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| King Kong vs. Godzilla | 
 enlarge | Director: Ishiro Honda
Actors: Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yu Fujiki, Ichiro Arishima, Jun Tazaki
Studio: Good Times Video
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $12.95
New (3) Used (17) from $12.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 57683
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 6305137250
UPC: 018713810137
EAN: 9786305137252
ASIN: 6305137250
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 1963
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: DVD has some minor wear but plays fine. Comes with original box.
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 A silly but fun 92 minutes August 27, 2008
I am always amused when people say this is a terrible movie. I want to ask "What were you expecting? The title is `King Kong vs. Godzilla' not `King Lear.'" It is a movie with two guys in rubber suits or giant puppets tap dancing on a model Tokyo and beating the snot out of each other. There is no great philosophical debate going on. There is no look into the human soul for answers or guilt.
When I was a little kid there were lots of movies like this. If I was lucky I'd catch them on channel 9 in NYC on a Saturday afternoon, and this was always the best. This was the one that my brother and I would get most excited about.
The model Kong lacks the realism of the original RKO ape, yeah I know think about that phrase, and this Godzilla lacks the cinematic art and sadness of that monster's theatrical debut, but this film still has its moments. From here came a wide number of increasingly cheesy monster movies but this was its birth. And for plot and development this was the best of them.
It tries to be self consistent and for the most part it succeeds, though I will admit to laughing out loud when people are told to evacuate a bullet train because Godzilla is heading right for them. The conductor vainly says "Don't panic" and I want to say "What else is there to do?"
If you are looking for great acting, plots or heck even FX this is sooo not for you. However if you love this genre or like me, you have fond memories of the Japanese rubber suit movies, then this is a gem for your collection.
 Fight of the century! March 25, 2008
Fun for the whole family! The kids love it! Easy menus, english dubbing available as well as original Japanese version! Worth the money for a classic movie lover!
 Plotless and pointless December 14, 2007
It is possible to view this movie -or at least its eponymous monsters -as symbolising the clash between US and Japanese cultures .Yes ,true .It is also possible to see it as another excruciatingly awful entry in a very silly and technically inept ,shoddy Japanese monster cycle ,Let me be blunt-these movies are for addicts not adults.
This is based on an early draft by Willis O'Brien ,the creator of King Kong,but was completely rewritten by the Japanese as a vehivle for "their"monster Godzilla and works best if seen as a comedy ,not horror or fantasy.Godzilla is woken from frozen hybernation by an atomic submarine and makes unerringly for Tokyo.Kong after making mincemeat of a giant octopus threatening Japanese fishermen is sedated and flown to Tokyo to take on the marauding lizard and they come together in a Battle of the Giants near Mount Fuji .
The story is trite ,the effects risible and the dubbing execrable .To those who love this sort of thing -good on you -but it simply makes me realise that as P T Barnum once said "nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the audience"
 junnkkk June 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why would someone buy this pan & scan trash? do yourself a favor and recycle it!! The igonorance of some of these companies is overwhelming. This isn't the '80's any more, is it? Boycott rip-offs like this!
Rockem sockem goliaths January 17, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
King Kong and Godzilla meet for the first time in this film about man once again messing around and exploiting the earth's stuff. One side tries to exploit King Kong and the other side's use of atomic power awakens Godzilla. The two meet and they fight destroying all in their wake. What has science done?
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