I first saw this on tv years ago as a kid at some point in the late 1980's. I still love watching it, the awsome jets, the monsters, the Ultra-beings, the fights;I just wish there was more to watch, like a tv series. The movie obviously would have been a pilot for a series. I guess this was one of my early encounters with anime in the 80s. It's what also helped get me hooked as an anike fan. It sure matched the style of anime I've seen in the 1980s. Another type of what was technically anime were the videos that were go with a toy Jet XT-7 from "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future". The 3 viscious monsters out of the 4 are to me, still some of the baddest daikaiju monsters around. This was also the movie that sparked my interest in Ultraman in general. This animated version is one of the best versions of Ultraman ever made. I've heard of another animated Ultraman made in the late 70's or early 80's, but I've never seen it before. Someone else said about how if this movie was made into a live action, keeping all the monsters, jets, and top FX, this movie would have been the bomb, well, it's the bomb anyway, animated or not.

Those of us who grew up in the late 60's might remember a syndicated English-dubbed Japanese series that featured a red-and-silver giant battling equally-large monsters. The giant was ULTRAMAN.

This tape features a made-for-TV animated movie made in cooperation with Hanna-Barbara, the studio that gave us everything from The Flintstones to Scooby-Doo to Yogi Bear. Here three American stunt pilots merge with 3 extraterrestrial defenders to help save Earth from the invading Sorkan monsters.

With voices including Stacey Keach, Sr., Adrienne Barbeau, and Chad Everett, this feature gives classic Ultra-action with a definite American flavor. There are some pacing difficulties, including some scenes that seem to be shoved in at the last minute and obvious "pauses for a commercial break," but the story is still pure Ultraman. END