**** Godzilla Fights Giant Cockroaches!

After the success of the last movie, they decided to have Godzilla save the earth again. They made a new nemesis, Gigan, and put him with Ghidora to face Godzilla and Anguirus in a tag-team battle for control of earth.

Giant intelligent cockroaches from Nebula Space Hunter M want to take over the earth. They secretly come to earth, put on human "uniform", and start a big corporation to have a control tower so they can send Ghidora and their own monster, Gigan, to earth to destroy it and make it their own. Godzilla and Anguirus show up, and a battle starts. The tower being controlled is shaped like Godzilla, and it even shoots a laser beam out of it’s mouth. It is destroyed just before it kills Godzilla. Godzilla gets back up, and chases off the space monsters.

This has always been a personal favorite of mine. Before the monsters fight, there is a nifty backplot featuring a mystery to be solved, and a cartoonist. When I was a kid, I always liked comics and wanted to make them myself. After the backplot is over and the monsters fight, the movie gets really good. The choreography with the scenes are done very well. Everything seems to fall in place just right. The part of the monsters destroying Tokyo had great special effects, and enough explosiveness to rival movies of the future series. The part of the monsters fighting was done very well. Not only did it have a lot of memorable scenes, but the whole part has a nifty sereal feel to it. Of course, you have to have watched this movie a zillion times to see it, but this movie has a special feel that most movies don’t have. It’s a nifty feel I’ve only got a few times, in such movies like Godzilla 1985 and King Kong Lives. Although it’s rare, it is very good if you can see it. It’s the main reason I like Godzilla movies so much.

Although it’s really spiffy for the most part, it has it’s problems. Godzilla and Gigan don’t use their special weapons much, which is rather disappointing. Also, Anguirus could have had a bigger part. The main problem with this movie is stock footage. Stock footage is annoying as it is, but when the movie is set a night where as the stock footage is set during the day, it gets even more annoying. They toned down the light on the footage, but it isn’t enough. However, most little kids wouldn’t notice. This is especially true for little kids that never saw the movies in question. I didn’t when I was a kid, and so I didn’t notice. I grew up since then, and now the stock footage is hurting. Oh well, at least having stock footage saves money so the rest of the parts can be even better.

As a whole, this is a great movie. It has it’s problems, but the nifty experience more than makes up for it. It is a great movie, and a key part of the Godzilla series. Some people hate the movie, others like it for real, and some think it’s so silly that it is extremely funny. Watch it, buy it, and see where you stand.

Good plot

Great special effects

Sereal experience

Great battle

Many memorable scenes.

Come on, cockroaches aint that bad of an idea!

Gets a little silly at times

Anguirus is in this movie? I didn’t know that!

Gigan had a laser? I didn’t know that either!

Stock footage! Stock footage!

What? A song at the end. I hope this is not a trend. It is? Oh no!

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