King Kong vs. Godzilla 1962
Directed by Ishirō Honda · 97 mins · 1,704 views
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Kong shoving a tree in Godzilla’s mouth as they fight on Mount Fuji is what the movies were made for
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“Let them fight.” Honda returns to direct the first color Godzilla film, which features a convoluted plot wherein a pharmaceutical company basically contrives, along with a helpless yet eventually complicit military, to stage a fight between Kong and Godzilla to boost TV ratings on the network they sponsor. It all somehow exists at a tantalizing crossroads of hilariously absurd and unsettlingly plausible. Highlights include Kong getting blackout drunk on his island’s native tribe’s moonshine and a battle with a giant octopus (actually just a real octopus, looking kind of confused on a miniature set).
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Godzilla and Friends Marathon: 9 of 46 Ranking the King (Kong, that is) While Godzilla Raids Again foreshadowed what this franchise would become for the latter part of the Shōwa period, it is King Kong vs. Godzilla that fully ushers in the era of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Kaiju. If Godzilla was made to cash in on the popularity of the King Kong re-release, and if Mothra was a subtle homage to King Kong, then this was Ishirō Honda finally going all-in and just flat out remaking King Kong, while also tossing Godzilla into the mix. You see, Willis O’Brien, the stop motion animator who brought Kong to life, was looking to make a comeback in the early 60s and…
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KAIJULY: GOJI RAAWRS! Though I wasn’t that really big on it the first time I watched it, I also haven’t been able to randomly find myself thinking about this little silly movie. Obviously, our two icons are the best of the film. The human stuff felt more like a plot device to move the story rather than saying anything significant, like in the first film. Then again, I don’t think when you have a movie like this, you are looking to entertain rather than have people thinking about it. And as such, everything with Goji and Kong was a blast. The fighting in Fuji was fun with them just jumping and, I guess, talking s**t to each other in their…
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CCarlo Vanstiphout 8 月 26, 2026
I think I like King Kong better because he’s easier to relate to: prefers to stay home, hairy. Godzilla is the kinda monster who wants to be the center of attention and I ain’t falling for it.
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WWillow Maclay 8 月 26, 2026
I think I’ll always prefer these disreputable genre films of the past to their slick, modern counterparts. You can see the seams, feel the ceiling of creation, and the innovation and ideas of the artists trying out new things in order to conceive of new images with the intuition and hard work of their bare hands. It’s so much easier for me to feel the soul of the artist, and of the craft. Sometimes their ideas don’t work, but there’s beauty in the mistakes, and in their failure to create exactly what they want. These films are a little bit uncool. They’re not movies that everyone goes back and watches, and because of that, you can carve out a little…
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My son: “This is so weird.” Me: “But kinda great, right?” My son: “I guess?”
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So this is what the Monsterverse has been building to. I’ll be honest, I was surprised at the use of old school effects. The flashy CGI was ditched for standard men in costumes but it works for the most part. Millie Bobby Brown, Kyle Chandler and Rebecca Hall are in blink and you’ll miss it cameos. Literally, I must’ve blinked and missed them because I never saw them once during the film. A brave move to shoot the film in Japanese. It’ll be interesting to see if audiences are cool with that. Don’t believe the recently released trailer. It’s all fake footage like those Marvel ones. All in all, a surprisingly entertaining monster movie and the best thing Monsterverse has offered up so far. Totally worth the HBO Max subscription.
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I love how the first time these monsters meet each other Kong starts throwing rocks at Godzilla, but when Godzilla starts spitting fire, Kong goes “yeah, fuck this shit” and leaves like the dickless loser that he is.
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Godzilla should have won
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the most epic fight scene i have ever seen on screen 5/5
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King Kong vs. Godzilla é simplesmente impressionante! Eu nunca esperaria que os personagens humanos desse filme seriam tão interessantes, interessantes ao ponto de quando o foco volta a King Kong ou Godzilla, eu me via desejando a volta dos humanos em tela. Toda a construção da Pacific Pharmaceuticals, do começo da historia precisando de uma matéria que bombasse, a hora em que veem em King Kong a chave para o sucesso, e por fim, na batalha definitiva com Godzilla, é…
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Another brutal watch, thank you Toho. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, thinking back now I’m being a little harsh haha The set up for the battle is actually a good premise, however this did not need to be 80% of the movie, these would really be so much better if they were like 40-60 minutes long with a main focus on the kaiju fights since that’s where we’ve pivoted at this point. That being said I found a lot…
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Classic Godzilla movie!
