Platypuschow King Kong vs Godzilla picks up from the events of Godzilla Raids Again (1955). We see our big lizard friend broken free of his icy tomb and head off towards Tokyo once more.But at the same time King Kong just happens to be headed there as well and a conflict between the two seems inevitable, but how much of Japan will be left afterwards?Now on paper this should have been a grand epic, the two biggest movie monsters facing off. It should have been a true spectacle like Batman vs Superman (2016) should have been, but much like that this fails rather impressively.The plot is hilarious, unintentionally hilarious. It's so bad and so unbelievable it forces the entire movie into the comedy genre, underlined further by the comedic fight scenes.The image of King Kong and the balloons will stick with me forever!With Godzilla flapping his arms around randomly like a bird and King Kong bouncing from walking like a gorrilla to upright as if consistency didn't exist in the 60's the whole thing is the very definition of silly.Don't get me wrong the film has its moments but this US/Japan collaboration fails on too many fronts and has a serious identity problem.Not the worst movie of the franchise but perhaps the silliest.The Good:The basic coneptThe Bad:Far too comedic in placesStupidly well groomed native folkPlot is bafflingly stupidNo consistency with the creatures sizesThings I Learnt From This Movie:VS movies are destined to underwhelmUnbreakable wires will also allow balloons to carry unrealistic weights

Eric Stevenson Well, we finally get to see the two most famous giant monsters in history duke it out! This was perfect fare for Giant Monster Month. I honestly think this might be the best of these movies with the name "vs" in the title as it's probably the least awful of its kind. A main reason why these movies don't work is because they're way too gimmicky. All we care about are the two characters fighting. Still, this was done fairly well. I was afraid that they would put too much focus on King Kong, which is what I heard. I might have heard wrong because this actually does a good job of giving both monsters screen time. The main flaw is that the special effects do get goofy.The funny thing about this movie is that there's an urban legend that the American and Japanese versions have different endings. In the American version (which I saw) it's clear that King Kong is the winner. As Godzilla's Japanese, in the original version, he wins. The creators themselves have said that the winner was always intended to be King Kong. Now, Kong actually was grown to Godzilla's size and given electric powers to make him more of a match of Godzilla. I guess you could say they were unfairly matched, but I think it worked out. **1/2

O2D How do Godzilla and King Kong ever run into each other? The answer is worse than the special effects in the this,the 3rd Godzilla movie. With clearly visible zippers and lots of continuity errors,this movie isn't half bad. The monsters get more screen time in this one and it features lots of ridiculous action.That combination makes this one of the best movies in this very long and boring series. If you watched all the Godzilla movies in order,this one would make you expect good things from the franchise. Then after watching several terrible movies with interchangeable plots,monsters and humans, you will be extremely disappointed at what is essentially a series of unwatchable poop starring a monster that died in the first one.

David Gough As a child I grew up on the original Toho Godzilla films since my mum got them on VHS from discount store every week for a while. This is one I never got to watch as a kid and I got round to it recently, Must say its better then 'son of Godzilla' and 'Godzilla '84' but not as good as 'Mothra vs Godzilla' or 'Destroy all monsters'. The version I saw of this film was the English dub, and i hear the Japanese original dub is better and longer, will check that out at some point possibly. The suits wern't the best(probably one of the worst Godzilla ones) Kong had two face masks and one looked decent and the other looked pretty bad really. Plot was good but went at an odd pace(the TV parts). Good film over all, as I mentioned before its not the best and not the worst in the Godzilla series of movies.