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Godzilla vs. Gigan
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Directed By: Jun Fukuda
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Theatrical Release: December 31, 1969
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda, Toshiaki Nishizawa
A man begins to suspect that something is wrong about his employers: meanwhile godzilla and anguirus are alerted to something strange going on. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/22/2008 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg
User Submitted Godzilla vs. Gigan Reviews
April 11, 2008
Let's repeat the same shot over and over and over and over...
I'm easy when it comes to Godzilla movies. I even like GODZILLA'S REVENGE and GODZILLA VS. MEGALON. But this one disappointed me a bit. I think because the final fight scene sucked so freakin' bad. There were a few signs of hope like a couple of bloody parts, but overall, it was quite bad. And as for his little sidekick, he was only a diversion. He didn't do a single thing until the very end basically. The first part of the fight was seemingly in slow motion and you couldn't tell what the heck was going on.
As I've said before about Zilla flicks is, you can't expect a good movie when watching this, but at least you can have a lot of fun watching it. For example, the acting was so bad in this, it was good. There was some JAPANESE HIPPIE somehow tied into the story and most of the movie he is gnawing on some sort of phallic food. Also, the two main ladies in the movie were quite appealing to the eyes as well. I would suggest this movie only to people that want to finalize there Godzilla DVD collection.
March 18, 2007
The Godzilla series list.
HERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE GODZILLA FILMS FOR YOUNG FANS.....
#1 GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (GOJIRA)
#2 GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN
#3 KING KONG VS. GODZILLA
#4 MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA
#5 GHIDORAH: THE THREE HEADED MONSTER
#6 GODZILLA VS. MONSTER ZERO
#7 GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER
#8 SON OF GODZILLA
#9 DESTROY ALL MONSTERS
#10 GODZILLA'S REVENGE
#11 GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH
#12 GODZILLA VS. GIGAN
#13 GODZILLA VS. MEGALON
#12 GODZILLA VS.MECHAGODZILLA
#14 TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA
#16 GODZILLA 1985
#17 GODZILLA VS, BIOLLANTE
#18 GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH
#19 GODZILLA & MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH
#20 GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA II
#21 GODZILLA VS. SPACEGODZILLA
#22 GODZILLA VS. DESTOROYAH
#23 GODZILLA (1998)
#24 GODZILLA 2000
#25 GODZILLA VS. MEGAGUIRAS
#26 GODZILLA, MOTHRA & KING GHIDORAH: GIANT MONSTERS ALL-OUT ATTACK
#27 GODZILLA AGAINST MECHAGODZILLA
#28 GODZILLA: TOKYO S.O.S.
#29 GODZILLA: FINAL WARS
March 7, 2007
Bored? In need of a cheesy B-flick? Godzilla vs Gigan is for you!
I am sick, so I decided to get a Big G movie. My friend and I love old cheesy movies, especially Godzillas. I got G vs Gigan and G: Final Wars (Which I am also righting a review about). G vs Gigan didn't disappoint me. I laughed and laughed over the cheesy fight scenes and the pathetic antics of the moronic Japenese actors. The aliens in this Godzilla are actually (of course) cockroaches from outer space! (Seriously. I kid you not.) I used the English dub for a short while but then simply opted for the Japanese voiceovers and English subtitles. The English dub was a collection of fifty year old voice actors. (Sad). But, now to what really matters: the monsters. There are four main ones in this movie, and a collection of small appearances. Godzilla (of course) is the hero, and then there's his sidekick, Anguiras. The little armodillo gets smacked around and beaten up, and is really no help. The villians are Gigan, a cyborg razor blade, and King Ghidorah. Gigan looks pretty cool, but King Ghidorah is done very poorly (I don't mind). At the beggining of the movie, Godzilla stomps out. I though he looked really pathetic until he roared. That trademark roar changed everything, and suddenly he was awesomeness itself. Anguirus is the best done monster. He looks pretty nice. There are several battle sequences, all cheesy the way I like it. In one scene where Gigan and King Ghidorah rampage through Tokyo (for the millioth time), Gigan actually stomps past a building with two dolls inside. Little Kelly Dolls with rosy cheeks! Little shrimps! Sad, but hilarious. So, all in all, you get what you expect. GET IT if you like Godzilla or cheesy B-flicks. DON'T GET IT if you dislike Godzilla, cheesy B-flicks, or girly Japanese 70s actors (and a talking Godzilla.) Good stuff, I say.
