It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Well do I remember this two-monster rally, because I saw it in the summer of 1972 on KTLA, Channel 5, from Los Angeles (we just had it added to our cable lineup). The movie starts with a fishing boat being attacked by a gigantic octopus, complete with red glowing eyeballs. And just when the five-men crew couldn't have it any worse, along comes a green-skinned gargantuan humanoid. It rips the octopus apart, sinks the fishing boat, and goes after the crewmembers who are swimming for their lives. Most of them don't make it. Dr. Paul Stewart (played by Russ Tamblyn) is understandably perplexed. It couldn't be his creature, although it escaped five years ago. Well, one thing leads to another and it turns out that Green Gargantua is an offshoot of Dr. Stewart's Brown Gargantua. Brown Gargantua is kind and gentle, while Green Gargantua is evil through and through. The Japanese military does not know the difference and does not care. As far as they're concerned, both monsters are a menace. There are some good scenes to be had: when Green Gargantua is electrified by a series of electrodes planted in a river and is fired on by several space-age laser weapons on mobile vehicles. Dr. Stewart warns that if both monsters are blasted to bits, the surviving cells will multiply and there will be thousands of Gargantuas overrunning the world. There's another scene of a night club chanteuse (played by Kipp Hamilton, who was Carol Burnette's sister-in-law) singing "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" while she's dropping sharps and flats all over the floor while the house lights are off. And no sooner does she get through than Green Gargantua picks her up and lifts her upwards like King Kong did with Ann Darrow in the 1933 film. Then he drops her from a height of 50 feet. The movie certainly lives up to the title and it's one of my guilty pleasures. It was released in the U.S. as a double feature and paired with MONSTER ZERO; both films made it to the silver screen in 1970. And by the time THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS was released, Russ Tamblyn's acting career had basically gotten away from him. By 1970, he'd already starred in some craptactular flicks directed by one of the worst movie makers ever to work in Hollywoodland, Al Adamson. And how about the ending scene where a convenient underwater volcano in Tokyo Bay erupts and destroys both Gargantuas----or does it? The way the movie ended left the possibility of a sequel and as it turns out, there was a proposed movie that would have had Godzilla fighting one of the Gargantuas. Unfortunately, it was never made. If you get the Classics Media DVD release, you get the English-language version and the original Japanese version (it's only 88 minutes long, while the Americanized version runs 92 minutes long). This is tarwaterthomas saying, enjoy this flick.

This is supposed to be the sequel to Frankenstein Conquers The World.I knew that before I watched it and can honestly say I see no connection.They look similar, very Godzilla-ish, but that's the only thing they have in common. For the first 30 minutes I thought I had seen this before but I was wrong, it's just not very original and yet somehow not too bad. The monsters are in most of the movie and there's lots of action which is a bit original compared to most monster movies, but the story has lots of holes and the ending is very disappointing. Despite that it has nothing to do with the first movie, this may be the best sequel ever made.

Well, I have an awfully big spot in my heart for the Toho Godzilla films of the 60's and 70's. I had never seen this one, learned it was a sequel to a film about Frankenstein I also had never seen, and ended up thoroughly enjoying it. I saw the American version where just about every vestige that might relate itself to Frankenstein Vs. Baragon had been eliminated. Here we have two gargantuas - Gaira and Sanda - clearly related yet very different. One is green. The other beige if you will. One, the green one, spends most of its time in the sea, the other on land. One hates bright lights. The other does not mind at all. One eats people. The other is friendly toward people. The list of comparisons and contrast could go on even longer. What does appear to be true is that the green one came from the brown one when it scraped some of itself somewhere or somehow its cell scattered thus creating Gaira. Gaira is the bad one. Sanda is the good one. Anyway, before we get to their "epic" battle we find that the brown one had once been small and studied at a scientific institute led by the blandest, hip-looking scientist alive - Amerian Russ Tamblyn. Tamblyn looks SO bored throughout the picture and utters his lines with absolutely no conviction at all. He is just awful in this. Fortunately for us, his pretty assistant does a good job. Toho regular Kumi Mizumo gives this film some much needed pulse. But lest you believe the living humans are the most important characters in the film - they are really the two monsters and director Ishiro Honda. The opening scene with Gaira and the squid and the ship was very compelling. The miniature sets and those cool tank-like machines that emit electrical currents also were most impressive. Honda was always a very good director. American producer and president of American International Pictures Henry Saperstein barely gives Honda any credit for his name is jumbled with all the other film credits while his name(Saperstein's) is huge - several times. Yeah, he was a big shot! This is a pleasant film with some great scenes and also some funny scenes - not though I am sure they were meant to be. As I said the opening scene is probably the best. But the scene where Gaira is temporarily defeated by those cool machines is another great scene as is the scene where the two monsters meet in the deserted city and finally take their fight to the sea. Gaira also eats a woman on screen - something I never recall seeing in a Godzilla picture. But we also get a ridiculous scene of a beautiful American redhead(the lovely and unfortunately shortly-lived Kipp Hamilton) crooning a ridiculous song("The words get stuck in my throat") when Gaira comes up from behind and attacks. How about the scene with the uber-happy hikers? And there is Russ Tamblyn. He is VERY bad. Notwithstanding all of that, I enjoyed War of the Gargantuas immensely.

I have seen just about EVERY Japanese monster movie including all of the Godzilla movies. This has got to be the very best fight scene of all of them. The two Gargantuas are relentless. They push each other into buildings and slam each others heads in the ground and all this happens while the army shoots lazers at the green one! Also, the miniature work in these scenes is also wonderful. The fight goes into Tokyo Bay and it just KEEPS GOING. The green one throws a ship at the Brown one and then the Brown one throws it right back! NEVER has a Godzilla movie or a Gamera movie come close to this. A truly wonderful monster movie.When I was a kid in Los Angeles in the early to mid 70's, they would show "War of the Gargantuas" EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, for an entire week! It was called "The Channel 5 Movie Theater." They would really show the same damn movie every night at prime time! It seemed like every two months "War of the Gargantuas" would come on for it's weekly run! Every kid kid knew this movie. I am watching it right now as I write this.