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Godzilla vs. Megalon

Play trailer Poster for Godzilla vs. Megalon G,  1973,  1h 20m,  Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 38% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 34% 5,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
38% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 34% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings
Godzilla and flying cyborg Jet Jaguar meet a giant cockroach and a big black chicken sent by Seatopians.

Critics Reviews

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Bob Chipman Escapist Magazine May 23, 2019
This is the point where the films start living in "so bad it's good" land, but at least it's funny. Go to Full Review
Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Sep 27, 2014
B-
All business when it comes to delivering big action and colorful antagonists, working in a few environmental messages on the dangers of nuclear testing along the way, to anchor the nonsense to come. Go to Full Review
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Feb 1, 2014
3/10
The worst Japanese-made Godzilla film. Go to Full Review
Steve Crum Video-Reviewmaster.com Apr 8, 2008
2/5
For gigantic laughs only...and Godzilla fanatics. Go to Full Review
Phil Hall Film Threat May 13, 2004
3/5
Dumb fun. Go to Full Review
Rob Thomas Capital Times (Madison, WI) Oct 23, 2003
3/5
Silly, cheesy, ridiculous, and above all, fun. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Abraham M Jan 12, 2019 Monsters and aliens combat Godzilla and a child's toy in this off-the-rails encounter.
Draco L Nov 28, 2018 Really really stupid
Draco R Jun 22, 2018 If you're like me, you're always wondering why Godzilla doesn't turn on his Nuclear flamethrower more often and torch everything. In some movies his spinal plates glow before his deathly blast of breath, in others, afterwards, sometimes he can't get up the energy to make it glow at all and there's no flame coming from him, then sometimes it has nothing to do with it. The flamethrower effect is used much less in the actual movies than in the trailers. Another case of poor advertising. Godzilla is just an overgrown dragon. I did some research on the web and his size seems to vary widely depending on different accounts. The appeal of Godzilla must lie in people wanting to get into the suit the actor portraying Godzilla wears and kick around the stuff on the sets that look like kid's toys. In the early films, Hollywood, yes Godzilla is a product of Hollywood, tried to make Godzilla a sinister menace with no personality. The success of Gamera must have changed that depiction. Plus during the '60's, the anti-hero hero emerged in comic books, like Catwoman, as opposed to the supervillian like the joker, and maybe Hollywood found that audiences identified more with anti heroes than supervillians. To convince the skeptics otherwise, Godzilla vs. Megalon has an all Jpanese cast, but they still didn't fool me. See more
Hagrid L Jun 22, 2018 What was the point of such a childish movie
Hermione W Jun 22, 2018 Only Jet Jaguar is the good in this movie
Harry W Nov 26, 2017 This one is strictly for the kids, but it's still fun if you enjoy rubber suited actors destroying miniature sets (which I do). Megalon, a giant beetle from the sea, and Gigan, a praying mantis-like giant monster, are dead set on squishing puny humans. Enter size-shifting robot Jet Jaguar, who enlists the help of Godzilla to battle the two evil Kaiju. Jet Jaguar was the result of a contest Toho held where kids entered their idea for a new superhero and Jet was the winning entry by an elementary age student who was clearly a fan of Ultraman. Considered by many as one of the weakest Godzilla films, this is certainly among the corniest and the most juvenile of the many films, but I'll admit that I was entertained. See more
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Movie Info

Synopsis Godzilla and flying cyborg Jet Jaguar meet a giant cockroach and a big black chicken sent by Seatopians.
Director
Fukuda Jun
Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka, John Sirabella
Screenwriter
Fukuda Jun
Production Co
Toho Company
Rating
G
Genre
Sci-Fi
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 17, 1973, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Runtime
1h 20m
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