All Monsters Attack

Godzilla's Recycling of Footage. Kinda shameful and entirely skippable. However, if I had seen this movie (about a kid dealing with bullies by taking lessons from brütal monster beatdowns) when I was young, maybe I wouldn't have turned into such a huge pussy later in life.

Until I watched this, I had no idea that Home Alone happened first as a kaiju movie.

The fact that the whole thing takes place in the kid's imagination just makes this movie completely unsatisfying. Furthermore, Minilla is one of the creepiest monsters in film (if only he were a bad guy!). Adding insult to injury, this movie could have been over within an hour but they had to pad it out with repeating clips of all the action sequences.

After a lot of thinking about this movie, I've actually come to love it. The best kind of surrealism is the kind that's unintentional, and this movie approaches David Lynch levels of strangeness. Just an utterly baffling movie.

Original blurb from me: "A horrible horrible kid's film." On a second viewing in the original language, it's not so terrible. It's not really a good movie, but it's certainly good for children (and Godzilla fans), and I found Minilla, or Minya or whatever strangely charming despite how hidious he is.

This film has a strange message to kids : violence solves everything. Get in trouble-fight your way out! Also a minilla is a grey turd. And in this one it speaks to the kid. Skip it!

Tired, inane entry in the neverending Godzilla series has the requisite amusing moments of rubber suited menaces throwing around other creatures made from plywood and Styrofoam, but the tone of this one is pitched relentlessly at a young, fairly undemanding audience, if the heavy-handed moralising (strangely undermined by the finale) is anything to go by. Too flat and inert to get the heart pumping in any serious way, and too dull to treat derisively; a pretty sorry chapter for Godzilla et al.

The little Godzilla had swag for sure. A weird switch in the series can see why it’s disliked by many and loved by its creator

A tad slight, but the kid monster is weird looking so that’s a plus. A nice bit of whimsy

With a plot focusing on a lonesome bullied kid the series moves straight into a kids movies. While it does convey nicely how a kid would dream about befriending Minilla, helping him against his bully who is also imagined as a kaiju, the plot apart from that is childish and the humor infantile. The even greater offence is that for almost all action sequences the movie rehashes footage from previous entries, so as a kaiju eiga this really disappoints.

The worst of the Toho monster movies I've seen yet.

[All Monsters Attack on Criterion Channel] This is only good if you've never seen a Godzilla movie before, or if you are under 8. Most of the monster battles are recycled from prior movies, so nothing really interesting there. (And, technically, their appearance is all in a dream anyway.) The human interest part is cringe-worthy as it tries to squeeze "monster movie with a moral" out of this -- funny as the moral is "how to stand up to a bully" and then the kid becomes a bully in the end.

It doesn't seem fair to the legendary "Godzilla" franchise that my first time seeing any of the Japanese classics, outside of the original "Gojira"(1954), was wasted on some awkwardly bizarre English dub version of this weird Japanese family/kids movie. It's hard to know just how terrible the movie really is without seeing the subtitled version, but I'm not sure even the original or a better working knowledge of the series could convince me that this wasn't just some goofy boring kids' movie.

What did I just watch? That was a pretty bad dub, though unintentionally funny at times. The story really struggles to hold your attention despite actually having some potential. The psychedelic airplane scene was a lone bright spot in a series of low points.

If ever a movie demanded to be watched under the influence of hallucinogens, it's this one.

Singular. Weirdness on par with "Hausu."

It's so goddamn weird I can't help but kinda like it.

[Distant]

Full of reused footage, with a stupid ending to the human plot that sends a terrible message to children. Kind of amusing?

This is Home Alone sequel level of material, mixed with the worst Godzilla action in any film (what the fuck even is Minilla?). It's actually pretty laughable and enjoyable, but not on it's own accord.

A personal touch to a kiddy take on the Godzilla series (and a decent one). It ends on a silly note, but the child's story, while simplistic, works. Stock footage from past movies being incorporated into the narrative sensibly is a serious accomplishment. I'm grateful I watched it for that alone.

The _Curse of the Cat People_ of the Godzilla series. The untimely death of effects master Eiji Tsuburaya early in production resulted in the usage of lots of stock footage from earlier films; this was also the first in the series to feature a little kid hero and sometimes bears more than a passing resemblance to _Home Alone_! Harmless fluff

Simple clip film to milk the name

At times awful and at other times brilliant.

worst Gozilla film....

one of the stupidest movies I've ever seen

Oh Jesus, TOHO, what made you think that this was a good idea?