Best movie of this year hands down!

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

This review is for the wide-screen Japanese english subtitled Ghidora The Three-Headed Monster, directed by Ishiro Honda, and a score by Akira Ifukube.This is a fun family film, and it offers a glimpse into what Japanese culture understood then, and what America has finally come to understand now. They are actors...so what if they are interacting with monsters? You can read the plot synopsis on other reviews. The highlights of the film are the monsters of course. But the extreme camp that the plot involves, namely a conversation between Godzilla, Ronan, and little Mothra, is one of the memorable points. The film shows it extensively, giving the actors in the suits and the puppeteers plenty of screen time for us to enjoy the profound joy of this ridiculous situation. We are rewarded by seeing Rodan head-butt Ghidora, and Godzilla tail-tow Mothra up a hill. Godzilla 1954 was horrifying Nuclear allegory; Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964) was fantasy. This is campy family joy. But this is Kaiju at it's best. Notice the great cinematography, especially Ghidora approaching the arches. The film also delivers a nice human subplot. A princess suffers from trauma and believes that she is a Venusian profit (in the American film it is changed to Martian). This role is played very strongly by Akiko Wakabayashi, who is better known as Aki from "You Only Live Twice". She posses well for the screen. Since this is the early Bond era, the human plot involves an assignation attempt on our princess.But our Japanese police detective is a normal Joe, played by Yosuki Natsuki. And finally, the doctor who tries to help the Venutian Profit remember that she's a princess is played by the great Japanese actor Takashi Shimura. He was in the original Godzilla as Dr. Yamane, but is best known for his work with director Kurosawa. namely Seven Samurai, Ikura, and Rashomon. Damn, those are three of the best movies ever made. Our movie allows our actors to actually act, even if only for a few minutes. The viewer does have to wait for a clumsy exposition, but when the movie gets going, it's a delight. It serves as an example on how to have a Kaiju be a satisfying viewing experience.

Well, at least in MY top ten. I love this Godzilla film, it really does have everything you want in a giant monster film. Plenty of monster action to balance out all the human drama. The effects ad quality are pretty great when you take all the Godzilla films into account, so it makes it just as much better. Its definitely one you should see if you have even slight interest in the film series.

