To celebrate the upcoming new American Godzilla coming out in May, I’ll be writing as many Godzilla movie reviews as I can up to the release. Rather than tackling the entire series in order, I’ll be starting out with comeback movies by the big G. Over the past sixty years, the radioactive lizard has had more comebacks than Rocky Balboa as times have changed.
If I pull off all four reviews planned, I’ll see what else I can fit in. The four will be:
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- The Return of Godzilla (aka Gojira aka Godzilla 1985)
- Godzilla (1998 American)
- Godzilla 2000
If you are a North American fan of the Godzilla, you should be aware that a slew of releases on Blu-ray are out or will be in May:
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Gozilla vs. Hedorah (aka vs. the Smog Monster)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (aka Godzilla on Monster Island)
- Ebirah – Horror of the Deep (aka Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster)
- Godzilla vs. Destroyah/Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (Double Feature)
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah/Godzilla vs. Mothra (Double Feature)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II/Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla (Double Feature)
- Godzilla: Final Wars/Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (Double Feature)
Many of the Heisei era have never been released in widescreen or the original Japanese language versions over here, so it is a pretty big deal. Others have commanded premium prices due to the DVDs being out of production for a decade. Prices are around $13-15 each on Amazon and other e-tailers so it is quite the bargain.
Also coming out on Blu-ray to ride on G’s tail are King Kong Escapes and the original Gamera films, the latter in two volumes of four movies in their original Japanese cuts.
It’s a good time to be a kaiju fan!
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