Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

JLRVancouver Taken as a Godzilla movie, "Godzilla's Revenge"* is a god-awful collection of clips from earlier films bound together by a tedious story of bullied kid Ichirô (Tomonori Yazaki) being mysteriously transported to Monster Island to hang out with Godzilla's chubby son Minilla. An alternative interpretation is that the tormented child is dreaming about being on the lush Island to escape from his dreary industrial environment, that Minilla is the friend and confidante that he needs to help deal with his tormentors, and that gruff, aloof Godzilla represents absent parents as Ichirô and Minilla learn to deal with the bullying monster Gabara (who is incarnate in both worlds as a mean kid or as a mean monster (the latter with orange hair that brings to mind a certain current world leader)). As discussed in Kalet's "A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series" the film, 10th in the series, is polarising, some fans and critics deride it as cheaply made franchise-filler while others praise it as a clever and thought-provoking study of growing up during the Japan's 'economic miracle' period. In the latter interpretation, most of the technical problems (e.g. the changing Godzilla suit) that makes the monster scenes so ridiculous can be explained away (i.e. all of the monster scenes are simply imagined by a young fan who is recreating in his mind what he saw in the films), the tedious side-plot about bullies and bank robbers is the actual plot of the film and thus warrants inclusion, and the goofy saurian father-son bonding over radioactive fire is simply the human child's wishful thinking. As a story of how a child's imagination helps him grow up and over-come adversity, the second interpretation is more substantial than the average monster mashup but some people may object to the take-home messages: that to grow up you have to learn to fight back and that bullies will back down when you do (a common and dangerously optimistic fiction). Oddly, at the end of the film, Ichirô pranks an innocent bystander, apparently to impress the bully's gang, suggesting that growing up includes becoming mean-spirited as well as confident. As a monster/horror/sci-fi/camp movie, "Godzilla's Revenge" is watchable only by hard-core fans (who will likely despise it) but as a fable about growing up in which the iconic kaiju characters are stand-ins for childhood fears and hopes, the film rates much higher (albeit from a different audience). *I watched an English-subtitled version, which is supposedly better than the dubbed version.

bkoganbing Although these Japanese monster films are so cartoonish they're really quite lovable even when they're bad. Such is the case with All Monsters Attack which was specifically aimed for kids. Young Ichiro who's about 6 or 7 is a shy kid picked on by a kid named Gabara. Ichiro loves all those monster films and he identifies with Godzilla. He also gets involved in a Home Alone type situation with a pair of bank robbers.'But the best parts of the film are the imaginary sequences where the kid is on Monster Island where all the monsters hang out after they've done their thing on Japan in their various films. It's there that Ichiro meets Minara, Godzilla's son who speaks dubbed English.It's seeing how Godzilla handles a family bullying crisis with another monster called Gabara where little Ichiro learns some life lessons.These films are carrtoonish and childish, but this one is the first I've found marketed for kids. It's even more lovable.

Leofwine_draca 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.

Michael_Elliott 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.