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Best commercial for smoking there is
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Parts do not age well and I am not referring to the effects. Much more campy but the miniatures are still so much fun
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Some brain numbing fun of the 60s. Incredible effects work, somewhat interesting characters and undeniably BADASS clash of the two most iconic monster of ALL time. Super fun brain numbing watch
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Wwilrox3 8 月 23, 2026
(Watched on my criterion blu ray at home while building my Wolverine magic commander deck)
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Le réchauffement climatique aura créé un combat de catch entre king kong et godzilla 😏
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Somehow managed to make Kong’s Island 20x more racist than the original movie. I was excited for King Kong vs. Godzilla because I imagined this being a grand battle between two unstoppable monsters, but it turns out I got clickbaited. For most of its runtime, King Kong vs. Godzilla follows a pair of goofy pharmaceutical workers on a quest to find big news to raise their ratings. In this quest, Osamu and Kinzaburo go to Faro Island, where, after a…
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Le film semble concrétiser le principe établit quelques année plus tôt : deux monstres géants qui s’affrontent. Le combat entre Godzilla et King Kong est évidemment le principal attrait et reste amusant. Le film assume un ton beaucoup plus comique et satirique que les premiers Godzilla. Les scènes avec Kong sont particulièrement divertissantes. Les effets spéciaux ont une vraie inventivité pour l’époque, notamment les décors miniatures et les trucages permettant de faire interagir les monstres avec leur environnement. Le film…
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Por algum motivo os atores dos EUA, que falam inglês, são dublados por japoneses por voice over, tentando o máximo do “inglês-japônico” possível e é simplesmente é intankável. Isso me faz pensar que as dublagens merdas que os EUA fez de animes e ovas pelos anos 80 são uma especie de vingança. King Kong enfiando uma árvore na boca do Godzilla foi engraçado.
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This is such a fart in the bath of a movie – mildly amusing for a second, until the stink hits you. But then the fights are fun, although that Kong suit is pure shite, even for the time period.
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oh my god im sorry they made you fight godzilla king kong youre not good at this😭 DID HE JUST KNOCK HIMSELF OUT. REFS DO SOMETHING. ok wow they did something nevermind. wait it isnt even helping that much im so sorry king kong. this is a fun slop watch if you skip the first 45 minutes
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Seeing King Kong shove a tree down in Godzilla’s mouth is not something I expected to see but realized it was lowkey kinda smart once you see that the giant lizard it was fighting can shoot flames from its mouth
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It’s a wrestling match between the local heal Godzilla and the foreign face Kong put together and sponsored by a greedy drug company looking for promotion and run by a Marx Bros-esque caricature of a rich, morally deficient businessman. It’s maybe not that great of a movie but it sure gives us big boy fighting entertainment for sure. Marionette puppet Kong was a nuts sequence as well, worthy of a Wrestlemania Mt. Fuji entrance. I’m glad this happened so that…
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Now we’re cooking! It’s interesting: the Showa Era of Godzilla has a very loose sense of continuity; there’s only a little connective tissue between movies and only a handful of films feel directly related. Even with that being the case, King Kong vs. Godzilla has always felt apart from the rest to me. It feels like a crossover event more than anything else and I almost hesitate to lump it in with its contemporaries. Maybe that’s because the Godzilla suit looks…
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la vi en japonés y me pareció cine. bien camp y racista, pero cine. me admiré de la artesanía de la película
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Gozilla is just the goat. THE GOAT.
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Godzilla movie 3/??? -2 stars for the English dub of this movie. The actual fight is silly and delightful. King Kong shoving a tree into Godzillas mouth after getting lightning powers is incredible, the ridiculous human plot and extended brown face scenes are less great 💁🏻♂️
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Love how the first time Godzilla shoots his radioactive breath towards, Kong just has this exasperated look on his face like “yeah, nope!” He just wants to lay around on his island and drink berry juice, just leave him alone. He didn’t ask for this Those “island natives” are Japanese people in blackface, I’m reducing my rating for that, not cool
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King Kong would be more formidable if he could put down that lean.
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BBen Newsum 8 月 21, 2026
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Aaqui_no_estoy 8 月 21, 2026
Lo pasé increíble viendo esta película en una sala llena de gente riéndose.
