All Monsters Attack (1972)

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

Godzilla's Revenge (1969)** (out of 4) A young Japanese boy is being bullied so in his room he imagines that he's on Monster Island where he's befriended by Godzilla's son while Godzilla himself beats up countless monsters. GODZILLA'S REVENGE is a pretty cheap movie all around as it features footage from at least two other movies but at the same time I think some people are a bit too harsh on it. Yes, if you're expecting a serious or dark Godzilla film then you're certainly not going to find it here but overall I thought the film, while incredibly stupid, at least managed to be fun in a campy way. The film's story is incredibly stupid and rarely makes too much sense as we follow this young kid from his normal life to his imaginary life on Monster Island. The son of Godzilla has to be one of the silliest looking monsters in screen history but at the same time I've always found him rather cute in his own way. The film is certainly aimed towards children and I think on this level it actually works. It's certainly never scary and the monsters are just more charming than anything else. The film contains battle scenes from other movies in the series and while you can make a great case that this here is just cheap, you can also make the case that it's fun to see all the monster fights. The performances are bad as you'd expect and the English dubbing certainly isn't that impressive. The Godzilla suit looks as ridiculous as ever but then again, were they ever really that good? GODZILLA'S REVENGE is a silly little movie that runs a very quick 70-minutes and fans of monster movies should enjoy it.

Godzilla's Revenge (1971)Starring: Eisei Amamoto, Machiko Naka, Haruo Nakajima, Tomonori Yazaki, and Kazuo SuzkiDirected By: Ishiro Honda and Kevin ReynoldsIt looks like Godzilla is raising an army of monster maniacs, oh no wait there not giant monsters it's just a little kid who's a maniac. That's disappointing given the title, I mean Godzilla's Revenge, who'd he get revenge on that's the question you'll be asking yourself by the end of the picture. This was the begging of Godzilla films being for children, and Godzilla being just a regular hero instead of an anti-hero which defeats the purpose of why Godzilla fans watch Godzilla movies.In the movie we see a boy who is a Godzilla fan, he gets picked on by a group of kid's and dreams he's on Monster Island with Godzilla and his son. His parents are always working late, so they barely spend time with him. There's also two bank robbers in the movie, who have stolen a lot of cash. They stay in the abandoned warehouse, were all the kids usually see each other when walking home (yeesh , no one gets dropped off, that's pretty unusual.) The kid falls asleep, and is dreaming that a plane takes him to Monster Island. When he arrives he spots all the monsters, and watches as Godzilla beats up giant Mantises. The boy then finds the son of Godzilla and he quotes "Godzilla say's I should to fight my own battles." There is a new monster in this film who they call Gabera which looks pretty stupid. The boy and the son of Godzilla watches as Godzilla battles some sort of sea creature and Kumonga: the giant spider. The boy goes into the warehouse(even though he's told not too earlier in the film) and picks up one of the bank robbers driver's license. The two bank robbers kidnap the boy and try to use him as a means of escape (even though they could off just as easily kidnap, the boy take the driver's license and left him in the warehouse.) The dream he has with the son of Godzilla fighting Gabera in turn helps him to fight back.You shouldn't naturally care what's going on half the time because, a movie needs characters with conflict and emotional depth. This movie has a little cardboard cutout boy who is just teased for the sake of the plot, and he's a Godzilla fan just for the sake of the plot I mean if I just put this movie in your DVD or BLURAY player and told you this was a Godzilla film you would think I'm lying. Godzilla and his son are only in the film for market value cause in that time in Japan Godzilla made the company lots of money. You would be so bored that you'll be checking your watch and thinking to yourself that this movie feels like three hours, when it's only one hour and ten minutes. There were even more interesting things being said in the film like about the two bank robbers who stole a lot of money, but they weren't shown stealing anything. If they could have shown us that and maybe cops trying to find the boy while Godzilla's fighting Gabera with his son in the city that could have at least been fun.With this Godzilla film Ishiro Honda wanted to make a film for children, but there was no way he could have succeeded with that idea because Godzilla as presented in a few movies is a force of nature or an anti-hero. This movie doesn't completely rape the Godzilla name but it is still not worth any Godzilla fans time. It is one of the worst movie/monster movies a person could ever subject themselves too. I give Godzilla's Revenge a one out of five.

There are a lot of Godzilla films out there, and for most of them its up for debate about which ones are good, or which one is the best(original aside). But any Godzilla fan who's seen his fair share of Godzilla movies knows that THIS movie is by far the worse one. Because it doesn't matter how cheesy or how stupid or fake looking some of the movies can be, because all of them have one thing that this movie doesn't: it stars Godzilla. This movie stars a young boy who gets picked on, day dreams, gets kidnapped, escapes, and stands up to the bullies. Because thats what we think of when someone says Godzilla, we think of coming of age stories. The only times we see Godzilla are in stock footage. I repeat: STOCK FOOTAGE! As in everything we see of him is from other Godzilla movies. Not only that, they have to make Godzilla's son talk. Not only that, they had to give him to most unfitting goofy cartoon voice for him too. The reason that I didn't give this movie a 1 is because Godzilla is still fun to watch, even if it was seen before, because lets be honest, Godzilla playing rock volleyball with a giant lobster never gets old. So watch it for a good laugh at the bad voice acting and horrendously dull plot, but if your a Godzilla fan, stay away, it will crush your appreciation for the series