Reviews

This is not your parents' or grandparents or older brothers or sisters version of the LET IT BE documentary. Anyone who has seen the extremely hard to find original copy of this film may not see the differences from this brand new release and the original, but I do. Originally released in 1970 from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and lists The Beatles as producers, this film was originally supposed to be a TV special in Britain, but as things go, The Beatles kept changing their minds as to what exactly they were going to do with all this film footage from about the first part of January 1969 to the end of that month. And this film has been slightly altered from the original version, but not too badly, thankfully.

Currently this film is playing on the DisneyPlus streaming network in 2024 as a re-release from Lindsay-Hogg, probably remastered digitally and influenced by the fact that Peter Jackson took ALL the unused footage shot for this project and instead giving us an approximately 8-9 hour extravaganza of The Beatles in GET BACK (2021). Doing what they do best in the studios at the infamous Abbey Road Studios in London, England.

But this movie came first before the Peter Jackson project and some of us prefer the shorter version of what happened in the studios at Abbey Road during that cold winterly month many years ago.

And speaking of Peter Jackson, about the first 5 minutes or so Peter Jackson and Michael Lindsay-Hogg have a conversation about the footage that Lindsay-Hogg shot, and subsequently the two films that were made from said footage.

My biggest complaint is that THIS film does have some alterations to it although minor. I'm of the belief that all old movies and TV shows must be unaltered with no extra colorization or digital remastering.

9 STARS.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD: I've seen some trippy unusual stories in films before, but I think this one takes the cake. This is not your grandpa's Godzilla Vs. Kong, or more appropriately, KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1963) the American release. WOW!! What a rush!!, but what a long, strange trip it was also. Did the director and screenwriter take acid as there were putting this together?

I also got the hint that sci-fi from the likes of Blad Runner, Star Wars or even Buck Rogers was a major influence on this film.

Godzilla and Kong duke it out as expected, with some of thte most spectacular monster fight scenes I've ever seen. Certainly better than anything GODZILLA VS. MEGALON (1976) had to offer.

SPOILERS: Also in this film we're introduced to Mecha Godzilla. Godzilla kicks Kong's butt unfortunately, both times, but karma is a witch 'cause Godzilla gets his butt royally kicked by Mecha Godzilla.

The acting is okay. Not too bad. And the special effects are really good.

I give it a 9.

9 STARS.

I went into this movie with low expectations, but I came away really loving this film.

It's toward the end of the Vietnam War and a scientist and his partner want to get funding to a strange recently discovered island surrounded by what seems to be a permanent cloud/storm structure around it.

John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson lead an expedition of unknown actors into Kong Island with the intent to disrupt the delicate ecosystem which is Kong's Skull island. The intent was to explode charges on the island once there to bring about the mighty inhabitants of the island, little do they know that they have unleashed a danger far beyond what anyone could imagine or comprehend. And it's not Kong. It's these strange creatures that are really powerful and can easily kill within a moment's notice. There's also Kong himself who feels like these invading helicopters formerly from Vietnam are disrupting the peaceful balance of his treasured habitat.

Kong is rather tranquil most of the time except when aroused by trouble, he's not the threat viewers saw in the 1933 Kong. This film, which begins in 1944 in the Pacific Ocean WW II, and brings the viewer to 1973 Vietnam and from there to Skull Island, seems to totally disregard Kong's coming to America in 1933 as if it never occurred. Why? And where are the dinosaurs? There are creatures on the island, some as peaceful as can be, and others quite deadly, but no dinosaurs? KING KONG (1976) was the same way. The most we got out of that film was a giant snake which tried to strangle Kong. This film gives us a GIANT Sker Buffalo, a giant spider, an octopus, and quite possibly a flock of Pterodactyls? And finally the very deadly Skullcrawler, which is not based on any living creature that I know of.

The skull Crawler killed both of Kong's parents and we see the bones in this movie.

This movie has Samuel L. Jackson in it, and while he's alright in the film, I think he's having too much exposure. Every time I seem to watch a movie, there he is. I need a break from him.

BIG SPOILER AHEAD: John Goodman is unexpectedly swallowed up by Skull crawler. Didn't see that coming at all. So much for being a big star.

