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Second only to Godzilla vs Hedorah in terms of weirdness, this Goji flick sees a bunch of aliens trying to conquer the earth using a children's theme park as their base. No, seriously. The bizarre theme of the film also shows in several other ways. The human characters are a bit of an oddball crew. No brave explorers, psychics or secret agents this time. Just a budding manga artist (who comes up with monsters and plots so daft not even Toho could take him seriously), his karate champion girlfriend, a funky hippy and some others. The aliens are their usual ludicrous and badly-dressed selves (they wear orange two-pieces with pink shirts underneath. Heaven help us) and their whole earth conquest plan is utterly ridiculous, of course. Something about an answering machine that can summon two monsters from space, probably. Thing is, all the silliness seems right in place this time, as the whole movie doesn't take itself seriously.

Other good points include Anguillas being quite active, music by good ol' Akira Ifukube, and new baddie Gigan, who really is rather groovy.

But for all that, there's plenty to dislike as well. Godzilla himself looks terribly messy in this film. Small bits of rubber are litterally falling off him during the fight. The rubber suit was in pretty poor state, apparently. It ends up looking as if Goji's suffering from kaiju-dandruff of some kind. Then there's the disappointing use of stock footage a go-go, which looks very lazy in some scenes. The scene where Anguillas pops up at Sagami bay and then blatantly -runs away- from the puny millitary without even smashing up one single thing is really shameful (and is probably the reason why Anguillas is often regarded as a bit of a wuss). Finally, the only really serious flaw is that the big battle at the end has a poor structure. Godzilla takes a huge beating for about fifteen whole minutes, then somehow decides that enough is enough and begins to kick back with some help from Anguillas (who did fairly little so far). But just then, after a few good smacks, the two nasty monsters just turn tail and run away. Booh. It's doubly disappointing when you consider that a battle between four monsters, Godzilla and Anguillas on one side, and Gigan and Ghidora on the other, could have been so much more, especially with such cool-looking nasties.

So that leaves a bad aftertaste, but this is still an interestingly strange and silly kaiju movie that should please die-hards of the genre, or people looking for something hilariously odd. Worth watching once, just for it being so loveably off-the-wall, but you can find lots better if you want quality kaiju action.

The pinnacle of freakiness has to be the scenes where Godzilla and Anguillas -talk- to each other. Not only do we hear some utterly ludicrous distorted voices, but both kaiju are also pretty poor conversationalists (especially Anguillas). Wonder what they talk about when there aren't any big, nasty aliens around?

Godzilla Vs. Gigan has no right to a good review. It makes heavy use of stock footage, has a plot that just barely hangs together, and arguably features the most ridiculous looking kaiju aside from Minya...and yet I love it! The plot, if you can call it that, involves a group of Japanese twentysomethings who stumble upon an alien invasion plot involving-gasp!-a children's amusement park. They unwittingly summon Godzilla after playing an eight track tape, leading to a battle between the Big G, Anguirus, and their old enemy King Ghidorah, along with the grotesque Gigan.

The film suffers from a number of issues, perhaps the most glaring of which is the extensive use of stock footage. At times, Toho did not even bother to match up the footage, with the scenes switching suddenly from day to night and back again. The film also has an anti-technology message, introduced in the last half hour, even more ham-handed than the environmental themes of Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster. The characters never even bother to change their clothes, despite the film taking place over the better part of a week.

Nevertheless, Godzilla vs. Gigan retains a fond place in my memory. It features a good twenty to thirty minutes of sustained kaiju destruction. Furthermore, Gigan, despite its ridiculous appearance, is a surprisingly menacing villain, being the only monster to make Godzilla bleed. In the end, it's a dumb but fun movie.

Right, well I hadn't really expected all that much from "Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan" (aka "Godzilla vs Gigan") given the fact that the movie was from 1972. But still, I sat down to watch it with my 9 year old son as we are having a run through all "Godzilla" movies.

Turns out that the 1972 "Godzilla vs Gigan" was actually surprisingly nice. The storyline was adequate. After all, it is a "Godzilla" movie we are talking about here.

