Product Details

• Actors: Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Kotaro Tomita
• Directors: Jun Fukuda
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: August 15, 1993
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000039ET
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #56,133 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hang on. This is better than Hollywood's 'monster', August 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Godzilla vs. Megalon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A sunken continent is beneath the sea but houses survivors of the once-great land in the underwater city of Seatopia. But underwater nuclear testing puts the Seatopians at serious risk and so they send Megalon to deal with the war-mongering surface-dwellers. Also on hand is Gigan. But a surface-world professor has built an android which can grow to enormous sizes when the need arises and so the robot Jet Jaguar takes on the monsters, eventually joined by Godzilla.

I've read a lot of bad reviews about this film, which are unfair, as this film provides escapism, monster action and interesting characters. These are what monster movies are supposed to be about. They're not meant to be blatant vehicles for commercialistion filled with mean-spirited reality, cardboard-cutout people and boring video game monsters like a certain recent so-called Godzilla film I could mention.

Godzilla V Megalon is a genuine monster movie. Jet Jaguar makes a likeable heroic figure and there are more than enough scenes of monster-destruction to hold the interest. The film also has a definate moral message, which certainly isn't a bad thing in these morally-bereft times.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tame movie, bad video, March 18, 2002

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David Koski "b-movie fan" (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Godzilla vs Megalon (DVD)

Godzilla vs. Megalon is kind of like two movies in one. The first hour or so is the weak plot. Nuclear tests have upset the Seatopians (and apparently their buddies in Dimension M). You get to learn a little "history" about the "3 million year old figures on Easter Island". Well, who cares anyway?

The last part of the movie is really the only place with monsters. Sure, you get a few peeks earlier on, but they are just posing. The end has a tag team match between Godzilla and Jet Jaguar (a cool robot who "programs himself to increase his size") on one side and Megalon (a giant hopping cockroach who can spit fireballs) and Gigan (a sort of mecha-penguin looking guy). The model work is OK, but there is not much of it. Most of this fight takes place in a big dusty open area. Ho hum, kinda tame.

Now the bad part: the video quality ranges from barely tolerable to terrible. I kept expecting to see people's heads in front of the screen or commercial breaks! Where did they get this? At least the Simitar releases were pretty clean. You might want to avoid this mediocre film until they get a better print.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated in the annals of cinematic splendour, April 2, 2001

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K. Brown "El Rudo Lucky Pierre!" (Walnut, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Godzilla Vs Megalon [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Many film critics are quick to dismiss "Godzilla vs Megalon" as B-Movie material. Perhaps the frequent inserts of stock footage from previous Godzilla films steered their latent enthusiasm into Guajardian rejection. Cynics can cite economical factors, but I see this use as stock footage as a counter to the notion that everything has a start and finish; the cyclical nature of hallucinogen creatures declares that the battle repeats itself. The battlefield returns, the wanderer unwillingly fights, and the battle does not truly end until a grinning robot and a giant nuclear monster shake hands, but only after eliminating the putrid anti-Kafka forces powered by the selfish whims of the protaga-subterfugerist. Godzilla's appearance as a creature, angry in face but friendly in action, gives anti-establishment causes great validation. Being that this film was produced in the early 1970s, perhaps this was a cry for us to come together as one planet once again, to unite as the age of Aquarius approaches.