Released the same year as "2001: A Space Odyssey" this US/Japan co-production is embarrassingly dated and ridiculously campy compared to that Stanley Kubric classic. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, who at this same time was directing some excellent, very tough Yakuza films and who'd later go on to direct the cult classic "Battle Royale," but this film lacks those films production values and most importantly a decent script. The set up for "The Green Slime" isn't all that bad. A giant asteroid is headed towards earth so a gigantic spaceship is sent out to intercept it. What ends up happening after they blow it up is the space adventurers inadvertently bring back the titular slime, which then mutates into some embarrassingly stupid looking one-eyed tentacled creatures. On the positive side, I did enjoy the colorful 1960s production design, which had a nicely campy Mad Men feel. I also found Fukasaku's overuse of dramatic zooms entertainingly goofy, adding to the film's camp value. Overall this is a terrible film that can only be enjoyed on a so-bad-it's-good level of entertainment, which did entertain me.

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.

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.

Okay; in short: An asteroid is about to crash Earth, so some guys are send up there to blast the thing. An alien creature (in the shape of some green goo) comes back to a space station by accident. There, it grows and eventually ends up killing a few people. The acting is.. well.. just fine. Nothing really outstanding or horrible to report. The Russian female character got on my nerves at some point though.The monsters in this movie look really silly and hardly scary. The noises they make tend to annoy you sooner or later.It's an okay B movie, but nothing more then that.On a side note, it does have a catchy theme tune in the beginning.5 out of 10 stars.