Hiroshi Ishikawa is a comic-book artist who needs the work, so he goes to work for a children's park, dominated by a building in the shape of Godzilla. After he is knocked out by hippies with a piece of corn, he goes to work with them, and discovers the people in charge of the park are space aliens who have loused up their own planet. They intend to take over the planet using evil monsters like Ghidrah and Gigan. Fortunately, the good monsters, led by Godzilla break out of Monster Island to defend the Earth.
The Godzilla franchise has certainly shifted its symbolic message. Originally a Japanese take on King Kong, with Godzilla representing the A-Bomb dropped on an innocent, peaceful Japan, decades of peace had transformed the image of the US/Godzilla into a strong and terrifyingly powerful monster who was nonetheless on the side of Japan when it could be bothered. There was also an increasing ecological message, at least since GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER..
All of that is besides the real appeal of the franchise and this movie, which is about guys in rubber suits stomping on models of Tokyo like a mean kid kicking over a sand castle, and fighting other guys in rubber suits and the occasional puppet monsters. Although the green lightning bolts that Gidrah shoots out of its mouths at the good guys (so to speak) look pretty cheesy, the rest of it looks up to par.
The Godzilla franchise has certainly shifted its symbolic message. Originally a Japanese take on King Kong, with Godzilla representing the A-Bomb dropped on an innocent, peaceful Japan, decades of peace had transformed the image of the US/Godzilla into a strong and terrifyingly powerful monster who was nonetheless on the side of Japan when it could be bothered. There was also an increasing ecological message, at least since GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER..
All of that is besides the real appeal of the franchise and this movie, which is about guys in rubber suits stomping on models of Tokyo like a mean kid kicking over a sand castle, and fighting other guys in rubber suits and the occasional puppet monsters. Although the green lightning bolts that Gidrah shoots out of its mouths at the good guys (so to speak) look pretty cheesy, the rest of it looks up to par.