To me, this movie is perfection.

Pretty Good

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Destroy all Monsters is an excellent monster movie for the simple reason that it has everything you are expecting out of a 60s Godzilla movie. Cheesy effects, aliens, and a lot of monsters. Godzilla Gorosaurus(one of my personal favorite kaiju) Baragon Manda Minilla King Ghidorah Anguirus Varan Mothra Rodan and Kumonga all make appearances in the movie, some more brief than others which leaves some fans wishing for a bit more. The plot of the movie is very similar to the 1965 Godzilla flick Invasion of Astro Monster where aliens attempt to take over the Earth by using mind control on the monsters and sending them to destroy major cities. Most of the movie is the humans trying to figure out a way to stop the aliens known as the Killaks but monster scenes are thrown in so the movie doesn't completely bore you. There are many great monster scenes like at the beginning where it shows you all the monsters living on monster land(a island where the humans keep the monsters contained. There's also a great destruction scene in Tokyo where Godzilla Manda Rodan and Mothra all appear at once completely obliterating the city. However the best is saved for last. At the end of the movie all the monsters team up to fight King Ghidorah which makes one of the best fight scenes in all of the Godzilla series. It's epic! It makes up for all of the boring in between stuff by being so awesome. Definitely worth the wait. 9 stars out of 10 because of the boring human stuff but the monster scenes are fantastic.

"Destroy All Monsters" was Japan's answer to Universal Studio's "House of Frankenstein" and "House of Dracula" which featured all the popular monsters of the time. You get Godzilla and all his pals on an island that mankind has banished. Aliens come and control the monsters to destroy civilization. A group of Astronauts come to the rescue and destroy the transmitting device that controls the monster's actions. The monsters attack the aliens and battle King Ghidorah at the end of the film. The movie is what one would expect from a Godzilla film. The dubbing and acting is average at best. The music score and special effects are decent. Not the strongest film in the series but still fun to watch.

Easily watchable, good monster movie NOT embroiled in unlikely character development. Its story will supply materials for FINAL WARS ( basically a re-run ). SFX are decent, albeit not top notch. Many vehicles look like garage sale toys. Cartonbox cities, although looking as such, are surprisingly well done. Smiling, condescending female aliens (similar to Planet X/Monster zero types ) are invading earth. To do so, they capture the head control station of monster island and send the remotely controlled monsters to wreack havoc worldwide, so that humans will come to terms with them accepting alien leadership. There are many plot twists... there is a UN moon base ( along the line of the UFO series ) and 1999 spaceships that are just beefed up 1960s rockets. Many clichés find screen time...the army moment, the alien invader moment, the bold soldier moment, the spy moment... Characters are rather wooden and cardboard, but in a monster movie that's not a major flaw; monster movies aren't theater plays. In the end, reminiscent of one Star Trek TOS episode, alien invaders' real self is the one of giant slugs eager to bury themselves into rock. Overall, a movie one might watch twice for some unpretentious fun.

destroy all monsters is the one old school Godzilla film that you must see.first, of course, It effectively sums up the series to that point, by explaining the inter-connectedness of all the essential toho monsters. it also revealed the deep relationship between the Godzilla films and the toho sci-fi films of the same period - e.g. the mysterians.however, all this 'interconnecting' did the one thing that really drew the fans of these films all-together, in a way the producers may not have intended - after a decade of debate among film fans, it was no longer possible to maintain that these films were not essentially silly and badly made. which, far from alienating the grounding audience for the Godzilla films, actually brought them all togetrher and gave them an identity - if we could agree on nothing else, we could at least agree that the Godzilla films were absolute trash, and yet funny as hell.if you still think you have a brain on your shoulders, wait till you see Godzilla and his friends decide - and, yes, they are the ones to make the decision - that earth must be saved from ghidirah, the space monster. wait until you see, for yourself, the marvelous professional wrestling moves these rubber lizards pull on ghidirah - and in tag-team, no less. meanwhile, the earthling heroes debate whether the enemy planet is too hot to land on; but even so, they do land on it, and despite the inevitable destruction of their space-ship - which miraculously never happens - they reduce the aliens to little rock-lizards that are fairly harmless, if kept in the cooler...oh, bliss - but there is really too much wonder to relate here - you simply must accept that this movie is good for you - and if it isn't, it's fun anyway, huh - of course, the real star of this film is the big green guy - to hell with special effects - 'oh no - there goes Tokyo - go go Godzilla'