Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

ferbs54 Just refamiliarized myself with the Japanese/American coproduction "The Green Slime" (1969), which I had not seen in many years. In this one, directed by Kinji Fukasaku, space station he-men Robert Horton and Richard Jaeckel, along with a few others, rocket off to an asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth and blow it to smithereens, but unfortunately, they also bring back to the space station traces of the titular slime. The slime somehow makes it through the decontamination process and quickly morphs into two-legged, one-eyed monsters that squeak and suck energy and electrocute with their flailing tentacles. The two men sure do have their hands full, when not bickering with each other and trying to impress redheaded hotty doctor Lucianna Paluzzi, who looks very fetching indeed. (Could this redheaded female head doctor have possibly been the inspiration for the Beverly Crusher character on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"?) Though deemed quite justifiably a camp classic today, the film yet has many fine aspects to commend itself to the viewer. It is as fun as can be, and the FX range from the hokey to the surprisingly effective. I love that shot of the flaming space station as it falls to Earth at the end; GREAT FX there! And although "The Blob" usually gets the award for the monster movie with the best theme song, the psychedelic number that plays during "The Green Slime"'s opening credits is at least as good, if not better. All in all, most entertaining, and the print that TCM showed recently was absolutely pristine looking and gorgeous to look at....

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.

Leofwine_draca THE GREEN SLIME is an unwieldy space opera-cum-monster flick, a Japanese-American-Italian co-production filmed in Japan with a mainly American cast. The director is none other than Kinji Fukasaku, better known to today's audiences as the man behind BATTLE ROYALE, and this must be one of his worst films. The problem with it is that it's incredibly dated, full of shoddy special effects, '60s dancing, fashions, and hairdos, and with an uneven pacing even this fan of B-movies found it hard to watch. The storyline is nothing new, and throws in all of the usual ingredients including a love triangle between the heroes, a mad scientist who can only think of the greater good, ray guns, tentacle-waving one-eyed aliens and much, much more.Robert Horton is the stiff hero battling the creatures, although I preferred Richard Jaeckel as the tough commander who screws up time and time again. Lending some glamour is '60s Italian babe Luciana Paluzzi, whose turn in THUNDERBALL catapulted her to world stardom. There are a ton of special effects in this film which are all Japanese-made, so the emphasis is on quantity over quality. The rubber-suited aliens take some beating, but shoddy scenery, ray gun effects, and awful-looking space miniatures are also thrown into the brew. This is undoubtedly one of the cheesiest films I've ever watched, which may be a recommendation for some bad film lovers. It's a lot of fun if you can get over all of the factors stacked against it.

moonspinner55 Rather like "Them!" set in outer space: two adversarial Commanders, in love with the same woman, battle alien creatures brought on-board a space-station in the form of a slimy green ooze (lit from within!). The electromagnet slime reproduces itself while thriving on energy, eventually giving birth to screeching, one-eyed creatures with furiously waving tentacles (their high-pitched chatter is effective, the monsters are not). B-grade sci-fi was a joint effort from the U.S. and Japan, with M-G-M handling distribution duties Stateside. It has a cartoony sensibility--and a candy-colored appearance--that's fun for cult audiences; all others, beware! Title song mixes rock and soul for a vaguely blaxploitation feel, years ahead of its time. ** from ****