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Godzilla Vs Gigan 1972 Director: Jun Fukuda Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Running Time: 89 minutes Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom Region Code: 99 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19 Buy from Amazon |
 "Absolute tat"Who chooses which Godzilla films are to be released in the UK? Pop Larkin? We're still awaiting the release of the Destroyah, Biollante, nineties Mechagodzilla and original 1950s Godzilla films over here, and yet twaddle like this waste of time is festering wherever you may go. The plot (if you feel like calling it that) involves a race of aliens who intend to take over the world with the help of a monster which appears to have been put together from kitchen utensils. So it's up to Godzilla and that rather hopeless Ankylosaurus-bloke to sort out the mess, mumbling and muttering to one another in synthesized tones as they go about it. Yawnsome, predictable, laughable trash.  "A GOOD MONSTER BATTLE MOVIE!"There are some who say this is a horrible movie.I strongly disagree.Okay,so the story is a little dumb and the acting isn't the best,but it's not that bad.It has a great battle scene at the end and you even hear Godzilla and Anguirus talk!I think people are way too critical of this movie.It is also the last apperance of King Gidorah in the original Godzilla series(films 1 through 15).Also,Gigan is a really cool monster!It is also alot better than the next film,Godzilla vs. Megalon,which couldn't even be saved by Gigan. "Re-evaluation needed right now!"Yes, alright, so Godzilla and Angilus talk and that's pretty silly and ought to have been edited, but why do people pour scorn on older Godzilla films and yet heap praise on trash like that new 1998 version. Special effects, of course! The only things that matter it seems! This film has quite an interesting plot and a deffinate ecological message. The monsters are interesting, there are some amusing moments of humour and the action is fast-paced. Alright, so there are a few bits of stock-footage, but if the films the stock-footage are taken from are never going to be released or seen in the UK then I'm not complaining.  "Godzilla comes back in a weak adventure"Well,the film has 2 good things:1) Gigan is a cool monster, and 2)Angilas is used in here for a time,and I like him.Besides that,the movie is pretty bad,from Godzilla talking(no,I am not making this up ),Ghidora looking stiff,and the stock footage.  "One great, the other complete twaddle."Some people are very negative about the 1998 Godzilla film. While that's certainly understandable, how exactly is it an any worse film than trash like Godzilla Vs Gigan? Both films have no plot at all and are just an excuse for special-effects, but at at least the nineties Godzilla film's special effects look halfway realistic. For crying out loud, you can't pass off a man in a suit as a dinosaur! Look at any skeletons of dinosaurs in a museum and you'll see that their limbs are completely different to those of human beings! Godzilla Vs Gigan is no more than money for old rope. Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla, however, has a decent, fast-moving plot and some interesting characters. Mechagodzilla is an interesting monster, but wasn't the 'royal beast' supposed to be scary? As it was meant to be a god-like creature I had expected something monstrous throwing lightning bolts about. But all we get is what seems to be Crash Bandicoot's prehistoric ancestor which does nothing but hide behind rocks and follows Godzilla around like a lost dog. A good film, but one you'd be better of getting on its own, unless you want to use Godzilla Vs Gigan as blank tape, as that's all it's good for. |
