Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Animenter There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Spikeopath It has a mixed reputation among the fans, but Terror of Mechagodzilla is a romp of a sequel, one that's not without deep emotional heart.Plot is bonkers of course, aliens are plotting to rule the world and have recreated Mechagodzilla after Godzilla shredded it to pieces in the previous meeting of the two beasts (Godzilla V Mechagodzilla). There's Interpol agents running around not exactly in control of anything, a vengeful scientist with an agenda who aids the aliens, while his daughter has become a cyborg designed to control Titanosaurus, a gigantic amphibious dinosaur that teams up with Mechagodzilla to stomp on Tokyo. All is lost for mankind, until Godzilla climbs out of the ocean to hopefully protect his domain.The return of Ishirō Honda to the director's chair is a reassuring presence, and it helps the film retain a classy production level. The monster smack-downs are neatly choreographed, the model work is wonderfully 1970s, and Akira Ifukube's thunderous score gladdens the spirit as it simultaneously rocks your bones. Yukiko Takayama's screenplay contains intelligence, where the sci-fi boffin speak is spliced with deep observations on humanity and what it means to be part of such a race etc.Fan division usually comes down to who likes super-hero Godzilla or who likes Godzilla in destroy everything mode. This is the former, and it's cheer worthy, the atomic lizard in a bad mood would not surface again for 10 years, and by then the direction of Zilla's fortunes got increasingly silly. This marks "Terror" as something of a franchise closure to be cherished, and rightly so because it has all the good parts that made the first Toho wave so enjoyable. So turn up the volume, open your screens out and indulge. Wonderful. 8/10

jacobjohntaylor1 The best Godzilla movie ever is Godzilla (1998). If you do not think so that's o.k. But if your mad about it grow up frat heads. This is the 15th Godzilla movie. The 11th Godzilla movie Godzilla vs the smog monster is better. The 16th Godzilla movie Godzilla 1985 or The return of Godzilla is also better. The 17th Godzilla movie Godzilla vs B.i.o.l.l.a.n.t.e is also better. It is still a very good movie. Very scary. See it. It is a very good monster movie. It is not as good the 22nd Godzilla movie Godzilla vs Destroyer. It is not as good as part 23 to the Japan Godzilla series Godzilla vs M.e.g.a.g.u.i.r.u.s. The 8th Godzilla movie Son of Godzilla is also better. But still it is a very good movie.

Michael_Elliott Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) * 1/2 (out of 4) Sequel to GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA has aliens picking up the broken pieces of Mechagodzilla so that they can rebuild him. They plan to use him to destroy the Earth but thankfully Godzilla comes to have some fun. After the opening, which uses stock footage from the previous film, there's very little going on in this movie until the wonderful final twenty-minutes. The beginning hour is just downright horrid and had me fighting back sleep because of how dreadful it got. Once again we have three different monsters in the film yet the screenwriter just wants to spend time with some stupid scientist and police officers. This might work is we actually had an interesting story for them to work with but that's not the case. Instead we have some of the dumbest aliens on this side of an Ed Wood film and, as was the case in PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, the filmmakers take a cheap way out and have the aliens looking like humans only here they're wearing silly silver outfits. Once Mechogodzilla and Titanosaurus start to tear through Japan is when the film becomes fun and ends up being some of the best stuff from the series. The battle sequences are all very good as Godzilla must battle both bad guys as all sorts of things go flying through the air. The buildings crashing down still look incredibly fake but it's still fun. I really wish more would have been done in the middle so I could enjoy this film more but as it stands, just watch the final twenty-minutes and leave the rest alone.

I_John_Barrymore_I Things did not bode well at the start, with a seven-minute greatest hits sequence that never seemed to end, but by the time it was over I found myself grateful for so much action so early on. When the story proper started it was with some very impressive underwater model work (I couldn't see the seams at any rate).But what really marked this out as a superior entry is the plot. A reclusive discredited scientist is employed by aliens to use his thought-controlled pet Titanosaurus to destroy Tokyo along with the newly-rebuilt Mechagodzilla, their combined might certain to overcome that pesky Godzilla. Meanwhile an Interpol agent and a marine scientist investigate the disappearance of an exploratory submarine, the trail leading them to the scientist's beautiful but non-too-helpful daughter.It might sound like the usual gubbins on paper but there's genuine tension in many of the scenes, it's logical and exciting, and rather than feeling like drawn-out filler while we wait for the real action to begin it's successful on its own terms, even managing to pull off genuine pathos bordering on tragedy at the end.When it does begin it's hands down the best destruction I've seen so far in the series. They're right in the centre of Tokyo surrounded by skyscrapers ready to be demolished and incinerated. The camera pans across the cityscape as whole swathes of it are destroyed, and it truly is spectacular. What makes it even more powerful is that it's not a fight sequence for the most part - it's just two big boys laying waste to the city.Godzilla himself is given a wonderful entrance, and in those moments it's a thrill to see this (of all films) so overtly referencing The Third Man (of all films).They do escape to the country for the final showdown, but there's still the odd power station to be sat on and let's face it, we've already had our money's worth with the destruction of Tokyo. The fight is lengthy too, with Godzilla on the back foot for most of it, and while we're never unsure of the outcome it does get pretty hairy for the big guy.For the budget the special effects are often superb and always imaginative (like the alien technician walking inside Mechagodzilla's head or the shot that takes us from his massive, dormant frame as he's being worked on, through a window, and finishes with the aliens and doctor watching the progress from a lab).The music throughout is excellent, and the female lead is impossibly gorgeous.What's not to love?