This film took 5 years to reach the US shores and it played on TV quite a bit. The story revolves around a race of alien cockroaches from a far away galaxy that have come to Earth to take over.
The aliens are building a Godzilla theme park as a cover for their plans to destroy all life on Earth. They enlist the aid of King Ghidorah and Gigan to help with the plan.
A small group of humans attempt to stop the invasion once they discover what is happening. Godzilla and Anguirus also show up and fight with the other monsters.
At this time the Japanese film industry was in despair and many actors had been cut by the studios and budgets lowered. This is one reason why the actors are new to the series and there is so much stock footage from other films during the battle scenes.
The one really stupid thing in this film is when Godzilla and Anguirus start talking! In the Japanese version there are actually bubble captions which contain their conversation, much like a comic book. Why this was done, I have no idea, but it doesn't work.
But. I admit again, I do love this film and it never fails to entertain me. Things would even get worse for the Showe-Era in the coming years.
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