Waste of time

hyped garbage

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I can only take these Japanese monster films in small doses, which is to say about every six months to a year so as not to get permanently loopy. The same thing with Seventies martial arts flicks. But I stick with them for the amusement factor because that's basically what I see as their mission. I see that most of the reviews for this movie are hugely positive, and that's fine, but even so, I don't get the rationale for rating pictures like this a '10' because even if you're a fan, you have to have seen "Star Wars" or "Alien" by way of comparison. I merely shake my head.At least the bonus for this viewer was the inclusion of Nick Adams in the cast. He proved he really was a rebel to take on this assignment, appearing in the cast credits as Nikku Adamusu. But the odd thing was that his name in the story was Glenn, without noting whether that was the character's first or last name. His astronaut partner on the space mission went by the last name of Fuji (Akira Takarada), which led me to question why everyone simply called him Glenn, no matter the context. The cast credit here on IMDb states Adam's character as Glenn Amer, but one wouldn't know that from watching the picture. Maybe Amer was short for American.Say, I had to laugh when Spaceship P-1 landed on Planet X, and the hatch door used to leave the ship actually had dents in it. Still, that was a whole lot better than the spaceship used in the 1959 flick "Teenagers From Outer Space". In that one, you can see the futuristic technology of space age hammer and nails at work. So you can actually measure the progress of sci-fi special effects used in this film compared to the one that came out six years earlier.The best and funniest moment in this picture occurred when Godzilla and Rodan defeated King Ghidorah on Planet X. Right after, Godzilla went into this goofy looking dance number that had me baffled. That simply reminded me that these Toho films were primarily put together for a pre-teen audience, so with that in mind, it seemed rather logical. What's not logical is why I still watch this stuff. But rest assured I'll be back in another six months or so. Or wait, maybe sooner, because I just happened to come across a copy of "Mothra vs. Godzilla".

Back in the day when the Syfy Channel would host the annual Godzilla movie marathon, AMC TV decided to do the same and host the Classic Media Collection of Godzilla films. I was lucky enough to catch Godzilla vs Monster Zero on TV one night. By that time it was one of the few films I was scouting out for my collection. The idea of Godzilla smashing around some place that isn't Earth had fascinated me in the back of my head, and I was shocked that they pulled this card so early in the series, but now I understand it was to compete with Star Trek and War of the Worlds. As a usual science fiction film would go, aliens request to "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan to fight the vengeful King Ghidorah and rubber suit madness ensues. Such a clunky idea but a great watch. Nick Adams helps with the films pacing and Western audience experience, but is dubbed over for the Japanese release. However, that doesn't decrease from his amazing performance. Godzilla vs Monster Zero is a classic cult among most Toho goodie grabbers but tends to be overlooked by other entries such as Godzilla vs Megalon and Godzilla 2000. However, it definitely needs to be seen to be believed.

"Did he kill Rodan and Godzilla?" "He couldn't! They're too tough!"That's a small sample of the many memorable lines from this very watchable (and re-watchable) Japanese monster classic. Whether the dialog was written corny intentionally, or was a result of translation flaws; some of the lines are of the "you've got to hear it to believe it" variety. It's from the era when Godzilla and Rodan were no longer mindless automatons that wrecked Tokyo just for the fun of it, but now heroic rubber-suited good guys that do good stuff. There's hostile aliens, plotting spies, the Japanese army, astronauts, and a pretty femme fatale.Planet X, a planet populated by people who all wear sunglasses, seeks help from us. They have a bad monster, you see, called Monster Zero (AKA King Ghidara) who wrecks stuff. They want Godzilla and Rodan to beat him up. After they do this and Godzilla is doing jumping-jacks to celebrate, Planet X launches an attack to conquer and colonize Earth.Lots of camp factor. You won't believe the secret weapon the humans find, and what its power is. The scene where two guys use it to escape aliens is hilarious. Look for the reaction of the guard that Nick Adams grabs. Adams, astronaut, is the lone American helping the Japanese save Earth, and he hams it up with some great speeches and good old overacting. The big monsters have two well choreographed fights, and the evil characters are as fun as the good guys with weird lines. Spies were all the rage in 60's movies, and you'll fund them here."We have found a love beyond all computations!" lol, one of my favorite movie lines ever.

This movie came a year after the debut movie for King Gidhra "Sandai Kaijyu Chikyu Saidai No Kessen", and takes another attempt at having multiple Earth monsters against the Gidhra.Astronauts Fuji (Akira Takarada) and Glenn (Nick Adams) are on their way to first exploration of Jupiter. On their way, they discover a new 13th satellite of Jupiter that gets named "Planet X". The two land on Planet X and discover that it's inhabited by people who are more advanced than Earth. The planet is also inhabited by what they call "Monster Zero aka King Gidhra". People of planet X request help of Earth monsters Godzilla and Rodan to exterminate King Gidhra, and in return they offer a cure for cancer. Fuji and Glenn return to Earth and report the incident, but the tape containing the message from Planet X turns out to be an invasion notice to people of Earth. Planet X uses Godzilla Rodan, and King Gidhra as weapons to destroy Earth. A novel solution to this problem comes from Fuji's sister Haruno (Keiko Sawai)'s fiancé Tetsuo (Akira Kubo). Due to this solution, Godzilla and Rodan, now free from Planet X's control battles King Gidhra (again).This movie titled "Kaijyu Daisensou" in Japan features 3/4 of the monsters that appeared in the previous Godzilla movie "Sandai Kaijyu Chikyu Saidai No Kessen" namely Godzilla, Rodan, and King Gidrah (minus Mothra), and is almost a sequel to that movie. King Gidhra that got booted out of Earth on the previous movie ends up on Planet X. Godzilla and Rodan decides to hibernate for a while, until Planet X guys comes to wake them up. Although such connections are not implied in this movie, the two movies connect seamlessly.Production wise, this one is a notch below that of the previous movie that's regarded as one of the best Godzilla movie from the '60s. The characters are not well fleshed out as they were in the previous movie which makes the story rather bland. The scene changes between Earth and Planet X's base is not handled well, and takes away from the plot of the movie. If they were able to handle the scene changes better, and exploit the characters a bit more, the story would have been a lot better.Addition of Nick Adams and Kumiko Mizuno also didn't add much to the story. They did much better on "Frankenstien vs Baragon" (Frankenstein Conquers the World).So the movie could have been better, but it's still a good middle of the road monster movie from good folks at Toho.