This movie has a long list of people I've never heard of before and probably you haven't also. The ones to pay attention to are: Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Corey Hawkins, and John C. Reilly, who I think provides both seriousness and occasional comic relief as a pilot from World War II who has lived on the island ever since.

Let's not forget the native peoples of the island who took Reilly into their care for the last 29 years. They are of Asian descent. Why is that? All the proper Kong films have always made the natives out to be black. Huh? Anyway, they are a peace loving group that seems to never talk at all. How Reilly's character dealt with that for 29 years? Who knows?

I had a real problem with Sam Jackson as he was obsessed with hunting down and killing Kong. So much so that he and his men pour a lot of Napalm into a giant Napalm Pond and set it on fire and scorch Kong. I think that went a little bit too far. I was originally going to give this movie 10 stars, but now I think I'll just give it 7. Scorching Kong was totally unnecessary to the plot. And where'd they get that much Napalm anyway when all their copters were destroyed? I can't suspend disbelief on this one.

The special effects were top notch. I've never been a huge fan of CGI, but I think they did good on this one.

Overall, a well done film.

7 STARS.

This Gamera film is much better than at least 4 of the last era's film's had to offer. The beginning of a new era of Gamera and hopefully no more movies with terrible plots and annoying children yelling ad nauseam "Gamera, Gamera," Don't do that", "Use your fire" Gamera, Gamera. All that is gone in this film folks. Maybe the filmmakers finally figured out that audiences largely don't want to watch that continuously.

The movie has a very intelligent story. A large sloth of Japanese Navy ships are carrying enough plutonium to create 100 Nagasaki bombs, according to the movie. Some prehistoric bird creatures reffered to as Gyaos' have appeared and seem to be interested in the plutonium. They also like human flesh also. I personally like the Gyaos Bat- like creature from the 1967 movie RETURN OF THE GIANT MONSTERS better, but these costumes weren't that bad. ROTGM had only one Gyaos, this one has three. And Gamera seems strangely drawn to them as well.

The movie is intelligently written and acted and the dubbing seems to be a lot better than the 1960's -70's dubbing of Gamera and Godzilla films.

The special effects are also well done. The Gamera flying scenes where he spins around were better done in the 60's, but I have hope that maybe the sequels will show improvement. The Gyaos scenes with his laser beams coming from his mouth are much more improved than before.

This was a very good Godzilla story. One that was not too over the top. Bryan Cranston plays a geologist for a Japanese nuclear power plant and has to watch as his wife dies doing some type of emergency stuff for the plant. I don't know what her position was.

Their son however watches from his abandoning classroom as the entire nuclear plant collapses, very traumatic. Fast forward 15 years and Ford Brody is a grown up in the US military and has to rescue his driven father for trespassing in an off limits area near the plant site.

It turns out something called a motow? I guess? Caused all the Earthquakes that killed his mother. And Godzilla is attracted to them(The Motows) for some scientific reason I don't understand.

Along with Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen also turn in fine performances.

8 STARS.

I wasn't impressed with this movie. My friend suggested we watch it, he having already seen it and saying how good it was. Well, it wasn't. This is one of those stranded in the middle of nowhere films with nobody else around save for a few people and chances are they could very well turn out to be bad guys or bad women.

This story is about a young man bringing a car from the east coast to California I believe. I'm at least right about the California bit. So this man picks up a hitchhiker in the middle of a torrential rain storm probably in New Mexico or Arizona. The film never says. Anyway this person turns out to be a phychopath played by Rutger Hauer. C. Thomas Howell is the young man. Howell finally pushes Hauer out the door after Hauer threatens to cut him up.

This film continues with the most fantastically idiotic situations where Hauer shows up and somehow law enforcement always thinks it's Howell who's the criminal.

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a waitress in a diner out in the middle of who knows what town or state? She doesn't bring much to the film. It's not her fault, she just isn't given a lot to work with.

At the end it's one of those movies where it's a comedy where it doesn't matter how many times you hit or shoot the bad guy, he just keeps getting up until FINALLY he dies.

I didn't care for Rutger Hauer in this film. I didn't care for all the outrageous impossible situations that happened.

1 STAR. And even that's too many.

This is my favorite movie of the Dexter Riley movie series starring Kurt Russell as Dexter, Joe Flynn as Dean Higgins, Cesar Romero as A. J. Arno and William Windom as Prof. Lufkin.

