Beautiful, moving film.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Still one of my favorite Godzilla Movies but the new English dubbed version is horrible... someone stated in a previous review that the new version is comical..they got that right...is there an old copy out there with the original dubbed version out there..would love to see that version..throw this new version out the window...lol

I'm surprised this movie isn't rated higher. I can admit there are a few parts that seem to be a bit confusing, but it's a wonderful movie. I have heard people that feel the film focuses too much on the humans, but I must disagree. I think the main reason this film is as good as it is, is because it does indeed focus more on the monsters. I don't know exactly if I can recommend one specific Godzilla movie which I would consider "the best", but this one has to come close, at least in my opinion. Originally it was going to be the end of the series but I'm glad it wasn't, we had a lot of fun in this film and it's a must see for all monster lovers~

Destroy All Monsters was meant to be the last film in the Godzilla Franchise. As a final film it gives the Big-G a decent final outing.The level of acting may not reach superb, at least in my opinion, but it is good enough to make the characters really enjoyable to watch.As for the storyline it is decent enough. I would have liked it if a couple of things where explained such as how the monsters where brought to the island in the first place. One thing I like about the entire plot is the fact that Destroy All Monsters works well as a monster movie and a sci-fi flick and the two aspects are merged together well.One thing I will say here is that I am glad they did not finish with this film but it does work, albeit not perfectly, as a final romp for Godzilla.

"Destroy All Monsters"...a monster movie that for a long time I was dying to see, after hearing so much praise of it from other Godzilla fans. All I wanted to see was plenty of monsters, plenty of silly action, the old bad dubbing, and just plain fun. And that's what I got. Still, even today, now that I have grown a little more strict on what I want to see in Godzilla movies, "Destroy All Monsters" still holds out as an entertaining camp classic from the 60s. There are some aspects of it that are too campy to make it a true classic monster movie, for example the alien invaders style and some of the special effects. Yet the action sequences are all fun and entertaining. And what I like about "Destroy All Monsters" is that it has more to offer for action sequences than just monsters fighting each other and trampling cities. Shootouts between the cast and their alien nemeses are all very well done for the 60s. Music was done by Akira Ifukube and his score is absolutely masterful and the movie was directed by the great Ishiro Honda, the director of first "Godzilla", who unfortunately didn't get to direct as many Godzilla films as he should have. The scenes of the monsters destroying cities are naturally fun, sometimes unbelievable such as Rodan flying over buildings and causing them to burst into rubble, but still absolutely fun. And special effects here are better than what they would use is some of the later Godzilla films in the 70s.What I also love about "Destroy All Monsters" is how there are a large number of monsters in the film, eleven if I remember correctly, and yet the story concentrates mostly on a certain number of them. It deals with the monsters like the human cast. There are the main ones and the others are just there for the background to enhance the feeling and atmosphere. So while monsters such as Baragon and Varan literally got only a few seconds worth of screen time, since they were just in the film, it worked out fine. Yes, I would have liked to have seen them perform a bit more on film, especially Varan, but I guess I can understand that since the suits were under poor condition at the time, it was best not to use them too much. The other monsters who don't get a whole lot of screen time, do however, usually have their own particular scene, to enhance the feeling that the world is really under attack by monsters. It's like in a war film, you can't have all of the individual soldiers from the opposite side getting a tremendous amount of development. They just need enough so that you know they're there."Destroy All Monsters" is a movie that is absolutely perfect for the kind of low-budget 60s flick it is. And it certainly ranks above films such as "Son of Godzilla", "Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster", "Godzilla vs. Megalon", and of course the travesty "Godzilla's Revenge." Had this truly been Godzilla's last film as it had been originally intended by Toho (even though I knew they would have made "The Return of Godzilla" soon or later), well, it would have suited me just fine.