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by **Benjamin Haines** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:39 pm

It's interesting that the international trailer spells his name as "King Seeser" while the voice actors in the international dub clearly say "King Seesar." Maybe "Seeser" was a typo that occurred in Toho's records in 1974, and when their international department combed through the character names years later they saw "Seeser" in print and thought it was supposed to be "Caesar" so they changed it?

by **Shonokin** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:03 pm

Sooo did anyone watch

by **Kaiju Nexus** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:35 pm

by **jellydonut25** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 6:25 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Thu Jun 16, 2011 11:31 pm

by **Tyler E. Martin** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:32 am

by **RaymondBurr** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:36 pm

Have just revisited this film for the first time in 10 years or more. And I must say, I was very impressed! Sometimes, you know, your good memories of a film are utterly obliterated by the crappy reality of the film (...King Kong Lives was a great example of this for me recently!). But this was not at all the case with Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. There is just a lot of cool stuff in this movie! If you would indulge me... a list!

(1) Godzilla fighting another Godzilla! SO. AWESOME! And, the explosives work during the battle is really, really impressive.

(2) Cool Interpol sub-plot, which adds a lot of intrigue and suspense to the film. The human plot kept my attention much more than I ever recalled it doing when I was but a kid.

(3) The Black Hole Aliens! These guys are super cool--their threads are flashy and their leader is a smooth "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!"!

(4) Mechagodzilla! Our mechanical titan truly comes across as menacing and EVIL. His demeanor is fierce and when he battles his foes, his fighting style and tactics are simply brutal and unrelenting. In my opinion, there is no other Showa "final" battle that is so utterly overwhelming and literally pulse-pounding.

(5) Three lovely ladies!

(6) Four cool kaiju: Mechagodzilla, Anguirus, King Caesar, and Godzilla! King Caesar is a very interesting and unique monster in the Toho stables. His more humanoid form allows him a greater and clearer display of an actual fighting style. During the opening of the battle against Mechagodzilla, King Caesar puts on quite a show! If I'm not mistaken, I believe I saw a couple Judo throws in there. Very cool stuff!

(7) Did I mention that the Black Hole Aliens appear to be distantly related to General Ursus?

This little touch may have been designed to take advantage of the popularity of Planet of the Apes (?), nevertheless, it is a cool flourish, and puts these Aliens above some of the other late-Showa era villains, like the Seatopians and the cockroach aliens from Space Hunter Nebula M.

A great sci-fi movie! If you haven't seen it recently, treat yourself and see it again!

by **The Real McCoy** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:47 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:22 am

by **The Real McCoy** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:41 am

If you look past the goofy Godzilla flying scene and the "save the earth" messages being rammed down your throat, there is a pretty good film in Godzilla vs. Hedorah. I think Banno went for a more serious approach to his film, despite what was mentioned before, than Fukuda did with any of his films, so I guess you could, in a sense, consider Hedorah to be better. I think one of the higher points for this film for me was the acting, which was something I really wasn't impressed with in Hedorah. Masaaki Daimon did a great job, as did Reiko Tajima. The rest weren't given much to do, but I thought they did a decent job with what they were given.

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by **jellydonut25** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 1:43 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:38 pm

by **The Real McCoy** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:14 pm

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by **rockstarbd82** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:14 am

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla

Words/Reviews really can't do this film justice. Easiest way to put it, this film ROCKS!!!!!!!

This is the first Godzilla films I saw outside of the limited collection my video rental store (Kens World of Video) provided. By this time, I had only seen King Kong vs Godzilla, Godzilla vs Mothra 64', and Godzilla 1985. I knew there were other films out there because of the fact that the old Godzilla vs Mothra VHS featured a trailer at the end showcasing Ishiro Hondas other classics Godzilla's Revenge and Terror of MechaGodzilla.

So I begged my mother to call every video store in the vicinity of my hometown. Luckily on the fifth try, my mother located a copy of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. So she rented it for me, and I'll never forget that experience. Being about 6 or 7 years old, I was mesmorized and even terrified (in a good way) by this film. Even my father got a kick out of watching it with me. After seeing this one, the hunt for every G-film there was, was on for me.

So today, this is what I have to say about this film amongst the others. This film really follows the time it was released very well. But compared to is earlier 70s predecessors, it really brings out the "grind house" vibe very well. Sure the other films featured some building blood/gore, but this film really went the extra mile. Its pretty evident while watching this film that the filmmakers def had a blast making this film (Fukudas best G-film by far) but at the same time cut the unnecessary cheese while maintaining the excitement of a classic Godzilla film.

This film tends to come off very dark at first but just gets interesting as the story moves along. The human story is pretty much the same human vs alien story we were accustomed to in the earlier films, however this one kept my interest more so than the others. The head alien guy is probably the best human villain character in all the G films. The english actor who dubbed him couldn't have done a better job making him a cool/calm yet sadistic bad guy who knew that the ball would be in his court with this MechaGodzilla creation. The Dr. Serowazawa actor is back here and its great to see him in what would be one of his last G-films (before TOMG) before his untimely death. The Young Brother actor comes fresh off of Zonefighter to delight us even more here. All the other actors def do pretty good for the most part.

Despite the films "darker" nature, it manages to throw us some laughable moments in the right doeses. Esp the human fights. The human fights are almost like kids fighting to old style jarring jazz music. And thats another thing. The jazzy music theme may seem out of place at first with this film but I feel it expresses it well and is a nice change of theme from Ifubukes music.

The monsters here do not dissapoint. The first battle with Fakezilla vs Anguris is downright nasty and tooth/claw. Angurias getting his jaws broken King Kong style def scared me as a kid and made me feel bad for him (my first time seeing Angurias) Godzilla vs Fakezilla was shot extremely well on that exploding set. The suit from vs Megalon/Zonefighter gets a serious facelift here and just looks ominous like hes ready to tear #*($ up. But then the Terminator Godzilla exposes his true form and throws Godzilla a beating he would never forget. The first Mechagodzilla design may look old fashioned, but I can't say enough great things about it. So many weapons, he is literally armed to the teeth (no pun intended). Those eye lasers are just the most rad thing I've ever seen on film. Watching this as a kid really got me mad to where I was like "Ohhhhh Godzilla's gonna get you back good" King Ceaser kinda comes out of left field in this film but def proves to be an interesting monster in the end. The fact that he can "reflect" MechaGodzilla's eye lazers back at him was exciting.

But its the final battle that this film is known for. Probably Godzilla's greatest and most deadliest battle to this day. The fact that Godzilla tries every tactic possible to get in close and keeps getting put down by MechaGodzilla's unlimited arsenal keeps you on the edge of your seat. Eye lazers, missiles, explosions mixed with old fashion fighting and grindhouse blood spraying gore. Sure Godzilla's ray still has a punch against MechaGodzilla (when he doesn't use his shield), but in the end, only brute force and Godzilla's newly acquired magnetic abilties are the only things that put his greatest foe down. Godzilla twisting his head off was probably the greatest finish the king of the monsters ever gave us. But hey, deadler villain, more bad@$$ finish. Toho def did not dissapoint on this one. I can't wait for the Blu ray release on this one.

I can go on and on. Bottom line one of my top 5 Gfilms. Enough said.

by **The Real McCoy** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:37 am

I always thought it was funny how nearly every shot of Godzilla's atomic breath does absolutely nothing to Mechagodzilla, yet in Terror of Mechagodzilla, only once, one shot knocked him on his ass. I guess he'd had enough of it by then.

by **rockstarbd82** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:47 am

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by **Tyler E. Martin** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:01 am

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