poe-48833 Like THE BLOB (the original), THE GREEN SLIME boasts a theme song (though the theme song for THE GREEN SLIME is nowhere NEAR as cool as the theme for THE BLOB), some earnest performances (especially Richard Jaeckel, who gives an uncharacteristically intense performance this time around), and some way out special effects. Like the Blob, the Green Slime is a gelatinous glob that lives and grows and wrecks havoc on everything (and everyONE) around it. The close quarters of the space station where THE GREEN SLIME runs rampant are appropriately claustrophobic and some of the deaths depicted in the movie were pretty graphic back in the day: I had the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND in which THE GREEN SLIME was the cover story when I was a kid, and the shot of the "slimed" doctor actually made me nauseous... Not as Great as THE BLOB, THE GREEN SLIME is, nonetheless, an entertaining Blast From The Past.

Tim Kerr-Thomson This movie from the late 60's comes from the burgeoning Japanese film industries particular interest in science fiction. It wasn't the countries first attempt as Godzilla and the like had been around for some time. Some science fictions movies are so bad that they become enjoyable to watch as comedies or such like. However, this movie has no such redeeming qualities whatsoever. The acting is poor. The dubbing is excruciatingly bad (even for the 60's). The script content is consistently banal. The special effects and props are extremely poor quality ( once again even for the 60's) and look like they were put together by children from items in the kitchen. The only interesting aspect of this movie is the storyline in the first thirty minutes. An asteroid is heading towards earth and will destroy it. A team of specialist astronauts travel to the asteroid where they land on it. They then drill into the asteroid to plant a nuclear bomb, destroy it, and save the earth. Twenty nine years later a similar story is played out in the movie Armageddon with Bruce Willis, but it is much more entertaining.

brock-121-640273 If you are looking for complex character development, scientific realism, or top-notch special effects, leave now (why on earth would you look for these things in a movie titled "The Green Slime" anyway?).If, however, you want a fun hour or so with some popcorn watching people shoot monsters with ray guns, you can do much worse than "The Green Slime".Some movies are just "so bad it's good"; stilted acting, amateurish writing, and bad sets make them funny in spite of themselves. This isn't one of those. This is a fun concept, with limited and dated effects, that is made enjoyable by some good actors and decent screen writing.Those reviewers who have likened this to Godzilla movies were dead-on: campy, fun, well-acted, and with no shortage of miniatures or rubber-suit monsters.Grab the kids, pop some popcorn, and enjoy this one on a Sunday afternoon. 8 out of 10 stars.

Cmbaker This is one of the best B-movies out there, a film brought down only by its budgetary limitations. The biggest sin a movie can commit, in my opinion, is to be boring. I watched "Eegah", the giant caveman movie yesterday, and there was nothing redeeming about it- no interesting characters, plots, or visual style to speak of. That's a film deserving of a rating between 1-3."The Green Slime", however, is directed with a visual flair reminiscent of Spielberg with his trademark push-ins on the actors, and its extremely well-paced. From the opening scene where we realize an asteroid is headed for Earth, there are only a couple of scenes that slow the action down from there, particularly before the "Alien" meets "The Blob" part of the plot kicks in on the space station. But otherwise, the story really moves with complication after complication getting in the way of our heroes succeeding in defeating this alien menace.Trust me, if you like B-movies, this is one to watch.