Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Julian R. White Terror of MechaGodzilla was pretty much just a way to profit off of Godzilla Vs. MechaGodzilla for a second time. However, we all know why this film is so well known to fans, and that's because of Titanosaurus (which is also the name of a real dinosaur that has no relation). Titanosaurus is a highly loved Monster from the Godzilla series, and to be honest I feel like this film would have worked out just fine if it was just Godzilla vs. Titanosaurus. The monster is humongous and beautifully made, no one could live up to a semi aquatic Kaiju like him. I mean yes, the movie itself is watchable but, it does tend to focus a bit too much on the humans in my opinion, which is a problem a lot of monster movies have. I love Titanosaurus though, He's the centerpiece for this film.

JLRVancouver "Terror of Mechagodzilla" is a direct sequel to "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla" (1974) and opens with a submarine looking for the remnants of the Godzilla's robotic counterpart, thought to be at the bottom of the ocean near Okinawa. The submarine encounters an immense creature, which attacks and destroys the vessel, but not before the doomed crew radio that they are being attacked by a dinosaur. Interpol begins an investigation that leads to deranged misanthrope Dr. Shinzo Mafune and his daughter Katsura who are in league with the aliens that built Mechagodzilla. Mafune has perfected a device that can control the Titanosaurus and the aliens plan to use the combined might of the giant dinosaur and the rebuilt robot to first defeat Godzilla and then conquer the world (starting, of course, with Tokyo). The film, 15th in the series and last of the "Showa period", sees the return of director Ishiro Honda and is more serious (as kaiju films go) and less child-oriented that many of the previous sequels. Mechagodzilla combines the two popular Japanese tropes: mechas (giant robots) and kaiju (giant monsters) and proved to be a popular adversary (returning in both the Heisei and millennium periods). Titanosaurus, despite being quite well done, was a one timer (not counting a cameo in 2004's all-monster spectacular "Godzilla: Final Wars"). In general the monster scenes are pretty good (despite some weak rear-projection shots), although the buildings that they destroy are not as intricately detailed (and therefore less realistic) than in earlier films. Godzilla is less anthropomorphic than in previous outings but continues to 'box' with his opponents and gesture with his 'hands' in a very human fashion. Surprisingly, the film includes a gratuitous 'topless' scene and, although Katsura's exposed 'breasts' are more 'suit-mation', they are a lot more real looking than I was expecting having read about the scene in Kalet's "A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series". The scene is oddly adult in a movie clearly targeting a young audience and was cut from American releases (I am commenting on a subtitled Japanese version of the film). Although the last of its era and not a financial success, "Terror of Mechagodzilla" is a pretty good example of '70s kaiju action. Although a long way from the dark and somber original, the film is less silly than many of its predecessors and is generally an entertaining entry into the series. Best seen in conjunction with it antecedent "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla", although there are sufficient 'flashbacks' for the uninitiated to pick up the (admittedly uncomplicated) storyline.

I_John_Barrymore_I Things did not bode well at the start, with a seven-minute greatest hits sequence that never seemed to end, but by the time it was over I found myself grateful for so much action so early on. When the story proper started it was with some very impressive underwater model work (I couldn't see the seams at any rate).But what really marked this out as a superior entry is the plot. A reclusive discredited scientist is employed by aliens to use his thought-controlled pet Titanosaurus to destroy Tokyo along with the newly-rebuilt Mechagodzilla, their combined might certain to overcome that pesky Godzilla. Meanwhile an Interpol agent and a marine scientist investigate the disappearance of an exploratory submarine, the trail leading them to the scientist's beautiful but non-too-helpful daughter.It might sound like the usual gubbins on paper but there's genuine tension in many of the scenes, it's logical and exciting, and rather than feeling like drawn-out filler while we wait for the real action to begin it's successful on its own terms, even managing to pull off genuine pathos bordering on tragedy at the end.When it does begin it's hands down the best destruction I've seen so far in the series. They're right in the centre of Tokyo surrounded by skyscrapers ready to be demolished and incinerated. The camera pans across the cityscape as whole swathes of it are destroyed, and it truly is spectacular. What makes it even more powerful is that it's not a fight sequence for the most part - it's just two big boys laying waste to the city.Godzilla himself is given a wonderful entrance, and in those moments it's a thrill to see this (of all films) so overtly referencing The Third Man (of all films).They do escape to the country for the final showdown, but there's still the odd power station to be sat on and let's face it, we've already had our money's worth with the destruction of Tokyo. The fight is lengthy too, with Godzilla on the back foot for most of it, and while we're never unsure of the outcome it does get pretty hairy for the big guy.For the budget the special effects are often superb and always imaginative (like the alien technician walking inside Mechagodzilla's head or the shot that takes us from his massive, dormant frame as he's being worked on, through a window, and finishes with the aliens and doctor watching the progress from a lab).The music throughout is excellent, and the female lead is impossibly gorgeous.What's not to love?

r-c-s While the previous mechagodzilla movie was better, this one is a poor excuse for a remake. Special effects are duller and the budget is (apparently) much lower. As with other such monster movies, they try to thicken the plot with many subplots, including a love story, submarine searches, alien invasion etc. In the end (being a bit more than 70 minutes), none of them develops clearly and -as with monster movies in general- are felt somewhat superfluous. Alien invaders from a planet victim of a black hole have rebuilt the disposed of mechagodzilla and plan to team it up with another marine monster called Titanosaurus. This second monster was the reason why an acclaimed scientist got fired from his job to end up in poverty. He's thus resentful & plans revenge. Both subplots will come in the spurious Go Nagai ( the Japanese anime/robot artist ) series Daiku Maryu Gaiking, where inhabitants of planet Zela want to invade Earth to avert their doom caused by a black hole. One episode features a once prominent scientist laughed offstage for his offbeat theories joining the spacemen resentful for the death in poverty of his wife&child. Godzilla does NOT appear from the first 50 (yes 50) minutes of the movie, besides stock footage from the opening titles. The scientist's daughter has been turned into a cyborg following an accident in her father's laboratory, and she's thus a puppet run by the aliens despite her kind feelings. Her path crosses with a clumsy interpol agent's later convinced of the truth in the old scientist's theories. Once all those subplots seem to clearly go nowhere, in fifteen minutes you get the alien base blown up, the cyborg girl, her father & some aliens die; other aliens die while trying to escape while men in rubber suit wrestle one another. Even the bond sets of the alien base look very cheap & stitched together from garage sales. The English dubbing is especially bad; Besides the voices, it's not very clear.. The only good thing is godzilla is still a positive character here.