This movie is much funnier and entertaining than the last movie, THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES (1969), not that it was a bad movie, just that this one's better.

Russell's character of Dexter Riley accidentally discovers how to turn physical matter invisible, and with said abilities sets out to find out what paroled crime boss A. J. Aro wants so badly with investment in Dexter's Alma Mater Medfield College.

On top of all that, the Dean of the school, played masterfully by Joe Flynn thinks he's a golfing pro when he's not, and gets a little help from an invisible Dexter. All the golfing tournaments in this film are HILARIOUS!! I laughed so hard.

Cesar Romero turns in a great performance as crime boss Arno. Romero is better known to younger audiences as The Joker from the 1960's Batman series starring Adam West.

Russell is backed up by supporting actors Michael McGreevy as Skylar spelled Schuyler but pronounced Skylar, and Joyce Menges as Debbie.

10 STARS.

This is /was never my favorite take on Godzilla but I still find it very entertaining!! Despite what other reviewers are saying, I think Matt Broderick and Maria Pitillo were fantastic in this film In fact, Maria is the ONLY reason I found to go watch the film again in theaters.

Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, and especially Kevin Dunn were NOT reasons to watch this movie again. Dunn played a piece of human excrement colonel who I could not stand. Awful was his performance.

Michael Lerner on the other hand portrayed the late movie reviewer turned Mayor of New York City of all things, with fellow movie critic Gene Siskel as his campaign manager/ adviser. I found their back and fourth interactions/ arguments to be HILARIOUS and laugh out loud funny. Who'da thought they'd make Ebert Mayor of NYC? Why not Chicago where he got his start?

Anyway, the SPX are good. Not great. A lot of CGI in this film of which I am not a fan of CGI. I did think the film did seemed to be plodding along. Another thing is IT'S TOO LONG!!! I got real bored after a while. The typical Japanese giant monster movie is 90 minutes or close to it. It was much longer than it needed to be.

And the parts where the monster doesn't eat or attack anyone particularly Matt Broderick was very unrealistic and I didn't buy it. Also, the idea that Godzilla just "Disappeared" into the ground only to reappear from the ground destroying Madison Square Garden I just wasn't buying it.

Overall a good film but not a great film.

This was a nice fun little film to watch from Toho pictures, Universal Pictures, and Rankin/Bass Productions. WOW!! Universal Pictures and Rankin /Bass working alongside Toho Studios is fascinating to me. Rankin/Bass is the company here in the US that gave us Christmas classics like SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN' TO TOWN (1970), and interestingly the villain in this movie is voiced by what sounds like Paul Frees who voiced The Burgermeister Meisterburger in SCICTT.

We've also got Rhodes Reason, Linda Miller, and Akira Takarada in this film.

The usual cast for these Toho films is present and accounted for: Director Ishiro Honda, SFX Director Eiji Tsubaraya, and Akira Ikufube as the film composer.

Basic premise: King Kong is now on Mondo Island. Yeah when Skull Island was destroyed by a typhoon in SON OF KONG (1933) Kong said that's it, I'm outta here. And wouldn't you know it, there's dinosaurs on Kong's new home island as well. Who'da thought it? Certainly not I.

A UN submarine commanded by Commander Carl Nelson(Reason) makes it's way to Mondo Island and comes across Kong fighting a Tyrannosaurus and doing a pretty bad job of it. In fact I submit that Kong's battle with a T-rex was far superior in the original KING KONG (1933).

Kong is also sought out by mad scientist Dr. Who, how creative, actually, how cartoonish. He abducts Kong the same way he was taken to fight Godzilla in KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962 Jap.,1963 US), by extra large handcuffs and flown in the air by helicopters.

Speaking of abductions, our human heroes get taken to what seems like the North Pole or at least Alaska. There, Dr. Who has Kong mining or digging for a certain mineral, Element X ooohh, scary, which he will give to an unnamed nation to create nuclear weapons after Dr. Who's Robot Kong failed to accomplish this.

Fast forward, after Kong escapes he makes his way to Tokyo, Japan (where else?) followed by Mecha Kong, this was at least 8 years before Godzilla fought Mecha Godzilla the first time. The climactic battle between the two Kongs is fought high atop Tokyo Tower.

The film climaxes with Kong stoping Dr. Who's ship and sinking it and then heading home similar to how he did at the end of KKVG.

