San daikaijû: Chikyû saidai no kessen (1964)'s comments

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Siskoid

By Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster, the Godzilla franchise is well and truly on drugs. In this, a terrifying space monster is mixed in with Bondian intrigue surrounding a Venusian prophet reincarnated as a princess with a price on her head. Throw in Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra's larva to turn them into a Band of Brothers, oh, and the singing fairies from the other Mothra films are also back with a song that you won't be able to get out of your head. It's so crazy, it works. There's real invention and charm here.

7 years 4 months ago

KuroSawWhat

Wow! UFOs, international assassins, psychic aliens, and an Avengers-style kaiju battle royale that doesn't disappoint! They were really pushing the envelope on this one! The film constantly clips along with a fun, comic book-style pacing and great character acting. All of the effects work was just lovely, and it's always a pleasure to see the venerable Takashi Shimura dropping in to help with Big G-related troubles. This is one very fun film!

quote:
"Humans are always bullying us." - Godzilla

1 year ago

DogbaneDan

One thing everyone agrees about regarding these movies is that the human roles/drama are rarely engaging nor memorable. This movie excels in that regard with its nutso plot about an alien priestess and some assassins that are punctuated with fantastic kaiju action.

High-quality special effects and dull moments are far and few in between. Ghidorah is a high water mark for the Godzilla franchise.

6 years 4 months ago

xianjiro

Bond girl sighting!

7 years 5 months ago

Armoreska

Wish this one had MST3K treatment

9 years 3 months ago

jktomas

I'd say it's one of the best kaiju films I've seen. It may be a little insulting to Godzilla fans though, because in this movie he acts like a little child. First he spends half of the movie fighting Rodan for no good reason, then he whines that humans are bullying him all the time, and at the end spoiler

, which now makes the King of the Monsters seem far less threatening. They really gave too many human traits to the monsters in this film, which is fun, but again, far less threatening. Everything else besides Godzilla in this movie is great. I especially liked the human story line (with the princess and stuff), in giant monster movies I usually don't. And the beginning of the film really made it look like a scary end of the world story with all the weird things (high temperature in winter, shooting stars all around the world) going on. Not a bad one, check it out.

10 years 7 months ago