Terror of Mechagodzilla

After the success of "Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla" Toho decided to bring back Mechagodzilla for a direct sequel as well as Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube hoping for a even bigger hit. It wasn't, and so Toho put the franchise on hold to give it a rest.

 

All Monster Attack aka Godzilla's Revenge

When Toho wants another Godzilla movie but doesn't want to spend a whole lot? What you get is Minilla staring in a very special PSA about latchkey kids, bullying, and what to do if you are kidnapped by bank robbers. With lots of stock footage from earlier Godzilla movies.

Destroy All Monsters

What happens when you try to end a franchise with a huge extravaganza? You end up revitalizing to genre into the next decade. Toho took every useable daikaiju suit and made a couple of new ones and through them together into on epic film that ends the golden age of daikaiju movies.

Invasion of the Astro Monster aka Godzilla Vs Monster Zero

With the sixth entry into the franchise it was decided to mix the sci-fi space invasion theme with daikaiju. The result is a great movie that surprisingly has very little daikaiju screen time, in fact this film has the least amount of Godzilla in the 50's and 60's golden age. But the short screen time is made up for by being some of the best in franchise history.

Ghidorah, The Three Headed Monster

To borrow a term from wrestling, the fifth entry changes Godzilla from the villain, to a tweener. He and Rodan work out their differences across the Japanese countryside. Then Mothra convince them to team up and face the powerful space monster Ghidorah.

Mothra Vs Godzilla aka Godzilla Vs the Thing

The fourth entry into the Godzilla franchise is his last appearance as a pure villain in the original Showa era of films. After hitting box office gold with King Kong Vs Godzilla, Toho decided to pit Godzilla against Mothra who just had her own successful film a few years earlier.

King Kong Vs. Godzilla

My breakdowns continue with one of the most daikaiju filled films in the franchise, however King Kong does spend a lot of that time sleeping. For the review I had to track down a subtitled version of the original Japanese cut, and while the ending is the same, it is a superior cut of the film.

ゴジラ (1954) aka Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1955) Breakdown

ゴジラ (1954) aka Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1955)

My breakdown and review of Godzilla franchise starts of the original, I plan to review all the Godzilla movies overtime, hopefully one a week. In the breakdown I include the runtime, from the daikaiju’s appearance to the end included cuts of humans and destruction, and screen time, any visual part of the daikaiju is in shot, for each daikaiju appearing in the film. As well as the time of the 1st full appearance of each daikaiju, and how long any fights last.