But what made it work so nicely was the sheer amount of destruction throughout the course of the movie and the excessive amount of kaiju fighting - which exceeded the contents of many other "Godzilla" movies. And you actually got to see the kaijus bleeding in this 1972 movie. But the destruction of buildings and such was just phenomenal. Sure, it was toy buildings and miniature scales, but still, it worked out so nicely. Especially because they had put so much effort into the miniature scale models that it was just amazing.

Man, I do love it when Godzilla gets frustrated and starts going into hyper-mode. That is just hilarious.

Two things about this movie wasn't overly impressive. First and foremost, the appearance of Godzilla. He looked atrocious in this movie, and it was a bitter pill to swallow. And then the fact that they reused footage from another "Godzilla" movie for the King Ghidorah vs. Anguirus fight. That was just a horrible thing to do, and it was definitely a slap in the face with a dead, cold fish for us that have sat through the majority of the "Godzilla" movies.

But all in all, the 1972 "Godzilla vs Gigan" was definitely a nice surprise and quite worth the effort of sitting through. I am rating it a solid six out of ten stars.

The film does seem to drag quite a bit. It's not a bad movie, and Gigan is one of my favorite Godzilla monsters. He has a great design, and we even have him teaming up with Ghidorah, one of the monsters who (supposedly died in Destroy All Monsters but is somehow back) is one of the most popular and powerful Godzilla monsters. The creatures don't seem to appear though until almost halfway through the film, and even then, most of the destruction you see doesn't actually show that it's the monsters causing it. Some scenes do quite well, but not all of them. I also feel like they got kinda lazy with the designs for the alien invaders who control Gigan, it's like they just picked a roach out and said "oh yeah, there's a good alien". Toho could have done better than that I think. Overall the film concept is AMAZING but they didn't jump into it very well, a lot of crap goes on that is just unnecessary.

"Godzilla vs. Gigan" is perhaps the best of the 1970s Godzilla films that was aimed for children. It's definitely the most fun and enjoyable. Not as good as the first couple of Godzilla films, but better than others.

What I mostly like about "Godzilla vs. Gigan" is the lengthy and very entertaining four-way monster battle at the end. It's very fun to watch and I never get tired of it. Not to mention that this film was the one that brought Gigan to life, and Gigan is one of my top favorite monsters. King Ghidorah and Angilas, and of course, Godzilla, were great in this one also.

The music score is also very good. I love the dramatic music score that plays when it looks like Godzilla's going to be killed by the laser beams. Also, the drum score when Godzilla and Angilas are heading to fight the enemy is great.

Overall, a good fun Godzilla flick. I'd recommend it.

After the interesting but none too successful experiments Godzilla's Revenge and Godzilla Vs Hedorah,Toho made this film,which sometimes feels like an attempt to make a 60s Monster Zero-type film on a fraction of the budget. Obviously,it's not a good film in the traditional sense,but all the 70s Godzilla films,despite their childishness,cheapness,shoddy effects work,samey plots,and 'wacky' ideas {in this one ,Godzilla and his mate Angilas TALK to each other in the non-Japanese version,whilst the Japanese version has speech bubbles instead!}etc,are fun to watch,and Godzilla Vs Gigan is no exception.

The plot is the aliens-out-to-conquer-Earth-by-controlling-monsters one already used in Monster Zero and Destroy All Monsters and it would be used a few more times,but here it is reasonably successful,with some fairly intriguing ideas {though often badly done}and unusual human characters,although their constant in-and-out of the Godzilla Tower,the alien's base,becomes a bit tiresome. When the monsters show up,we have probably the longest battle in a Godzilla film,and one of the funniest,too,as Godzilla and Angilas engage in a tag team duel with the evil Ghidorah and Gigan. Sadly the movie is badly let down by excessive stock footage from previous films {Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster,Monster Zero,Son Of Godzilla,Destroy All Monster and probably a couple of others too!}. At least in Godzilla's Revenge the stock footage had a sort of context,here,it jars with the new footage. The worst bit for this is the lengthy destruction scene,where new,night time footage of a tattered,slow moving Ghidorah who can barely move, is intercut with older,daytime footage of Ghidorah,showing a fast-moving dragon in action.

Somehow all this adds to the film's quirky charm,a sometimes good,occasionally awful,entry in the series. The soundtrack is one of the best,it's all Akira Ifikube stock music,much of it from Godzilla films,but it has many of the great Ifikube tracks and a wonderfully rousing title theme.

