My opinion might be a bit controversial on this one...

Mothra, Rodan, Godzilla, and King Ghidorah: the Toho Trio vs their ultimate villain. Legendary was smart to use these monsters together again.

For first time having Godzilla protrayed as anti-hero and team up with Rodan and Mothra to fight together against King Ghidorah. According to Godzilla, he says "He hate humans because they hate him" meaning this new Godzilla never has any malicious intent.

I do completely agree with you. But without this film, we wouldn't get King Ghidorah.

The actress who portrayed the Princess,who is possessed also played the Bond girl Aki in You Only Live Twice,in 1967

What makes this movie a favorite of mine is the interaction between Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra, that humanization of them. When Mothra gives up in trying to convince them that they have to save the Earth not only for humans, but also for themselves is that start of the heroic turn. Where it doesn't start until Godzilla and Rodan see Mothra getting her ass kicked do they do the right thing. There are far better Godzilla movies out there, story, and technically wise, but that emotional core still resonates a lot with me.

Before Marvel was making Cinematic universes cool, we had this movie.

I showed this film to my fiance, who was watching the godzilla films for the first time. She's a big crybaby and cried at the end of Godzilla and Rodan. Was upset by mothras death. This film was just such a great closure to all the sad stories in the previous films. Finally a happy ending for all the monsters. It was adorable and I'll always love it.

I actually really loved this film and the human characters. "Shindo, stop it, or I'm calling the police!" "Are you stupid? Have you forgotten that I am the police?"

I actually liked the human story here. I guess it is disconnected from the monsters but the stakes are always on the rise between searching for the princess, determining her condition and protecting her from the killers. And personally, I think it ends with a bittersweet touch. The way the princess says her final thank you to Shindo before leaving the country comes off as a tragic not-to-be romance (at least to me).

King Ghidorah is the most iconic villain/nemesis of Godzilla all of time.

The is the highest point of the Showa Era. A four monster brawl with incredible special effects for the time and amazing suit design. In my opinion at least, the pacing is very good and there's only a few moments in the movie where you're slightly bored. The human story is interesting when it's not spoiled, and the monster action is crazy entertaining, especially with Ghidrah. My favorite film in the Showa Era.

Fun fact: Ghidorah was originally going to be rainbow-coloured, not gold.

One of only 4 godzilla films that havent been given a good quality physical media release here in Australia. This, Godzilla raids again, godzilla 1985 and gozilla vs biollante I unfortunately haven't been able to get copies of and see yet. Slowly working my way through your channel. Love the reviews , well edited and formatted.

"Assassination Attempt" *shown: assassination success*

Mothra's solo movie is where I felt that the whole genre started to get bounce-off-the-walls crazy (and I mean that as a positive!) ... THIS movie is where the genre went so far past crazy that you can't even see crazy in the rear-view mirror anymore. It is wildly, deliriously bonkers in all the right ways, and you either have to walk away or settle in and enjoy it for the loopy thing it is. It's the Monty Python of Monster Movies. I love the "spat" between Rodan and Gojira... it's not a serious fight at all, it's more like a bar-room argument, with Rodan pecking the heck out of Gojira and picking him up and dropping him on power lines, and Gojira breathing his bad breath in Rodan's face -- when larval Mosura comes along and sprays Gojira with her cocoon juice, Rodan actually falls about laughing ... They're having so much fun with their little argument that they don't want to set it aside, but when they do -- I love Gojira doing that little "take" just before running into battle, and the little conversational exchanges (in Rubber Monster Language, I guess) between blows... Rodan actually telling Mosura to climb up on his back... it's all completely insane. It's probably not the way it happened, but I like to think of the filmmakers giggling like kids as they plotted this one out. It's an utterly playful movie and, after MOTHRA, one of the most charming.

This was the first Godzilla movie I ever saw. It made me a fan of the character and series for life. Even today I still have a fondness for the heroic incarnation of Godzilla over all others. For me that uniqueness, coupled with the fact Godzilla has a personality, sets this film series apart from other routine monster movies.

Ghidorah now: Shoots precisely and hits hard Ghidorah then: *willy nilly use flail while OBLITERATING EVERYTHING IN SIGHT*

The first Godzilla movie I had ever seen, thanks to my Aunt Vivian 30 years ago. From that point on, I was a Godzilla maniac. Thank u, Auntie Viv!!!!

This the first “Godzilla” movie I recall seeing as a child and is the movie the started my love of Godzilla. This one is special for me.

I felt surprisingly entertained with the films story. I honestly wasn't wondering when it would cut back. I like that this film has an early showa vibe, making it a classic film.

There's a really funny moment during the shootout scene where the princess regains her memory. When the rocks fall on top of the assassin he actually catches one of the bigger ones like it's nothing and then throws himself off the cliff backwards.

Wow... I'm very pleased to have found you're channel, I agree with so much of what you say. I want to love this film as much as everybody else, but the rushed effects work, especially during the Godzilla and Rodan fight (in which honestly most of the effects look pretty abysmal), drags it down a lot for me.

