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What a exclusive movie! Bowing to the behold craze of the 1960′s, director Jun Fukuda has Godzilla fighting the SPECTRE-like Red Bamboo and a giant crab named Ebirah. Inoshiro Honda’s previous films in the series delivered their message about the dangers of nuclear weapons well, but Fukuda turns the series 180 degrees and goes for sheer entertainment instead. Eschewing the city smashing of the previous films, in Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster we gather shapely island girls, tropical locations, a bank robber turned hero, mysterious hideouts and, best of all, a hilarious victory dance by Godzilla. Add in Mothra and the Peanuts (the two tiny girls who control Mothra) and you have one spellbinding and unique hybrid. If you’re a Godzilla purist, you’ll abhor this movie. But if you give it a chance, you’ll be surprised at how toothsome it is.

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As with the Son of Godzilla DVD, this edition presents a cyrstal-clear widescreen image that restores the film to what it originally was. The VHS version is blurred with bad sound and pan-and-scan, but the DVD version contains none of those flaws. In addition, the DVD edition puts aid many elements that were edited out of the VHS version, including the opening credits. The film makes a lot more sense in this format and presentation and, unlike the VHS version, doesn’t construct you feel you’re missing something. There are no extras to voice of, but the movie itself gets an A+ for image and sound quality. Most importantly, however, the DVD offers the current dialogue track in Japanese (with subtitles option) that eliminates the imperfect dubbing of the previous versions. It’s extraordinary how considerable better the film is when you realize it’s the trusty actors’ voices and not those of some bad quality American voice-over actor trying to sound Japanese.

Saturday, February 12, 2005 / 4 of 5 / Island hopping fun.

One of the wackier Godzilla films, this one doesn’t view the gigantic G until quite far in. In the meantime we’re treated to a yellow cardigan wearing criminal/thief tagging along with some teens looking for a third guys brother who was lost at sea. Eventually the boat meets up with Ebirah, the giant lobster and title antagonist. They’re crashed onto an island where the silly baddies are manufacturing nuclear material for nasty purposes. The radiant Kumi Mizuno is tanned nicely as a displaced native of Mothra’s Infant Island. When Godzilla is finally awakened, he dispatches Ebirah with the kind of crunching we’re all former to at seafood restaurants, but not before playing some kick *ss volleyball with boulders. I saw Godzilla’s Revenge long before this and now the stock footage extinct in that film makes more sense seeing it here and Son of Godzilla. Overall a superb DVD, I really like Columbia’s decision to include the unusual Japanese soundtrack. Although the suit was getting a bit `ragged’ it’s tranquil a fun Godzilla outing. Recommended.
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