Being a ultrafan of Ultraman I can say that Hong Kong's efforts to create they're own version of Ultraman works without a hitch. Even I think the monsters could have been a little better in places. Like the spider monster's skin kind of looked like cloth. But other that that I think the monsters were a pretty cool design and considering they had no help from Japan in this I think this is an assume movie. Full of fun, action and well crafted characters. Now some of the dubbing is also on the cheesy side. But again that was minor on the grand scheme of things. If you really like Kung Fu movies or really like Ultraman series, then you must have a look at SUPER INFRAMAN. 9 out of 10 STARS.

I was lucky Enough to see this movie in the theater at the Idaho film festival in 2006 with four friends. we sat in the front row, and by the end of the movie we could not talk, and our lungs had collapsed. This was the first time in my life that I laughed so hard I bruised my side. It was so corny and cheesy and hilarious, Everything about that movie will leave you gasping for breath. When the dragon plush toy fell on the ground and it broke open, I laughed so hard I had to stand up to get a breath. Every time the lead character changed into infra man everyone clapped. and When the professor, and a soldier of Princess dragon mom, and one of her monster were casually riding in a boat, I fell on the floor gasping for breath, and the dude sitting next to me asked (giggling) If I was all right. This movie taste like cheese alright but on a fancy ten-dollar sub. Even though it it like power-rangers, Godzilla, and FLash-Gordon mixed in a Blender set on frappé, If you compare the story with either of them, It will come out on top, despite being ten times more ridiculous. It has more potency than any parody can ever possible aspire to. You could feel how serious it was when a monster flipped over a car (A Volkswagen) and it exploded for no reason three seconds later. The dubbing was done so horribly, it's the stuff the stereotypical Chinese dub comes from. It just about killed the crowd when Princess dragon mom stuttered out "You Join me! you will serve me and...uh..be on my side!".No movie will ever dish out as much serious ridiculous stuff as this one did. Buy it and watch it with a large group of friends, I guarantee a good time. It was by far the best movie to come out of 1975.

Let's get one thing out of the way right up front: Infra-Man is NOT a good movie, in fact, it's downright awful. Let's get another thing out of the way: it's a blast to watch anyway.Basically, Infra-Man is every Ultraman/Power Rangers cliché ever imagined rolled into a single movie. A heroic young fellow who's part of a barely explained government agency (that's clearly hi-tech, since everyone wears clothes made out of tin foil) volunteers to be turned into an overgrown action figure named Infra-Man to stop the evil Princess Dragon Mom and her band of mutants from destroying mankind. That's pretty much all the story thee is, and it all happens in the first ten minutes.Technically, Infra-Man is a spectacular mess. The pacing is terrible, with periods of incomprehensibly frantic speed sandwiched between stretches of mind-numbing boredom. None of the characters have any personality at all (they're more like props that talk) which is problematic, since none of them get more than half a second of introduction for us to get to know them. The acting is awful on it's own, and the pathetic dubbing only makes things worse. The `monsters' wouldn't even make it onto a Fox Kids show; The Banana Splits were scarier (and they had better special effects, too). Lapses in logic abound (Why does Princess Dragon Mom call us `Earthlings' when she's a `prehistoric super human'? How does every one know to shout `Infra-Man!' when the hero first appears when he's only been around for about thirty seconds? Why does our hero suddenly jump from being powered by a nuclear battery to solar power? Why is he even called `Infra-Man' when he has nothing to do with anything infrared? Why does She-Devil always look so bored?) but the film is clearly a lost cause at this point.Yet, Infra-Man is an absolute blast. Why? Simple: it's one of those few movies that's so deliriously bad that you can't help but laugh. All that bright and colorful spandex jumping around, the absurdly over done sound effects, the almost seizure-like bad acting, the almost nonexistent special effects, and the complete absence of plot are thrown at the viewer at a speed and volume that is mesmerizing simply because we can't believe anyone would actually do this sort of thing. It's all so grossly bad that you can't help but be entertained by it, sort of like a fart but with spandex and monsters.Every other reviewer so far has apparently been so swept up in watching this cinematic train wreck that they actually call it good, but don't be fooled. No one is laughing WITH Infra-Man, we're all laughing AT it; and in that sense, it's a blast.

I saw this movie when it was first released to theaters in the US in 1975 as Inframan. The mid 70s were the days of Johnny Socko and Ultraman, so Inframan kind of felt like a souped up version of those.The fact that I remember seeing this movie so vividly, even after 28 years have gone by, should be some indication that it's at least not humdrum. Sure, the monsters are fake, and the plot is ludicrous, but you aren't MEANT to take Inframan any more seriously than you did Ultraman (if you ever watched that show). This movie is nothing more (and nothing less!) than campy Japanese techno-samurai heroics at its Technicolor best.Inframan does amazingly gymnastic things and defeats amazingly craptacular foes, and does so with great style and lots of intense colors. Though I was too young to have tried any hallucinogens back in 1975, I can say now, after more life experience, that this IS the kind of movie you would greatly enjoy while on hallucinogens; and even if you aren't tripping when you watch this movie, you'll get some of that same feel anyway. It's just that kind of movie. ;)