Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

Godzilla was the film that launched its own genre, the Japanese monster pictures. Not many films can claim that and not many countries have suffered more damage to their cities. You'd think that two atomic bombs would have been enough.Actually... Full review

Godzilla: King of the Monsters starring Raymond Burr is a completely different work than the original Gojira. In the American version many references of the Nuclear Test have been muted and almost non-exsitent. While the Japanese version has many cautions... Full review

The Americanization of this film completely takes away the allegorical depth that made the original Gojira so unique. However, it would take more than a disrespectful distributer to ruin Gojira himself, and the film is still watchable, though a pale,... Full review

Godzilla: King of the Monsters was one of the first Godzilla films I ever saw. In fact, it was the fourth. And right off from the first time I saw some previews on the internet and places like that, I... Full review

Dear Godzilla, I decided to look into a piece of film history today, so I watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters for about the fifth time. I realize that your decision to permit this film was made early in your... Full review

Like many of the other Godzilla fans, this is the only version of the the Big-G's debut that I have seen. I have never had the pleasure of watching the original Japanese version, which is even more dark in nature... Full review

The abuse and destruction unleashed on this Japanese city Tokyo is nothing short of epic in stature. The city, through the various romps of the titular character, literally swirls in flames, buildings fall at amazing speed , and just about... Full review

Take a decent movie with a good story and a powerful commentary on the use of Hydrogen bomb testing. Throw in Raymond Burr and add some of the crudest over-dubbed scenes ever filmed and you've got GODZILLA: King of the... Full review

The first half-hour, in which the monster is kept offscreen, is impossibly bad: choppy, poky, stiffly staged and acted, with the few special effects looking like obvious miniatures. This dilute Amercanization isn't terrible, but it has nothing like the apocalyptic intensity of the Honda original. ... Full Review

Honda's ''Godzilla,'' while far from a great movie, has a distinctively haunted, elegiac quality, which surfaces only sporadically (and, in its new context, puzzlingly) in the choppy ''King of the Monsters. For Godzilla was, even in its bowdlerized ''King of the Monsters'' incarnation, an obvious -- gigantic, unsubtle, grimly purposeful -- metaphor for the atomic bomb. ... Full Review

The Letterboxed presentation seems a bit more film like, making GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS that much more enjoyable on DVD. Ishir Honda directed the original Japanese version of GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS and was responsible for a number of the long-lived creatures successive outings. ... Full Review

Godzilla: King of the Monsters looks like lost war footage shot on a Super 8 camera. And I think its hilarious watching Raymond Burr wander about in the background, spying on the Japanese characters like a peeping pervert. ... Full Review

Godzilla, even in its original form, is not a great film. By cutting out about 40 minutes of footage from the original and plunking in a bunch of scenes with Raymond Burr, the producers of King of the Monsters succeeded in taking any social relevance the original offered and turned it into nothing more than a monster movie albeit one that has given kids a lot of pleasure for a lot of years. ... Full Review

Send to a friend Classic Media may start getting thank-you cards from Godzilla fans, their Toho Master Collection releases have been so wonderful. First they gave us "Gojira," the Japanese masterpiece by Ishiro Honda, and the American version, "Godzilla, King... ... Full Article

"Gojira" ("Godzilla, King of the Monsters!") was such a hit in 1954 that Toho gave its next batch of filmmakers just six months to crank out a sequel. ... Full Article

By BRUCE DANCIS Two of the most famous Japanese films ever made _ "Seven Samurai" and "Gojira" (released as "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" in the United States) _ both came out in 1954. ... Full Article

For fifty years theres been only one true OG, Godzilla King Of The Monsters. But as much as the Godzilla series has brought so much joy and happiness to fans around the world, the inconsistency of several installments has, at... ... Full Article

It was worth it.Ask any kid who grew up watching Fifties' monster movies. No matter how dull or expositional the plot got, and whether there was a romantic thread or not, the real star of the film was the... ... Full Article

Kick ass contest time! Yes we loves to give away a ton of goodies to you guys. This time again we are going to be giving this away to a member of the boards. its Gojira / Godzilla on DVD! ... Full Article