Struggling manga artist Gengo (Hiroshi Ishikawa) whose children's stories involving homework and stern mother monsters are consistently rejected by editors takes a job with the company designing the new monster theme park World Children's Land. When Gengo finds an audio tape dropped by a young woman named Machiko (Tomoko Umeda), he stumbles into a conspiracy that suggests World Children's Land may be a front for more insidious purposes involving the monsters of Monster Island.

After the divisive reception to Godzilla vs. Hedorah (it's hard to know how well it did financially due to scarcity of sources on that point) producer Tomoyuki Tanaka sought to bring the Godzilla series back where he felt it needed to be. With Godzilla still seen very much as cheap kiddie fare at the time, Tanaka devised a premise he felt would entice people back while also being cost effective by brining back fan favorite King Ghidorah who would fight Godzilla along a new monster. Supposedly made for $1.2 million the film was allegedly better attended than Godzilla vs. Hedorah and made $20 million when factoring in foreign exports. Godzilla vs. Gigan is less ambitious than its predecessor and is visibly fighting against its kiddified status and budget, but assuming you can forgive the slow buildup and indulgence of stock footage it can be reasonably entertaining.

As with the previous few Godzilla movies, the human characters are more here out of obligation than for providing anything interesting and while there aren't any prominent child characters here that same feeling of childishness that many later Showa entries have seen is here in spirit. Gengo's bumbling and stupidly on the nose monster drawings based on "what kids hate" to an absurdly literal degree isn't as charming as it thinks it is, and the supporting cast aren't much more developed aside from being "hippie-ish" archetypes who are very Scooby-Doo like in their presence here. Given producer Tomoyuki Tanaka's hatred for Godzilla vs. Hedorah it's rather ironic that he not only recycles footage from that film, but also parts of the message as it is somewhat glanced over when the big "reveal" comes which is disguised with the subtlety of Snidely Whiplash or Dick Dastardly.

So how is the monster action at least? Half-good and half-assed. Starting off with the half-assed portion: the series continues its gratuitous use of stock footage with action scenes for Ghidorah lifted wholesale from Destroy All Monsters and Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster most prominently, and the movie does little to disguise it aside from cheaply applying a day-for night filter on it. It's pretty clear that the Ghidorah effects they have now aren't as mobile and dynamic as the early ones with the presence of older footage next to new footage exacerbating that point. With that said the climactic fight in World Children's Land that features Godzilla and Angilus/Angirus vs. Ghidorah and Gigan is pretty fun with Gigan a pretty visually interesting monster that looks like a mixture of a Cylon from Battlestar Galactica, praying mantis, and bird of prey and the fights have some pretty bloody impact scenes at points.

Godzilla vs. Gigan doesn't reach the Showa era's heyday but it doesn't exactly embarrass itself either (questionably suit quality at this point notwithstanding). Godzilla vs. Gigan is a comfortably middle of the road entry that while it has its annoying bits mostly gets those out of the way early enough that the ending is a pretty good time.

A comic book artist and his friends stumble upon the plans of a group of evil alien cockroaches masquerading as amusement park developers. They're sick of us slowly destroying the Earth with pollution, so they call in some monsters to do it faster. Ghidrah, the spastic three-headed dragon and Gigan, the metallic bird with buzz-saw belly fly in from outer space and start destroying Tokyo, so it's up to our hero Godzila to save the day. He enlists the aid of Angillus, the giant horned porcupine, for a climactic tag team battle royale.

There's plenty of expected mini-model mashing, explosions, fires, pro-wrestling style fight moves and terrible dubbing for fans of this series, plus Godzilla talks for the first time (it's only a few words). And who can forget the cameo from the smashing Baby Godzilla, who blows a smoke ring and then immediately disappears from the rest of the film?

This cute/silly/harmless Saturday matinee kiddie film was originally released in to US theaters as GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND, although only one brief scene takes place there. And obviously GODZILLA VS. GIGAN (the name of the video I watched) ignores the presence of the other monsters.

Score: 5 out of 10.

Well the relationships of the Kaiju sometimes change with every other movie. So while Godzilla was fighting Anguirus the first time they met (in the second Godzilla movie that is), later they became allies. As in this one. And it is necessary they team and tag together, because apart from the new (mentioned) Gigan in the title, we also get King Ghidorah as an enemy of earth and humans - which means enemy of Godzilla too of course.