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a giant monkey and lizard fighting over nount fuji… it really makes you about how endless cinema’s boundaries are…
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The humans in this were so annoying
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Loved that godzilla said “stay tf down”
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This is genuinely such a fun movie to watch. It’s so goofy and cheesy and the effects by today’s standards are god awful, but it has charm to it and the fights are really fun to watch. It’s the ultimate wrestling match.
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Extremely stupid but funny, and the suit actors seem like they’re having a blast. American cut, which I assume is inferior, but it’s what plays by default on the criterion box set disc, and besides I kinda dug the dumb space age newscast vibe of the added bits.
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So fricken cool
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It’s Godzilla Thursday. Really convoluted plot that rehashes so much of King Kong and then tries to be funny. Criterion, I don’t know why you have the American dubbed version in this box set but wow should whoever decided that be fired.
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Mmmmmmmhhhhhh …. Singe… ‘fin bref j’ai encore tout dis mais bon…
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Man there’s some… racist… stuff in the first half of the movie but watching the big lizard fight the big monkey whipped.
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Kono bangumi wa, goran no suponsaa no teikyou de okurishimasu! King Kong.
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They unleashed the kraken fr
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Tone jump of the fucking century Crazy that the Godzilla movie with Blackface is somehow the most goofy and entertaining movies thus far. There’s not much substance to this one other than some popcorn fun. King Kong knocks himself on his own ass as Godzilla proceeded to emote on him
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I just think it’s funny when Godzilla hits Kong with the heat ray and Kong goes “fuck this, fuck you, I’m outta here” and simply walks away
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the “technicolor” looked great stylized and fun!
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how the FUCK did he win
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Loved Director Tako’s energy this whole film. A moron, but fun.
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This whole movie was just Kong being a fucking bum and getting his ass handed to him, because Godzilla was too strong, but it’s bullshit that there was COINCIDENTALLY a thunder storm to bring his ass back to life, yeah this shit was bs bro 😭😭😭
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Well, there was an attempt at making me care for the characters but it failed. Pacing is pretty rough as well. The score is still fantastic and the miniature models they used were really nice. The tanks were a nice touch. King Kong is absolutely hideous. The Godzilla costume is still nice, but seems to be lacking compared to the original. Maybe it’s because this is the first Godzilla in color? Not sure. The fighting between Kong and Godzilla was…
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o primeiro filme do godzilla em cor e é um pouco mais puxado pra comédia em comparação aos outros. mas pra um filme que se chama king kong vs. godzilla, a luta do king kong contra o polvo foi melhor que as duas que os dois monstrao tiveram
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King Kong has a drinking problem and Godzilla is here for the intervention
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Damn this shit was awful! Horribly paced, anticlimactic, and ultra-racist. Not to mention not scary. The only creepy part is the first shot of the giant octopus, when it’s dark and you have no idea what you’re looking at. Color is not kind to either costume, either. Not even the triumphant return of Sachio Sakai can save this one unfortunately. Godzilla >>>>>> King Kong any day
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LET THEM FIGHT!!! I really enjoyed this quite a bit as soon as we got the fight scenes it became a fucking romp. I love the story of exploitation of Kong in films and exploitation of the Earth causing Godzilla to reappear. Both monsters brought to fight each other because of the greed of man. Now pass that this is a hilarious brawl and from what I know this continues. The fact Kong walks away from Godzilla after the first…
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Es incluso más mala de lo que parece en un principio, y eso ya es decir bastante. Una película mediocre en todo ámbito donde la época en la que se realizó no alcanza ni de lejos a justificar tan mala ejecución.
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Silly kaiju fights in this one
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How do you get an island of primitive natives to like you? Give them cigarettes of course!
