This movie, featuring Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah in his first motion picture ever, is a surprisingly good film considering it was about this time that Godzilla changed from a nuclear terror icon to a hero for children. He is portrayed more of a hero than a villain in this movie, but still keeps that same demonic air.
Although there isn't a huge amount of monster sequences throughout the film, "Ghidorah the Three-headed Monster" is a very entertaining movie. True, most of the action sequences are in the human part of the story, but they're very good considering the low budget. Dubbing is the usual bad, but not terrible as in some other movies.
And special effects are pretty good. Although I personally felt that Toho put most of their money on bringing King Ghidorah onto screen for his debut, because the best of the special effects are in him and his gravity lightning bolts. Godzilla's radioactive heat ray was pretty terrible except in the sequence where he fries a boat on the ocean. In that scene, it was a very attractive blue and well-created. But after that, it got reduced to a light almost yellow misty gas-like substance. Thankfully he didn't use this a whole lot, because it did look pretty bad on screen.
Although there isn't a huge amount of monster sequences throughout the film, "Ghidorah the Three-headed Monster" is a very entertaining movie. True, most of the action sequences are in the human part of the story, but they're very good considering the low budget. Dubbing is the usual bad, but not terrible as in some other movies.
And special effects are pretty good. Although I personally felt that Toho put most of their money on bringing King Ghidorah onto screen for his debut, because the best of the special effects are in him and his gravity lightning bolts. Godzilla's radioactive heat ray was pretty terrible except in the sequence where he fries a boat on the ocean. In that scene, it was a very attractive blue and well-created. But after that, it got reduced to a light almost yellow misty gas-like substance. Thankfully he didn't use this a whole lot, because it did look pretty bad on screen.