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Truly Dreadful Film
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
Eric Stevenson
I'm going to agree with most people and say that this was the worst Godzilla movie ever made. The worst part about it is probably how it just reuses stock footage from other Godzilla movies. One of them was "Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster" which was featured on MST3K. It does kind of make you wonder why they never used that movie for the show. I guess with the stock footage it would be redundant. Another annoying thing about the movie is Minya. He was already annoying in "Son Of Godzilla" but this just ups the ante of obnoxiousness. The main character is this kid who keeps having dreams or fantasies about Godzilla.I guess it's all in his head. That makes the story even more pointless. The effects are completely laughable in this film. The other Godzilla movies it has footage from aren't good, but are certainly preferable over this. It's hard to say if the short length is the best part about the movie. They means they just wanted to use as little original footage as possible. No one could have put much effort into this. It's probably the goofiest entry in the entire series and a fair betrayal of the tone the franchise started out with. *1/2
jackdickie
As a FAN of the Godzilla franchise, this is a film I constantly skip over DUE to having 0 interest in wanting to watch it. This film suffers from having boring characters, a plot that's not interesting and shameless stock footage that we've seen before in OTHER previous Godzilla films. It also gives the main boy of the film a Kaiju to talk to in his dreams... Did I not mention that all of these scenes involving this boy and the Minya AND the stock footage scenes are nothing more than dreams? Yeah...THEY ARE! And that's what makes this film worse for me. I also believe that this kid is nothing more than a Godzilla fan and that he's simply visioning all of these things inside his head and somehow, Minya teaches this boy how to stick up for himself by fighting his bullies and...It's just a bad movie. It's for little kids...This isn't for teens, isn't for adults...It's JUST for VERY Little kids... 1/10. Also Yes I do believe this movie is terrible.
Leofwine_draca
A bizarre, kiddie-orientated addition to the GODZILLA series which is really a GODZILLA film by association only, seeing as the jolly green giant only appears briefly in scenes lifted from other movies! In fact, it's hard to say what GODZILLA'S REVENGE really is. Part revenge drama, part crime thriller, part fantasy, this is a film that the fans mainly hate and consider to be the worst of the series. I think that GODZILLA'S REVENGE must be watched in the right frame of mind in order to enjoy it properly, i.e. you must imagine yourself as an imaginative child to get something out of this film.Things don't look promising with the film's opening, full of appalling music and an annoyingly "cute" kid - who, despite all indications to the contrary, grows on you as the film progresses. At least he's not as annoying as Macaulay Culkin... anyway, we watch the kid, Ichiro, playing with a radio and hanging around with a cool, mad inventor of toys (played by Eisei Amamoto, genre regular) who has created a glove that moves and talks! The monster content comes from the couple of dreams that Ichiro has, where he imagines himself flying to Monster Island and watching Godzilla fight a number of foes (actually, all we see is footage taken from EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP, SON OF GODZILLA, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and others). Eventually he befriends Minilla, Godzilla's son, and learns to become courageous through him.Basically if you remove the footage from previous monster bashes, you're left with a handful of silly scenes which have Ichiro bonding with Minilla, who bizarrely talks for some reason. The saving grace is that these scenes are invariably very funny indeed, and as a whole the film works as a piece of unintentional comedy. It's fast-paced, has plenty of action and Japanese weirdness to enjoy, and is very colourful to look at. The stock footage is incorporated well with the new stuff, so to a naïve fan I'm sure the effect would be genuine. Although not really a worthwhile film for adults to watch, this is nonetheless watchable as a curiosity piece.
starfoxfan86
Up until this film, I've rated the other Godzilla movies (other than the original) off entertainment value. But this one, while I found it amusing- completely fails as a Godzilla movie. The biggest problem is the story. The main story isn't even about Godzilla, it's about a kid who gets bullied and whose parents are always off working. Now about Godzilla and the giant monsters, I don't think it counts as a spoiler to say that most of the monsters in this movie have far less of a cameo than they did in destroy all monsters. Others such as Ebirah, Kamacuras, and Kumonga only return in stock footage- which turns out to be most of the monster fighting. There is one new monster- called Gabara, but that's it. The other huge failing is the point of the monster scenes. The kid fantasizes about going to Monster Island and befriending Godzilla's son, who's troubles parallel his own. And he talks. I think that in the Japanese version, he sounds more like a girl, it's nothing horrible. But the American dub, I can't explain. Just watch the Godzilla's revenge Monster Madness to see what I'm talking about.The final thing to explain is the other subplot. There are two robbers who stole 10,000 Yen- and the kid ends up crossing paths with these two criminals. This part serves little purpose, doesn't make much sense, and could have easily been replaced and/or omitted.The way this movie is set up doesn't even match the other Godzilla movies. Son of Godzilla felt like a real Godzilla movie even though it was set on a remote island. Considering Godzilla getting downgraded to a fantasy, the poor storyline, not to mention poor writing bring this movie to it's well deserved title of "The Worst Godzilla Movie".
