The Terror of Mechagodzilla (Mekagojira no gyakushu)

The greatest difference between Honda's work in the Godzilla series and the other directors is that Honda has a grasp of the world in which Godzilla resides and how that relates to Earth. Honda's movies are not ones of easy thrills and monster mayhem, but carefully…

Willow Maclay

Honda's final GODZILLA picture and the last of the Shōwa period also features the welcome return of Ifukube's iconic main theme and a battle that takes place in the city as opposed to the countryside-set brawls of the previous handful of entries. this one also has one of…

matt lynch

A Walk Amongst Monsters #49 “Their hatred will become one, unleashing an orgy of violence.”After 21 years Godzilla decides to finally throw in the towel and retire. But first he takes on Mechagodzilla in a rematch to prove once and for all who the real King of the Monsters…

Kaijuman

the last fairy tale godzilla film. science perverted past all nobility, a madman's daughter kept alive and imprisoned by integration with the immoral kaiju themselves as a cyborg commandant. godzilla constantly emerges seemingly from nowhere, a spiritual manifestation of…

comrade_yui

KAIJULY: GOJI RAAWRS! The last entry, directed by series co-creator Ishiro Honda, and the ending of an entire era, sees Goji fighting an old and new, large-necked adversary as the humans also have to deal with and fight some human-looking aliens who initially created…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

With this lackluster effort the franchise called it quits for the first time but returned so many times that the line between Godzilla and Cher began to fade.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

"You may be a cyborg... But I still love you." Ishiro Honda's back, baby! And instead of delivering the tired last-gasp of a franchise, he bursts out of the ground with fiery eyes and the darkness of the original up his sleeve! It's absurd to consider that there hadn't…

Justin Decloux

Ishiro Honda's official swan song as director, coming a full six years after his previous Godzilla movie. Also the last Godzilla movie of the original 1954-1975 cycle, and an attempt to merge the tones of the early Honda movies with the goofy-as-hell shenanigans of the '70s…

Will Sloan

The Multifarious Monster of Monsters, The King of Kaiju, the Atomic Admonitory: GODZILLER! Contemplative creatures  “Father…Are you going to sell out mankind to the spacemen? Don’t you know anything? It’ll become one of the greatest destroyers of life! Just like King…

Max Ahoy