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(Spies and Kaiju Marathon: Part 10 of 78) (Toho 2021 4K Blu-Ray with Dolby Atmos Remix Audio Track and Criterion English-translated subtitles) Out of the handful of Godzilla films I’ve seen prior to doing this marathon, this has always been one movie I tend to revisit and think about a lot the most, even if it may not be my favorite out of the bunch. Revisiting this movie again after rewatching 1954 again and watching Raids for the first time…
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I’m team kong but if this was realistic Godzilla would’ve roasted his ass in 10 seconds Fair play
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worth it
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I expect Kong to have magical lightning powers in the next Monsterverse movie
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colour but how did Kong win bro
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Primera peli de godzilla que vi en mi vida, a mis tiernos 30 años. Para el suplicio de mis contertulios de sala, estaba como Max Cady de Cape Fear en el cine… esta peli tiene un excelente timing comedico, es comparable a algun film surrealista, medio Doctor Strangelove, y frases muy memorables. Al mismo tiempo logra invocar los espiritus de la WWII con sus horrores radioactivos y medidas radicales para vencer un mal cuyo daño solo se reverbera con la doomsday machine. kong y godzilla should have queened out instead so… about the racism 😬😪❓
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The big battle that we never thought would happen! Before becoming a big budget franchise in the current age of MonsterVerse Godzilla and Kong movies, the two monsters clashed in this cheesy 60s movie. What’s funny is that King Kong and Godzilla are completely different sizes and strengths. Godzilla stands at a staggering 50 metres (164ft) tall; and he has a sturdy tail, stocky body and of course his iconic atomic breath; whereas King Kong was a measly 15.24 metres…
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Godzilla hai qualcosa incastrato fra i denti e Kong ha le scosse nelle mani.
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• Imposible que esta pelicula no cuente como comedia. • Vería a gente en corporeo destruyendo maquetas durante horas. • Que bueno que mi compadre estaba preparado con sus 30 toneladas de cordel. • Le pasaron puras cosas malas al pobre Kong. Bastantes traslados curiosos. • Tambien, inesperado inicio chileno.
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❌ SPOILERS ❌ Esse filme é legalzinho sim, não deixe a crítica te enganar. O roteiro é bom e representa bem a ganância, o dono de uma empresa farmacêutica decide ir atrás do monstro king Kong pra fazer propaganda pro produto novo dele. O Godzilla estava dormindo em um iceberg até que um submarino americano aparece e o acorda, por sinal a atuação de todos os atores americanos nesse filme é horrorosa, os japoneses deviam estar com rancor do que…
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This feels like probably one of the highest budget Showa Godzilla movies I have seen so far. in todays standards the octopus scenes would not fly, but i think it was a brilliant creative choice to drop a living octopus on a miniature set and let it go rampage and destroy a small village, compositing and Animation where also done super well (keeping in mind how old this movie is)
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Gifting cigarettes is universal. Gave that little kid 2 of those things After Kong saved those people from the octopus they fucking drug him. I want to drink some of that red shit Kong catching fire and just leaving the first fight with Godzilla is real as hell
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Ah mano esse japoneses de black face KSKSKSKSK
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God I love practical effects, I gave this an extra star for the miniatures and dolls used. And I love watching these Godzilla movies w/ my friend! It’s now one of the many reasons I get up every morning Get yourself a pal to watch silly movies with!
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Through downloading the wrong torrent I found out that the Italian name for this movie is Il trionfo di King Kong, which sucks as a name for obvious reasons, but BY GOD does King Kong NOT triumph in this movie. Seriously, the two fight scenes in this film are a ‘see it to believe it’ kind of thing. Willy: Seeing Kong transported to Japan in that way reminds me of the time I fell asleep and woke up in Australia.
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Somehow, this is worse than Godzilla Raids Again (1955). From the blackface to horrendous writing, there’s nothing positive I can say about this movie. It’s doing too many things at once making it messy. Genuinely don’t know how Godzilla as a franchise bounced back from this.
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I knew this film would be fucking bonkers as soon as they gave the little kid a cigarette, that shit went hard
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Pros: • The movie does a good job at building up the reveal of both Godzilla and King Kong simultaneously at the beginning of the movie • The movie stays pretty faithful to both King Kong and Godzilla’s backstory (like King Kong being on his island) • the blend of models and suitmation hold up well in this movie (at least when it comes to Godzilla, not as much for Kong Kong) • The sets/locations, especially for King Kong’s island,…
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Two and a half for this one for being utterly unremarkable outside of the three things I love about all these movies which are the costumes, the miniatures and the fights
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i love how they just give king kong lightning powers so that he can actually be an equal match for godzilla
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one of the funniest, most unhinged, entertaining movies i’ve ever watched and loved every minute of it
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Had no idea what was going on I was just here for the monkey and big G
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O 3º filme do nosso lagartão gigante! Yeeey! 🦖 King Kong vs. Godzilla é o primeiro da franquia em váaaarios aspectos! É o primeiro filme do monstrão em cores, o primeiro em que ele luta contra o King Kong (o macacão mais famoso do cinema!), a primeira vez que uma empresa privada usa os monstrões na trama pra tentar lucrar e a primeira vez que temos uma criança japonesa fazendo blackface e fumando nesses filmes! Yhee!?? Brincadeiras à parte, o…
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Il a fallu une intervention humaine et un deus ex machina pour que King Kong arrête de se faire HUMILIER par Godzilla 🥶
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Big improvement from the second Godzilla movie. Carries a light hearted adventure feel that’ll appear often in Showa era Godzilla, the pacing issues and lulls in story also become typical but managed fairly well. The movies comes into focus the second half but it feels long to get there.