My one main complaint is the Kong suit for this film. Just like the earlier KING KONG VS GODZILLA, this Kong suit is horrible, especially the face. Both Kong movies from Toho are guilty of this. The only film I can think of that looks waaay better as an ape suit and the face is KING KONG (1976). The Japanese costume makers are usually quite good at their craft but NOT when it comes to American monsters, particularly King Kong. I could even see the zipper on his back during the fight with Gorosaurus (Tyranosaurus Rex).

Seven stars.

This is the second Gamera movie I ever saw and I have to say it holds up well. Released to American TV in 1970 under the title GAMERA VS. MONSTER X, it never got released to American theaters like many of Gamera's films in the U. S.

The story is similar in many ways to a previous Gamera film DESTROY ALL PLANETS (1969), in which two young boys, one Japanese and one caucasian American use a mini sub in their adventures with Gamera.

Monster X arises from the ground on a pacific island when a statue is removed from it's sacred place. Brought to Japan, it is discovered that the statue has a connection to the monster. Monster X starts wrecking havoc in Japan, primarily Osaka, I believe. Who comes to the rescue but Gamera. The two monsters fought earlier on the aforementioned island when Monster X left Gamera helpless.

Things get worse for Gamera when monster X pokes him with an injection from his tail and makes him really sick and paralyzed.

After the 2 boys enter Gamera with their mini sub to destroy a monster within Gamera, the two monsters have a final showdown with Monster X getting the statue impaled through his head, courtesy of Gamera.

This movie is an improvement over the last couple of Gamera films. The two things I could do without are the typical annoying kids of these films. But, they're not always annoying, but enough that I have to say something. And the second is that terrible Gamera theme song, even as a kid I didn't care for it.

Directed by Noriaki Yuasa and Shigeo Tanaka writer: Niisan Takahashi, sounds like a car.

Released by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan and American International Television in America.

9 STARS.

This is the first Gamera film I remember seeing as a kid. Back in the early 70's, and back then, this was great entertainment for kids. Although now, I can see with adult eyes how bad it is.

The story is about a couple of boy scouts, one Japanese and one Caucasian American who get into a lot of trouble. First, they mess with a visiting scientists' mini sub, then they get kidnapped by aliens.

The movie starts out with a strange striped spaceship intent on conquering Earth. Suddenly they are attacked by the prehistoric nuclear powered turtle Gamera. Gamera destroys the ship, but how did Gamera know whether it was good or bad? And how was Gamera able to breathe in space? He/she may have some unusual abilities, but she still has to breathe, and there is no oxygen in space children.

So the director and writer of this film decide to waste our precious time by giving us a history lesson on Gamera via flashbacks to other Gamera movies. Now to someone like myself, who had never seen a Gamera film before, this was quite helpful and entertaining to learn what I'd missed on the flying Saber toothed turtle, but to others and those of us who finally got to familiarize ourselves with these adventures, upon second viewing this becomes a colossal waste of time.

Once the aliens realize children are Gamera's weakness, they capture the boy scouts Maseo and Jim. The scouts have a fun time roaming about the alien spaceship until they lasso one of the aliens.

Because the aliens have kidnapped the boys they know they have power over Gamera. It also helps to have a mind control device attached to Gamera to guarantee control. They order Gamera to destroy Japanese cities, in particular, Tokyo.

Things get so dire for Earth that The United Nations gets involved and refuses to take action, sound familiar?

The special effects are really cool in this film. There are scenes where their Asian eyes glow in the dark, makes them creepy. They also fly down corridors and can remove their arms from their bodies if need be.

The conclusion of this film has the aliens' leader, a normal sized squid kept in a cage? Assemble his men to decapitate their heads only to reveal that they too are squids and must sacrifice their bodies to enlarge their leader to take on Gamera.

So Gamera and the giant squid apparently called Viras, battle it out to the death. And at one point it looks like Gamera has had it when he is impaled 4 times through the chest. Oh but even being stabbed 4 times is not enough to kill Gamera.

In this movie Gamera jumped the shark not once, but 2 times. The first is attacking the ship in outer space without a helmet, the second was being impaled 4 times and still able to function. That doesn't happen in real life boys and girls.

