5/5 I love this movie.......
  by The Book Lover
It has been a long time since I have enjoyed a movie this much.
I love everything about it. Don't read another review----get the movie. You will love it.
Don't read too much about it first. Let everything be a surprise to you. Watch it for the sheer enjoyment of everything in the movie--Watch it now!

4/5 i love the japanese and their women are super hot
  by B. Lafave (lakeland , fl)
this an absurdly unique , bizarre and hilarious film . if you must know a great deal about a film before you put it in your GUEUE on the FLIX , you may wish to read other reviws (preferably the 4 and 5 star ones) . then again you are sitting at a computer right now . how this picture will strike you depends on your sense of humor . this is college level humor . if you like that , then go all in because this cat has made a really funny and ultra odd movie you'll reference a lot in conversation with like minded friends and family . don't get me wrong , i like extra dumb humor as well . so in summation , if films like "A MIGHTY WIND" , "WAITING FOR GUFFMAN" , "SPINAL TAP" and "BEST IN SHOW" are your thing (see all things CHRISTOPHER GUEST) , you're probably gonna like it . otherwise FALL OUT . yonyone .

3/5 Bizarre and amusing spoof of the Japanese big monster flick
  by Nathan Andersen (Florida)
Daisato is an ordinary guy, divorced and living in squalor in a small house, taking care of his senile grandfather and trying to make ends meet by carrying on the family business. As it turns out, the family business involves electrocuting themselves until they turn into a gigantic superhero to protect Japan against a whole host of huge marauding monsters. Once revered as national heroes, the latest generation "Big Man Japan" is barely tolerated, and needs to tattoo brand names of sponsors on his body in order to supplement his small government stipend.

Big Man Japan is filmed in the style of a fake documentary, that follows Daisato through his ordinary and utterly mundane daily routine, interviewing friends and acquaintances along the way. Since he's always "on call" we also get to witness the occasional super monster match, in a style that alternates between silly CGI and low budget Power-Rangers type effects. It's all played for laughs, with a peculiar brand of humor - not jokes, but a kind of deadpan bizarre, and of course the main joke is that even giant superheroes have the kind of small problems that can become huge pains. Like Hancock meets Spinal Tap meets Mothra after drinking far too much sake. Lots of fun for the right folks in the right mood.

2/5 COULD'VE BEEN BETTER.......
  by Paul Leitzel
Yes, could have been better with better, faster pacing!
BIG MAN JAPAN is a satire of Japanese monster movies and Superhero shows, and had they gone with a faster pace and more depth in the story, could've been great.
Movie is done in sort of an "interview", documentary style, and that wasn't a bad idea, its just that they spend too much time talking and the action is rather limited, and when it does occur, it is rather short in duration.
Story involves the human alter-ego of a giant Sumo-like superhero and his "adventures". Seems he is the 6th in line of a group of similar heroes, but he himself is very unpopular and widely disliked because of his clumsiness during his battles with the monsters.
Said"monsters" are outrageously designed critters that all have human faces except for one with a giant eye. The effects ARE pretty good, and the hero and the monsters really do look as big as they are supposed to be, but the action sequences are not very exciting, nor do they last long.
There are a few genuinely funny moments, but they are few. You must be familiar with Japanese superhero shows like "Ultraman" to have any idea what is going on here. Worst of all, the ending!!All I can say is ....WTF!!!! Has nothing to do with the pace of the story and only serves to show this is a parody of "Ultraman', and not a good one at that!
The basic problem is that the movie is too slow-paced, it it mostly talk with the hero and the off camera interviewer, and when the action occurs it just isn't enough to save the movie from being an utter bore. At least "Monster x Strikes Back" has better pacing than this one, and that certainly wasn't a good movie!
So Japanese monster lovers...be warned, this just isn't as good as it sounds or as good as it easily could have been!

3/5 Objects may appear larger than they seem
  by SKOLVK (TUCSON)
And this movie by appear funnier than it really is. Big Man Japan showed a lot of promise. I was hoping that was would be comparable to a film like "Kung Fu Hustle" in imagination and hilarity. Maybe I set the standards too high. Big Man Japan tells the harrowing tale of a middle aged loser who, by electrocuting himself via nipple clamps, can transform into a bigger middle aged loser wearing a diaper. As "Big Man Japan" he uses his abilities(or lack there of) to defend Japan from an array of ridiculous monsters. For example, one monster is a head with a foot, one monster has rubber band arms. While fighting these monsters he causes massive amounts of property damage and the populous begins to hate and ostracize him. The film is shot like a documentary with a journalist following Big Man( in his common human form) around has he mopes around and attempts to see daughter and Ex-wife. When the journalist asks him questions Big Man mumbles and answers in two word replies. I think the writer was trying to establish him as the lovable loser type but it didn't take long for me to dislike him as much the Japanese citizens. The longer interview scenes where painful and I found myself waiting for him to fight the next strange creature but even when that happened it was disappointing half of the time. Though some of the fights and creatures where pretty funny, the movie only got a few chuckles from me and my friends. It's one of those movies where the trailer in funnier than the film.