everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

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

This film is hardly worth the trouble. Through some geographical gyrations, the two famous monsters end up in Japan. There are several scenes of people running down streets as cardboard building are crushed. The army, which may as well stay home, does its usual ineffective job of pea shooting at the enormous lizard. What will they do? For some reason, King Kong has been brought to Japan (you'd think they'd had enough trouble) and soon the moment we've been waiting. The final half hour is the two of them facing off. Kong does back flips and acts like a conventional monkey. Godzilla burns Kong's chest hairs with his radioactive breath. It is so obvious that these are men in suits. Kong's chest looks like it's made of plastic. Godzilla rants and jumps flies at Kong. It's one of the first of the "versus" films and it was fun at a drive in movie, but it is really not very good.

A submarine crashes into an iceberg, freeing Godzilla from its frozen grip; meanwhile, over-sized ape King Kong is captured by a pharmaceutical company and shipped to Japan. When the radioactive lizard heads for Tokyo, smashing all in its path, some bright spark has the idea of using Kong to bring an end to the scaly beast's rampage. Cue even more destruction as the pair duke it out on Mount Fuji.King Kong vs. Godzilla is far from what I would call a great film (quelle surprise), with a preposterous storyline, dreadful performances, and woeful special effects (crappy men-in-suit monsters and lots of miniature model-work, none of which is very convincing). It does, however, mark the only time to date that cinema's mightiest ape and its greatest mutated lizard have gone head to head, which makes it a must for monster movies fans, no matter how manky the creature suits are.In addition its legendary monster smack-down (which includes the unforgettable sight of Godzilla getting a tree shoved down his throat), this silly Japanese/US co-production also offers plenty of (unintentional?) laughs, including Japanese extras blacked up to play natives (who perform a prolonged dance routine to pad out the running time), Kong getting sloshed on berry juice, a giant octopus latching itself onto Kong's head, and the great ape taking a hot air balloon flight.

King Kong vs Godzilla Japanese Version 7/10 One of my favorite Godzilla movies has got to be its battle with the legendary King Kong. The start of the film is captivating solely because of the island music chants and drums that are unforgettable and catchy. Having Godzilla's storyline pick up from the iceberg after the movie Raids was I thought very necessary and the scenes when the main characters visit the savage island where King Kong lives might be the best in the movie. Unlike many Godzilla films that try to be comical which fail miserable I felt this one was actually funny at times providing good breaks from the monster action. The battle scenes are top notch and I thought the animation of King Kong, who is definitely unique and Godzilla were supremely created. The Toho King Kong vs. Godzilla Japanese version is a can't miss! King Kong vs. Godzilla English Dub 5/10As much as I enjoyed the English dub King Kong vs Godzilla as a kid it's hard to look past the horribly stuck in American plot points from the UN Center. I just couldn't quite seem to be able to look past the general plot when it was so choppy. However, KKVG being the first Godzilla movie in color was very cool to see. The King Kong flipping arm motions was hilarious yet believable and this is the first movie where Godzilla appears to be a little cartoonish with his movements. At this point though the dark grim feeling that the original Gojira and Raids had is completely gone, this in my eyes is disappointing. The fight scenes are amazing to watch and I was pleased the way they had them start from the northern iceberg of the Artic and South Pacific Island to the heart of Tokyo, Japan. Check out the Japanese version if you don't mind subtitles because it is much better than the dub story-wise. Both of them together I rate a 6/10