Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

JLRVancouver Sneaky, nattily dressed, space cockroaches attempt to take over Earth by recruiting Ghidorah and Gigan from their secret base in the head of a life-size model of Godzilla. What more could you ask for? They are stopped by the combined forces of Godzilla, his largely ineffectual side-kick Anguirus, and a plucky Japanese cartoonist and his friends (the significance of having a cartoonist as a protagonist is revealed during the climactic battle in a scene that is silly beyond words (and hence I won't attempt to describe)). As kaiju films go, this one is pretty weak: Ghidorah, generally a great monster, arrives as a static model that is completely out of scale with his later appearances in the movie (mostly lifted from previous films) while his ally Gigan is a ridiculous looking cybernetic space bird-bat with huge rubbery-looking claws and a potbelly containing a buzz-saw. After a tedious preamble (oddly full of phallic symbolism), the movie is essentially a continuous fight with some good fiery destruction scenes marred by the monsters throwing rocks at each other. The Earth-protecting monsters seem to actually speak to one another in the dubbed version I watched (and, based on the trailer, may communicate via cartoon-style speech bubbles in the Japanese version -*shudder*). A late entry into the Showa series of Godzilla films, G vs. G continues the emphasis on pollution, rather than radiation, as a plot driver and the role of Godzilla as Our Saviour. Overall, number 12 is a weak entry into the canon but watchable to fans of the genre. A '4' amongst movies in general, a '6' in the in world of daikaiju eiga. Followed by the dire Godzilla vs. Megalon.

TheExpatriate700 Godzilla Vs. Gigan has no right to a good review. It makes heavy use of stock footage, has a plot that just barely hangs together, and arguably features the most ridiculous looking kaiju aside from Minya...and yet I love it! The plot, if you can call it that, involves a group of Japanese twentysomethings who stumble upon an alien invasion plot involving-gasp!-a children's amusement park. They unwittingly summon Godzilla after playing an eight track tape, leading to a battle between the Big G, Anguirus, and their old enemy King Ghidorah, along with the grotesque Gigan.The film suffers from a number of issues, perhaps the most glaring of which is the extensive use of stock footage. At times, Toho did not even bother to match up the footage, with the scenes switching suddenly from day to night and back again. The film also has an anti-technology message, introduced in the last half hour, even more ham-handed than the environmental themes of Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. The characters never even bother to change their clothes, despite the film taking place over the better part of a week.Nevertheless, Godzilla vs. Gigan retains a fond place in my memory. It features a good twenty to thirty minutes of sustained kaiju destruction. Furthermore, Gigan, despite its ridiculous appearance, is a surprisingly menacing villain, being the only monster to make Godzilla bleed. In the end, it's a dumb but fun movie.

Michael_Elliott Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) ** (out of 4) Cockroaches turned aliens take over an amusement park that was originally meant to showcase some of Japan's giant monsters. The aliens send Gigan and King Ghidrah to destroy Godzilla but he has some help with Anguirus. After a slugish first hour where nothing happens except for talk, talk and more talk, the final thirty-minutes of this film really picks up and makes it worth sitting through, although I think I'd still recommend just jumping to the final scenes. There's some extremely bad stuff going on here but thankfully a lot of it is bad enough to gain a few laughs. One example is the entire plot dealing with the aliens being former cockroaches. I mean, seriously. Another laughing point is when Godzilla and Anguirus are able to talk to one another. I mean, double seriously. With that said, the final thirty-minutes is where this movie makes its money and I must say it turned into a lot of fun once all four monsters started fighting. The scenes of Godzilla sitting on Gigan and pounding his head into the ground are priceless as is the final tag team where the Big G and Anguirus must battle King Ghidrah. The special effects of the monster outfits are fairly good, although the plastic tanks still look like junk.

leonardo avalos overuse of stock footage and very low budget make this Godzilla film one of the bad one. the movie starts out with Ghidorah stock footage from Ghidorah the three headed monster and invasion of the Astro monster. Also the special effects were the worst to date. And making the monsters talk via a bubble make this the most childish Godzilla movie and make other bad Godzilla movies like all monsters attack and Godzilla vs Megalon. At least all monsters attack had the reason that this was not supposed to be a real Godzilla movie but more of a stand up for yourself kind of movie.The only good part of this movie was the Anguirus costume. It was better than the old Godzilla raids again costume. But the fact that the back legs were showing made the costume seem bad and fake