As a kid I used to enjoy this particular Godzilla film as it featured two foes for Godzilla and a robot to aid Godzilla. As I look back on it, I am not as fond of it. For one, there is just a lot of footage from other Godzilla films, mainly Godzilla versus Gigan. For another, it is just kind of weird and not in the Godzilla versus Hedorah good way either. At the same time I don't really count it as the low point of the Showa era either as I give that award to the Godzilla film titled Godzilla's Revenge in the United States. Granted, I would assume it goes by another name in Japan as Godzilla does not get any revenge in the film. There were other Godzilla films I liked less than this one, but this is the one I am reviewing today. This one also is one of two Godzilla films to get the MST3K treatment. The other being Godzilla versus the Sea Monster, which I find to be a good entry into the Godzilla series during its initial run.
The story has nuclear testing affecting things quite adversely as Monster Island where Godzilla resides is exploding and stuff right at the beginning. Also affected is a place known as Seatopia which is an underwater kingdom like Atlantis. They have had enough and unleash their monster, Megalon, to bring the world to its knees. For some reason they also need an inventor's robot as the monster Megalon needs to follow something in order to stay focused. The inventor, along with a kid who is either his brother or son and a dude who is like an action type guy must get Jet Jaguar out of the clutches of the Seatopians and use it to get Godzilla to fight off the terrible Megalon! If that were not bad enough, the space cockroaches who were clearly beaten in the last movie for reasons unknown agree to work with the Seatopians and lend out their monster Gigan!
This film made for a very funny episode of MST3K as there is just so much strange stuff going on! Seriously, why the heck did they show people go up and down the steps of that one house so many times? There is also the fact air conditioners are hung in said house and the whole strange living arrangement too. Perhaps, how they were related was explained more in the Japanese cut of this? I enjoyed the final fight as the gang started making it out to be a heavyweight fight!
So not the best Godzilla film, not by a long shot. Someone said it was better than Godzilla versus Gigan, but I preferred that one better as I liked the characters in that one better and the whole trying to uncover the identity of the strange duo running the Godzilla Tower. Here, we get the strange trio, but when I look at it know it reminds me of Johnny Quest as we have the inventor, the boy and the more athletic racing type. They just needed to add another kid and a dog. Jet Jaguar was apparently designed by a kid as they had a contest for kids to enter to design the robot, kind of surprised they went with one that is obviously just Ultraman with more colors. Still though, it still has a fond place in my heart because it did provide me with entertainment anytime I saw it as a child.
The story has nuclear testing affecting things quite adversely as Monster Island where Godzilla resides is exploding and stuff right at the beginning. Also affected is a place known as Seatopia which is an underwater kingdom like Atlantis. They have had enough and unleash their monster, Megalon, to bring the world to its knees. For some reason they also need an inventor's robot as the monster Megalon needs to follow something in order to stay focused. The inventor, along with a kid who is either his brother or son and a dude who is like an action type guy must get Jet Jaguar out of the clutches of the Seatopians and use it to get Godzilla to fight off the terrible Megalon! If that were not bad enough, the space cockroaches who were clearly beaten in the last movie for reasons unknown agree to work with the Seatopians and lend out their monster Gigan!
This film made for a very funny episode of MST3K as there is just so much strange stuff going on! Seriously, why the heck did they show people go up and down the steps of that one house so many times? There is also the fact air conditioners are hung in said house and the whole strange living arrangement too. Perhaps, how they were related was explained more in the Japanese cut of this? I enjoyed the final fight as the gang started making it out to be a heavyweight fight!
So not the best Godzilla film, not by a long shot. Someone said it was better than Godzilla versus Gigan, but I preferred that one better as I liked the characters in that one better and the whole trying to uncover the identity of the strange duo running the Godzilla Tower. Here, we get the strange trio, but when I look at it know it reminds me of Johnny Quest as we have the inventor, the boy and the more athletic racing type. They just needed to add another kid and a dog. Jet Jaguar was apparently designed by a kid as they had a contest for kids to enter to design the robot, kind of surprised they went with one that is obviously just Ultraman with more colors. Still though, it still has a fond place in my heart because it did provide me with entertainment anytime I saw it as a child.