Review of Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) by Naomi G — 21 Jun 2018

If you're like me, you're always wondering why Godzilla doesn't turn on his Nuclear flamethrower more often and torch everything. In some movies his spinal plates glow before his deathly blast of breath, in others, afterwards, sometimes he can't get up the energy to make it glow at all and there's no flame coming from him, then sometimes it has nothing to do with it. The flamethrower effect is used much less in the actual movies than in the trailers. Another case of poor advertising.

Godzilla is just an overgrown dragon. I did some research on the web and his size seems to vary widely depending on different accounts. The appeal of Godzilla must lie in people wanting to get into the suit the actor portraying Godzilla wears and kick around the stuff on the sets that look like kid's toys. In the early films, Hollywood, yes Godzilla is a product of Hollywood, tried to make Godzilla a sinister menace with no personality. The success of Gamera must have changed that depiction. Plus during the '60's, the anti-hero hero emerged in comic books, like Catwoman, as opposed to the supervillian like the joker, and maybe Hollywood found that audiences identified more with anti heroes than supervillians.

To convince the skeptics otherwise, Godzilla vs. Megalon has an all Jpanese cast, but they still didn't fool me.