April 5, 2006
4 Stars for Ghidorah fans only
I was going to rate this three stars but I rated it four stars becaue I am a King Ghidorah fan (he is my 2nd favorite Kaiju, slightly behind Rodan)
It's still good but not as good as most other G-films. Gigan is a decent opponent but there was a lot of stock footage. Seeing stock footage badly used in a movie is weird. Normally, movies don't have stock footage. Anyway, G fights Gigan a lot and King Ghidorah helps gigan at times. anguirus tries to help G but ends up getting beaten up through most of the fight scene. The monster/ttack fight scene, from where King Ghidorah and Gigan attack Tokyo onwards, is about 40 minutes long. It would have been better if the original footage were set during the day (because stock footage was set during the day). One thing that would have made this movie much better is if Rodan had been in it instead of Anguirus.
October 21, 2005
Gigan is one of the Coolest Godzilla Foes Yet!
Gigan is a cool Godzilla villain and proves to make a great team with King Ghidorah. They could have beat Godzilla if Godzilla didn't have any help from Anguirus. The reason for four stars is becauase Godzilla and Anguirus talk! I do not like the Showa series in the slightest. My favorite is the Millinium series I think. Anyway, it's a descent Godzilla movie. I like it.
August 22, 2005
G & Nubula Spacehunter M (
Okay, I admit that Godzilla vs Gigan is one of the corney Godzilla movies of the 70s but it isn't nearly as bad as Godzilla vs Hedorah. Okay, let's see: We have a Team Battle Between four of some of the most famous kaiju, an alien invasion plot, explosions, and a bunch of fighting that doesn't seem to get old. Mix it up and you get a great Sci-Fi flick! Okay, it's not the best Sci-Fi movie but it is one of the best Showa Godzilla movies. I keep watching it and it never seems to get old. Many other movies like Star Wars original trilogy, Lord of the Rings, A.V.P, and a lot of other stuff, I just don't find appealing when I watch it for the second time. But Godzilla vs Gigan never gets old! It has King Ghidorah, my third favorite kaiju, Angilas, my favorite Godzilla ally, Gigan, now a very popular favorite of mine, and of course Godzilla the King of Monsters. This is just a really good movie for soemone who's in the mood to have fun! Buy it, you can keep watching it a bunch of times and it just never expires!
July 12, 2005
Hippies, stock footage and a talking Godzilla!
Any long running series has its ups and downs, and in a series as long-running as Godzilla those downs can be pretty low. This one isn't bottom of the barrel, but you can definitely see it from there.
"Godzilla vs. Gigan" ("Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan" or "Earth Assault Order: Godzilla vs. Gigan ") is the 12th film in the Showa series, at a time when Godzilla had turned from a rampaging beast of fear and destruction into a kid-friendly beastie cheered by the citizens of Japan. Due to the hard times of the 70's Japanese film, the budget is tiny, and there is a heavy reliance on stock footage taken from previous Godzilla films.
The plot is somewhat oddball, with developers attempting to build Godzilla-land, a theme park built around Godzilla. Of course, the developers are secretly cockroach-aliens, and when a hippie and a failed cartoonist get wind of their plan, quickly summon the terrors of King Ghidra and Gigan to Earth to help in their nefarious plan. Godzilla and his stocky pal Angirasu are on hand to stop them.
