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All Monsters Attack
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.
Release : | 1972 |
Rating : | 3.9 |
Studio : | TOHO, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Tomonori Yazaki Hideyo Amamoto Sachio Sakai Kazuo Suzuki Kenji Sahara |
Genre : | Fantasy Science Fiction Family |
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best movie i've ever seen.
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
My boy is currently four years old and we love sitting down and watching this film. He understands the plot perfectly: the bullied boy who misses his parents... the desire to see his friends on Monster Island... and the fighting! This is a movie made for kids and for that purpose, it is a piece of perfection. I was taken aback by all of the negative reviews. It is very far from being the worst Godzilla film. In fact, since I have been watching it with my boy, it is now my favorite. This movie avoids all of the cliches of the usual Godzilla films: there are no scientists, no military (except for a brief scene with jet fighters swooping onto Godzilla), and no endless shots of Tokyo being destroyed. There are just a lot of monsters and a sweet story of a latchkey kid whose parents work too much. Even the bank robber plot is perfectly okay. It gives the escapism onto Monster Island all the more meaningfulness. And the main character, a boy named Ichiro, makes friends with Godzilla's son - and, here, Godzilla is actually a father figure! Just the kind of father figure that is lacking in the boy's life. Sure, Godzilla's son talks in a goofy voice, but what better voice is there to hold the attention of youngsters? Furthermore, Godzilla's son overcomes a bully himself - being a role model for Ichiro. There is a lesson about standing up to bullies in this film. I'm not sure any other Godzilla film does that. Finally, I want to point out that Gabara has got to be the funkiest monster in Godzilla history - with his (her?) orange hair, tortoise-shell chest, green scales, and a roar that sounds like nauseated cat laughter. What's not to love??? Also, some people complained that this movie used recycled clips from earlier movies. My reply is: who cares? My four year old certainly doesn't. This Godzilla film is fun from beginning to end and should never be called the worst.
Although these Japanese monster films are so cartoonish they're really quite lovable even when they're bad. Such is the case with All Monsters Attack which was specifically aimed for kids. Young Ichiro who's about 6 or 7 is a shy kid picked on by a kid named Gabara. Ichiro loves all those monster films and he identifies with Godzilla. He also gets involved in a Home Alone type situation with a pair of bank robbers.'But the best parts of the film are the imaginary sequences where the kid is on Monster Island where all the monsters hang out after they've done their thing on Japan in their various films. It's there that Ichiro meets Minara, Godzilla's son who speaks dubbed English.It's seeing how Godzilla handles a family bullying crisis with another monster called Gabara where little Ichiro learns some life lessons.These films are carrtoonish and childish, but this one is the first I've found marketed for kids. It's even more lovable.
Godzilla's Revenge was totally embarrassing and the shortest Godzilla movie I ever saw. Gabara was an annoying monster that didn't do much accept fight Godzilla's son like a bully. He really looked like a dragon from a parade and the pointy things on his head almost looked like a crown on top of his orange human like hair. I'm not sure what Honda was thinking when he made this film. It's unlike Godzilla to force his son to fight Gabara when he was so small. The soundtrack in this movie didn't have the suspense like the newer Godzilla movies do. I don't recommend this for a Godzilla film collector. That being said, I did watch this several times in the hope that it would get better, but unfortunately it did not.
Godzilla's Revenge (1971)Starring: Eisei Amamoto, Machiko Naka, Haruo Nakajima, Tomonori Yazaki, and Kazuo SuzkiDirected By: Ishiro Honda and Kevin ReynoldsIt looks like Godzilla is raising an army of monster maniacs, oh no wait there not giant monsters it's just a little kid who's a maniac. That's disappointing given the title, I mean Godzilla's Revenge, who'd he get revenge on that's the question you'll be asking yourself by the end of the picture. This was the begging of Godzilla films being for children, and Godzilla being just a regular hero instead of an anti-hero which defeats the purpose of why Godzilla fans watch Godzilla movies.In the movie we see a boy who is a Godzilla fan, he gets picked on by a group of kid's and dreams he's on Monster Island with Godzilla and his son. His parents are always working late, so they barely spend time with him. There's also two bank robbers in the movie, who have stolen a lot of cash. They stay in the abandoned warehouse, were all the kids usually see each other when walking home (yeesh , no one gets dropped off, that's pretty unusual.) The kid falls asleep, and is dreaming that a plane takes him to Monster Island. When he arrives he spots all the monsters, and watches as Godzilla beats up giant Mantises. The boy then finds the son of Godzilla and he quotes "Godzilla say's I should to fight my own battles." There is a new monster in this film who they call Gabera which looks pretty stupid. The boy and the son of Godzilla watches as Godzilla battles some sort of sea creature and Kumonga: the giant spider. The boy goes into the warehouse(even though he's told not too earlier in the film) and picks up one of the bank robbers driver's license. The two bank robbers kidnap the boy and try to use him as a means of escape (even though they could off just as easily kidnap, the boy take the driver's license and left him in the warehouse.) The dream he has with the son of Godzilla fighting Gabera in turn helps him to fight back.You shouldn't naturally care what's going on half the time because, a movie needs characters with conflict and emotional depth. This movie has a little cardboard cutout boy who is just teased for the sake of the plot, and he's a Godzilla fan just for the sake of the plot I mean if I just put this movie in your DVD or BLURAY player and told you this was a Godzilla film you would think I'm lying. Godzilla and his son are only in the film for market value cause in that time in Japan Godzilla made the company lots of money. You would be so bored that you'll be checking your watch and thinking to yourself that this movie feels like three hours, when it's only one hour and ten minutes. There were even more interesting things being said in the film like about the two bank robbers who stole a lot of money, but they weren't shown stealing anything. If they could have shown us that and maybe cops trying to find the boy while Godzilla's fighting Gabera with his son in the city that could have at least been fun.With this Godzilla film Ishiro Honda wanted to make a film for children, but there was no way he could have succeeded with that idea because Godzilla as presented in a few movies is a force of nature or an anti-hero. This movie doesn't completely rape the Godzilla name but it is still not worth any Godzilla fans time. It is one of the worst movie/monster movies a person could ever subject themselves too. I give Godzilla's Revenge a one out of five.