The idea is so preposterously stupid - and thoroughly executed - that it flips over into the realm of sheer genius. Graft the costumed clowning and theatric acrobatics of American wrestling to the grand Japanese traditions of kaiju (the rubber-suit monster movie genre, Godzilla et al.) and sentai (sci-fi superheroes like Ultraman) and you've got New York City's Kaiju Big Battel. True, the KBB experience is ideally a live one, but until some sharp and adventurous promoter succeeds in bringing the outfit to Montreal, the new Kaiju Big Battel: Shocking Truth DVD from Koch Vision will more than suffice. Superior in production values to their first DVD Terebi Sento, Shocking Truth goes beyond the fight footage, goofball sportscasting and fake commercials of the first, which were excellent enough as they were. It uses a faux-doc function to uncover the secrets of Dino Kang Jr.'s lair and track the "career" of good guy Silver Potato, and offers an intro explaining the KBB mythology to newbies. Foam rubber never rocked so hard! » Rupert Bottenberg