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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 |
 "godzilla talks and angilas also talks!! A puny wucy movie"Godzilla and angilas must save planet earth from the space monsters and they are ghidora and gigan which never used his laser.  "Gigan and the oil field are worth the price of admission!"A very uneven mix of silly "people scenes," some embarrassing effects...a couple of battle scenes better than ANYTHING TriStar ever hatched. Skip the nonsensical plot (hip teens foil the plans of grave-robbing cosmic cockroaches trying to conquer Earth from an amusement park.) Skip those silly scenes of Godzilla and Angilas "talking" (didn't happen in the Japanese version, folks!) Just fast-forward first to Angilas facing a welcoming committee of maser cannons, then to the strikingly designed cyborg monster Gigan screeching in delight as Tokyo sizzles, and an astonishing, beautifully choreographed 4-way battle in an oil field. Those five minutes are worth the price of the video, as Godzilla, King Ghidorah and composer Akira Ifukube work the old magic and effects director Nakano (a whiz with explosives) adds amazing new pyrotechnics to the mix. I never expected to find a spectacle of this magnitude sandwiched between "Smog Monster and "Megalon." "Good, but could have been better."This isn't classic Godzilla by any means but it does have it's moments. It's main error is letting Godzilla speak! (why?) The beginning is a bit slow but it picks up to deliver a great ending with lots of destruction and general mayhem.  "Godzilla speaks (!!) in this mediocre adventure."Aliens dispach Gigan (a really cool bird ceature with a buzzsaw on his belly) and King Ghidorah (looking really stiff) to conquer Earth. They knock down alought og building. But naturaly Godzilla isn't very happy about this. He gets with his buddy Angilas, has a bizare syntheiser conversation with Angilas, and then ingages in a bloody battle with Gigan and Ghidrah. Same old stuff  "One of the best !!"This is better that it has plot, compared to Godzilla vs. Megalon. Gigan is a better monster but he was a coward and let Godzilla beat him up. |
