All Monsters Attack (1972)

I love this movie so much

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

An Exercise In Nonsense

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I'm going to agree with most people and say that this was the worst Godzilla movie ever made. The worst part about it is probably how it just reuses stock footage from other Godzilla movies. One of them was "Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster" which was featured on MST3K. It does kind of make you wonder why they never used that movie for the show. I guess with the stock footage it would be redundant. Another annoying thing about the movie is Minya. He was already annoying in "Son Of Godzilla" but this just ups the ante of obnoxiousness. The main character is this kid who keeps having dreams or fantasies about Godzilla.I guess it's all in his head. That makes the story even more pointless. The effects are completely laughable in this film. The other Godzilla movies it has footage from aren't good, but are certainly preferable over this. It's hard to say if the short length is the best part about the movie. They means they just wanted to use as little original footage as possible. No one could have put much effort into this. It's probably the goofiest entry in the entire series and a fair betrayal of the tone the franchise started out with. *1/2

I remember seeing this on Creature Double Feature as a kid and it was always a favorite every time they showed it. The story is actually pretty cute, involving a boy with a vivid imagination who wishes himself to Monster Island so he can hang out with his sorta-imaginary-friends, Godzilla & Co. (Although one wonders, when the kid is running for his life from some of the less-friendly monsters, just what the heck he was thinking when he wished himself there!) My kid brother and I thought the baby-Godzilla-thing was a riot, blowing his smoke rings.I tried to find this movie again as an adult but had some trouble because the Godzilla films keep changing titles. Finally I ran across it on streaming. It was okay from a nostalgia point of view... I can't really say I "liked" it, but I liked watching it for old time's sake. (Would have been more fun if my brother were still living; we could have had quite the evening with the help of a few beers.) But I honestly didn't remember that Minya talks! He has a goofy Mortimer-Snerd voice in the English dub... goodness knows what he sounded like in the original Japanese-language version, but I have to hope it was better than this.Not recommended unless you have a soft spot in your heart for 1960's Japanese kitsch, little boys in short-shorts, actors in awkward rubber suits, and bad dubbing, but if you do you might have a pretty good time with this one. Beats the numerous movies where space aliens figure into the monster plot.

Up until this film, I've rated the other Godzilla movies (other than the original) off entertainment value. But this one, while I found it amusing- completely fails as a Godzilla movie. The biggest problem is the story. The main story isn't even about Godzilla, it's about a kid who gets bullied and whose parents are always off working. Now about Godzilla and the giant monsters, I don't think it counts as a spoiler to say that most of the monsters in this movie have far less of a cameo than they did in destroy all monsters. Others such as Ebirah, Kamacuras, and Kumonga only return in stock footage- which turns out to be most of the monster fighting. There is one new monster- called Gabara, but that's it. The other huge failing is the point of the monster scenes. The kid fantasizes about going to Monster Island and befriending Godzilla's son, who's troubles parallel his own. And he talks. I think that in the Japanese version, he sounds more like a girl, it's nothing horrible. But the American dub, I can't explain. Just watch the Godzilla's revenge Monster Madness to see what I'm talking about.The final thing to explain is the other subplot. There are two robbers who stole 10,000 Yen- and the kid ends up crossing paths with these two criminals. This part serves little purpose, doesn't make much sense, and could have easily been replaced and/or omitted.The way this movie is set up doesn't even match the other Godzilla movies. Son of Godzilla felt like a real Godzilla movie even though it was set on a remote island. Considering Godzilla getting downgraded to a fantasy, the poor storyline, not to mention poor writing bring this movie to it's well deserved title of "The Worst Godzilla Movie".

Okay, i understand why a lot of you HATE this movie. Its dumb, its weird, it almost makes fun of Godzilla. But, to be honest, it really works for me. While the kid can be annoying, i cant help but feel sorry for him and what this kid is going through, because, well...I did the same. There is a true tragedy to kids who end up imagining a friend/friends to play with, and it can damage kids if it continues. And i can really feel it wright here. And yes, the stock footage is annoying, but beyond that i have no problems. There is so much heart in this movie, these are some of my favourite characters in a Godzilla movie yet. And while i love the tragedy of it, i also think a lot of the comedy is great. The thieves are hilarious. But i guess where it failed was in the monster department and that WILL damage a Godzilla movie. But if you look at it, not as a monster movie, but as a normal kids movie with Godzilla in it, its actually a masterpiece. Okay, maybe not a masterpiece, but still great.