ANI-MOVIES, *Raiders Of Galaxy

No! Your eyes don't deceive you. The title of this Korean schlock movie is in fact Raiders Of Galaxy, completely leaving out the "The", even though there are some physical releases that have the proper sentence structure. Originally called Super Majingga 3, this unauthorized 1982 Super Mazinger rip-off falls into the same ranks of Johnny Destiny: Space Ninja and Defenders Of Space as it takes existing Japanese anime and mixes them into a one big sham meant to swindle money from hungry fans of giant robots. Written and directed by Seung-Cheol Park, this was one in a series of mecha bootleg movies like Space Transformers and Solar Adventure by Korean studios trying to appeal to those who got really thirsty for the Shogun Warriors toy line. A dub for it was picked up by Joesph Lai and his crew at IFD Films who are famous for releasing several Asian martial arts movies with the word "Ninja" in the title like Bionic Ninja, Cobra Against Ninja, and various incarnations of the endless Golden Ninja franchise. This film is plagued with bad dubbing, terrible animation, and flagrantly terrible dialogue like "I'm dying! I'm dying! The great Dr. Or is dying! It's such a genius as I am dying! This is what a genius deserves!"

An evil alien armada is planning on taking over the Solar System and specifically Earth. Fortunately, we already had a giant robot ready to counter this called Mazinga which is a humanoid mecha with a pair of detachable jets and rocket punches. The aliens have their own Transformer flying saucer and a giant red mecha canine for Mazinga to fight. The crew is made up of three male pilots and two females, but they're all dubbed by women, so the two teenage boys in it sound like they haven't gone through puberty yet. The movie is mostly dragged out spaceship battles and long takes of the robot just flying through the galaxy with the nothing but the crappy musical score playing.

Raiders Of Galaxy is one of the better efforts at Korea's attempts to crack into the toy robot market with their knockoff animation instead of just coming out with their own original creations. It's no Johnny Ninja, but it does have some laughable segments in it like a blue skinned alien commander with derpy eyes. Ultimately, you would be better off just playing one of those old broken Engrish video games with terrible translations.