YMMV / Hanuman vs. 7 Ultraman

• Designated Hero: While one is inclined to give Hanuman some slack, being the result of a murdered child fused with a god and set upon his killers, Hanuman takes far too much joy in violently torturing and killing people. There's a scene where he has a grand old time ripping a monster's flesh off down to the bone.
• Designated Villain: The kaiju were merely awakened by scientists' attempts to launch artificial rain and went on a rampage due to being disturbed, yet they are brutally ganged on by Hanuman and the Ultra Brothers and suffer graphic deaths, with nary a reference to them being Non-Malicious Monsters like more sympathetic entries of the Ultra Series would make.
• Funny Background Event: When Hanuman grabs the last temple robber and prepares to kill him. There's a shot where said robber is screaming terror. In the background behind him, you can clearly see a man just casually strolling through the temple grounds, not acknowledging what's happening at all.
• Narm:
  • Koh's reaction to being shot in the head is hard not to laugh at as he screams like Tom.
  • Hanuman's flight pose. Whilst it's meant to invoke the shape of a "卐", the execution fails at being awe-inspiring and incites laughter instead.
• Nightmare Fuel: Some of the violence, like the bit where Hanuman kills the thieves. Jeezus, for a divine superhero, he's pretty brutal. Not to mention he acts like a complete sadist during it and laughs as he crushes the last one with his hands as blood gushes from his hands.
  • In the Chinese dub Hanuman is laughing like a maniac the whole time he's chasing the last robber around the ruins, clearly taking joy in the man's fear.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: These days, the movie is more notorious in the Ultra Series fandom for the legal battle that ensued from it between Chaiyo and Tsuburaya Productions over the legal rights to Ultraman.
• The Scrappy: Sipuak and Sisuliya, the comic duo who come off to a lot of viewers as less funny, more annoying.
• So Bad, It's Good: Despite the ensuing controversy that came from the film, it definitely can be this on its own merit and with the right mindset.
• Special Effect Failure: The kaiju suits are pretty low-quality in this film. Gomora especially stands out, as while the other four suits were directly reused from the ones used in Ultraman Taro and Mirrorman, Gomora's suit is a low-quality suit used for stage shows and attractions.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Surprisingly for a science-fiction series like Ultraman, the movie has a very anti-science bent to it. The main scientist is criticized for his faith in science above religion and most of the bad stuff that happens in the second half is because of his faith in technology meanwhile the characters who put their faith in religion are the ones who fix most of the problems. As if that's not anti-science enough, this movie showed Geocentric model of the Solar System, which by 20th century has throughoutly superseded by Heliocentric model. An adult movie with this message would be controversial today, a kid movie with this message could never be made today.
  • While Hanuman killing the three thieves for shooting Koh carries some justification, the violent way he does it is seen as unnecessarily brutal by most viewers outside of Thailand. However, given the importance of Buddhism in Thailand, the thieves' actions of vandalism of a Buddha's statue in addition to shooting Koh would be far more heinous to Thai viewers, making their graphic deaths feel more deserved.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: This film was promoted as being "fun for the whole family". It features a child being shot in the head, Hanuman brutally murdering the temple thieves and decapitating Gomora. It also shows some brief female nudity in the scene where Mother of Ultra resurrects Koh, in which she's suddenly replaced by a woman with massive, bare breasts wearing her helmet.

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