Alicia I love this movie so much

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

O2D Why the heck am I still watching Godzilla movies?? This one has the gall to re-use a plot from an old movie. Once again aliens have come to earth and are controlling Gidrah(Ghidorah). But this time there's a twist! The aliens are cockroaches! The roaches have some dirty hippies and a Japanese Bill Hader trying to thwart their plan, which involves blowing up their tower which is made to look like Godzilla for reasons that I never understood. But there are some truly classic moments.Godzilla actually talks and it's hilarious.And speaking of talking, one of the characters says "Godziller". Comedy gold. Gigan smashes a building and the people in it are dolls. Too funny. This is just for fans of Godzilla, most people probably wouldn't enjoy it.

AaronCapenBanner Twelfth Godzilla film sees yet another group of aliens once again plotting to take over the Earth, and only a comic book writer and his friends can stop them... Meanwhile, another Anguirus shows up to help Godzilla fight the aliens, who have summoned King Ghidorah and a new monster called Gigan to fight them, and destroy the humans. Only the use of a Godzilla themed amusement park(!) gives this otherwise ridiculous and tiresome film any distinction, which also uses flashback footage of battle scenes to compensate for the obvious low budget look of this film. Series really started to fall into a state of decay here, which was a shame, though kids may not mind.

JoeKarlosi Godzilla movies around this time were really starting to hurt, and this one's a letdown after the previous (and superior) GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971). The plot concerns a young man who's struggling for a job as a cartoonist but gains employment at a newly-constructed children's theme park. Once present he begins to notice that something's not what it seems, and we have another set of aliens running the show who plan to takeover, but this time they turn out to be actual cockroaches who hide their identities under the guise of human bodies! That's pretty wild. The bad bug-men use the old standard three-headed space monster Ghidorah as one of their tools of destruction, but in this movie he looks terribly cheap and smaller than we've been used to (it's easy to compare too, as this installment over-relies on a ton of previously seen footage from past movies like GHIDRAH THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and others!). Mercifully, there's also the new title monster Gigan employed by the aliens -- a sort of metallic bird-creature who dispenses his opponents by use of a built-in buzz saw in his chest, which causes some slightly bloody damage.By this time Godzilla and his pal Anguilus (or Anguirus, or Analus, or whatever name is correct) have swam over from the neighboring Monster Island to help defend the Earth. Anguilus has never been a very interesting monster and he isn't of much use, and Godzilla has his troubles here as well. But the monster fight scenes become rather boring and uninteresting, and in the U.S. dubbed version we actually hear a ludicrous English discussion with Godzilla and his partner! At least if we stick with the Japanese version their conversation is limited to what sounds like a static tape loop, instead of actual language. ** out of ****

gigan-92 I saw this film probably once or twice as a youngster, but recently saw it again, seeing as I just bought the Sony DVD. Although it's uncut, re-mastered, and in Japanese, thank God, it is hopelessly devoid of any real special features. Any who, I'm here to elaborate on what is considered one of the worst G-films. I'll say right off the bat in my humble opinion you could do a lot worse, with the terribly unoriginal monsters of "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster" or the atrocious Musuko Goji suit of "Son of Godzilla". I instead feel this movie is more of failed potential than just bad material. Let me start by saying Gigan was awesome, and I really wished he could be in one of the less infamous G-films. The monster is superbly original in design, mysterious and very threatening looking with his single cyclops-like eye. not only is Gigan beautiful, but the character has more personality than any character in the whole movie, even Godzilla. Vicious in battle, yet a coward, and also his rampage scenes were shot quite well. If it weren't for Gigan, I would probably rate this movie a lot lower.As for every other monster, dismal at best. There is the Soshingeki Goji suit, first used in "Destroy All monsters", and despite the wear and tear it's still a lot better than the suit used in 1967. Godzilla is the upright defender of Earth in this film, which is all right as it can be. Anguirus looked decent, but did little to nothing in the movie, but get his ass kicked. The talking scene was horrendous, but better, in the Japanese cut, where it's just speech bubbles. the swimming scenes in the Toho pool were terrible, with both suits looking like sh*t. King Ghidorah was a great concept for the premise but utterly pointless in the film. 90% of his screen time is stock-footage and when it's not he look sub-par. However, I do love the moment when Godzilla first re-encounters Ghidorah, as there was a bit of nicely done tension. The two definitely seemed to remember one another.The human angle of the story is just badly written. And I mean bad. Hiroshi Ishikawa, who plays the manga artist, delivers corny comedy throughout, arguing with his black belt girlfriend played by Yuriko Hishimi. Tomoko Umeda plays the hot sister of the kidnapped brother, but herself and herself and her sidekick played by Minoru Takashima were forgettable. The aliens were not played too bad and there was even a touch of mystery to them concerning how they goth their 'false bodies'. But alas, the writers completely screw it up with the cockroach angle. Need I remind you this was partly due to Takeshi Kimura but also due to Shinichi Sekizawa. However, as a whole, it can be said it delivered a message, the decadence of human civilization. The score, if it even counts as one, is entirely composed of stock Akira Ifukube cues from several old Toho films, even a few Godzilla movies. This is a hit and a miss, but I think it works. Despite being unoriginal, this film would've been a lot harder to sit through if it had been scored by Masuro Sato honestly.The battles in this movie are particularly entertaining, but once again it is deterred y awful amounts of pathetic stock footage. Alas, it is up to Gigan to save this aspect of the film, which I believe he does. Gigan draws blood from both Godzilla and Anguirus giving the fight a true sense of brutality that was just plain awesome!For this in itself, along with the good choice of Ifukube themes, I highly enjoy the film. While still a dip in Godzilla's career, this piece is an intriguing, sometimes unintentionally funny, and enjoyable film that I recommend to G-fans.