This film is one of the original series' best in my opinion. Four of my favorite monsters coming together for the hugest battle yet seen (at the time of course). This film also holds a very special place in my heart, seeing as it was the first GOOD Godzilla movie I ever owned. Back when I must've been four I'd estimate. The only G-film I'd seen prior to this was "Godzilla vs. Megalon", but compared to this film it only looks even crappier! I unfortunately broke my VHS copy of it at nine due to excitement over a new G-film I'd been given as a present and up until 2007 I thought I would never see the film again. Fortunately, Classic Media recognized its greatness and released on a spectacular DVD. Another reason I love this film is the fun plot. Of course it's dropped any mention of nukes or strong themes, but I still find it one of Sekizawa's best. Next time around let's say Princess Salno used a parachute instead of "leaping in between dimensions". As for the characters, this film has a really good cast. Akikko Wakabayashi (the Princess/Martian prophet) is excellent and fine by the way. Takashi Shimura stars as another 'Dr.' character and his performance is as usual, top notch. Akihiko Hirata stars in a small role where as Yuriko Hoshi returns playing a very similar character to her previous role in "Mothra vs. Godzilla", done well. Along with all the other actors, every one gives entertaining performances, Honda even adding some cool shoot out scenes.The special effects are mostly good. King Ghidorah was an incredible accomplishment for Eiji Tsubaraya. The three headed dragon looks magnificent both on the ground and flying. The gravity beams were done exceptionally well, where as Godzilla's heat ray became a mist due to the money spent on Ghidorah. Anyways, the space demons rampage scenes are beautiful and I love the odd shriek. All the sets are huge and well constructed, my favorite being the downwards sloping hill where Ghidorah (or Ghidrah as he's called in the dubbing) is first confronted by Godzilla and Mothra. Godzilla and Rodan's battle is just cool and full of energy and Ifukube's music fits it perfectly. The best two parts were Godzilla using his tail and Rodan lifting the King of the Monsters into the sky and dropping him onto the electrical tower. The continuity is still there and still no aliens (although King Ghidorah is technically an extraterrestrial). Godzilla looked great, considering it's the incredible suit from the last film. Except for its eyes, which didn't look as imposing. Rodan looked decent, but nowhere near as impressive as the 1956 original. The final battle is an excellent display of SFX and real action. Total highlight of the film no doubt.When you're a seven or nine year old watching these films you don't notice these things but times change. Whereas Sekizawa was quite the writer, it can be noted he brung the first essences of campiness into the original Godzilla series. The monster summit isn't really campy per say, but it does lower the seriousness of the film. It is the beginning of Godzilla's hero stance, which will soon become the beginning of the end for his career till 1984 ("Godzilla 1985" begins the second series of films). Luckily, Godzilla still gets his menacing scenes at Yokohama harbor and he does kill hundreds of innocent people on a cruise boat when he first emerges from the ocean depths, done nicely. The characters still fear him and don't look at him as a hero just yet. In a way he just settled a brief negotiation. But I didn't know Godzilla cursed: "Oohhh, Godzilla what horrible language", twin fairies translating at the monster summit. In the end it's rather funny so I appreciate it more and more with each viewing. And seeing as I as I watch the film on a weekly basis, you get the idea.Well, the first three G-films had elaborate and often unnecessary Americanization's, with added American scenes, changes to the SCORE, and even changing Godzilla's name to Gigantis! "Mothra vs. Godzilla" was the first to avoid it, but this film to a degree didn't. The story is left intact and there are no American actors edited in but Ifukube's score is AGAIN tampered with!! Thankfully not as much as in "King Kong vs. Godzilla". Other than that the American cuts actually make sense and actually fix that continuity error with King Ghidorah (buy the Classic Media DVD and watch the Japanese version). Overall, I love this film for several reasons and if you haven't seen it, you most definitely should.

This was a rather good Godzilla film, one that introduces us to a new monster that would become a regular foe for Godzilla in many films to come King Gidorah. The plot has a princess of a small island nation coming to Japan, but her plane explodes. She later turns up saying she is from Venus and predicting doom for all mankind. We learn in a strange television show that one of the Mothra twins from the previous movie have died, but the other one is doing fine as the twin girls sing a song for some kids on said strange television show. A girl who is part of some sort of mystery type show is trying to get to the girl is talking about dangers at a volcano, and a cop recognizes her as the princess he was supposed to protect had she made it to Japan. Well I am guessing this is Rodan's second appearance in a movie as he emerges from the volcano that was his apparent doom and Godzilla soon arises out of the ocean once again terrorizing mankind. If this were not bad enough a new monster emerges from a meteorite, a monster the princess who claims she is from Venus says destroyed her planet and wiped out all civilization. To top it all off the princess has the most persistent assassins ever as they try to knock her off even as Godzilla, Rodan, and King Gidorah are destroying the countryside. The movie is rather good, it comes on the heels of Godzilla vs Mothra and I was happy to here about the death of the other Mothra in the Japanese version as I don't think they went over this in the American one. Of course, Godzilla survived being tossed in the ocean, why wouldn't he? He is kind of an ocean and land monster. Rodan also makes his second appearance and for some reason he and Godzilla just want to fight. At the end you have a big monster battle royal featuring Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra against the new threat who I thought should have had a few more scenes of him destroying things to establish him a bit more as a super heavy hitter. The assassins are a bit over the top too, as I think most people would give up after the monsters were running rampant and heading their way. So there you go, a new monster that would be one of Godzilla's most powerful foes. Though this begs the question who is Godzilla's most powerful foe, I say it is between Gidorah and MechaGodzilla and I will give the edge to MechaGodzilla as that robot has quite a few wins against Godzilla while in later movies Godzilla literally blew Gidorah's heads off and once completely vaporized him.