And while there was always communication between the Kaiju, mostly through their screams and cries, this time we get text bubbles with what they mean. Interesting choice and maybe related to the fact they tried to go kid friendly at the time. Also a nod to comics/manga in general? Very likely.

The monster on monster action (get your mind out of the gutter if it is there) is really something to behold - and fun to watch. Men in rubber suits wrestling other men in rubber suits. While humanity looks and hopes/roots for our beloved Godzilla. Obviously there is a lot of History here. Movie history that is. Something you can have knowledge of, but you don't need too. It just gives you more appreciation of what is happening on screen - and might make you understand why effects that seem dated now, where all the rage (no pun intended) back then.

Enjoy if you can, because this is quite the fun ride

I'm a massive fan of kaiju movies so I come to these films predisposed to like them. I've seen most of the original GODZILLA series and am attempting to fill in a few blanks; one of those is GODZILLA VS. GIGAN, a late-entry instalment that pits Godzilla and his old foe Anguirus against new space-monster Gigan and an old enemy, King Ghidorah.

GODZILLA VS. GIGAN is plenty of fun from beginning to end, and the formula for that success lies in having a human interest story that's just as entertaining as the monster stuff. This time around, a group of environmentalists and employees investigate the mysterious owners of a new Godzilla theme park, soon uncovering some dark secrets which inevitably throw Japan into peril.

Godzilla is on good form in what is one of the grisliest of the series (who knew you'd end up seeing a Japanese blood spray in a children's film?). Anguirus is my favourite kaiju monster, purely because he isn't capable of much and it's kind of sweet to watch him getting beaten on so much, so seeing him here was a delight. Gigan proves a deadly foe - especially with that saw! - and King Ghidorah is, well, King Ghidorah. You can't go wrong with that combo, and inevitably GODZILLA VS. GIGAN turns out to be a colourful, action-packed romp.

Thank the heavens that all Godzilla films are only 1h30!! This is by far the worst Goji film I've ever seen, with a half-assed re-hashed plot, more stock-footage than I could handle, and effects that are even poor by kaiju standards! The plot was simpering and predictable (save us from the evil alien cockroaches!!)

Anguillas was useless, as always. Godzilla was beaten to a pulp, only to have a recovery worth of Hulk Hogan. The new monster, Gigan, looked like a Mega-Man reject enemy (yes, I'm well aware that this was *long* before mega Man existed...;). Oh well, there's always King Ghidrah to amuse me!

And the dub job!! Just when I think it can't get any worse. I think this one might actually top my previous record for worst dubbing ever (Shaolin Temple). Well...maybe not, but it's damn close!

This film isn't even worth it for Godzilla fans. It's an absolute yawner, there's absolutely nothing new here. My least favourite of all the Gojira films. 3/10.

Godzilla and a giant alien chicken. Great stuff. It's back to the very basic for Godzilla after many were disappointed by the previous effort (I loved it). It kind of throws away everything Godzilla started as. Now we have a fairly kid friendly film, in which aliens design an amusement park in the hopes of controlling some of the monsters from monster island. Because giant monsters are the greatest way to attract families away from their mundane lives. A manga artist uncovers this bizarre plot and soon the aliens release their own monster, Gigan. Fun fights and frolics abound, even if these movies are getting rather crowded.

Known in Japan as Gojira tai Gaigan (1972), this was the second Godzilla film, which was released during the difficult, psychedelic, cheap-budgeted, 1970s section of the Showa-era of Godzilla. Godzilla VS Gigan (1972), continued the idea of Godzilla being a superhero and protector of Earth. In the previous two Godzilla films, All Monsters Attack (AKA: Godzilla's Revenge -1969) and Godzilla VS Hedorah (AKA: Godzilla VS the Smog Monster - 1971), the main goal was to bring the audience down to the kids level, by making the main human character, a ten year old kid. That plot-tactic created a connection, between the imagination of a kid and this idea of a 300 foot tall, radioactive lizard, who protects the Earth from evil monsters. Plus, they had to compete with Daiei Studios, Gamera films, that were being released, every year at this time too.

