TV Guide: Godzilla

Video: Godzilla

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:56:38 -0400

Filmed in 1954 as Gojira, this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics was picked up for American distribution two years later, at which time several newly filmed inserts, featuring Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin, were rabetted into the original footage. In both the Japanese and American versions of Godzilla, the story is basically the same: a 400-foot amphibious monster, brought back to life by underwater nuclear testing, goes on a rampage in a tinker-toy Tokyo. An eccentric scientist (Takashi Shimura) does his best to destroy the beast with his heretofore discredited invention, the Oxygen Destroyer. Though Godzilla is apparently disintegrated in the climax, this didn't prevent Toho Studios from grinding out an endless series of sequels with the title character becoming less destructive and more lovable with each subsequent film. Hampered by a low budget which precluded stop-motion animation, special-effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya was forced to rely upon an actor (Haru Nakajima) in a rubber Godzi

Video: Godzilla

Video Detective — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:43:21 -0400

Dedicated to Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910-1997), who produced the 1954 original and sequels, the Devlin/Emmerich interpretation displays a redesign of Godzilla, now a large lizard mutated after fallout from French nuclear tests. A blinding flash of white light fills the Eastern sky. Thousands of miles away, the Pacific Ocean churns, engulfing a freighter. On another part of the globe, giant footsteps plow a path through miles of Panamanian forests, Tahitian villages, and Jamaican beaches. In the Ukraine, biologist Dr. Niko Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick), with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is examining the impact of radiation on Chernobyl earthworms. Colonel Hicks (Kevin Dunn) and a military team escort Niko to check out giant claw marks on the beached freighter; they're joined by paleontologists Elsie Chapman (Vicki Lewis) and Mendel Craven (Malcolm Danare). Blood and giant-size footprints indicate some sort of enormous reptile. French secret agent Philippe Roache talks to the freighter's only survivor, wh

Video: Godzilla

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:55:33 -0400

Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York?

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Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:39:37 -0400

Video: Rodan

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:51:00 -0400

When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying discovery is made in their underground home...a giant flying creature that resembles the prehistoric pterodactyl. Soon after, a second Rodan appears and the two monsters begin to destroy Japan.

Video: Terror of Mechagodzilla

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:50:59 -0400

Aliens rebuild Mechagodzilla with the help of a demented scientist who has discovered a creature called Titanosaurus, which they intend to team up to defeat Godzilla. This was the last Godzilla movie made until 1985.

Video: Godzilla vs. Monster Zero

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:49:35 -0400

Aliens from the mysterious Planet X, which resides on the dark side of of Jupiter, come to Earth asking its people to help them save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. The aliens are actually planning to use the three monsters to take over our planet.

Video: Godzilla's Revenge

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:45:50 -0400

Using footage from previous films, the story revolves around a boy who uses his imagination to take him to Monster Island so he can escape the pains of real life.

Video: Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:44:59 -0400

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat

Video: Mothra vs. Godzilla

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:44:37 -0400

A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can put luxury condos there. After a storm, a giant egg washes up on the beach nearby and is immediately put on public display. The developer's plans go awry when he disrupts Godzilla's rest and the monster goes stomping through Tokyo again. It's up to the elderly Mothra, and then to its two offspring, to save Tokyo from destruction.

Video: Betcha Didn't Know: Godzilla

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:40:45 -0400

What does "Godzilla" mean anyway? Find out that and more about this monster talent.

Video: King of the Monsters

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:40:42 -0400

American reporter Steve Martin (Raymond Burr) is on the scene reporting on a 400 foot Tyrannosaurus Rex woken from undersea hibernation off the coast of Japan during atomic bomb testing. Now the "GODZILLA" has his sights on the destruction of Tokyo.

Video: Godzilla Raids Again

AOL In2TV — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:40:41 -0400

Godzilla is back, and this time he's not alone! While scouting the seas for schools of fish, young pilots Tsukioka and Kobayashi encounter Godzilla and the spiny monster Anguirus in heated battle on a small Japanese island. The two beasts tumble into the ocean and soon resurface in Osaka, laying waste to the city in a fight to the death. As the threat of destruction mounts, the two heroes muster their courage for the final showdown with Godzilla.