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Son of Godzilla Actors: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo Director: Jun Fukuda Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Widescreen Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 86 minutes Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom Region Code: 99 Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-12-14 Buy from Amazon |
 "SON OF G ON DVD!!!! A new version in America?"The Columbia/Tristar (SONY) release of SON OF GODZILLA is the "International" version. It is in wide screen. It also has dubbing done in Japan. This is similar to the recent DVD releases of Destroy All Monsters. So it is different from the version most fans grew up with. (The version that had Peter (Speed Racer) Fernandez as the voice of Goro.) The good news is that it is UNCUT and features a 3 min. prologue cut from the american TV version, which features Godzilla frightening coast guard pilots in a tropical storm at sea. "better than i thought"When i first saw this on a old american version dubbed tape i thougt it was pretty bad the fights were ok but it just wasn't much fun. but having just seen this on the big screens in a subtiled japanes version my opinions have changed. i found the movie very entertaining especially because the whole audience was getting into the movie and cheering and laughing the whole way through. this movie should not be compared to the others because it has a totally different feel than the others, and should just be viewed as a fun popcorn movie. ""IT'S HATCHED ... IT LOOKS AS IF IT'S A BABY GODZILLA!" "This is a great feel-good movie that constitutes escapist entertainment. In my opinion, it is actually one of the better-made Godzila movies. The language dubbing on this film is fairly good as well. This movie takes place on an island in the South Pacific, which gives it a pleasant tropical feel. The plot basically goes like this: a group of Japanese scientists, a reporter, and a native girl try to survive on an island with the dangers of Gimantises, Spiega, and of course Godzilla and his little son, Minilla. Godzilla and Minilla are mostly harmless, though I can't say the same for their massive insectoid rivals, which look fairly good, special-effects wise. Young kids would really love this movie but I think its good for people of all ages as long as they accept the way Godzilla and Minilla look in this film as fun and lovable instead of goofy and embarassing. Okay, they do look goofy, but they're still cute and lovable.  "Pilsberry dough boy or Godzilla's son? You decide."What the hell? Is that the pilsberry dough boy? Holy Crap!! It's godzilla's son!!! Hey, wait a minute I thought godzilla was male. And that he was the only godzilla. Well, so much for that way of thinking. Anyways this movie is part of the island trilogy witch Toho made in order to save money. The idea was to have godzilla fight on an island so they would not have to spend money on model buildings. Godzilla doesn't look that great in this movie. Neither did his son minya or manilla, who resembled the pilsberry dough boy. At least kamacuras and kumonga look awesome. The story and charecters in this film wern't the best but defintely not the worst. One thing I enjoyed about this film are the battles. These fights were kinda brutal. Kamacuras got one of its legs torn off and then the poor thing was fried. Kumonga puntured godzilla's eye too. Minya even saves godzilla! Some other fun scences were of Minya playing games and the end scene where godzilla and his son stand huddled together in the snow. Minya hsn't appeared since Godzilla vs. Gigan and only appeared in 4 godzilla movies. Althogh Junior is also the son of godzilla he still isn't really Minya. Minya will be appearing in godzilla's 28th film Godzilla Final Wars.  "The little dino that can blow a ring of smoke."The eighth film in the series. Re-dubbed in English. Everyone who was a child in the 1970's has seen this one on television. It may very well have been one of the first Godzilla movies we've seen. We remember Little Minilla who could blow a ring of radioactive smoke. When the movie begins you might think it's Godzilla on Gilligan's Island, but it's actually Sollgel. A research team from the United Nations is there to conduct weather-control experiments, but on this spooky island, they are terrorized by a giant praying mantis. Now in real-life, praying mantises are very nice little insects. They like to sit on children's fingers. They are a friend to the lady bugs and to every gardner and farmer. They like to eat aphids. Many of them in one day or night. The thick big belly grasshoppers are the bad insects. The Praying mantises were trying to break a Dinosaur egg, but actually helped Baby Godzilla to hatch. Now there sharp feet can hurt Baby Godzilla. But don't worry, here comes Godzilla to help the baby. The island grows big oranges too. There's also a giant spider to deal with. The next film in the series: Destroy All Monsters (1968). |