In Godzilla VS Gigan (1972), the film producers decide to change that plot direction slightly, by making the main characters in the film, more college-age characters, who totally represent the early-70s student, in dress and style. Our main guy, Gengo (an actor I haven't seen before in a kaiju film, Hiroshi Ishikawa), is an advertising illustrator artist, who is asked to come for a job, at the new, enterprising theme park, known as Monsterland. It is a suspicious organization, who's headquarters, is incased inside a life-size replica of Godzilla. A mysterious tape appears in the plot, that holds the key to what these guys are up to and very soon we realize, they are another group of Japanese space-aliens, who want to wipe-out the human infestation of Earth, so they can have the planet to themselves. The problem is, they turn into cockroaches when they die. It is a pretty stupid character concept.

In fact, there are a handful of stupid moments in this film. Moments, so bad, that if you lived in 1972 and was watching this film, you would see the writing on the walls, that the Godzilla franchise was in trouble by this time. Economic and budgetary issues, continued to plague the qualify of these films in the 1970s. That economic issue was most evident, in the fact, that most of the monster scenes in Godzilla VS Gigan (1972), was stock-footage, from a bunch of the older, 1960s, Toho Studios, kaiju films. What is good about this film, is Toho Studios producer, Tomoyuki Tanaka, brought back the music of legendary, Japanese film-composer, Akira Ifukube, but even that sounds, like stock media in the background of the scenes. In fact, none of the actors in this film look familiar. They all look, like the back-up actors, that Toho had in their budgeted stashes.

The desire to gauge these films towards the kids, was even as insulting to the kids, as it was to the adults. In an attempt to draw a contrast between Gengo, the artist and Godzilla's fight with Gigan, they have Godzilla talking this time, with Manga-type word balloons above the heads of the monsters. It looks really bad in the Japanese version. At least, for the American version, they had to remove the word balloons, so all you see are the monsters communicating, with terrible sound effects, that sound like their roars, are playing backwards. You thought the worst thing you saw, was seeing Godzilla fly in the last film, Godzilla VS Hedorah (1971)? No, no, no, movie-buffs. The worst is seeing Godzilla have a chat with Anguirus, who sounds in the English version, much like Paulie from the Rocky movies. This film was known as, Godzilla on Monster Island (1972), which was the title of the film in North America, all the way through the 1970s and 1980s. The title wasn't changed to "VS Gigan" in the states, until it was released on VHS in the 1990s, during the rise of the Heisei-era of Godzilla. The Godzilla on Monster Island (1972), English version, is the better version. I always say, watch the Japanese versions, with English subtitles of these films, but of you have to watch this film in English, try to find the version from Godzilla on Monster Island (1972). The current English version, that was made for the recent Blu-ray release, isn't as good.

Godzilla VS Gigan (1972), still has, the signature, 1970s-styled, pyro-techniques (at least the new footage, that was shot for this film) and, that great science-fiction/kaiju feel to it. The destruction of the miniature cities, the explosions and the monster wrestling, that was common for these films, still looks like the work of cinematic artists, who are working as hard as they can. However, the budget cut-backs, that Toho had to do, was killing a franchise and it is very evident in these early 1970s Godzilla films. With a very basic plot, silly monster confrontations, dizzying character profiles and a stock-footage itch, it is tough not to fail this film, but I will still give it an E For Effort (just barely), because I really do think the film would have been better, if it hadn't been made during the small financial collapse, that the Japanese film industry was going through, at the time the film was made. Godzilla VS Gigan (1972), still does look like something, that took a lot of work. Plus, even as stock music, I can listen to Akira Ifukube all day long. Did I even mention, that Gigan is assisted by King Ghidrah, in a big fight with Gojira and Anguirus?

4.5 (E) = 5 IMDB.

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!

Said cockroaches inhabit human bodies and are building a children's theme park "to promote peace". (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 could've just used a Jennifer Lopez tape...much cheaper, I'd imagine.)

Godzilla has a little monster friend who can'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 "Battlestar Galactica" and hooks instead of paws. Plus, he has a circular saw in his chest. This is a useful appendage, let me tell you!

Admittedly, 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 Godzilla's little friend. That's gotta be the first time that the army beat a monster.

Sterno says run, don't walk to Godzilla vs. Gigan.

