History Film / InvasionOfTheNeptuneMen

** StockFootageFailure: Infamous for using footage from UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in what is supposed to be a kid's movie. Including the Hitler Building.

A 1961 sci-fi flick (''Uchū Kaisokusen'', or "The High-speed Spaceship", in the original Japanese) famous for its appearance by a young Creator/SonnyChiba. What little plot there is concerns a gang of nameless Japanese children wandering around town and running into an invasion by the titular torpedo-headed Neptune men, some sort of "[[DeflectorShields electro-barrier]]", and Space [[strike:Chef]] [[strike:Late]] Chief (''Iron-Sharp'' in the original), a superhero and "ineffectual chicken-headed bachelor" dedicated to fighting the Neptunian menace. Aside from that, it's pretty much ''PrinceOfSpace'' with added World War II stock footage (featuring a delightful cameo by Adolf Hitler) but without [[SoBadItsGood the charm of the Chicken Men of Krankor]].

* TheyJustDidntCare: The sound effect for the Mother Ship is of a ''propeller plane'', despite it obviously not having an propellers

* NonindicativeName: Space Chief is never seen to go into space. He's more like Lower Atmosphere Chief, really. Or Barely-Off-The-Stupid-Ground-Chief. Of course, those idiot kids gave him t"he name, so it's hardly his fault.
** In the original Japanese release he was known as "Ironsharp," apparently. This isn't really any better than Space Chief, since neither his ship or his superhero costume imply sharpness, with the possibly exception of his tablesaw helmet.

* GratuitousNazis: The infamous "Hitler Building," a stock footage building featuring a gigantic mural of AdolfHitler. It appears for a split second before getting blown up, and is never mentioned again.

* AlienInvasion: A particularly slow, lumbering invasion with endlessly looped stock footage. They try to spice things up by disguising the aliens as a brigade of transvestite soldiers, but it's still one of the least exciting struggles for mankind's future ever filmed.

** Even the normal voices are weird, since the above-mentioned BlindIdiotTranslation means that not only are the lines completely alien to normal English conversation, there's also the problem of matching up that dialog with the Japanese actors' lip movements. The result is something like Creator/WilliamShatner and Burgess Meredith doing a cold recitation of a particularly pause-heavy HaroldPinter play after a few strong drinks--except without a scintilla of the entertainment value such a recitation would provide.

** Even the normal voices are weird, since the above-mentioned BlindIdiotTranslation means that not only are the lines completely alien to normal English conversation, there's also the problem of matching up that dialog with the Japanese actors' lip movements. The result is something like WilliamShatner and Burgess Meredith doing a cold recitation of a particularly pause-heavy HaroldPinter play after a few strong drinks--except without a scintilla of the entertainment value such a recitation would provide.

** Even the normal voices are weird, since the above-mentioned BlindIdiotTranslation means that not only are the lines completely alien to normal English conversation, there's also the problem of matching up that dialog with the Japanese actors' lip movements. The result is something like WilliamShatner and BurgessMeredith doing a cold recitation of a particularly pause-heavy HaroldPinter play after a few strong drinks--except without a scintilla of the entertainment value such a recitation would provide.

* NonindicativeName: Space Chief is never seen to go into space. He's more like Lower Atmosphere Chief, really.
** Barely-Off-The-Stupid-Ground-Chief.
** Of course, those idiot kids gave him the name, so it's hardly his fault.
** In the original Japanese release he was known as Ironsharp, apparently. This isn't really any better than Space Chief, since neither his ship or his superhero costume imply sharpness, with the possibly exception of his tablesaw helmet.
* NoSwastikas: Rather bizarrely and unintentionally averted with the infamous "Hitler Building," a stock footage building featuring a gigantic mural of AdolfHitler.

* StockFootage: Lots...
** StockFootageFailure: You could say that.

* WorldWarII: Most infamous for using StockFootage from it in what is supposed to be a kid's movie. Including the Hitler Building.

* [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation Overly Long Fighting Scene]]: The infamous final showdown between Space Chief and the Neptunians lasts longer than most Yes songs and is pretty much composed of the same few shots repeated ''ad nauseum''.

* FreeRangeChildren: The kids' parents are not only never seen, they're never even ''mentioned''. They're so free-range, in fact, they don't even have ''names''.

* LandmarkOfLore: The Japanese Diet building and of course, The Hitler Building.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Many mishear the names Rojium and Tanium (radioactive elements named after two scientists in the film) as "Roji-Panty". The fact this is ''never actually explained'' in the English dub (and in which all the character names are changed around anyway) doesn't help matters.

A 1961 sci-fi flick (''Uchū Kaisokusen'', or "The High-speed Spaceship", in the original Japanese) famous for its appearance by a young SonnyChiba. What little plot there is concerns a gang of nameless Japanese children wandering around town and running into an invasion by the titular torpedo-headed Neptune men, some sort of "[[DeflectorShields electro-barrier]]", and Space [[strike:Chef]] [[strike:Late]] Chief (''Iron-Sharp'' in the original), a superhero and "ineffectual chicken-headed bachelor" dedicated to fighting the Neptunian menace. Aside from that, it's pretty much ''PrinceOfSpace'' with added World War II stock footage (featuring a delightful cameo by Adolf Hitler) but without [[SoBadItsGood the charm of the Chicken Men of Krankor]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: This movie stars then 22 year old Sonny Chiba.

* NoSwastikas: Rather bizarrely and unintentionally averted thanks with the infamous "Hitler Building," a stock footage building featuring a gigantic mural of AdolfHitler.

* AdolfHitler: Whose building gets blown up.

* NoSwastikas: Rather bizarrely and unintentionally averted.
* [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation Overly Long Fighting Scene]]: The infamous final showdown between Space Chief and the Neptunians lasts longer than most Yes songs and is composed of the same five shots repeated ''ad nauseum''.

* NoSwastikas: Um...rather bizarrely and unintentionally averted.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Many mishear Rojium-Tanium (a radioactive element named after two scientists in the film) as "Roji-Panty".

** Not to mention the "Ro-G Panty Complex".

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