Great Film overall

good back-story, and good acting

Film Perfection

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is the worst movie ever made and is hard to sit through. It is more annoying and stupid than all of the other Godzilla films combined. If you want to have fun then watch something like King Kong vs Godzilla or Destroy All Monsters- at least they're enjoyable.

A bizarre, kiddie-orientated addition to the GODZILLA series which is really a GODZILLA film by association only, seeing as the jolly green giant only appears briefly in scenes lifted from other movies! In fact, it's hard to say what GODZILLA'S REVENGE really is. Part revenge drama, part crime thriller, part fantasy, this is a film that the fans mainly hate and consider to be the worst of the series. I think that GODZILLA'S REVENGE must be watched in the right frame of mind in order to enjoy it properly, i.e. you must imagine yourself as an imaginative child to get something out of this film.Things don't look promising with the film's opening, full of appalling music and an annoyingly "cute" kid - who, despite all indications to the contrary, grows on you as the film progresses. At least he's not as annoying as Macaulay Culkin... anyway, we watch the kid, Ichiro, playing with a radio and hanging around with a cool, mad inventor of toys (played by Eisei Amamoto, genre regular) who has created a glove that moves and talks! The monster content comes from the couple of dreams that Ichiro has, where he imagines himself flying to Monster Island and watching Godzilla fight a number of foes (actually, all we see is footage taken from EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP, SON OF GODZILLA, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and others). Eventually he befriends Minilla, Godzilla's son, and learns to become courageous through him.Basically if you remove the footage from previous monster bashes, you're left with a handful of silly scenes which have Ichiro bonding with Minilla, who bizarrely talks for some reason. The saving grace is that these scenes are invariably very funny indeed, and as a whole the film works as a piece of unintentional comedy. It's fast-paced, has plenty of action and Japanese weirdness to enjoy, and is very colourful to look at. The stock footage is incorporated well with the new stuff, so to a naïve fan I'm sure the effect would be genuine. Although not really a worthwhile film for adults to watch, this is nonetheless watchable as a curiosity piece.

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 (1969)** (out of 4) A young Japanese boy is being bullied so in his room he imagines that he's on Monster Island where he's befriended by Godzilla's son while Godzilla himself beats up countless monsters. GODZILLA'S REVENGE is a pretty cheap movie all around as it features footage from at least two other movies but at the same time I think some people are a bit too harsh on it. Yes, if you're expecting a serious or dark Godzilla film then you're certainly not going to find it here but overall I thought the film, while incredibly stupid, at least managed to be fun in a campy way. The film's story is incredibly stupid and rarely makes too much sense as we follow this young kid from his normal life to his imaginary life on Monster Island. The son of Godzilla has to be one of the silliest looking monsters in screen history but at the same time I've always found him rather cute in his own way. The film is certainly aimed towards children and I think on this level it actually works. It's certainly never scary and the monsters are just more charming than anything else. The film contains battle scenes from other movies in the series and while you can make a great case that this here is just cheap, you can also make the case that it's fun to see all the monster fights. The performances are bad as you'd expect and the English dubbing certainly isn't that impressive. The Godzilla suit looks as ridiculous as ever but then again, were they ever really that good? GODZILLA'S REVENGE is a silly little movie that runs a very quick 70-minutes and fans of monster movies should enjoy it.