A good, entertaining film, but only if you like Japanese giant monster movies. The Gargantuas (especially the brown one)reminds me of King Kong in "King Kong vs Godzilla". I wonder if the octopus in the beginning was the same one in that film.
I'd have a hard time believing it if someone told me that actor Nick Adams wasn't considered for the role of the American Doctor. Adams had that role in "Frankenstein Conquers the World", and the role of the American in "Godzilla vs Monster Zero". Perhaps he didn't want to be typecast as a Japanese giant monster movie actor, so he turned down this part! Anyway, Nick and Russ Tamblyn seemed similar in the way they played their roles, but I can't put my finger on how.
There is good destruction here and I loved seeing the efforts of the army fail. What kind of giant monster could be hurt by anything humans did anyway? There was the water electrocution scene though, which was nice. Soon after he got out of that situation, the actual war implied in the title begins. It was funny to see the brown Gargantua pull up a tree and swat the green one with the top of it as he slept! However, it's a long time into the film when the war starts (over an hour into it). For a title that implies that the film is all about their war, the film crew sure takes a long time to build up to it. The buildup has it's nice moments though, and should at least keep you mildly interested to see what happens next.
**Spoiler: The climax is interesting, with both Gargantuas dying in the explosion, although I think I'd rather see one Gargantua kill the other (possibly the green one drowning the brown one, since Greenie lived in the water and could probably hold his breath longer than Brownie), then the surviving Gargantua dies in the explosion. I can live with the way it did end though.
I'd have a hard time believing it if someone told me that actor Nick Adams wasn't considered for the role of the American Doctor. Adams had that role in "Frankenstein Conquers the World", and the role of the American in "Godzilla vs Monster Zero". Perhaps he didn't want to be typecast as a Japanese giant monster movie actor, so he turned down this part! Anyway, Nick and Russ Tamblyn seemed similar in the way they played their roles, but I can't put my finger on how.
There is good destruction here and I loved seeing the efforts of the army fail. What kind of giant monster could be hurt by anything humans did anyway? There was the water electrocution scene though, which was nice. Soon after he got out of that situation, the actual war implied in the title begins. It was funny to see the brown Gargantua pull up a tree and swat the green one with the top of it as he slept! However, it's a long time into the film when the war starts (over an hour into it). For a title that implies that the film is all about their war, the film crew sure takes a long time to build up to it. The buildup has it's nice moments though, and should at least keep you mildly interested to see what happens next.
**Spoiler: The climax is interesting, with both Gargantuas dying in the explosion, although I think I'd rather see one Gargantua kill the other (possibly the green one drowning the brown one, since Greenie lived in the water and could probably hold his breath longer than Brownie), then the surviving Gargantua dies in the explosion. I can live with the way it did end though.