Of course, the worst and most bizarre aspect of "Godzilla vs. Gigan" is the chatty Godzilla, as he and Angirasu exchange a few well-timed quips. This isn't so bad in the original Japanese, where the audio is growling sounds and the dialog appears as word-balloons, but in the English dub there is an actual Godzilla voice. A horrible decision on someones part.
However, unforgivable cheesyness aside, Gigan is a decent foe for the Big G, with his buzz-saw belly and sharp claws. He and King Ghidra make a nice tag-team pair, easily trouncing Godzilla and Angirasu to within an inch of their lives. Godzilla isn't quite so mighty here, and he seems to have forgotten how to breath his atomic fire, until the last possible moment.
While more kid-friendly, the series gets bloodier with this picture, as Godzilla starts spouting red, and gives some back to Gigan and King Ghidra. King Ghidra takes some nasty neck damage as well.
People attracted to the sillier aspects of Godzilla will love "Godzilla vs. Gigan." Those who like at least a little menace with their monster should probably give this one a miss.
June 26, 2005
Stock Footage, Talking Monsters, Exploding Minitures and Four Giant Monster Battling
Although Godzilla and Angilas both talk in two infamous scenes and this movie has the biggest overuse of stock footage since GODZILLA`S REVENGE, I think the final battle between Godzilla and Angilas and Gigan and Ghidora made up for it. I watch this movie alot.
June 17, 2005
Attack of the Stock Footage!
The 1970's were for the most part a bad time for movies. Economic troubles amongst other such woes seemed to plague the entire world.
And the cinema had it no better. Again, for the most part.
See, for every Raging Bull, Taxi Driver and Star Wars, there always seemed to be a Giant Spider Invasion or Food of the Gods to make the average moviegoer queasy. Add the increasing popularity of television to the mix and well, you get the idea.
Seemed Godzilla was one of the lucky ones.
Well, yes and no. See, Godzilla managed to continue to be a mainstay in the theaters, but in order to do that, he would have to do an embarrasing amount of things most of us hardcore fans would soon like to forget. Like...
A. Use his breath to propel himself in the air.
B. Play second fiddle to Jet Jaguar in the following film Godzilla vs. Megalon.
C. Do a flying missile dropkick in said Megalon.
and...
D. Go from a walking doomsday device to lovable children's hero.
Which leads us to this film. See, having to weigh their budgetary options, Toho Co. Ltd, along with director Jun Fukuda, director of 5 Godzilla films, opted to use stock footage from previous Godzilla films like Monster Zero (which in itself used footage from Rodan (1957), also in this film), Ghidrah, the Three Headed Monster, Destroy all Monsters and Son of Godzilla, as well as other Toho outlets like Frankenstein Conquers the World. The idea was by using this footage Toho could save money in visual effects. This decision was and still is not appreciated by fans (me, I liked it, considering that at least most of the footage was from good films), blaming Jun Fukuda for ruining the Godzilla legacy.
But it wasn't all his fault. In the days where there was no money, screenplays were written in a day and moviemaking was basicly a rushed, incoherent job, even Fukuda today fells like watching these films are like "opening old wounds."
In either event, most of this footage was used again in Godzilla vs. Megalon, but I would reccomend watching this film at least once to get a glimpse of that infamous time in moviemaking.
Later!
June 3, 2005
Godzilla vs. Gigan, the stock footage fest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Godzilla vs. Gigan is cooooooool. Gigan, a cyborg maniac with a saw on chest, is one of the best foes ever, and making the show better is King Ghidorah's appearance. Gigan would've killed Godzilla if he wasn't the star. I liked the original idea which the scrapped better, but this is still good.
To sum it all up:
Godzilla:GOOD!
Angilas:GOOD!
Gigan:GOOD!
King Ghidorah:GOOD!
Gaira stock footage scene:GOOD!
The rest of the stock footage:GOOD!
The Hippie Who Threatens you with corn:HILARIOUS!
Evil Nebula M Spacehunter Cockroaches:GOOD!
Godzilla and Angilas talking: okay.
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