And finally the 2 cub scouts yelling to Gamera. Gamera, Gamera, Gamera, Gamera. Even as a kid I found this incredibly ANNOYING AND STUPID.

And I forgot 1 more thing. This movie premiered the Gamera theme song. TERRIBLE. I just can't stand it!!

3 STARS for a great final fight scene and other SPX.

I've never seen this movie in its entirety before. The only time I've seen parts of it was by watching flashbacks from the next film DESTROY ALL PLANETS. This film and the last one WAR OF THE MONSTERS, would be the only tolerable movies of the Gamera series for much of the run of the series.

Volcanos erupting in Japan apparently unleash a bat-pterodactyl hybrid of some type which first comes to the attention of the Japanese when lasers from a Forrest slice a plane carrying scientists in half. It turns out it is the aforementioned creature that they name Gyaos.

This creature can only come out at night. Interestingly, the monster from the last film only came out at night also. I wonder why they made the stories like that.

This is the film that would bring children as major players in all future Gamera films. While the dubbing was tolerable for the most part, the dubbing of the child was irritating.

The monster fight scenes are well done. The special effects are also great. The Gamera and Gyaos costumes are surprisingly good, in some ways better than the Godzilla costumes.

Gamera defeats Gyaos finally by pulling him into a volcano with his teeth. Funny similarity here is that that's how Gamera defeated Barugon from the last film. Pulling him with his teeth into something that would kill him. In that case it was water, in this scenario it's lava.

The kid can be annoying at times but it's still a good movie with a story that can keep adults interested.

10 STARS for a good story and special effects.

I've never watched WAR OF THE MONSTERS aka GAMERA VS. BARUGON all the way through till now. And I really liked it a lot. The first film GAMERA THE INVINCIBLE was too talky and slow and nearly put me to sleep. But this film is a vast improvement over the former.

Gamera escapes his fate from the last film where he was trapped inside a rocket ship destined for Mars. To Gamera's good fortune, a meteorite just happens to strike the rocket ship and set Gamera free.

Gamera returns to Earth to exact his revenge on his captors by destroying a dam in Japan. As we move along, we find a group of Japanese men seeking an opal jewel placed somewhere on an island in the pacific during the war. The opal is discovered and at the behest of the natives one evil man takes the opal back to Japan.

The opal is actually an egg that releases a baby monster that rapidly grows into a giant monster. What else would it be? It's Japan in the 1960's. The monster wrecks havoc in Japan until Gamera arrives seeking out heat signatures to satisfy his appetite for fire and energy. Barugon, as the monster is known, like many Japanese kaiju has a special talent of extending his tongue out of his mouth and freezing whatever he wants. He also has a rainbow come out of his back to destroy Japan's tank force. After freezing Gamera, the Japanese military along with Japan's brightest try to figure out how to defeat Barugon.

Gamera finally thaws out and the monsters duel it out with Gamera pulling Barugon into the water which is his one weakness and drowns him in the water.

Noriaki Yuasa returns to direct along with Shigeo Tanaka.

This movie, unlike the last, was shot in color which helped add to it's appeal along with great special effects also directed by Yuasa, with Toru Suzuki, his assistant.

10 STARS.

This is Gamera's first feature film. For some reason the American distributor decided to spell his name Gammera with 2 M's, all the other films would spell the name simply as Gamera. It was released in Japan in 1965 then in America a little over a year later.

This movie is HEAVILY AMERICANIZED. There is a lot of American screen time even though this is a Japanese movie.

Gammera is awakened by a Soviet bomber supposedly in American airspace in what appears to be Alaska. When the bomber is shot down it crashes with a nuclear explosion, thus awakening the prehistoric turtle that is Gammera.

A lot of time in the movie is spent talking involving The United Nations, and American military personnel in the northern hemisphere trying to figure out how to destroy Gammera.

A lot of the slow moments involving politicians and military personnel seem to go on forever and does make the film rather slow and boring.

After many failures, Gammera is finally lured to a giant space capsule where he is shot into space. Hopefully for good. Nope, Gammera would be back in one of many sequels.

Gammera has the unique ability of pulling his arms and legs into his shell, along with his head then blasts jet engines out of the holes where his limbs were and flies through the sky spinning in a circle the whole time.

The movie stars lots of American actors I've never heard of except for Brian Donlevy. And a host of Japanese actors who I've also never heard of.