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4/10 This movie was so stupid but it was also so funny.
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The fight scenes were fun and action packed. The human story was interesting, albeit quite surface-level and comical. Good watch
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This is the moldiest King Kong that I’ve ever seen. Every time he showed up in a frame, I thought he might collapse because he looks like he’s rotting away. It made me feel really bad for him. The ADR in this film is atrocious but it makes the film more charming and memorable. King Kong stuffing a tree down Godzilla’s throat was pretty awesome. However, the rest of the fighting in this film is very lame. The film highlights…
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no offence to king kong but he’s such a loser AND his plastic eyes just don’t sparkle cutely in the sun the way godzilla’s do
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Fairly shitass, but good compared to inexplicable tripe like Atragon. Godzilla fights King Kong as a TV ratings ploy by an insane pharmaceutical executive, because why not? King Kong is a guy in a bad sasquatch suit who, as ever, ain’t got shit on Godzilla. At one point King Kong is dropped like a sack of potatoes from a bunch of hot-air balloons onto Godzilla to initiate the final battle, which is a comedy highlight. The movie sets back Pacific…
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It took King Kong to get powered up with lightning to be able to compete with base form Godzilla. King Kong got rocked and ended up having to swim home. I know who my goat is.
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Decided to watch this version of King Kong vs Godzilla to complete the set, it’s honestly really interesting to return to an early entry in the Godzilla canon after being entrenched in later eras. Seeing people scoff at the idea of giant monsters was pretty charming because a lot of the later movies have these monsters as just regular facts of life. Although, it doesn’t make the most sense when you consider there have been 2 Godzilla movies, Varan, Mothra,…
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O filme é bem divertido e passa rápido, a luta dos dois é muito boa e os personagens do filme são legais E é muito bom ver um filme com cor
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We scored a full-page display in the newspapers. Why don’t we take a photo of him smiling to put in our ads? Do you think King Kong smiles? We get him to smile. King kong vs godzilla is the first color movie for both godzilla and Kong and it has the things I enjoy so much about the showa era. Nice kaiju fights godzilla deepthroating a tree. One of the weaker that showa has but still a mocie i enjoy. Byeeeeee
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We are well and truly in a new era of monster movie. Realism has been thrown aside for full on physical comedy between these two. You can at least appreciate the respect given to the status quo at the beginning, to pay homage to both of their origins and how they been left in their own series. The writers clearly wanted to keep building tension until the final battle that we’ve all come for; it’s just a shame the stakes…
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Ah ouai celui là il a mal vieilli et il est sacrément problématique par moments, je m’attendais pas à voir une black face générale pendant 30min. C’est dommage car le concept est cool.
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An absolutely ridiculous movie with a solid concept, Kong vs Godzilla ends up being an unsatisfying, but at least occasionally very funny, kaiju film. Big Pharma is now apparently in the Big Creature game, as a guy named Tako, who I lovingly just referred to as Professor Mustache in my notes, sends a team of reporters to what may or may not yet be Skull Island to abscond with Kong. There, they meet some real collar-tugging racist portrayals of island…
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Has Godzilla in it. Docked points cuz King Kong is in it.
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AH yes King Kong and his iconic lighting powers It’s just like popeyes spinach
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This movie revolves around a pharmaceutical company trying to bring King Kong to Japan so they can use him in advertising.
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I loved seeing ‘kong island’ (they call is something else in this film) and I thought it was cool how they filmed the giant octopus scene and how that originally it was written for Godzilla x Frankenstein so that explains why Kong got supercharged when hit with electricity, because he was meant to be Frankenstein originally in the script. I actually loved this film and I liked the 1 second of stop motion animation during the second fight scene. I…
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terrifying hearing the first Kong roar that then leads into my favorite transition of the movie
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“King Kong can’t make a monkey out of us.” Despite watching what I understand is the worst version of that film (US one) I had a lot of fun. Godzilla all sad that he couldn’t cross the electrical wires had be crying 😭 let my boi destroy things.
