Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Raymond Burr (Steve Martin), Takashi Shimura (Dr Yamane), Akira Takarada {dubbed by James Hong) (Hideto Agata), Momoko Kochi (Emiko), Akihiko Hirata (dubbed by James Hong) (Dr Serizawa), Frank Iwanaga (security officer), Toyoaki Suzuki (boy from Oto Island), Toranosuke Ogawa (shipping company president), Takeo Oikawa (chief of emergency services), Kokuten Kodo (old man on Oto Island), Fuyuki Murakami (scientist with Geiger counter), Mikel Conrad (George Lawrence), Ren Yamamoto (boy's older brother), Sachio Sakai (interviewer on Oro Island), Ryosaku Takasugi (Godzilla), Katsumi Tezuka (also Godzilla), Haruo Nakajima (also Godzilla), Kenji Sahara (man on boat), Tadashi Okabe (reporter on tower), Ren Imaizumi (radio operator), Tsuroko Mano (boys' mother), Miki Hayashi, Kin Sugai.Director: ISHIRO HONDA. Director of all Raymond Burr's scenes: TERRY O. MORSE. Screenplay: Takeo Murata, Ishiro Honda. Story: Shigeru Kayama. Raymond Burr's scenes written by Al C. Ward. Photography: Masao Tamai, and Guy Rose (Burr's scenes). Film editor: Terry O. Morse. Art directors: Takeo Kita, Satoshi Chuko. Set decorator: George Rohr. Music: Akira Ifukube. Special effects: Akira Watanabe, Eiji Tsuburaya, Hiroshi Mukoyama, Kuichiro Kishida. Assistant director: Ira S. Webb. Sound recording: Hisashi Shimonaga, and Art Smith. Original Japanese film, Gojira, produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka for Toho in 1954. Producers: Richard Kay, Edward B. Barison, and Harry Rybnick. Executive producers: Joseph E. Levine, Terry Turner.Copyright 1956 by Jewell Enterprises, Inc. U.S. release through Embassy (Eastern states) and TransWorld (western states): April 1956. New York opening at Loew's State (of all places!): 27 April 1956. U.K. release: floating from July 1956. Never theatrically released in Australia. 80 minutes. SYNOPSIS: Rising from the sea bed, a gigantic, radioactive, prehistoric monster makes a beeline for Tokio. An American reporter (Raymond Burr) sees all, knows little.COMMENT: I am not a fan of Godzilla. He's a monster with no character at all. Just stomps on everything in sight. Model trains and cardboard skyscrapers are his meat. I wish he'd eaten the movie instead. Maybe he realized that an inferior product like this — meandering plot, filling-in-time dialogue, pretentious commentary, gosh-awful acting, agonizingly slow direction — would bring on a sure bout of acute indigestion.

This is a remake of sorts of the original 1954 'Godzilla' movie which was all in the Japanese language. 'Godzilla, King of the Monsters' has footage from the original film and most of it was dubbed over in English. This American version stars Raymond Burr as a reporter covering the event - so we see a lot of Raymond in this movie - that is good for American audiences.Overall this is a very fun large creature film - it would be good to watch the original 1954 'Godzilla' then follow it up with 'King of the Monsters'.The idea of (atomic and nuclear) weapon testing spawned quite a few large creature movies - and Godzilla was one of them. It made an interesting time era in motion pictures.7/10

American reporter Steve Martin (an earnest and engaging performance by Raymond Burr) covers the story of a lifetime after a giant prehistoric monster gets reawakened from its centuries of slumber and goes on a rampage in Japan. While this version isn't as bleak and somber as the Japanese original, it's nonetheless still pretty grim and admirably serious in tone, with the added character of Martin incorporated into the main narrative in a clever and convincing way by making him more of an active participant than a passive observer (the Big G even knocks a building on Martin at one point!). Although the love triangle amongst the three main Japanese characters is less prominently featured and the film hence nowhere near as poignant as the original, the American version still registers as a good film in its own right due to the overall respectful treatment its given by director Terry O. Morse and screenwriter Al C. Ward. Moreover, the scenes of Godzilla destroying Tokyo are truly terrifying, the dubbing is generally acceptable (in a nice touch, whole portions are still presented in Japanese), Akira Ifukube's robust score hits the rousing spot, the special effects hold up quite well, and residual traces of the pertinent central message about the dangers of atomic bombs and radioactive fallout can still be discerned throughout.

OK Godzilla king of the monsters is a very good movie. But in spite of what you might hear the 1998 remake is better. So this the sixteenth part of the series the return of Godzilla that one is better. And the twenty fourth part to the japan series Godzilla vs M.E.G.A.G.U.I.R.U.S. is also better.Still it is a very good movie. A monster is created by the H bomb. And it is trying to destroy the world. Great story. Great special effects. Raymond Burr was great in this movie. It is not as Good as part twenty five. Godzilla M.O.T.R.A and King G.H.I.D.O.R.A.H giant monsters all out attack. Still this is a great movie. First in the series. This is the the fifth best Godzilla movie.