The American portion of this film was directed by Sandy Howard while the Japanese half was directed by Noriaki Yuasa.

The film was produced by The Daiei Motion Picture Company, not Toho film Company, which is Godzilla's home. Gammera was inspired by the success of Toho's Godzilla movie series and other Toho monsters. Released in America by NTA productions. A good first start of The Gammera series. A good film but not a great film.

5 STARS. Mostly for slow and dull.

GODZILLA VS. MEGALON was released in Japan in 1973, but released in America in 1976. I often forgot why I always connected this movie to the KING KONG remake of 1976 and then it dawned on me, they both came out the same year. Unfortunately for Godzilla lovers, the KONG remake was superior.

The premise of this movie is that the atomic testing of the surface dwellers of Earth has been detrimental to an ancient and unknown society that lives under the Earth, calling itself Seatopia, why not just call it the lost continent of Atlantis. Anyway, the denizens of Seatopia have had enough and their leader, poorly played by American Robert Dunham calls on their "God" Megalon, A giant bug like creature, to take revenge on the humans who live above.

The Seatopians also call on an alien race to send them Gigan from the previous Godzilla feature GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (1972) which hadn't even made it's way to America or Europe until 1977.

The story on the human level revolves around a Japanese inventor of sorts, along with his son and a friend. The inventor has a life sized robot he calls Jet Jaguar. The Seatopians want to gain Jet Jaguar in order to control Megalon while on it's destructive path.

This movie has way too much stock footage derived from GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER, and WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. It seems like Toho pictures and director Jun Fukuda were getting cheap or lazy.

The part of this film that everybody talks about laughingly is the famous Godzilla flying kick, where Godzilla backs up and twice just levitates off the ground to kick Megalon. No running , just levitating. Completely stupid. I hate to speak badly about Godzilla or kaiju films because I'm a fan too, but this movie is that bad. This is where Godzilla finally "Jumped The Shark" and went too far as outlandishly and idiotic as it could go.

Megalon is actually a cool monster. His talents include electrical bolts from his antennae and explosive lava bombs from his mouth. He can also fly when he wants to. All Gigan can do is fly. And he seems to have some type of buzzsaw on his chest, but it doesn't really do much, he doesn't really bring much to the monster gathering.

Jet Jaguar is sort of like an Ultraman type of hero. He decides after seeking out Godzilla to make himself the same size as the giant monsters. Together He and Godzilla fight Megalon and Gigan and find themselves surrounded by a wall of fire. Then at the end there's a nice little handshake I believe, and then that's it.

I said Jun Fukuda's films would get worse and they did. As far as sci-fi giant monsters for 1976 go, I preferred KING KONG.

4 STARS.

This movie was better than I remembered it. The story revolves around a Manga artist looking for work and finds it with a company behind a project called "Children's Land". What our hero doesn't know is that he's actually working for space aliens bent on settling here on Earth (what else would it be?)

The company the artist works for is based out of a building that resembles Godzilla. He accidentally runs into a girl afraid for her life with a tape she's stolen. On this tape is a language only monsters understand, pretty soon Anguirus shows up on a Japanese shore, and after waiting without any violence from the monster the military begins firing at which point Anguirus heads back for home on Monster Island.

The aliens, deciding they are in the final stages of takeover, bring in some special guests, King Ghidorah and Gigan, a new monster to the franchise.

One thing I enjoyed about this film is how the Japanese aknowledge how the world was changing at that point. In this film we see young Japanese males with medium to very long hair, common for those times in the west and I guess in Japan too.

Not a single familiar face from the 1960's Godzilla films, which is good. Puts a fresh approach on things in the 70's. No Jun Tazaki or Akira Kubo.

This movie has some nice newly filmed monster sequences with Ghidorah, unfortunately the film relies too heavily on stock footage from GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER, MONSTER ZERO, and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, which sometimes makes the film look cheap.

At least the audience got to see more monster fighting action this time around. And the plus is the aliens use deadly rays from the Godzilla building which almost kill him, along with Gigan's numerous blows to Godzilla's head.

Jun Fukuda directed. Akira Ifukube returns with the good film score. Now that Eiji Tsuburaya has passed on, SFX are directed by Teruyoshi Nakano.

I give this film 7 STARS.