If GODZILLA'S REVENGE proves anything, it's this: GODZILLA CANNOT BE DESTROYED! Bullets, bombs, tanks, torpedos, missiles, poison gas, electrocution, active volcanos, an artificial black hole- NOT EVEN THE OXYGEN DESTROYER!
Even deadlier than all of the above combined:
GODZILLA'S REVENGE!!!
This klunker has it all-a ridiculous storyline, lots of stock footage, and two of the most pathetic kaiju in cinema history; one, a Barney-type mutant who talks, the other, a giant poodle/toad thingie that serves no real purpose whatever.
By all rights, this could have easily ended the Godzilla franchise then and there. However, the Big G bounces right back, proving you can't keep a good kaiju down. Not even with an Oxygen Destroyer or a really bad G flick like this one. (Hopefully, the same can be said of King Kong, whose name has been dragged through the mud by the abomination KING KONG LIVES. Stay tuned.) For those of you whose only exposure to Godzilla was GODZILLA'S REVENGE, trust me-this is as bad as it gets. The rest is uphill from there.
As a matter of fact, GOJIRA (1954) is my #1 all time favorite movie.
As for GODZILLA'S REVENGE, avoid this one at all costs.
Rating: 1/2 * out of *****
Even deadlier than all of the above combined:
GODZILLA'S REVENGE!!!
This klunker has it all-a ridiculous storyline, lots of stock footage, and two of the most pathetic kaiju in cinema history; one, a Barney-type mutant who talks, the other, a giant poodle/toad thingie that serves no real purpose whatever.
By all rights, this could have easily ended the Godzilla franchise then and there. However, the Big G bounces right back, proving you can't keep a good kaiju down. Not even with an Oxygen Destroyer or a really bad G flick like this one. (Hopefully, the same can be said of King Kong, whose name has been dragged through the mud by the abomination KING KONG LIVES. Stay tuned.) For those of you whose only exposure to Godzilla was GODZILLA'S REVENGE, trust me-this is as bad as it gets. The rest is uphill from there.
As a matter of fact, GOJIRA (1954) is my #1 all time favorite movie.
As for GODZILLA'S REVENGE, avoid this one at all costs.
Rating: 1/2 * out of *****