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Movie Reviews of Rodan
Movie Review: Best Monster Debut
Summary: 5 Stars
Rodan is my favorite kaiju. This movie is defintly one of the best!Rodan was the first movie of this genre to be filmed in color.Rodan had good special effects as well.It was nicely dubbed and had a great story.Rodan looked better in this than any other movie he starred in.Rodan could fly,walk,and swim. Rodan can fly at supersonic speed and emit an energy blast! I won't tell you how they kill him so get this DVD as soon as possible.Movie Review: Rodan
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie was delivered on time and in the condition it was promised. I am very pleased with the service and with the company. I look forward to buying from them in the future.
Rodan is a favorite of mine and the movie is just as much fun today as it was when I first saw it many, many years ago in a small theater in an equally small town in Central Louisiana.
Movie Review: 5 Stars
I thought Rodan was REALLY cool and caused a lot of destruction on Japan!!!! Those cattepillar things freaked me out though..... They killed a lot of people to.Movie Review: True Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was always a real crowd pleaser on a rainy dayin the BRONX when all my friends would watch it on Million Dollar Theatre.
Movie Review: a very solid Monster Movie, but not quite Godzilla
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a pretty solid movie from the late 50's produced by the king of monster-making, Toho Co.In fact, this movie would've been perfect, but the monster scenes seemed to be lacking the kind of charisma that Godzilla brought to the screen. As for the human scenes, they're perfect. By perfect, I mean they're entertaining in a very campy way. In fact, it was actually the human scenes that carried this movie through with its camp-soaked dialogue. I'll provide some examples:
Ex. 1) Towards the beginning of the movie, members of the mining team have sent out a search party to the deepest tunnel they had. As they're walking through, one of the men begins to talk:
"Smells down here. Kind of sour and warm. I don't like it!!!"
Ex. 2) After one of the bodies had been found floating in the water, the narrator chimes in with this eulogy:
"Yoshi was dead when they carried him from the mine. But he didn't die from drowning...he had been killed. More than killed - he had been slaughtered like an animal!!!"
Ex. 3) At the conclusion of the movie when the two Rodan get covered in lava, and burn to death, the narrator begins talking again:
"I wonder if I, a 20th Century man, could ever hope to die as well."
LOL
In any case, there are also some funny situations:
Situation 1) Some military men spot a giant caterpillar on a nearby hill, and immediately open fire on it with their pistols. The caterpillar then kills two soldiers and tosses them down the hill where an entourage of people are standing around. A doctor, who had seen everything, shoves everyone out of the way, kneels down to both soldiers, examines their wounds and proclaims to everybody that "all the wounds were done by that monster!" (nah!!! I'm sure they had no clue!)
Situation 2) A search party is investigating one of the underground mining tunnels. As they're wading through the water, one of the men starts crying for help as he gets pulled down under the water. A man standing nearby immediately fires his pistol into the water where the first guy was previously standing. (I guess gun safety wasn't fashionable in the 50's)
In any case, the human scenes were very entertaining. I never once got bored by any of it.
As for the monster scenes, they were solid. But that's it. It was missing something special. I think a monster vs. monster scene was needed, but that's just my opinion. I guess I just never got pulled into Rodan's charm whereas Godzilla is freaking awesome (overall). Don't get me wrong, though...Rodan is pretty tough. He flies at supersonic speed. And the wind generated by such speed causes cars to fly through the air, and trees to get ripped out of their foundations. But still, he was missing that something special.
Overall, it's a solid monster movie. And for $5.99, you'd be silly not to check this out.