Twelfth Godzilla film sees yet another group of aliens once again plotting to take over the Earth, and only a comic book writer and his friends can stop them... Meanwhile, another Anguirus shows up to help Godzilla fight the aliens, who have summoned King Ghidorah and a new monster called Gigan to fight them, and destroy the humans. Only the use of a Godzilla themed amusement park(!) gives this otherwise ridiculous and tiresome film any distinction, which also uses flashback footage of battle scenes to compensate for the obvious low budget look of this film. Series really started to fall into a state of decay here, which was a shame, though kids may not mind.

Godzilla movies around this time were really starting to hurt, and this one's a letdown after the previous (and superior) GODZILLA VS. HEDORAH (1971). The plot concerns a young man who's struggling for a job as a cartoonist but gains employment at a newly-constructed children's theme park. Once present he begins to notice that something's not what it seems, and we have another set of aliens running the show who plan to takeover, but this time they turn out to be actual cockroaches who hide their identities under the guise of human bodies! That's pretty wild. The bad bug-men use the old standard three-headed space monster Ghidorah as one of their tools of destruction, but in this movie he looks terribly cheap and smaller than we've been used to (it's easy to compare too, as this installment over-relies on a ton of previously seen footage from past movies like GHIDRAH THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER, DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, and others!). Mercifully, there's also the new title monster Gigan employed by the aliens -- a sort of metallic bird-creature who dispenses his opponents by use of a built-in buzz saw in his chest, which causes some slightly bloody damage.

By this time Godzilla and his pal Anguilus (or Anguirus, or Analus, or whatever name is correct) have swam over from the neighboring Monster Island to help defend the Earth. Anguilus has never been a very interesting monster and he isn't of much use, and Godzilla has his troubles here as well. But the monster fight scenes become rather boring and uninteresting, and in the U.S. dubbed version we actually hear a ludicrous English discussion with Godzilla and his partner! At least if we stick with the Japanese version their conversation is limited to what sounds like a static tape loop, instead of actual language. ** out of ****

I like this movie. Many people have reviled it, but I think it's probably one of the most underrated Godzilla movies around. I like the fact that Gigan and Angillus are in it, bringing two of my favorite monsters face to face. In this movie Godzilla talks, which is hilarious and adds to the camp value. I especially like the ending where Godzilla and Angillus team up on Ghidora and give him the biggest whipping of his life! Personally, i miss the older Godzilla films of the late 60s and the 70s, when he was a hero and not a brainless monster. But I'm sure many of you disagree with me. I just enjoy the campy feel these good old movies brought to the Godzilla saga. (With the exceptions of Godzillas Revenge and Godzilla vs. Megalon, but those are a different story!) I also liked the song at the end. Sure this movie had stock footage, but it was GOOD stock footage. Still, I wish they came up with original material for it. Oh well, I give this movie 4.5 out of 5 asterisks anyway. (Not for the acting but the fighting.)

After Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971), producer Tomoyuki Tanaka did not want any more surprises. So the directing reigns went to long-time Toho Studios director Jun Fukuda, making it his third Godzilla film. The intention was to make a movie that harkened back to the glory days of Ghidrah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964) and Monster Zero (1965). Unfortunately, Toho could no longer afford to produce such extravagant (for the time) special effects. So instead, we get an overabundance of stock footage from the two films mentioned, in addition to footage from Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964), War of the Gargantuas (1966), Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (1966), Son of Godzilla (1967), and Destroy All Monsters (1968). As for the new footage, well there's a ridiculous scene in which Godzilla and Anguirus talk. In the original Japanese version, the two beasts make weird sounds like someone messing with a record player, accompanied by comic book speech bubbles. When the film was brought to the US, some genius decided to dub in barely comprehensible monster voices.

Perhaps the best thing that can be said about Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) is that it has an excellent score - an Akira Ifukube greatest hits compilation. The battle with Godzilla and Anguirus in one corner and Gigan and Ghidrah in the other corner is entertaining if you can get past the fact that the Godzilla suit is on the verge of coming apart at every seam. After being used in the last three Godzilla films, dating back to '68, it's in a pretty shabby state by 1972. This isn't one I would highly recommend, but it's better than the one that came after it, Godzilla vs. Megalon.