Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Well do I remember this two-monster rally, because I saw it in the summer of 1972 on KTLA, Channel 5, from Los Angeles (we just had it added to our cable lineup). The movie starts with a fishing boat being attacked by a gigantic octopus, complete with red glowing eyeballs. And just when the five-men crew couldn't have it any worse, along comes a green-skinned gargantuan humanoid. It rips the octopus apart, sinks the fishing boat, and goes after the crewmembers who are swimming for their lives. Most of them don't make it. Dr. Paul Stewart (played by Russ Tamblyn) is understandably perplexed. It couldn't be his creature, although it escaped five years ago. Well, one thing leads to another and it turns out that Green Gargantua is an offshoot of Dr. Stewart's Brown Gargantua. Brown Gargantua is kind and gentle, while Green Gargantua is evil through and through. The Japanese military does not know the difference and does not care. As far as they're concerned, both monsters are a menace. There are some good scenes to be had: when Green Gargantua is electrified by a series of electrodes planted in a river and is fired on by several space-age laser weapons on mobile vehicles. Dr. Stewart warns that if both monsters are blasted to bits, the surviving cells will multiply and there will be thousands of Gargantuas overrunning the world. There's another scene of a night club chanteuse (played by Kipp Hamilton, who was Carol Burnette's sister-in-law) singing "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" while she's dropping sharps and flats all over the floor while the house lights are off. And no sooner does she get through than Green Gargantua picks her up and lifts her upwards like King Kong did with Ann Darrow in the 1933 film. Then he drops her from a height of 50 feet. The movie certainly lives up to the title and it's one of my guilty pleasures. It was released in the U.S. as a double feature and paired with MONSTER ZERO; both films made it to the silver screen in 1970. And by the time THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS was released, Russ Tamblyn's acting career had basically gotten away from him. By 1970, he'd already starred in some craptactular flicks directed by one of the worst movie makers ever to work in Hollywoodland, Al Adamson. And how about the ending scene where a convenient underwater volcano in Tokyo Bay erupts and destroys both Gargantuas----or does it? The way the movie ended left the possibility of a sequel and as it turns out, there was a proposed movie that would have had Godzilla fighting one of the Gargantuas. Unfortunately, it was never made. If you get the Classics Media DVD release, you get the English-language version and the original Japanese version (it's only 88 minutes long, while the Americanized version runs 92 minutes long). This is tarwaterthomas saying, enjoy this flick.

This is supposed to be the sequel to Frankenstein Conquers The World.I knew that before I watched it and can honestly say I see no connection.They look similar, very Godzilla-ish, but that's the only thing they have in common. For the first 30 minutes I thought I had seen this before but I was wrong, it's just not very original and yet somehow not too bad. The monsters are in most of the movie and there's lots of action which is a bit original compared to most monster movies, but the story has lots of holes and the ending is very disappointing. Despite that it has nothing to do with the first movie, this may be the best sequel ever made.

I finally bought the collector's edition of "Rodan" and "War of the Gargantuans". Thanks, Classic Media. Damn, what a good way to waste $25 bucks but the movies are so good it was totally worth it. The DVD is of good quality, although lacking the usual special features I was expecting. I was really hoping to hear the G-experts view on the two films but there is a nice hour-long documentary included. "Bringing Godzilla down to size" tells the complex story of Godzilla's rise to fame and tragic fall, yet soon return. "War of the Gargantuans", another Honda-flick, is a real treat, the unofficial sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World". With practically the same production team, the film is pretty damn good. Odako ( the giant octopus) is great in this movie. The last time I saw him was what, 62', back in "King Kong vs. Godzilla"? Sanda and Gailah are a nice break from the onslaught of reptilian and insect monsters, both looking nice and thankfully realistic. The "brother's" conflict is an interesting part of the story, and, like "Rodan", the human carnage really gives a more adult feeling while watching. We see some great action sequences, this movie starring the Maser tank, which will star in the exact same scene in "Godzilla vs. Megalon" thanks to horrendous stock-footage. Because of their "human" appearance and characteristics, the gargantuans can interact with the protagonist in a way a giant dinosaur, three-headed dragon, or giant moth just can't. This film is also one of the few to star an American actor, who fits in nicely. The music is dope, Ifukube delivering a nice and dark score. He even includes a spunky JSDF march, as he did in many of Honda's "Golden Age" movies, a nice edition. To be clear this American version was better than "Rodan"'s, but once again the score is heavily edited, not even including the JSDF theme at all! Either way, that annoying song at the nightclub is included, but seeing as Gailah kills the braud I'll let it go. As I watched it, one can't help but feel such disappointment with Godzilla. After "Invasion of Astro-Monster", the series went to total crap thanks to Jun Fukuda and the crappy scores. 1967, "War of the Gargantuans" was released, compared to "Son of Godzilla". Damn...... If Toho had simply let Honda continue doing the films without the sacrifice of the serious tone for a childish one that soon became played out; maybe Godzilla would've never even had to cut his Showa era short. Just a thought that was on my mind. Back to the 2-disc set, damn, good work Classic Media.

This film was a standard feature in the early 70's on Chicago's Creature Features (WGN). The dubbed American story added a bit of corniness, and some changes to the script which hurt the feel of it. Years later I saw the original subtitled, and was not disappointed at all. One feature that stands out from all other kaiju features is this; the giant monsters ran in this film. In all other giant monster movies I've seen, the monsters are slowly lumbering giants. They gave you a chance to get away. Not these monsters, these monsters friggin' ran! How scary is that? Pretty scary actually. This is another one for the 30-40 somethings to put in the DVD player to release the childhood memories!