LMAO @ that lounge singer! I’d fucking stick something in her throat!
This movie looks fucking hilarious. Man I gotta see this shit. It reminds me of when I was a kid, and they’d play “Creature Features” on WWOR or WXXA on Saturday’s from 12PM-6PM. Dam I miss those days
I really love your reviews of old horror movies, i was breed on films like these and its fun to find out that others like the campines of a lot of them just as much as i do.
I was really shocked today when i watched the new Scooby Doo mystery incorporate show (episode 9) to see that the intro was the exact scene (almost) with the awfully singing girl that gets attacked by the monster emerging from behind the scene.
Fun stuff.
Gargantua is a name. It’s a giant in the French classic novel “The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel”, by François Rabelais. Gargantuan is an adjective formed on the name Gargantua.
theres a new show on cartoon network called scooby doo mystery incorporated and they made fun of this movie from the very beginning the episode started with the lounge singer but it was reversed she was Asian and the crowd was of Americans lol
Great review James, that sounds like a fun Monster bash, and they really managed to convey a lot of emotion out of those monsters just from suits with no dialogue, giving them a legitimate reason to fight!
And man I really gotta’ watch that new Scooby-doo show! I keep hearing good things!
The Octopus is the same one from King Kong vs Godzilla, and there’s an alternate ending to Frankenstein vs Baragon where the Octopus comes out of fucking NOWHERE and kills Frankenstein (by drowning him).
So the Gargantua killing the Octopus was kind of supposed to be a reference to that ending with the son avenging his father.
Seeing the design of the maser cannon I was reminded of pictures of some old experimental WW II weapons that never got off the ground, chiefly the Japanese death ray experiments. So I looked it up online and masers are devices that operate at microwave frequencies. Like the laser it is an abbreviation for Microwave Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation. I guess this is a cultural hand me down from the days of the war.
Ever since my husband and I saw the review, I’ve been torturing him with my own rendtion of that god-awful “words get stuck in my throat” song. Thank you for that, James.
Hey there James! I just joined Cinemassacre.com and I stayed with Monster Madness this year and when you got to this movie, I was wondering what it would be about since I like watching Toho monster movies. After a while, I found the movie on Netflix Instant Watch and I got to give it a viewing and it was an okay monster movie (from director Ishiro Honda nonetheless) and loved watching the minature sets get destroyed (as an added bonus I had some boxes that I recycle as well as some bottles and paper and when the Tokyo destruction sequence came up, I prepared myself and copied the action on there and had fun destroying my “city”. Great review, and good luck with any other projects you’re working on!
Thanks after watching this a couple months back it reminded me how much I love Godzilla films. So I started watching them on DVD again thanks alot I have to find this one too…. thanks James..
I was watching an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorperated and the episode was called “Battle of the Humungonauts” and right at the beining of the episode you can see the all the references to this movie. Thanks a lot James for letting us all know of classics such as these so we can enjoy them and see their influence on modern media.
Watched this again, its amaing, I really like the action adn use of monsters, so Japan in style like power rangers !!!!!! http://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/retrotoons/Index.php?ref=65348
LMAO @ that lounge singer! I’d fucking stick something in her throat!
This movie looks fucking hilarious. Man I gotta see this shit. It reminds me of when I was a kid, and they’d play “Creature Features” on WWOR or WXXA on Saturday’s from 12PM-6PM. Dam I miss those days
i knew it was a toho film. The poster’s quality has the “toho approved” movie
For some reason I can’t see any of your videos
can I download them somehow?
Awsome review of a entertaining monster movie.
I really love your reviews of old horror movies, i was breed on films like these and its fun to find out that others like the campines of a lot of them just as much as i do.
I was really shocked today when i watched the new Scooby Doo mystery incorporate show (episode 9) to see that the intro was the exact scene (almost) with the awfully singing girl that gets attacked by the monster emerging from behind the scene.
Fun stuff.
I love this movie!!
Gargantua is a name. It’s a giant in the French classic novel “The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel”, by François Rabelais. Gargantuan is an adjective formed on the name Gargantua.
theres a new show on cartoon network called scooby doo mystery incorporated and they made fun of this movie from the very beginning the episode started with the lounge singer but it was reversed she was Asian and the crowd was of Americans lol
really amazing. gonna see this one for sure James
Me and My son are big Godzilla Fans, and me and him (His first time watching it) watched this movie the day before this review came out. He loved it
Great review James, that sounds like a fun Monster bash, and they really managed to convey a lot of emotion out of those monsters just from suits with no dialogue, giving them a legitimate reason to fight!
And man I really gotta’ watch that new Scooby-doo show! I keep hearing good things!
To be honest … The title sounds … Shit … But the movie is the opposite …
Some background info:
The Octopus is the same one from King Kong vs Godzilla, and there’s an alternate ending to Frankenstein vs Baragon where the Octopus comes out of fucking NOWHERE and kills Frankenstein (by drowning him).
So the Gargantua killing the Octopus was kind of supposed to be a reference to that ending with the son avenging his father.
I, too, am curious what movie the poodle monster in the opening images is from. Anyone know?
Seeing the design of the maser cannon I was reminded of pictures of some old experimental WW II weapons that never got off the ground, chiefly the Japanese death ray experiments. So I looked it up online and masers are devices that operate at microwave frequencies. Like the laser it is an abbreviation for Microwave Amplification through Stimulated Emission of Radiation. I guess this is a cultural hand me down from the days of the war.
I wonder if the futurama episode Anthology of interest 1 is a reference to this movie. Hm, maybe they just wanted to have two big monsters fighting
Ever since my husband and I saw the review, I’ve been torturing him with my own rendtion of that god-awful “words get stuck in my throat” song. Thank you for that, James.
Hey there James! I just joined Cinemassacre.com and I stayed with Monster Madness this year and when you got to this movie, I was wondering what it would be about since I like watching Toho monster movies. After a while, I found the movie on Netflix Instant Watch and I got to give it a viewing and it was an okay monster movie (from director Ishiro Honda nonetheless) and loved watching the minature sets get destroyed (as an added bonus I had some boxes that I recycle as well as some bottles and paper and when the Tokyo destruction sequence came up, I prepared myself and copied the action on there and had fun destroying my “city”. Great review, and good luck with any other projects you’re working on!
Awesome!
Thanks after watching this a couple months back it reminded me how much I love Godzilla films. So I started watching them on DVD again thanks alot I have to find this one too…. thanks James..
The giant octopus is never mentioned again? Wouldn’t that make it a Big Lipped Alligator Moment?
I was watching an episode of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorperated and the episode was called “Battle of the Humungonauts” and right at the beining of the episode you can see the all the references to this movie. Thanks a lot James for letting us all know of classics such as these so we can enjoy them and see their influence on modern media.
I love this movie. The showdown between Gaila and Sanda is some of the best kaiju fighting ever! That singing bitch got what she deserved, too
Brad Pitt just said at the Oscars last night that this was the first movie that meant something to him as a child! How ridiculous is that?