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Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

jwmelvin-83959 This review is for the wide-screen Japanese english subtitled Ghidora The Three-Headed Monster, directed by Ishiro Honda, and a score by Akira Ifukube.This is a fun family film, and it offers a glimpse into what Japanese culture understood then, and what America has finally come to understand now. They are actors...so what if they are interacting with monsters? You can read the plot synopsis on other reviews. The highlights of the film are the monsters of course. But the extreme camp that the plot involves, namely a conversation between Godzilla, Ronan, and little Mothra, is one of the memorable points. The film shows it extensively, giving the actors in the suits and the puppeteers plenty of screen time for us to enjoy the profound joy of this ridiculous situation. We are rewarded by seeing Rodan head-butt Ghidora, and Godzilla tail-tow Mothra up a hill. Godzilla 1954 was horrifying Nuclear allegory; Godzilla Vs. Mothra (1964) was fantasy. This is campy family joy. But this is Kaiju at it's best. Notice the great cinematography, especially Ghidora approaching the arches. The film also delivers a nice human subplot. A princess suffers from trauma and believes that she is a Venusian profit (in the American film it is changed to Martian). This role is played very strongly by Akiko Wakabayashi, who is better known as Aki from "You Only Live Twice". She posses well for the screen. Since this is the early Bond era, the human plot involves an assignation attempt on our princess.But our Japanese police detective is a normal Joe, played by Yosuki Natsuki. And finally, the doctor who tries to help the Venutian Profit remember that she's a princess is played by the great Japanese actor Takashi Shimura. He was in the original Godzilla as Dr. Yamane, but is best known for his work with director Kurosawa. namely Seven Samurai, Ikura, and Rashomon. Damn, those are three of the best movies ever made. Our movie allows our actors to actually act, even if only for a few minutes. The viewer does have to wait for a clumsy exposition, but when the movie gets going, it's a delight. It serves as an example on how to have a Kaiju be a satisfying viewing experience.

Julian R. White Well, at least in MY top ten. I love this Godzilla film, it really does have everything you want in a giant monster film. Plenty of monster action to balance out all the human drama. The effects ad quality are pretty great when you take all the Godzilla films into account, so it makes it just as much better. Its definitely one you should see if you have even slight interest in the film series.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain A meteorite from space lands in Japan. At about the same time Godzilla and Rodan also awaken to wreak some havoc. It soon transpires that the asteroid is Ghidrah, destroyer of planets, and a missing princess has had her body taken over by one of the last remaining Venusians. Eventually the humans must call on Mothra to convince Rodan and Godzilla to stop kicking rocks at each other and help save the planet. Same, same, but packs less of a punch. The main reason may be due to Ghidrah's origins. His three foes are all products of humanities mistakes regarding nuclear weaponry. Ghidrah is just a planet destroyer from space. You will enjoy this if you've seen the other films, and Godzilla and Rodan's quarreling is brilliantly comical. There's certainly more life in Godzilla's face than there has been before. Monster smack down time!

Aaron1375 This was a rather good Godzilla film, one that introduces us to a new monster that would become a regular foe for Godzilla in many films to come King Gidorah. The plot has a princess of a small island nation coming to Japan, but her plane explodes. She later turns up saying she is from Venus and predicting doom for all mankind. We learn in a strange television show that one of the Mothra twins from the previous movie have died, but the other one is doing fine as the twin girls sing a song for some kids on said strange television show. A girl who is part of some sort of mystery type show is trying to get to the girl is talking about dangers at a volcano, and a cop recognizes her as the princess he was supposed to protect had she made it to Japan. Well I am guessing this is Rodan's second appearance in a movie as he emerges from the volcano that was his apparent doom and Godzilla soon arises out of the ocean once again terrorizing mankind. If this were not bad enough a new monster emerges from a meteorite, a monster the princess who claims she is from Venus says destroyed her planet and wiped out all civilization. To top it all off the princess has the most persistent assassins ever as they try to knock her off even as Godzilla, Rodan, and King Gidorah are destroying the countryside. The movie is rather good, it comes on the heels of Godzilla vs Mothra and I was happy to here about the death of the other Mothra in the Japanese version as I don't think they went over this in the American one. Of course, Godzilla survived being tossed in the ocean, why wouldn't he? He is kind of an ocean and land monster. Rodan also makes his second appearance and for some reason he and Godzilla just want to fight. At the end you have a big monster battle royal featuring Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra against the new threat who I thought should have had a few more scenes of him destroying things to establish him a bit more as a super heavy hitter. The assassins are a bit over the top too, as I think most people would give up after the monsters were running rampant and heading their way. So there you go, a new monster that would be one of Godzilla's most powerful foes. Though this begs the question who is Godzilla's most powerful foe, I say it is between Gidorah and MechaGodzilla and I will give the edge to MechaGodzilla as that robot has quite a few wins against Godzilla while in later movies Godzilla literally blew Gidorah's heads off and once completely vaporized him.