Surprisingly incoherent and boring

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

InframanThe worst part of being a colossal man is that you have to have sex with tunnels.Luckily, the giant man in this sci-fi flick has been stripped of all sexual desires.A scientist at Science Headquarters transforms an average officer (Danny Lee) into a living weapon in order to defeat a recently resurrected demon princess and her skeleton ghost henchmen.While his enhanced martial arts and flashing thunder fists help him dispatch with most of her cronies, Inframan must tap his growth powers to squash the princess' biggest monster. Marking China's first foray into the superhero genre, this 1975 Shaw Brothers Studio contribution to the fledgling subgenre is absolutely unforgettable. While it's predominantly choreographed stage fights between elaborately dressed parties, this colourful kung fu movie has kaiju leanings once it comes to its monster-sized climax.Fortunately, China's smog is effect enough to kill off most any giant monster attacks.Yellow Light

For years, I never told ANYONE I had even SEEN that movie. And, I sure as HELL never told anyone that I had LIKED it! It was deserving of the title "cheesiest movie of the year" & could well have been nominated for the ALL-TIME award. Yet, I had enjoyed it. It became my secret shame.Then, one day, months, perhaps years later, my favorite Movie Critic, (with whom I agreed about 90% of the time), did something that made my heart sing & my soul feel relieved; Roger Ebert listed it as a "guilty pleasure"!Of all the THOUSANDS of movies he had seen in his career, one of only TEN listed, was INFRAMAN! This didn't prove my sanity, of course. But, it DID prove I was as sane as Roger Ebert & I'll take that any day.

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.