Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965)

Originally reviewed on 8/26/23, last edited 9/7/23.

A complex poster with Rodan flying towards King Ghidorah who is firing blasts from all heads while Godzilla is firing his atomic breath somewhere else entirely. Space ships and UFOs fly aruond in the background as human astronauts and other various characters look on from the bottom of the image.

Kaiju flick meets pulply sci-fi. Do they work together? Sure. Is this film a good example? Uhhh...

Anyways! This film shows why you send unmanned rovers before you send human astronauts. But hey, now that everyone knows Xileans are real, maybe the next time a Venusian appears they'll be believed rather than given electroshock therapy!

Things are getting stupid now, I have to admit. That's all I can really say. It's just a silly mediocre movie. I don't know what else to say about this goofy shit.

Plenty of monster action though. Not enough for all the goofy humans. Oh, and aliens. Very exciting aliens that are humans dressed in weird outfits. Man, there's so much intelligent life in the solar system, kinda weird that convergent evolution led to all of them looking just like h. sapiens.

Cute that Godzilla apparently sleeps curled up and holding his tail. His atomic breath is looking more solid and like the atomic breath we all know and love today. Up until now it was a glowing breath rather than a beam attack. Ghidorah is a cunning little coward bitch, I love him running off every time things get rough.

And yes this is where Godzilla's ever-iconic victory dance is from. I remember watching this as a kid with my father and rewinding that bit to laugh at it, and now as an adult watching with my friends we also again rewound the movie to watch him again.

★★☆☆☆