Post by abraxas on Sept 1, 2010 13:41:35 GMT -5
Godzilla vs. Megalon is a 1973 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed and co-written by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. It was the 13th film(set after Godzilla vs Gigan) to be released in the Godzilla franchise. It is the second film to feature Gigan and the first and only film to feature Megalon and Jet Jaguar.
This installment has some of the silliest looking aliens of all the series, the all wear white toga's and they are from a fictional underwater city called Seatopia, modeled after such famous sunken civilizations as Lemuria and Atlantis. They are getting tired of humans using atomic bombs, something which is beginnning to threatening them as well, and so they release Megalon, an insect-like creature upon the earth.
What an insect would be doing in an underwater city I have no idea.
And that's the upside to this Godzilla flick, now for the bad........
I mentioned that the previous film used some shots from other Godzilla movies, it wasnt that bad in that film, but whoever did the effects this time was without any shame. Nearly every shot with special effects was from another film, this stems from the fact that the film was shot in only three weeks. The Godzilla suit itself was made in less then a week, and to most fans this fact was plainly obvious, this film probably has the most detested suit of the entire series.
The fact that they largely used stock footage in this film isn't so bad, but they didn't even bother to use it in a different way. Case in point, the scene where Megalon is knocking down the jets that are flying at him, you can plainly see that it is in fact Gigan from the previous film. Both characters have similar looking arms and so they thought that no one would notice.......well I did, the geek that I am
The fight scene is the only thing that makes the film worth while, and its not even that impressive.
There are, interestingly, no major female characters in the movie, making this the only Godzilla film without a female lead.
Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit.
In Japan, Godzilla vs. Megalon sold approximately 980,000 tickets. It was the first Godzilla film to sell less than one million admissions.
4 out of 5 roars for this one
This installment has some of the silliest looking aliens of all the series, the all wear white toga's and they are from a fictional underwater city called Seatopia, modeled after such famous sunken civilizations as Lemuria and Atlantis. They are getting tired of humans using atomic bombs, something which is beginnning to threatening them as well, and so they release Megalon, an insect-like creature upon the earth.
What an insect would be doing in an underwater city I have no idea.
And that's the upside to this Godzilla flick, now for the bad........
I mentioned that the previous film used some shots from other Godzilla movies, it wasnt that bad in that film, but whoever did the effects this time was without any shame. Nearly every shot with special effects was from another film, this stems from the fact that the film was shot in only three weeks. The Godzilla suit itself was made in less then a week, and to most fans this fact was plainly obvious, this film probably has the most detested suit of the entire series.
The fact that they largely used stock footage in this film isn't so bad, but they didn't even bother to use it in a different way. Case in point, the scene where Megalon is knocking down the jets that are flying at him, you can plainly see that it is in fact Gigan from the previous film. Both characters have similar looking arms and so they thought that no one would notice.......well I did, the geek that I am
The fight scene is the only thing that makes the film worth while, and its not even that impressive.
There are, interestingly, no major female characters in the movie, making this the only Godzilla film without a female lead.
Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit.
In Japan, Godzilla vs. Megalon sold approximately 980,000 tickets. It was the first Godzilla film to sell less than one million admissions.
4 out of 5 roars for this one