Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Akira Takareda,
Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, Hideo Sunazuka, Toru Ibuki
From: Toho
Godzilla playing volleyball w/ a giant crustacean was not something I knew I needed.
Real
soon I'll get back to horror movies; last night I saw something with
Horror in its title, playing on TCM. That's right, Godzilla movies have
played on Turner Classic Movies every Friday this October, and this will
result in the amazing moments later this month of All Monsters Attack,
Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster and Godzilla vs. Megalon playing prime
time on TCM. Anyway, this movie was new to me, although I've heard for
awhile now that it was different from the norm, probably because the
star was originally going to be King Kong instead of Gojira. This was
true, although thankfully the movie ended up being refreshing for those
reasons.
The movie features such elements as teen males (albeit looking rather old for alleged teenagers), a master thief, Infant Island, a SPECTRE-esque organization who is using the residents of Infant Island to create nuclear weapons... and surf music. At least the movie was interesting during the long stretches where there is no kaiju action; said kaiju action was at least rather entertaining. Besides Gojira there is Ebirah, a giant lobster... along with Mothra-it is more of a cameo-and Giant Condor, which is... a giant condor. Whether it be The Big G and Ebirah batting a giant rock to each other as if it was a volleyball or Godzilla knocking down fighter jets while a groovy tune is playing, this is what I meant when I complimented the action.
As this was lighter in tone yet did not totally morph into something that was mainly made for children, I have to give this a better score than expected.
The movie features such elements as teen males (albeit looking rather old for alleged teenagers), a master thief, Infant Island, a SPECTRE-esque organization who is using the residents of Infant Island to create nuclear weapons... and surf music. At least the movie was interesting during the long stretches where there is no kaiju action; said kaiju action was at least rather entertaining. Besides Gojira there is Ebirah, a giant lobster... along with Mothra-it is more of a cameo-and Giant Condor, which is... a giant condor. Whether it be The Big G and Ebirah batting a giant rock to each other as if it was a volleyball or Godzilla knocking down fighter jets while a groovy tune is playing, this is what I meant when I complimented the action.
As this was lighter in tone yet did not totally morph into something that was mainly made for children, I have to give this a better score than expected.
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