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- 1956
- Not Rated
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 1956
- Not Rated
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
Summary A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
- 1956
- Not Rated
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
- 1956
- Not Rated
- Embassy Pictures
- 1 h 20 m
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
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7.7
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Summary A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
60
57% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
14% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Godzilla is still the most awesome of tacky movie monsters — a Jurassic knockoff of King Kong whose ritual stomping of Tokyo never quite lets you forget that you’re watching a man in a lizard suit trash a very elaborate toy train set.
While much of Godzilla, King of the Monsters is second-rate, there's no doubt that you're watching a star being born.
This ballad of destruction reveals itself as one of the most exciting, enjoyable and moving of them all.
This is the one Godzilla movie in which the title character plays second fiddle to the humans. While the film's moral and ethical situations are interesting, they are not as compelling as the film's adherents would have us believe, and their resolutions are simplistic.
The Americans got hold of the much superior Japanese original, Godzilla, and edited into it 20 minutes-worth of Burr, with his vacant and oddly stiff expression, in order to spice things up. Still, without Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, the awesome cinematic hero might have remained a merely regional success, a giant Japanese lizard confined to its own country.
The 1956 film, which adds Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin, feels like watching the original version through a foggy window. The end result is the feeling that something is missing.
The whole thing is in the category of cheap cinematic horror-stuff.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.7
69% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.7
69% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
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0% Negative
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