Directed by:
Ishirō HondaComposer:
宮内国郎Cast:
Kenji Sahara, Yutaka Sada, Tomonori Yazaki, Machiko Naka, Hideyo Amamoto, Ikio Sawamura, Osman YusufVOD (3)
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Director Ishiro Honda returned again for the first Godzilla movie expressly for children. Economizing by reusing effects shots from other films in the series, All Monsters Attack tells the story of Ichiro, a lonely latchkey kid who finds solace in his dreams of befriending Minilla, the titular progeny of Son of Godzilla, whose parent is also often absent. In this thoughtful, human-scale story, boy and monster learn together what it means to grow up. (Criterion)
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All Monsters Attack is really a family film, where the monsters are used rather marginally and take up a minimum of the total runtime. Even the freedoms are not lengthy and are minimal. But that's simply because this one has a different structure compared to other kaiju films, and the monsters are just a backdrop for a little boy to find enough strength within himself to confront his own monsters.
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11) GODZILLA´S REVENGE – ORIGINAL SHOWA SERIES 1954-1974. The most infantile episode and a debasement of the Godzilla saga. The film follows the character of a young boy who in his dreams is transported to Monster Island, the home of Godzilla and all the monsters that had to do with him in previous films. The boy's guide on the island is Minira, Godzilla's son. It's hard to liken this creature to anything, it looks like a cross between a human, a gorilla, a lizard and God knows what else; it can talk, it's really fucking cute and just looking at it makes you laugh. Together with the boy, he watches his dad (Godzilla is said to be male) fight other monsters with passionate encouragement, interjecting now and then and letting his dad teach him how to whip the characteristic blue flame. In real life, outside his Godzilla dreams, the boy is inspired by Miniro's courage, remembers Godzilla's words that we should fight and not be cowards, defeats two thieves hiding at his house and beats up a boy who was mocking him. The infantile script is like something out of a kids show, obviously aimed at the youngest audience and with a hidden educational message: "You have to be brave and know how to defend yourself, look, Godzilla is not afraid either!" and the whole thing is about as witty as Pokémon.
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