Godzilla gegen Frankensteins Höllenbrut (1972)

Godzilla gegen Frankensteins Höllenbrut: Directed by Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda, Shûe Matsubayashi. With Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda. A manga artist becomes suspicious of his employers when a garbled message is discovered on tape. As he forms a team to investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus set out to help defeat the invaders.

“50 Are you an out-of-work cartoonist looking for a way to keep the repo man from your door? Is your martial arts instructor girlfriend hassling you to find work? Just be careful where you get a job; you may end up working for alien cockroaches bent on destroying earth!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSaid cockroaches inhabit human bodies and are building a childrenu0026#39;s theme park u0026quot;to promote peaceu0026quot;. (Please let these bozos be connected with Marian Wright Edelman!) They have reel-to-reel tapes that attract and control Gigan and King Ghidra from space, and manage to annoy Godzilla at the same time. (Rather than construct such an elaborate tape, they couldu0026#39;ve just used a Jennifer Lopez tape…much cheaper, Iu0026#39;d imagine.)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGodzilla has a little monster friend who canu0026#39;t walk upright (bad job there, Toho) but does manage to hold his own nonetheless. Gigan is *very* cool. He has a head like a Cylon from u0026quot;Battlestar Galacticau0026quot; and hooks instead of paws. Plus, he has a circular saw in his chest. This is a useful appendage, let me tell you!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAdmittedly, Godzilla vs. Gigan does repeat an anti-pollution message. However, it takes the story in a different direction in that rather than having a Smog Monster being born from our own foibles, alien cockroaches leave a planet where pollution had caused dire consequences to one that is on the verge of doing so in order to use it to their advantage. Sadly, Godzilla was taking a whale of a beating before the climax. Conversely, the Japanese army did manage to beat back Godzillau0026#39;s little friend. Thatu0026#39;s gotta be the first time that the army beat a monster.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSterno says run, donu0026#39;t walk to Godzilla vs. Gigan.”