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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 |
 "Okay"This one's pretty good. Gimantis and Spiga were pretty cool, as was Minya and Godzilla. Another thing I liked about the movie was the weather control thing. That was pretty cool. But other than that, this movies kinda a bummer. Cool monsters and ideas, but everything else kinda sucks. If I could, I'd give it 2.5  "Deformed Godzilla!"This is all in all a pretty sad movie that lacks in both acting and effects. Minya (Godzilla's son) is only entertaining to 5 year olds and the Godzilla suit is way too big for the actor to fit into... and it shows! Half the time he's losing his balance and looks more like a giant toad. Toho wanted to make Godzilla resemble his son (wouln't have been more refreshing to make Minya resemble Godzilla?). Unlike the Godzilla film, this one is just for the real little tikes (this was around the time where Godzilla was falling into Gamera's habits... saving people, being all nice nice to his son, ect). The only good thing is Godzilla's battle with a giant spider and prying mantis which are both trying to eat Minya's egg. All the best fight scenes in this movie ( in stock footage form ) can be seen in "Godzilla's Revenge", wich in my opinion is alot better. "A So-So Movie"This movie was so-so to me. Minya looked stupid as his son, but I did like the fight between Godzilla and the spider. Other than that, it was another childish movie. "It's an okay movie"this movie was one of G's worst movies, but since it is a G' movie it is better than most other movies out there, good for a die-hard G' fan who also likes to have some comedy in with there action, like Deep Rising. anyway i would recomend this movie as a starter for a Godzilla collection of any size, or, variety. "Daddy G can only hope his son will change in later life."Though this film starts off very promising (a second godzilla rumoured, a reporter on an island where sinister experiments are going on, a glimpsed giant mantis), things go swiftly into the mire as soon as the ludicrous, horrifyingly twee Godzilla Jnr shows up to indulge in stupid, unfunny rock-throwing contests and battle the most unconvincing giant spider ever come across. Presumably this is aimed at younger viewers (that old excuse for making a duff film rearing its ugly head again), but when I saw this film as a youngster I was completely bored by the lifeless slow-moving 'plot' and thought the special effects nothing short of laughable. This film only gets two stars because it's better than that dire 1998 Godzilla re-make. See 'Destroy All Monsters' or 'Godzilla Vs Ghidorah' instead. |
