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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 |
 "Awesome movie, terrible dvd"Woohoo 50th annoversery of Godzilla, a DVD with a free soundtrack cd. What more could you want. A LOT! I love this movie, ever since a kid I've loved it. BUt ADV have released the movie with no trailers, interview, no anything. Not even scene selection, you must fast forward to whatever scene, hell, there isnt even a menu. And to top it off its a cut version. My old VHS copy contains more scenes of the monsters, why on earth did they take them out!? Anyway, I'd say just by the video and copy it over to dvd. AT least that way you can add your own menu and some trailers from the internet. ""Destroy All Aliens" Is More Like It"This movie was very exciting when I was a kid. I was given the DVD for my birthday and saw it for the first time in twenty plus years. Boy, was I dissapointed. I did not realise how boring this film is. Godzilla and all the other monsters do not show up until nearly the end of the movie during a climactic battle with Ghidra-The Three Headed Monster (or Monster Zero - as it is called in another movie). That's about it. Most of the film focuses in on aliens (taking up residence in secret headquarters under Mt. Fuji) bent on taking over the earth, gaining control of the monsters, and brainwashing some human inhabitants as well. The set up for this plot is long and tedious until the epic battle with all the monsters. It is best to skip over everthing and go straight to the battle scene. There are better things to watch than wait for the Godzilla et. al to show up 3/4's through the film. Overall, nostalgic but very outdated. GODZILLA vs. MONSTER ZERO has basically the same premise except that Godzilla and Rhodan and Ghidra are the only monsters that show up in the film. This movie held up better.  "Don't set too high an expectation it IS a Godzilla movie"I bought this movie on a reccomendation from Amazon.com. My four and five year old boys loved it. They were so excited they could hardly breathe. As a bonus for parents once you get to the end of the movie the DVD cycles around and starts again at the beginning. "A must for Godzilla fans only"I bought this DVD because I am a big Godzilla fan and must have every DVD with him in it. That of course doesn't mean this DVD is for everyone. The movie itself is alright, it does have alot of monsters in it but alot of the footage in this movie is stock footage from other movies. Now you do expect that from Godzilla movies because they were on a low budget but this movie does it too much. The plot is pretty basic and typical for a Godzilla movie, though the nature of the aliens is kind of interesting. The special effects are also typical for this era of Godzilla movies. What I liked most about the movie is having all the monsters(or most of them anyway) and seeing them attack places other than Tokyo. What I didn't like is the final battle being so short and well one sided for that matter, Ghidora is strong but he can't take that many monsters on for long. The DVD itself offers no real extra features, in fact unless I'm blind there wasn't even a menu of any kind. Overall, I give it 3 stars, typical plot and effects, lackluster DVD features, but decent action and of course its Godzilla, come on! If you're a big fan, obviously you need this DVD, if not, try one of Godzilla's other films. "Most Extreme Godzilla Movie Ever!"Remember when rating this movie; I am rating it first as a Godzilla movie and then as a B-Movie. In both the categories it excells. The acting is horrible, the plot is stupid, the monsters are fake, the dubbing is crap, the special effects can't impress anyone, yet this movie for some reason is very good. Where else can you find a movie when you can so easily list everything bad about it and then say, but it was really good afterwards. There are tons of monsters in this movie and they all have their unique little quirks. (Godzilla's pre-fight scene air punches are totally classic) Rhodan only eats Dolphin- Japanease propaganda anyone? What however makes the movie is the final fight scene between King Ghidrah and all of the earth monsters. When King Ghidrah is already grounded all the monsters just surround him and start fighting him like a bunch of school yeard bullies. One monster jumps on his neck and other pick up one of his heads and throws it against the ground. Essentially it is too hilarious to recount here. The plot was just stupid in this movie. It is not worth recounting however what is a funny thing was that this movie was supposed to be based in 1999. They greatly overestimated what technology we would have. Well maybe Japan has that technology today. I mean you never know. Highly Recommended to all you Godzilla Folks you will laugh you will cry maybe even soil yourself. |
