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The second movie I saw in my Godzilla Movie Marathon, Godzilla Raids Again was the sequel to Gojria and as of now, this is the worst Godzilla movie I have seen. Warner Brothers marketing attempted to release this movie in America as Gigantis, the Fire Monster, as a way to create a whole different franchise with a different monster. Fortunately, the film was a major bomb in the US and they made a new dub, changing his name back to Godzilla.
In terms of the dreaded character development in a monster movie, this film is the biggest offender of that crime. The movie follows two pilots as they crash land on a desert island and discover you know who fighting a monster named Anguirus, a dinosaur-like creature who lived millions of years in the past with Godzilla, forming a rivalry between the two. The film then clumsily slaps a terrible love story filled with cringe-worthy acting in between half-assed fight scenes that did nothing but make me yawn. The failed attempt at an actual story is the biggest embarrassment of this embarrassing film. The characters are completely one-dimensional and unoriginal. The movie follows the stereotypical Godzilla movie cast of characters checklist, the stereotypical hero *check*, his girlfriend whose father owns a large company *check*, the goofball unfunny comic relief friend *check*, this film does this in such a terrible boring way, that it is painful to watch, and the characters and story are definitely the biggest flaw of this very flawed movie.
The issue that Godzilla Raids Again had was that it tried to hard to replicate the charm of the original, but just failed miserably. This movie took itself way to seriously, and just tried to be what it wasn't. This was the dark area of Godzilla movies in between the actually good, and the hilariously bad, where the movies were simply boring. If you ever get around to watching all of the Godzilla movies (which I would recommend) you might want to skip this one.
GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN
The second movie I saw in my Godzilla Movie Marathon, Godzilla Raids Again was the sequel to Gojria and as of now, this is the worst Godzilla movie I have seen. Warner Brothers marketing attempted to release this movie in America as Gigantis, the Fire Monster, as a way to create a whole different franchise with a different monster. Fortunately, the film was a major bomb in the US and they made a new dub, changing his name back to Godzilla.
In terms of the dreaded character development in a monster movie, this film is the biggest offender of that crime. The movie follows two pilots as they crash land on a desert island and discover you know who fighting a monster named Anguirus, a dinosaur-like creature who lived millions of years in the past with Godzilla, forming a rivalry between the two. The film then clumsily slaps a terrible love story filled with cringe-worthy acting in between half-assed fight scenes that did nothing but make me yawn. The failed attempt at an actual story is the biggest embarrassment of this embarrassing film. The characters are completely one-dimensional and unoriginal. The movie follows the stereotypical Godzilla movie cast of characters checklist, the stereotypical hero *check*, his girlfriend whose father owns a large company *check*, the goofball unfunny comic relief friend *check*, this film does this in such a terrible boring way, that it is painful to watch, and the characters and story are definitely the biggest flaw of this very flawed movie.
The issue that Godzilla Raids Again had was that it tried to hard to replicate the charm of the original, but just failed miserably. This movie took itself way to seriously, and just tried to be what it wasn't. This was the dark area of Godzilla movies in between the actually good, and the hilariously bad, where the movies were simply boring. If you ever get around to watching all of the Godzilla movies (which I would recommend) you might want to skip this one.