This is the best Gamera film ever the effects are awesome and Gamera looks scary in this film and he has a super fire breath that destroys everything. Irys looks very good and dangerous. Good acting good plot, Great CGI effects and Awesome monster battles. It's the best of the trilogy of the 90s. I like the graveyard of Gameras. And that crazy motherf**ker Kurata says that Gamera is a vessel but in the end he gets his ass kicked. Gamera loses his arm in the end and Irys is finally defeated. Shusuke Kaneko really knows how to make a movie. I love this movie is so bad ass great movie i like it awesome. The best of the Gamera series.

I enjoyed all three movies in this set of films of Gamera from the 90's. This one had only a couple of issues or it could have been the best of the bunch, instead of being on par with the other two. One, one the blu ray I had the subtitles were kind of off in that it would not show what the characters were saying all the time. I ended up missing huge tracts of dialog thus being a bit confused about these two characters who seemed shady, but I just could not tell what their motivations were. Another problem is the fights just are not as good as the one's in Attack of Legion. Still, I liked the opposing monster's origin in this one as it is not just a random type attack as the Legion monsters seemed to be, but an off shoot of the monster Gyaos, whom Gamera faced off in the first film. In fact, he faces off against a couple here too. A young girl whose parents died during Gamera's fight with Gyaos hates the giant turtle because she blames him for their deaths (though I blame the cat). She wants revenge, but how is a girl going to fight the super powerful giant turtle? Well she ends up entering a forbidden cave and finds a monster, a cute critter she names Iris. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is being overrun by a bunch of the Gyaos monsters. Suffice to say things are getting out of control as the humans still try to decide if Gamera is friend or foe, though Gamera does not exactly endear himself during his fight with Gyaos in a crowded city. Good film, just needed a bit more on the final fight and I could have used better subtitling on the disc though that really is not the fault of the makers of the film. The ending is somewhat somber, and leaves you wondering what is going to happen, and it is an answer you are going to have to come up with on your own. Are you a positive thinker, or negative one?

Announcer: ... and this just in from Paris, a major nuclear catastrophe wiping out the entire Kingdom of Great Britain. But now we go to the big news of the day, that the recently retired King of Monsters, Godzilla, has brought to court a suit of plagiarism against longtime rival, Gamera, the flying turtle. And we are fortunate to have Godzilla and Gamera in the studio with us today. Godzilla, what made you decide to bring this suit to court so late in your career.God.: Well, I put off watching "Retard of Iris" for a long time, but one day, Rodan and me were having a few beers, so we popped it in and long before the movie ended, I realized i was watching pretty much the whole of my "Heisei" period distilled into some school-girl fantasy of what a Kaiju film might be. Gam.: Hold on there, lizard breath. We kaiju are a special breed. unfortunately that means there's just so many things we can do, then we have to do them all over again. How many times have you stomped Tokyo? How many ways are there that Tokyo can be stomped. I mean, let's be honest. God.: Honest?! There hasn't been a single movie you made that didn't steal something from one of mine - what about that monster of yours with the same name as one of mine, Baragon? Gam.: My monster's name is BarUgAn. In Japanese, inflection is everything. And then you had the gall to name some kid's rubber-suit fantasy bully directly after me in "Godzilla's Revenge". God.: I didn't make that movie! Honda took some of my home movies and patched them together, that material was not for public viewing. Gam.: Most of your films are not for public viewing, I mean they are SO bad! God.: Some of your later '60s stuff is such a mess, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. All those silly ten-year-old kids - are you a pedophile by any chance, shell-head? Announcer: Gentlemonsters, please - our audience! Gam.: Old nuke-for-brains here just doesn't get it - we are all made for children, that's why we're so lovable. God.: "Loveable"?! I'll have you know that when Ghidrah and me destroyed Tokyo in my last film, the audience held it's breath to see if it was still alive. Gam.: If that made sense, it would still sound stupid. Besides, didn't you think my fisting the bad-thing in "Revenge (that's REVENGE - you're the only retard here!) of Iris" in order to pull the girl out of its gut - now that's pretty darn awesome, if I do say so myself. God.: well, you're the only one who would say that. The fact remains that the Iris bad-thing is a direct rip-off of my enemy Biolante. Gam.: So who would know? That film bombed at the box-office. Besides, all that romantic mushy stuff - look, kids want to see kids; having a kid form an empathic connection with a beastie.... God.: is a direct rip-off of my Heisei series, but also of my big last battle with the "Terror of Mechagodzilla" in the Showa series. Admit it, I had your formula down to a science before you were ever born! Gam.: At least I WAS born, you keep getting 'created" by one human mistake or other. That's why kids like me - I'm really THERE, I mean, I have a heart, a soul, some kind of intelligence.... God.: Yeah, and you light your farts to fly! Gam.: You cheap dinner for lizard-mites! You tried to convince the world you killed me off in "Tokyo SOS"! Well, I got the last laugh, I think. You destroyed the world in "Final Wars", whereas I been born again in "The Brave" (2006). God.: See that's your problem - "born again" - religious hypocrite! The only thing born again about you is that all my ideas get born again in your movies! Gam.: If you ever had an idea, you wouldn't know what to do with it! At least I got the guts to risk doing it over and over again - I love the children in my audience, they're great fans, and they deserve a turtle hero; we all do. God.: It's "heroes" like you make my stomach turn. Tokyo is for stomping; saving it is an embarrassing display of something nearly (UGH!) human. Gam.: So that's what it comes down to! You just don't like people, do you?! God.: The earth was made for monsters! Gam.: and if that's the case, I deserve my place on it too.Announcer: Mr. Godzilla, Mr. Gamera - I see we've run out of time, thank you for stopping by. One last question, this from a member of the audience just phoned in: Mr. Godzilla: bottom-line for "Revenge of Iris" - is it worth watching at all? God.: Well, yeah... it's kind of entertaining; if you like that sort of thing.

well, this is a well crafted monster movie, which mixes easily and seamlessly enough SFX, CGI and traditional men in suit & miniatures in perfect 1990's style. There are many ideas coming back & forth with TOHO movies. There is the idea of a stone keeping some mysterious monster from hatching, as in monsters all out attack from Toho & a chapter of the latest Mosura trilogy. There is an underdeveloped subplot about reading ancient legends talking about guardian monsters ( all out attack from Toho again ). There is some girl with telepathic ability ( again another popular character in a few recent Godzilla movies ). This time tables turn and Gamera must face the resentment of a girl whose family he accidentally murdered while battling the gyayos. Such girl will remove the seal-stone & allow some mysterious monster to hatch, which she will fusion with later (lots of alien-styled scenes of her into the monster's mucous egg-cave ). The new monster is some sort of Gyayos with tentacles ( a cross-breed with legion? ) and instead of eating people, he reduces them to dried up mummies (another plot seen many times from Star Trek onwards, EG sucking life energy from living creatures etc ). So Gamera must fight him ( in symbiosis with the girl ) while he's alone this time. Cameo for the girl who used to fusion with him on an emotional level. There is another unexplored subplot about many gyayos birds wreacking havoc all around the world. A further subplots involves a graveyard of dead gameras somewhere in the deep sea...said to be beta versions of the last Gamera, but it ends there. All in all an enjoyable movie, though plagued by too many clichés and deja vus from other movies. SFX are very good and the plot (however not the most original ) flows uninterrupted by unneeded character development (many cameos of traditional recent Gamera movies' characters ).