Review of Rodan

Rodan (1956)
7/10
Enjoyable Japanese Monster film
19 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
There was a period of time when Toho Studios didn't make a film with Godzilla. Rodan was the best of them. I liked the locations and plot. The dubbing was only average although there was excellent voice work by veteran Paul Frees and George(Lt.Sulu)Takai. The story explains several mine disasters caused by giant caterpillar-like monsters. One of the mine engineers gets trapped in a cave-in and discovers two giant eggs which contain giant pterodactyls..They hatch and eat the giant caterpillars before escaping. At the end, the monsters are killed but not before they cause destruction. The ending was kind of poetic, the way one Rodan killed itself to be with the other Rodan killed by the military. Not a great film but one that has enough drama, action and direction.
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