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Godzilla Vs Hedorah Director: Yoshimitsu Banno Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom Region Code: 99 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-10-19 Buy from Amazon |
 "The BEST Godzilla Movie Ever!!!!!"Great special effects, the best giant monster action and battles of any Big G movies and great quality! This remains to this very day my favorite Godzilla movie which I was lured into buying by cool clips of the Big G duking it out with Hedorah the smog monster. Although SAVE THE EARTH kinda gets on my nerves I love this G movie(which will be shown on the big screen at this year`s Godzilla Fest) and its story of Godzilla`s ultimate final 35 minute battle with Hedorah!  "Godzilla vs A Peice of Poop"The Special Effects for this movie are pretty bad but nothing so terrible you can't bare to watch it. Still Hedorah is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. I had to watch it a couple times before I finally really understood it. The hippies and all the 70 stuff really made the movie distracting especially the annoying Save the Earth song. Plus, the most disturbing moment in film history can be found here. Breaking just about every rule of physics, Godzilla actually flies. A bit on the totally weird side there LOL. Still as Banno wanted this movie is a bit dark at times. Let my point out one scene where Hedorah sprays a bunch of people and they die after being disformed and mutated. Then there are two scenes where it shows an innocent creature in Hedorha's path. First, Hedorah's sludge traps a kitten its its goo. The small animal is covered in Hedorah's poisenous sap and would probably and painfully die. Then there's another scene where is shows a small baby waist deep in Heodrah's slime crying for his mother. Of course, since the slime is poisenous the baby would die slowly just like the kitten. In other words, this movie could be looked at comicly but then when you finally really get it you start to see what Banno wanted you to see. At other times it shows garbage from dolls to grandfather clocks floating on the water with dead fish covered in garbage that people just threw away into Tokyo Bay. Once you get this movie you start to see what our Earth is coming to. SAVE THE EARTH!!! "GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER!!!!! SAVE THE EARTH!!! "This is a notorious movie. Why? Becouse fans are so divided about it. You either live it or hate it. Personally, I love it!! Love, love, love, love, love!!!! I would really rather this was the American International version that was released to American theatres and TV in the seventies. That version had excelent dubbing done in America. And the opening disco/go-go number dubbed into english by a very good professional american singer. The dialogue was more fun also. "Superman beats them all!!" This version isn't bad really. The dubbing is that same Hong-Kong Kung Fu "OH!! OH!!! You have killed my master!! AAAHHH!! AHH!" "We heard about your trouble with Fut-Yoo" "OH OH, Fut-Yoo was my own student!" Etc., dubbing from other seventies Godzillas. But it is not too bad. I'd say the dubbing is close to the quality of TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA and alot better than the dubbing of GODZILLA VS. GIGAN or GODZILLA VS. MEGALON which is by far the worst. By the way the name HEDORAH means "sludge monster", but "smog monster" just sounds better. The english dialogue is pretty good actually, since I could follow what everyone was talking about alot better than usual. No double talk suggests that this is not translated directly from the Japanese, and a peak at the japanese track seems to confirm this. So the english script was probably written by someone with a pretty good concept of how english speakers actually talk. Real Japanese dialogue tends to sound repetative and confusing, especially when discussing scientific jargun. Japanese has a structure that is very different from english, unlike, say for example. So an idiomatic translation from japanese to english is out of the question. Also, in regards to Godzilla's flying. As silly as it may seem, and look onscreen. The more powers the better! I say. Superman gets cooler the more powers he gets. Right! (and Superman beats them all!) The more powers Yoda and Steve Austin (the bionic guy,not the wrestler) got. The cooler they got. Same goes with Godzilla.  "You will not believe Godzilla can fly!"I generally like Japanese giant monster movies--even if they're a bit on the corny side--but this is the worst Godzilla movie I've ever seen. Basically, Godzilla and Hedora wrestle around for about half the movie--funny at first but boring after a while. Flying Godzilla is pretty corny--kids might like it! All in all-- a boring waste--not very funny, not very dramatic, and not much science in the fiction. This movie would probably be better if it had about half an hour edited out of it--though it's only about 85 minutes long anyway--it's just too monotonous to maintain interest! "The BEST Godzilla Movie Ever!!!!!"Great special effects, the best giant monster action and battles of any Big G movies and great quality! This remains to this very day my favorite Godzilla movie which I was lured into buying by cool clips of the Big G duking it out with Hedorah the smog monster. Although SAVE THE EARTH kinda gets on my nerves I love this G movie(which will be shown on the big screen at this year`s Godzilla Fest) and its story of Godzilla`s ultimate final 35 minute battle with Hedorah! |