I love how godzilla and rodan have an actual character arch

The first great change in the Godzilla saga. Alien conspirations, surreal plots, monsters from the space, pure and nonsensical entertainment and the most important: Godzilla turns into the hero of Japan.

While I did enjoy KOTM, Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster is still the better film, & to this day remains in my Top 5.

I think what works best about Ghidorah as an antagonist creature is that you always get the sense that it's "wrong" when compared to the other kaiju. With characters like Godzilla and Mothra and Rodan, they may be fantastic, but they were always something you could at least vaguely accept as something that could exist. Creatures you know and recognize, only bigger. But Ghidorah? It doesn't have that. It's a three-headed, lightning-breathing dragon. There is nothing natural about it, and so we immediately see it as something uncanny, something that needs to be opposed.

Alternate title: 3 headed dragon with necks fight a caterpillar, a pterodactyl bird, and an overgrown childish standing dinosaur

One of the high points of the Showa era for me! I thought the human story was engaging, and Ghidorah's rampage was epic!

I think that this was Ghidora's greatest movie in the Showa era because this was the only time he was his own master. In all of the other movies he was a puppet of some alien civilization that was defeated by dumb mistakes.

This is the beginning of Godzilla's transformation into a hero, and while some may see this as a bad thing, I think this movie plays with it really well. Like you said, the monsters all have their own personalities and this makes them a lot more fun to follow. It also introduced Ghidorah, one of Godzilla's most iconic foes. This movie tried its hardest to make itself entertaining, and I believe it succeeded in that respect.

This was a good movie

I really love this movie. Heck, It's the 2nd best Godzilla movie in the 60's line up. Even if The Title character was show up's almost at the end. Ghidorah's debut. Is the Ultimate introduction for Godzilla's Best rivalry.

Very interesting take! I adore this film, it's sort of a modern day fairly tale. I thought the script was excellent

I think this was my first Godzilla movie I ever saw

What a great film.

The Avengers of the classic Godzilla series

To say his first appearance is "kinda weak"...is rather weak unto itself...his attack on Fukuoka City is one of the greatest special effect sequences of the golden age...I wish we could have had a scene like that in King of the Monsters.

3:12 "making it kind of hard to get invested in whats going on" Yea...that costume didnt help none either.

I must say that I don't really agree here, as I think this may be the only film where Ghidorah really feels like an evil monster. He's not controlled by anyone or of such, he's just there to fuck shit up because he's enjoying it :)

This movie is awesome 10/10

I think this is one of my favourite Godzilla films, largely because I cared equally about the humans and the monsters

A fair review made with tough love.

This one is alright. It’s not great, but it’s not bad. I’ll give it credit for introducing both the Kaiju tag-team battle concept, and introducing Ghidorah. But the film is a bit straightforward and underwhelming. Ifukube’s score is still great as ever, but the effects feel like somewhat of a downgrade from the previous films. This film just isn’t much of a standout.

I completely agree with you, I feel most people overrate this film just because it's Ghidorah The Three Headed Monster

3:16 I’m the opposite actually; I loved the human story and I was always wishing it would cut back to them when the monsters were on screen.

I've always loved this movie. Everyone else thinks it's hard to get around. But I think the human plot is better than the monster plot.

A fair review. Not controversial at all. Pert much bang on. Another fine job.

Why did they change Ghidorah's voice to this done a million time trendy type of monster roar.

I’ve always felt this film is over-rated. Toho did much better with the next entry, Invasion of the Astro-Monster, a.k.a., Monster Zero.

This movie is important to any Godzilla fan. And it is decent. But it definitely had flaws, like you said. My biggest gripe is always going to be Rodan. To me they made him look so stupid in this movie. I don't understand why. In his original movie he looks fairly believable and kinda scary. In this movie Rodan looks like a goofy pteranodon kinda mixed with a chicken. His mouth is so fake and terrible. Makes his whole head look stupid. I just never understood why they made him look like that. The original makes this one look sad. lol. And the puppet fight is so dumb and cheap. lol. But overall the movie is okay.

I'm not really a fan of this movie. After Mothra vs Godzilla being so great & seeing the two babies defeat Godzilla after the tragic death of their mother, I was, & really still am, pissed that they randomly killed one offscreen (literally why!?!?!) But, watching Godzilla & Rodan's therapy session hosted by Mothra is both funny & poignant, while the finale is one of the most explosive, incendiary, & exciting things I've seen in a movie. It def changed the Godzilla canon forever, & for the better. Ghidorah's rampage is also killer & him materializing above the city he destroys, before he does so, was something I saw somewhere around age 3 & it was burned in my mind forever after that (idk where I saw it, tho, since the only G-Films I had on VHS where KKvG, Ebirah, & 2000, but I remember seeing it in the video roll on for Godzilla Unleashed & instantly freaked out, having finally saw it again).

