a silly silly man.

@@cerealvapist333 I'll not have you slander Bowie's name with 'Man Who Fell to Earth'! Cocaine was responsible for at least 80% of his performance on that movie too!

@Phillip LOL. You're not wrong, but I think the same could be said of most things he did post Hunky Dory. He was a God among men regardless.

And that "muscle pose" smfh. 🤣🤣

I'm pretty sure Starman literally killed 300 Space Nazis, one at a time, and they STILL never ran out of guys!

@@suedenim And I _love_ Starman for it! 😹

"Increasing pelvic thrust, SIR!"

I hope he doesn't increase his bust though

No thanks. But so will take a dozen of those mooing switches.

I wonder if that kid likes boot blacking.

You forgot the other three lines

This is an early henshin hero tokusatsu so it only makes sense.

At no point did anyone realize that they had zero chance of hurting Starman and instead try to capture the protagonists. Which could have actually been dramatic as Starman is slowed down by dozens of men in his attempt to prevent their capture. Beating up space nazis is way too entertaining to bother with that though

How many of these kinds of awful sentai movies did Japan make in the 1960s anyway?

@@Nightweaver1 All of them. I know Starman type outfits are reused a lot, though not always the exact same one. The starfish looking aliens at the beginning are very, very similar to those in Warning from Space and I am almost certain I've seen them in another movie, but I'm having trouble finding it. In fact, the entire alien council is very similar to another movie that I've seen... I'm going to have to go through my collection one of these days. They also like to use military style uniforms for aliens like they do here. It's just how they did things :D

@@cujoedaman And the pretty blatant Nazi salute the aliens did? Some kind of dig at WW2 Nazi Germany I assume?

@@Nightweaver1 That one troubles me a bit, Japanese filmmakers aren't usually the type to mock other cultures in their movies like many American or even British filmmakers do, even if they deserve it. It could be there was some message about Nazi's and their takeover of the world, which I would see as some kind of hypocritical message since they themselves attacked the US while the war raged on in Europe, one we were not a part of at the time. I do find it interesting that the lead aliens are very American looking as well (or German?), could be something there too. They do like their alien armies to be well dressed, especially if they're a military group, they'll always have great costumes that make you say "yep, that's a military". Probably something with their culture and honor. I did notice the salute changed a couple times too, one version after they stretched out their arm, they brought it back do their chest and then dropped it. I also noticed ones that looked more like a "hey, how you doin'?" kind of wave. It's possible they just didn't have a strict rule on how the salute should look. I'm certainly no expert on the matter, I'm sure there's someone out there that knows a lot more. I think this boils down to just being a Japanese version of Superman, especially with his very "Clark Kent" looking disguise when he is on Earth. I mean, he is the man of steel here.

The movie should have been about them, it may have been interesting.

Hercules: "Well, thank you, I...huh?"

Good ear.

You forgot the other three lines

No space Nazi can stand up to the might of a 100lb girl with a machine gun

I liked the Saturn looking planet in the background in the beginning just bouncing around instead of maintaining any sort of orbit.

Wings Hauser hates flying through outer space!

It’s a planet!!!

Don't tell Bob Evil, I hear his firing regime is _killer._

The speed of sound and the vacuum of space, two things that don't exist.

Probably.

The suit has the power of wind resistance too, it specifically is that aerodynamic because of the adult diaper.