Godzilla Vs Hedorah
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Movie Reviews of Godzilla Vs Hedorah
Movie Review: So zany and original -- an uncatagorizable classic
Summary: 5 Stars
My ordered this movie from Amazon put a sly, secret smile on my face for the two weeks it took to arrive. I remember the movie well from a single rental when I was 9 years old (over 20 years ago). For years after, anytime the sky would be dark and menacing at around dusk with low visibility, I would be afraid that I might see the smog monster looming dimly in the distance. Hedorah is literally a monster made of (human-produced) filth. Effects-wise, certain scenes, especially near the beginning, definitely fail to convince -- that's just par for the course with old monster movies. But as the film develops, thankfully the effects become increasingly convincing. I haven't see half the G-films, but I can still assume that this monster is surely the CREEPIEST of them all!! I think the director did well at eliciting dread and hopelessness in his audience in many scenes, which adds to the impression of how truly powerful this monster is. Like when people throw torches at it, and they appear as mere harmless glowing cinders in front of its face, and it doesn't even flinch -- it just stands there looking at you creepily and powerfully.
The fight scene isn't over when you think it is, and I'm not sure that's a good thing, given that it just caused me and my wife confusion, more than gladness that it (somehow) wasn't yet over. Lots of exactly-repititious scenes in the final third of the film give the feeling that the director was trying to stretch the film over the feature-length threshold. Still, this film is so original, and so creatively successful at being what it means to be, who can say it isn't a one-of-a-kind classic creep-fest?!
Movie Review: Godzilla vs. Hedora (aka The Smog Monster)
Summary: 5 Stars
In my opinion, this kaiju entree by far is the best one next to Godzilla vs. The Thing. I saw this as a 7 year old back in the 70's. It's impact on me then still remains with me to this day. It is perhaps one of the few Godzilla films with a serious theme (pollution) in comparision with the others. Hedora was perhaps the toughest opponent Godzilla ever had. It is gruesome and disgusting. The fight sequences were fought well and ruthlessly by both monsters. The director did an efficient job in evolving Hedora into a very evil monster. What intrigued and yet sickened me about Hedora was not only its rapid growth from polution, its arsnel of lazers, sulfuric elements, but its going to the bathroom on Godzilla and chuckling about it (Did everyone really catch that scene?). The heat drawn from that scene alone in unision with the previous items mentioned made one really want Godzilla to really fry, nuter,and stomp Hedora into ash. Personally, I liked the 70's pop culutre in the film. I really wish that Sony would've rescued the English soundtrack from from The Amercian International version, nevertheless I'm not really picky about it. The widescreen and Japanese language version makes this film even better than what it was watching it on a grainy letterbox TV back in 1976. I love this film. Thanks Toho and Sony for the memories and DVD release.Movie Review: Worst Case Pollution Scenario
Summary: 5 Stars
Honestly, I've never been into Godzilla. Sure, I've seen my share of the big guy's films, but it was a genre that never really grabbed me. After viewing a few after many years I seem to enjoy them more now than when I did as a kid. Hedorah has always been my personal fave just coz it's pretty oddball(even by Godzilla standards) and stands out from the rest of the films with it's psychedelic hippiness and short animated scenes. Hedorah may not be as badass looking as Godzilla's other foes, but he's a tough mother. Hell, he beats the snot out of Godzilla. Godzilla needs to enlist the help of the humans to defeat the thing. Reading over the negative reviews of this film, all I can do is scratch my head. How the hell do you criticize a Godzilla film? A Godzilla film criticized for having fake looking monsters? For having badly dubbed english dialogue? Weren't these the very things that made the Godzilla films entertaining? You might as well criticize the old John Waters films coz the acting was bad and they were offensive. Even Leonard Maltin called this film, "Dubbed and Daffy". But as we all know, when did Leonard Maltin ever watch a film for the strict purpose of enjoyment and fun? This film certainly has my stamp of approval. Be sure and see it with someone you love to get the full effect.Movie Review: One of the Better-Paced Godzilla flicks!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've just recently turned on (again) to Godzilla movies for the first time since I was a kid, and I've bought a handful of them from the Showa series (Mothra, Ghidorah, Astro Monster, Son of Godzilla and All Monsters Attack). While this is admittedly as "weird" as the other reviews have described it to be, and it's not as pretty or high-budget looking as some of the earlier ones, I found "Godzilla vs Hedora (aka The Smog Monster" to be one of the best-paced Godzilla movies, for once not boring us to death whenever we have to watch the humans and wait for the monsters. I actually find the animated sequences and the psychadelic freak-out sequences to HELP the movie rather than hinder it, as this is a total product of a late 60's/early 70's mindset, so why shouldn't it look like one? Even though the earlier films like "Mothra" strike a more nostalgic chord with me, this one is my favorite to sit down and actually watch all the way through.Movie Review: Love it
Summary: 5 Stars
I origionally saw this when I was a kid back in the 90's I loved it then for its comical side yeah there are a few things that aren't typically Godzilla like, but this movie was geared to show kids just how bad the environment is & that they need to get there act together or the mess that we make will kill us all. The way that they went about it was imaginative to say the least, but to all those that are rating it badly they are complete imbiciles they are looking too deaply into the geanra (sorry for the bad spelling) but these movies are designed for people who have a sense of humor, I mean come on the whole Godzilla thing was thought up while the original creator was on an airplane over Tokyo Harbor & he thought what would it be like if a monster came out of there & destroyed Tokyo, well thank you for your time to read this & ,Ç,à@, ,è,ª,Æ@,¬,',¢,Ü,·B