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The one that introduces the most Iconic Godzilla villian. This fiilm is a step down from the last film but it is still just as fun. I do like the fact that this is Rodan's first appearance in a Godzilla film, Also the final fight is one of the best in the series and has some good moments, I also really like the interaction between Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan. But the best thing about this film is Ghidorah. He is basically perfect in this film. He has his iconic roar, his introduction and build up are really well done, and his attack on Fukuoka (I think thats what it is) is one of the best city destruction scenes in the Showa sereis. But what really brings this film down is that it feels like 2 completely different movies, also Ghidorah does feel like an afterthought, Rodan looks so stupid and the special effects are kind of a downgrade from the last couple movies. This is a very flawed but important film in the series and I like watching it from time to time. I will give it a 7.5/10.

I grew up in the ealy 60s and 70s TOHO was amazing Ghidra the three headed monster was Iconic I agree with you on every point. And as a kid I can only tell you the people part of the movie except for the Princess / Martian and the little princess faries and of course the killers was all I wanted to see as far as people went. I lived for the monsters the Kaiju it seemed like it took for ever for Godzilla to rise from the depth and Rodan to break free of Mt Fuji. And as mediocre as the fight was it was still Rodan & Godzilla facing off. Poor Rodan never enjoyed the popularity as the other 3 Kaiju which is Sad Rodan was much cooler then he got credit for. Anyways Then after that an eternity for Ghidra to show up on the scene and then they still kept showing the people ! Anyways still an Iconic movie one of the best and in destroy all monsters they did a much better job.

My proposal for how to make this film better: Take out the assassination plot, and make the fallen meteorite the central focus. The scientists spend the whole movie studying the meteorite, while an unsuspecting Japanese citizen begins foretelling the future. Both these plots are strung together by Noako, looking for the Mystery of the Twentieth Century. This way, the entire plot can be devoted to building intrigue about the monsters. Oh, and you can keep Shindo, but just as Selina's boyfriend, sticking close with Naoko so he can find out where Selina has disappeared to.

I'd say that this movie is really entertaining while watching it, but I do wish it had a stronger/more prevalent theme. The themes of the previous movies were sometimes simple, but strong enough and involved with the story enough that by the end that its pretty satisfying. In the case of this movie, the only themes I could really see were maybe some of the stuff for the monsters (for example, Mothra pushing past the sadness of a lost sibling to try to find happiness). Imo the human side of the story was definitely still entertaining, but there wasn't any kind of themes (that I saw, please tell me if you see any) that help the story have a more lasting impact.

I don’t understand why Toho was always in such a rush to put out the next movie. Sure, you’ll make money faster, but less people will pay for your product when you’re not putting quantity over quality. Over time you’ll lose money from over saturation and low quality films. So many Godzilla movies would be better if they were just given a bit more time.

This is the first film in which I feel the threat of Godzilla as a violent, irrepressible force is replaced by an outlandishly cartoonish, absurd tone.

Wow, most of this review are my exact thought on King of the Monsters. Weird.

It's rushed but overall a very good installment

I liked this movie tbh

Does anyone know where I can watch or buy this, not for 40$ though.

This is a great movie. I really enjoyed it, and it is mainly overrated for the right reasons, which is rare in the Godzilla fan community.

When Godzilla became a “hero,” the series seriously jumped the shark. Also, “humanizing” the monsters and endowing them with human traits (e.g. “talking,” throwing rocks, “laughing, etc.) totally ruined it. This film marked the beginning of the end. War of the Gargantuas, however, was the best Toho movie, as it didn’t succumb to the stupidity and kiddie flick mentality that the Godzilla Toho films devolved to.

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Personal Rating: *****

Natsuki? Sound like ddlc

While this movie is indeed overrated, I'd rather re-watch this than Monster Zero, which is too heavy on the sci-fi and not enough focus on the monsters.

5 or 4.5 stars in my opinion

I took my first grade son to see Godzilla: King of Monsters but want to introduce him to old school Godzilla this weekend. Which do you think I should start him with?

4 Stars.

I'm pretty sure the proper pronunciation of Ghidorah is as "Gee-dor-ah," following the name's roots in Japanese mythology, etc. Not "Ghee-DOORAH". Also as in, Hedora.....in Japanese this would properly be 'Heh-Dor-A". If I'm wrong, I wish someone would enlighten me.

I disagree. I think the human characters are great and I greatly enjoy the movie

0:51 the word is prophesying, not “prophesizing,” as you say it! Peace.

As a kid, I loved this one, as an adult, I just HATE Mothra. Mothra sucks. Monster just never appealed to me that much. Ghidorah and Rodan, however, kick major ass. The only bit with Mothra I liked as a kid was first seeing Destroy All Monsters where Mothra runs in front of a train and it crashes. That was pretty sick. Even worse are Mothra's miniature chickies that are his faerie priestesses. Total corn!

Oh Godzilla what terrible language

Yeah...not a big fan. Many G fans consider this one of the best. I can't see it. Boring and underwhelming.

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Godzilla,rodan and Mothra could teach the democrats and Republicans something about setting your issues aside and working together.

I despise this movie .