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{{quote|''"Oh, I know a song about [[Stock Footage]]. It goes like this: [[Minsky Pickup|da-da-dadaDAda]]---EAT IT, MOVIE! TAKE THIS STUPID LITTLE COCKROACH OF A FILM, ROLL IT UP'' SOOOOO ''TIGHT, AND THEN RAM IT RIGHT UP YOUR (''[[Curse Cut Short|Breaks down in sobs]]'')"''|'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Tom Servo]]'''}}
A 1961 sci-fi flick (''Uchū Kaisokusen'', or "The High-speed Spaceship", in the original Japanese) famous for its appearance by a young Sonny. 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 "[[Deflector Shields|electro-barrier]]", and Space <s>Chef</s> <s>Late</s> 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 ''[[Prince of Space]]'' with added World War II stock footage (featuring a delightful cameo by Adolf Hitler) but without [[So Bad
For the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode see ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)/Recap/S08 E19 Invasion of the Neptune Men|here]] ''.
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* [[Ace Pilot]]: We're apparently supposed to buy that Space Chief is one of these.
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* [[Cool Car]]: We're clearly supposed to think Space Chief's flying rocket car is super wicked sick, but even if it weren't made of cardboard and styrofoam you probably wouldn't want to have it.
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: The Neptune Men when disguised as humans feature men wearing heavy pancake makeup, lipstick and mascara.
* [[Hey
* [[Hong Kong Dub]]: The voices for the kids are incredibly stupid. Disregarding that, fairly standard for its time, but... gah, those stupid kids.
* [[Landmark of Lore]]: The Japanese Diet building and of course, The Hitler Building.
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** The kids are the ones to discover and report the aliens, find the piece of the spaceship that is blown off, and deliver the device that the aliens use to communicate with the humans. They even notice the disguised soldier aliens before anyone else. They're actually more useful than Space Chief is.
*** Bear in mind that they were just the first ones on-site in both instances. Anyone with a pair of working eyes...or, failing that, ''one'' working eye, would have been able to see what they did. And be a lot less shrill when telling people about it. And probably cut down on all the running time by having a driver's license and car.
* [[Non
** Barely-Off-The-Stupid-Ground-Chief.
** Of course, those idiot kids gave him the name, so it's hardly his fault.
* [[No Swastikas]]: Um...rather bizarrely and unintentionally averted.
* [[Overly
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: No-one seems to care that the kids are just wandering aimlessly around town.
* [[Serial Numbers Filed Off]]: [[Prince of Space|Alien invaders? Check. Mysterious superhero with the word "Space" in his name dedicated to fending off the invaders in his flying machine? Check. Roving gang of Japanese children? Check.]]
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