Rodan
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Movie Reviews of Rodan
Movie Review: wonderful movie
Summary: 4 Stars
i watched this movie as a boy and enjoyed it. it was fun and wonderful to watch. the caterpillars in the movie are exciting but when the two rodans are unleashed the fun begins. effective special effects and a real sympathetic and environmental end. a must see.Movie Review: Like Godzilla!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was just like godzilla movies in all ways. For one it's in color. Then theres giant insects and not only one rodan but two! Perfect for a family movie.Movie Review: Giant flapping doom!
Summary: 3 Stars
synopsis: Workers are being killed left and right deep within a Japanese mine. First, some of the minors are suspected, but it soon becomes clear that the mine is infested with giant prehistoric bugs! A team is sent in to battle the bugs, and one is killed by sending a mine car into it. One of the team's members is lost. He is found later in shock and stricken with amnesia. Soon, his memory returns, just as unidentified flying objects begin wiping out jets and eating innocent people. According to the ex-amnesiac's memory, he witnessed an enormous bird hatch from a gargantuan egg! Scientists quickly name the monster Rodan and identify it as a prehistoric Teranadon, somehow having survived many years of hibernation. As the military prepares to destroy the creature and cities are evacuated, another Rodan appears! The two giant birds wreak massive havoc with the wind created from the flapping of their wings and then disappear. The military decides to bury them allive in a volcano. The Rodans try to escape, but one is overcome by the flames and fumes. While the other...I won't blow everything!
Rodan is basically a 50's B movie, not much more or less. The major thing which sets this movie apart from other giant monaster movies is that it's monster returned numerous times (in the Godzilla series).
The script isn't the greatest, but it is fun at times, especially the long build up to the twin terrors' flight of doom late in the film. Of course that is part of the problem as well. The rodans have only one destructive run before being defeated by the military, moments later.
The characters are fun and interesting as is the film, but it just never rises very far above the other SciFi films of the day. The special effects are fairly good and the fear can be felt early in the film with the mystery of the miner deaths, but the fear is gone as soon as the Rodans begin their rampage.
Something about this film makes it feel somewhat intelligent but it falls short of the mark.
I would like to give this film 2 1/2, but it probably deserves a 3, though just barely. Unfortunately, Rodan would be reduced to a poorer character when he/she returned in the Godzilla series.
Movie Review: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Rodan!
Summary: 3 Stars
I love Japanese monster movies, and I've always been quite fond of Rodan, but this film actually leaves me rather nonplussed. Naturally, it's the testing of atomic weapons that is to blame for the unleashing of Rodan upon Southeast Asia. Whereas radiation basically helped create Godzilla, in the case of Rodan it merely creates the circumstances wherein large prehistoric eggs deep underground are given the right environment in which to hatch. All of this happens deep in a coal mine, where several men are mysteriously mauled by giant insects. When both Rodans hatch (yes, there are actually two Rodans, apparently mates), they do the humans a big favor by eating the killer insects, yet the humans still seem determined to kill them. Here's my real problem with this movie: the Rodans don't really do much of anything. Sure, they destroy a few cities here and there, but their heart really doesn't seem to be in the job. Rodan's one and only weapon is his set of wings, which are capable of generating hurricane force winds. It's fun to watch buses and houses blown across the landscape, but one soon yearns for a good fight, the type of fight the army is incapable of giving the giant flying reptiles. The special effects are fairly good overall, but on a few occasions (such as the shots of jets unleashing their missiles) they are clearly seen to feature models of a somewhat unimpressive variety. The ending is actually rather boring in a way, as the fighting is essentially of an indirect variety. At just 72 minutes long, Rodan just doesn't offer the types of thrills that most Godzilla movies present, and its only remarkable element in my mind is the poignant and downright sad meditations offered on the heels of the final conflict.Movie Review: Shouldn't It Be "Rodans?"
Summary: 3 Stars
The Good -- This movie doesn't skimp on the violence or gore like most movies from the 1950's did. Certain scenes bordered on straight-up horror rather than science fiction/fantasy. This is not a kids' movie like the next set of Kaiju movies will become.
The Bad -- "It's the atomic bomb's fault." The scapegoat for all these early movies. That's just lazy writing.
The Rodan creatures are only seen in the last 30 minutes as they ravage Japan, which is par for these Kaiju movies. When they do show up, their mutual destruction scenes will blow you away, if you can get past . . .
The Ugly -- the tacky special effects. The models are obviously fake, adding a quaint charm, but there's nothing realistic here that grounds this movie into the real world.
Hot on the heels of Gojira, Rodan offers nothing new. A few chills, some fun destruction, but nothing that stands the test of time. There's no universal message other than "Nuclear power is bad." A ho-hum theme to a ho-hum movie.