Just as fun to watch today as when I saw it as a kid
I actually saw King Kong vs Godzilla as a Sunday matinee double feature when I was a kid. Godzilla was a mainstay on weekend TV when I was growing up, so when they had one of the films in an actual movie theater I couldn’t pass it up. The movie is still good after all of these years.<br /><br />King Kong vs Godzilla was the third in the franchise, directed by Ishiro Honda who did the original Godzilla film along with several others plus other Japanese kaiju releases such as Rodan, Mothra, and War of the Gargantuas. This however is the American version of the film, which was re-edited and added an American TV news caster Eric Carter played by Michael Keith who worked for the United Nations as the narrator. The movie itself actually started with an American writer Willis O’Brien who gave the idea to John Beck who eventually sold it to Toho Studios.<br /><br />The story revolves around a submarine reviving Godzilla who immediately attacks Japan. On the other hand, a Japanese businessman wants his own monster and funds an expedition to a remote island in search of one. First a giant octopus shows up, and eventually they find Kong who they drug and take back to Japan. There he awakens, escapes and comes into battle with Godzilla.<br /><br />The movie was a departure from the first two Godzilla movies. The originals played upon the threat Godzilla posed to Japan and the horrors that ensued. This one had plenty of comedy. The Japanese businessman for example that thinks he owns Kong is a buffoon. The two Japanese explorers that find Kong also provides jokes. On the other hand, some sequences are not supposed to be funny but they are like when they play tribal music to put Kong to sleep in Tokyo.<br /><br />The two monsters are a contrast in beasts. Kong is considered a smart and thinking animal, while Godzilla is supposedly simple minded. In a takeoff of the U.S. original, Kong takes a Japanese woman from a tram and then climbs atop the Japanese parliament building, the National Diet with her in his hand.<br /><br />Basically this movie set the standard for all that would follow. Godzilla would show up. The humans would try to stop him, but then another monster would arrive and there would be a series of giant battles. This started with the previous film Godzilla Rides Again, but the style and the extensive use of miniatures used in King Kong vs Godzilla could easily be transferred to any of the following movies all the way up to the current ones.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : The two mightiest monsters of all time battle in the thrilling adventure classic, King Kong vs. Godzilla. When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus. Meanwhile, far below the sea, a submarine crew unleashes reptilian terror when they melt a block of ice and release the ferocious Godzilla from his icy lair. When both destructive monsters descend on Tokyo, it's a fight that holds the future of mankind in the balance in this knock-out film that was the first theatrical release to bring its larger-than-life contenders to the big screen in glorious color..