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Destroy All Monsters Director: Ishirô Honda Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Format: Color Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2000-02-22 Buy from Amazon |
 "DESTROY ALLL MONSTERS! BEST (almost) ZILLA EVER!"When Toho is hitting on all cylinders, this film company can produce some very engaging cinema. That is just what happens in "Destroy all Monsters". Excellent plot, suspense, acting, music and effects. You just get wrapped up in a hour and half of kaiju geeky goodness. Like the best Godzilla films, "Destroy all Monsters" has an effortless consistency to its story world. Nothing may be true, but everything makes sense. You get a very high tech feel from a somewhat low tech film. Most of the acting crew are Godzilla veterans, so the pitch is just right. Events move along at a snappy pace and are arranged cleverly enough to get the novice kaiju fan's feet wet, but still satisfy the hard core kaiju fan's need for monster action. You can overdose on all the giant monster goodness found in this film. Overall, a cleverly done science fiction space/monster opera with a good story and a happy ending.  "An all MON-STAR cast!!!"This movie is one of my favorites! Lots of monsters, a decent story (for the genre,) and lots funny cardboard buildings and toy tanks. My only complaint is that I wanted some of the monsters to have more screen time. When will the makers of these movies realize that all audiences want is a good monster fight and a few useless characters to trample!?! Does anybody seriously watch these for the story-lines!?! "Spectacular"This film, Destroy All Monsters, is definitely one of the greatest films of the Godzilla series. Though the plot is kind of cheesy, and Godzilla's son is just plain stupid, the film's final battle makes up for it, featuring eleven officially licensed Toho monsters (Godzilla, Rodan, Angilas, Mothra larva, Spiega, Gorosaurus, Baragon, Varan, Manda, King Ghidorah, and unfortunately, Minya) in one scene. Sadly, Baragon, Varan, and Manda are left out of the action, and you see them only for like three seconds apiece (except Manda, who attacks Tokyo with Godzilla). It's also really cool that each monster destroys a different capital city of the world. Even though so many monsters battle Ghidorah, Godzilla, Angilas and Gorosaurus do practically all the work. My favorite scene is when Ghidorah just drops dead, overwhelmed by the monsters' power (yes, he is killed in this movie, but remember, it is 1999, which is supposedly after all of the other films). Best of all, this movie inspired a Godzilla fighting game for GameCube, featuring nearly all of the monsters in this film, called: Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee.  "Unbelivable"This film has a story that is nonsense, about Aliens called Kilaaks and they come to controll all monsters and take over the world. The Kilaaks where horrorable costumes. Godzilla acts as a friend, and the monster are nice. The only thing good in this movie is the destruction, there is every monster to date in that movie, only monsters from Godzilla series. And the film has good special Effects.  "Three stars for Godzilla is the best i can do"There are movies then there are Godzilla movies. While personally i find a facination with Godzilla movies i cannot bring myself to tell people they are 5 star works of art. This one is typical of the Godzilla films of the era (pre 1985). The sci-fi story behind the monsters attacking the world is the good part of this one and most of the Godzilla films. You get alien babes, space flight, and cool weapons to fight giant monsters. Keep in mind that in Godzilla movies, nothing is to fantastic to be true. Just go with it and enjoy. |
