Godzilla vs. Gigan
Godzilla vs. Gigan
G | 19 August 1977 (USA)
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Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.

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ThiefHott

Too much of everything

WiseRatFlames

An unexpected masterpiece

FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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Jenna Walter

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

JLRVancouver

Sneaky, nattily dressed, space cockroaches attempt to take over Earth by recruiting Ghidorah and Gigan from their secret base in the head of a life-size model of Godzilla. What more could you ask for? They are stopped by the combined forces of Godzilla, his largely ineffectual side-kick Anguirus, and a plucky Japanese cartoonist and his friends (the significance of having a cartoonist as a protagonist is revealed during the climactic battle in a scene that is silly beyond words (and hence I won't attempt to describe)). As kaiju films go, this one is pretty weak: Ghidorah, generally a great monster, arrives as a static model that is completely out of scale with his later appearances in the movie (mostly lifted from previous films) while his ally Gigan is a ridiculous looking cybernetic space bird-bat with huge rubbery-looking claws and a potbelly containing a buzz-saw. After a tedious preamble (oddly full of phallic symbolism), the movie is essentially a continuous fight with some good fiery destruction scenes marred by the monsters throwing rocks at each other. The Earth-protecting monsters seem to actually speak to one another in the dubbed version I watched (and, based on the trailer, may communicate via cartoon-style speech bubbles in the Japanese version -*shudder*). A late entry into the Showa series of Godzilla films, G vs. G continues the emphasis on pollution, rather than radiation, as a plot driver and the role of Godzilla as Our Saviour. Overall, number 12 is a weak entry into the canon but watchable to fans of the genre. A '4' amongst movies in general, a '6' in the in world of daikaiju eiga. Followed by the dire Godzilla vs. Megalon.

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SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain

Godzilla and a giant alien chicken. Great stuff. It's back to the very basic for Godzilla after many were disappointed by the previous effort (I loved it). It kind of throws away everything Godzilla started as. Now we have a fairly kid friendly film, in which aliens design an amusement park in the hopes of controlling some of the monsters from monster island. Because giant monsters are the greatest way to attract families away from their mundane lives. A manga artist uncovers this bizarre plot and soon the aliens release their own monster, Gigan. Fun fights and frolics abound, even if these movies are getting rather crowded.

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Michael_Elliott

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) ** (out of 4) Cockroaches turned aliens take over an amusement park that was originally meant to showcase some of Japan's giant monsters. The aliens send Gigan and King Ghidrah to destroy Godzilla but he has some help with Anguirus. After a slugish first hour where nothing happens except for talk, talk and more talk, the final thirty-minutes of this film really picks up and makes it worth sitting through, although I think I'd still recommend just jumping to the final scenes. There's some extremely bad stuff going on here but thankfully a lot of it is bad enough to gain a few laughs. One example is the entire plot dealing with the aliens being former cockroaches. I mean, seriously. Another laughing point is when Godzilla and Anguirus are able to talk to one another. I mean, double seriously. With that said, the final thirty-minutes is where this movie makes its money and I must say it turned into a lot of fun once all four monsters started fighting. The scenes of Godzilla sitting on Gigan and pounding his head into the ground are priceless as is the final tag team where the Big G and Anguirus must battle King Ghidrah. The special effects of the monster outfits are fairly good, although the plastic tanks still look like junk.

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vtcavuoto

"Godzilla vs. Gigan" isn't up to par with the rest of the films in the Godzilla series. The acting is average at best,there isn't much action until the end of the film and the dubbing is terrible. The monsters themselves are pretty cool and I did enjoy the scene where Godzilla and Anguirus speak to each other in distorted English! As far as the aliens invading earth, Toho Studios decided on intelligent cockroaches. Umm...OK. Not the most effective part of the plot(if one can call it that). This is typical Godzilla-style mayhem and fans of the big G will want to check this out once. If you're not a fan, skip it. There are much better Godzilla films out there.

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