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Godzilla easily would’ve won that fight, Kong is a wuss and if you think he can take Godzilla your genuinely brain dead
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12 year old me: And then, King Kong picks up a tree and SHOVES it into Godzilla’s mouth!!!! 22 year old me: I should call her.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla was a historic event for the burgeoning franchise in a multitude of ways. If you can look past the movie’s very insensitive (though unfortunately typical of the time period) portrayal of South Pacific Islanders (brownface and all), you’re in for a super fun time, but I wouldn’t blame you if you can’t, because it can get preeeetty rough. Thankfully, this only takes up the first third of the film, but it takes up the majority of…
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paso de ser terror de monstruo gigante a WWE, ver a kong cagarse a palos con godzilla fue comedia pura, antes godzilla si sentia como un monstruo gigante, una fuerza de la naturaleza bla bla bla…. Ahora, kong lo toma de la cola y lo saca volando 300 metros XD. La trama humana es bastante floja super olvidable pero la pelea fue un cague de risa, al final la peli es bastante buena. Traer a kong de EE.UU. fue la mejor decisión que tuvieron desde el fracaso de la peli anterior, y gracias a este crossover se pudieron hacer todas las demas pelis, gracias kong🦍🗣️🐟✌️
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Godzilla movie formula is really forming here. Goofy science character? Check Two dudes in rubber suits smacking the crap out of each other? Check A TON of miniature work? Check! The minis are so cute in this one. That first scene where they’re scrambling to escape? Wonderful. Kong’s suit feels like it’s a mean mugging Bumble, and that’s fairly charming. Things to keep an eye out for – teleporting crewmen, dolls, very interesting use of rear projection, communicating with Godzilla,…
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Great Goji Marathon 2026 #5 God this film grows on me more and more every viewing. I think it’s seriously hilarious. The satire comedy being full force here is something I think the series forgets it has up its sleeve. I think the main cast all got a bit of funny up their sleeve but Tako is so good in this. The movie is so good at finally setting the standard with the series pivoting away from 54’s horror. Watching…
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The two mightiest monsters of all time! …In the most colossal conflict the screen has ever known! Always enjoyed the idea of a crossover in general, and through my odyssey of watching all the Godzilla movies, I heard this one was one of the best of the early years. After a 7 year break and some experimentation in the mean time bringing us even more Kaiju, Toho brought back the Big G for his first color outing and for its…
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Of the Godzilla movies that I wanted to see for years, King Kong Vs. Godzilla was an arguably ant the top of that list and when I finally did, it was the poorly edited American dub that intercut the movie with a guy just telling us what was happening. I wasn’t to happy about that being how I saw the movie but I finally watched the Japanese version thanks to a Criterion Collection rental and I can finally say that…
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“Why don’t you go to Hokkaido?” “Do not go to Hokkaido.” Gonna be honest. This doesn’t really make me want to watch more Godzilla movies. It was interesting because it’s different from what I normally watch, but it wasn’t really good. Our friend had some interesting trivia about the production, and I liked seeing the hair and clothing style of 60s Japan. Otherwise, it was a drag to watch. Also pretty offensive depiction of Pacific Islanders, yikes, postwar Japan. The actual monster fights were entertaining, but make up a fraction of the movie. I’ll say the highlight was the miniature work.
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King kong es como un familiar borracho
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This was so much fun I can see why this sort of became the formula for many a Godzilla film. The non-Kaiju stuff was a mixed bag for me. I found the idea of the reason King Kong was even aware of Godzilla being because a guy wants to boost TV ratings makes a lot of sense. I wish it leaned more into that being sort of a weird thing to desire, it seems like he was mostly rewarded for…
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7.1 corny stuff but honda clearly had a good eye and great artistic sensibilities. guys like that get to be corny [Criterion – 2K FHD]
- Synopsis
- The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
- Director
- Ishirō Honda
- Writer
- Shinichi Sekizawa
- Studio
- TOHO, Tokyo Laboratory
- Country
- Japan, USA
- Language
- Japanese, English
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 97 mins
- USA01 Nov 1962
- Japan11 Aug 1962
- Singapore27 Apr 1963
- Netherlands21 Jul 1976
- USA29 Oct 2019
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