As a child, I remember enjoying this film. As an adult, when I recently rewatched this movie, I found it lacking and moronic. The high-points include an anti-hero who is escaping the authorities because he is a safe cracker, and he has stolen money. Boy, did he pick the wrong island to go to. This island features bad guys who have enslaved Infant Island residents, not realizing that there is a giant moth who is going to be piss-off when she wakes up. There is a giant lobster who hangs off-shore, killing any slaves who try to escape. But Daiyo, an Infant island female, does escape into the island jungle. In that non-romantic way that only children films can do, she along with the safe-cracker and 3 other goofy guy protagonists escape the bad boys, discovering a hibernating Godzilla. What would you do? Well, I wouldn't wake Godzilla, which would make for a boring movie. But they do.It is very childish and goofy, and tries to hard to give Godzilla the charm he had in Monster Zero. But one scene is rather memorable. Our good guys and girl are trying to escape the bad guys, who have machine guns. They split up, with Daiyo running over a rock hill, only to discover Godzilla coming her way. The bad boys run away, while she discovers herself about 50 feet from Godzilla's feet. Not knowing what to do, she lays on a rock. Godzilla sees her, and bemused, eventually sits down, and starts to fall asleep. As she gets up to sneak away, a random giant bird comes in to attach Godzilla. Good for Daiyo, as she screams, pointing at the bird to help out Godzilla. A human actually helps our dragon hero. Kind of funny. In a rare moment, the English version actually out camps this, as the voice over screams "Hey!" to wake Godzilla. The rest is not so amusing, right down to a pointless morality line about nuclear weapons at the end. The trailer for this film seems to show the Hiroshima atomic bomb detonation from "Frankenstein Conquers The World". The Island's explosion is forgettable. The Sea Monster is one of Godzilla's less memorable foes, although the darkening Ocean with the craw rising up is a good special effect.

A young man steals a boat to find his brother, but he and his shipmates become shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by a giant sea monster and a slumbering Godzilla.The film was originally written as a King Kong film, titled "Operation Robinson Crusoe", but Rankin/Bass Productions rejected the project. However, Toho proceeded with the project anyway and replaced King Kong with Godzilla. As some have noted, this robs us of a King Kong versus Mothra situation, but oh well.This is a fairly strong film in the series, all things considered. Much is done to build up the human story, with the monsters not even really getting into the act until the second half. As much as I love guys in rubber suits punching each other, it does not need to be 90 minutes of that, so this film plots itself wisely.

A stealing of a boat leads to a rescue mission that ends up on the island of the red bamboo. The Red Bamboo are a militant group intent on taking over the planet. All attempted escapes from the island are halted by the giant lobster monster Ebirah. Soon the group of people who stole the boat come upon Godzilla in a cave and awaken him by using lightning. The group now must rescue their comrades who were captured by the red bamboo all while watching out for Godzilla.This is one of Godzillas least remembered films. It is not regarded as his best film but is not among the list of the worst regarded Godzilla Films. THat is the opinion I have on it, it is a good Godzilla Film, not his best, but certainly not his worst.There are a couple behavioral oddities for Godzilla in this film. That can be attributed to the fact that this film was originally written to star King Kong. That explains a scene where Godzilla is smitten with an island girl and several scenes where he chooses to throw builders rather than use his atomic breath.There is plenty of action in this film. This includes several scenes including the humans who are trying to flee from the evil red bamboo. Godzilla himself gets in a lot of action. This includes two interesting fights with Ebirah, the Sea Monster.Ebirah is just an enormous lobster. He possesses no super powers or anything, just uses his giant claws to smash things. He gets some good hits on Godzilla but for the most part when Godzilla rips off both of Ebirahs claws the threat is over.Godzilla also gets to fight a giant condor. Mothra is in the film in a cameo role and fights Godzilla briefly. I never liked Mothra so his involvement in the film did not make me too happy.So this film does have plenty of action involving both Godzilla and the humans. Not one of the best Godzilla films, but there are others waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse. Watch it whenever you have a chance.

I never thought I would find a Godzilla movie where Godzilla was the weakest part of the film. In most these movies, the various scenes not involving Godzilla could generally be considered filler. They're there to pad out the film until Godzilla shows up and usually aren't very good. The filler in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster isn't any better or worse than any of the other Godzilla movies (though I must admit to enjoying the James Bond vibe and the groovy dance party), but it's better than Godzilla's moments on the screen. The problem is that Big G doesn't get the chance to do much. This is Toho "on the cheap". The usual rampage through the city is gone. It was cheaper to have Godzilla destroy a mostly deserted island with only a small science/military facility than it was to build an entire city of miniatures. And the few miniatures to be found don't even looks up to snuff. When not trampling the cheap miniatures, Godzilla spends an inordinate amount of time just sitting. That right – sitting! And when he does finally do battle with the sea monster of the title, it's not much of a match. In no time at all, Godzilla rips off the overgrown lobster's claws and its over. Almost 90 minutes to see this non-event – what a waste!