Godzilla vs. Gigan (1977)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is a very good movie. The beast Godzilla movie is the remake from 1998. You don't have to agree. But if your mad about it I'm from Canada that's a free county so get over it you big pooh pooh heads. This is the 12th Godzilla movie. It is also the 6th M.o.t.r.a movie. It is not as good as the 12th M.o.t.h.r.a movie at would also be part 25 to the Japan Godzilla series it is called Godzilla M.o.t.h.r.a and King G.h.i.d.o.r.a.h giant monsters on an all out attack. It is all so not as good as Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S. That would part 27 to the Japan Godzilla series. It would also be the 13th M.o.t.h.r.a movie. That one is also better. Godzilla Final war would part 28 to the Japan Godzilla series. It would also be the 14th M.o.t.h.r.a movie. That one would also be better. All the M.o.t.h.r.a movie are good. And most of the Godzilla movie are good. See this movie it's great. It's very cool. Godzilla and M.o.t.h.r.a movie are OK for kids but there good for adults to. Hockey is for kids and adults that like it are big kids. I would know when Ottawa plays my dad turns into a little kid. This movie is great see it.

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.

Twelfth Godzilla film sees yet another group of aliens once again plotting to take over the Earth, and only a comic book writer and his friends can stop them... Meanwhile, another Anguirus shows up to help Godzilla fight the aliens, who have summoned King Ghidorah and a new monster called Gigan to fight them, and destroy the humans. Only the use of a Godzilla themed amusement park(!) gives this otherwise ridiculous and tiresome film any distinction, which also uses flashback footage of battle scenes to compensate for the obvious low budget look of this film. Series really started to fall into a state of decay here, which was a shame, though kids may not mind.

Today, I watched 1972's "Godzilla vs. Gigan" for the first time in years, to mark the film's 40th anniversary."Godzilla vs. Gigan" was directed in 1972 by "Godzilla" film series regular Jun Fukuda. It was a childhood favorite of mine. Although I can't be truly sure about it, I do believe that this was probably the very first "Godzilla" movie I ever saw when I was a kid. It's the movie that made me a loyal fan of the mighty King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla.In the film, alien cockroaches from the planet Nebula Space Hunter M have arrived on Earth, assuming human form by possessing the corpses of the recently dead, with plans of world domination; they are led by "The Chairman" (Zan Fujita), a child prodigy, and his chief lieutenant Kubota (Toshiaki Nishizawa). To do this, they have enlisted the aid of the three-headed space demon King Ghidorah and the cyborg-monster Gigan. Standing in their way, are Godzilla and Anguirus, who break free of their prison on Monster Island and it climaxes with a four-way battle between the four monsters at the cockroaches' base of operations at a children's amusement park."Godzilla vs. Gigan," made during a time in Japanese film history when Toho (which has produced every single "Godzilla" film made from 1954 to the present) was going through some well-publicized financial troubles. This was almost partially because money was being diverted away from films and into television, which was becoming increasingly popular at the time and was cheaper to produce. As a result of this, Toho was forced to take short cuts whenever, wherever possible, and the "Godzilla" films made during the 1970s suffered as a result.Quite popular at the time was the trend of recycling stock footage from past "Godzilla" movies and incorporating them with newly shot scenes to give the illusion of new footage. This will work well for people who do not possess a keen eye, but observant viewers will note the recycled scenery. "Godzilla vs. Gigan" and the next film after this one, "Godzilla vs. Megalon" (1973), suffered horribly from this. It also resulted, unfortunately, in a terrible inconsistency with the portrayal of the monsters. Primary example: the fire-breathing King Ghidorah, known for its aggressive, hyper-violent nature in past films, is largely on the sidelines this time, and it's clear when the monster is being shown in stock footage and is being presented in newly shot scenes by Fukuda.However, regardless of how poorly/cheaply made the movie is, "Godzilla vs. Gigan" is still quite entertaining and is nowhere near as bad as "Godzilla vs. Megalon" would be. "Godzilla vs. Gigan" also includes a cast of "regular" Joes and Joannes, rather than the heroic scientist and soldier types common to these types of films. These characters include the "cunning but stupid" struggling comic book artist Gengo Kotaka (Hiroshi Ishikawa), his fierce and independent girlfriend Tomoko Tomeo (Yuriko Hishimi) who also happens to be a black belt in Karate, and their two associates Machiko (Tomoko Umeda) and her hippie friend Shosaku (Minoru Takashima)."Godzilla vs. Gigan" deserves to be seen by any true fan of the King of the monsters. It's a good afternoon-killer and a "Godzilla" film that no matter how many faults it has, is still pretty gosh-darn entertaining.6/10P.S.: Is the new monster Gigan one of the coolest-looking "kaiju" ever created by Toho, or what?